Here a little comment from Storm.

Alex Tsakiris: So let me take a different angle on this Howard, the near-death experience is something we’ve looked a lot on this show. We usually try and stick pretty close to the science of it, because at this point as I’m sure you are aware, there’s a large body of peer-reviewed scientific literature on this. We’ve had a lot of those people on this show, Dr. Jeff Long, somebody I know you’re familiar with; I’m really impressed with his work. Dr. Pim van Lommel is another really impressive guy from the medical community, 20 year cardiologist, and a bunch of other folks, Suzanne Gordon, Jan Holden, the list goes on and on of people who are serious academics who have published scientific literature, peer-reviewed stuff on near-death experience. I’ve never really seen much of your view or your opinion on this body of scientific work dealing with near-death experience. What do you make of that?

Howard Storm: I’m aware of some of it, and I appreciate the fact that people are trying to study this objectively, but there’s a huge limitation because the actual experience can’t be observed by any other person. So the only thing that’s observable, the only thing that’s measurable is the after effects. The interesting thing about the near-death experience that you’ve already mentioned is the near-death experiences are transformative as opposed to drug trips. There’s a bunch of quacks out there, quack scientists who say, ‘We can reproduce near-death experiences with drugs.’ And stuff like that. It’s not true, and one of the meshes of that is there isn’t any real measurable difference in terms of transforming the people. People that I know who have near-death experiences, their lives are radically changed. When I say radical, the Latin root means to go to the very root, the very core of their being is changed. And that is measurable, with not only in what they do with their lives after the experience, but also attitudes. Like for example, measuring anxiety about death. People who have near-death experiences tend to register no fear or anxiety about death whatsoever, as opposed to the general population, where death of course is the number one fear and anxiety about life.

So it’s hard stuff to scientifically measure. But there’s this huge body of evidence and what I’m referring to is millions of lives, not hundreds or thousands in the United States alone and all over the world of people whose lives are changed by these experiences. So there has to be something going on, and it’s not reproducible in any way by the scientific community. They can try electric shock and taking people with anesthetics and chemicals to the edge of death and administer hallucinogens and things like that, and none of that produces the same result.

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