Deathbed Experiences
Sunday, October 5, 2008
collaboration of 25 major medical centers through Europe, Canada and the U.S. and will examine some 1,500 survivors of cardiac arrest.
Loved Ones….believe me…you are here now…and believe me you were somewhere before you incarnated here…and believe me you will be somewhere when you “pass on”….
That is why Angelicinfusion is here…to bring you the message that this place is a school and our Divine Source made Angels to help you while you are here…enrolled here at this place of learning.
Loved Ones…read the following and appreciate as science and spirituality merge we all will more fully appreciate who we are, why we are here, and how we will come to be…Loved ones a fellow at New York City's Weill Cornell Medical Center, Dr. Sam Parnia is one of the world's leading experts on the scientific study of death.
Last week Parnia and his colleagues at the Human Consciousness Project announced their first major undertaking: a 3-year exploration of the biology behind "out-of-body" experiences.
The study, known as AWARE (AWAreness during REsuscitation), involves the
TIME spoke with Parnia about the project's origins, its skeptics and the difference between the mind and the brain.
What sort of methods will this project use to try and verify people's claims of "near-death" experience?
When your heart stops beating, there is no blood getting to your brain. And so what happens is that within about 10 sec., brain activity ceases - as you would imagine. Yet paradoxically, 10% or 20% of people who are then brought back to life from that period, which may be a few minutes or over an hour, will report having consciousness. So the key thing here is, Are these real, or is it some sort of illusion? So the only way to tell is to have pictures only visible from the ceiling and nowhere else, because they claim they can see everything from the ceiling. So if we then get a series of 200 or 300 people who all were clinically dead, and yet they're able to come back and tell us what we were doing and were able see those pictures, that confirms consciousness really was continuing even though the brain wasn't functioning.
How does this project relate to society's perception of death?
People commonly perceive death as being a moment - you're either dead or you're alive. And that's a social definition we have. But the clinical definition we use is when the heart stops beating, the lungs stop working, and as a consequence the brain itself stops working. When doctors shine a light into someone's pupil, it's to demonstrate that there is no reflex present. The eye reflex is mediated by the brain stem, and that's the area that keeps us alive; if that doesn't work, then that means that the brain itself isn't working. At that point, I'll call a nurse into the room so I can certify that this patient is dead. Fifty years ago, people couldn't survive after that.
How is technology challenging the perception that death is a moment?
Nowadays, we have technology that's improved so that we can bring people back to life. In fact, there are drugs being developed right now - who knows if they'll ever make it to the market - that may actually slow down the process of brain-cell injury and death. Imagine you fast-forward to 10 years down the line; and you've given a patient, whose heart has just stopped, this amazing drug; and actually what it does is, it slows everything down so that the things that would've happened over an hour, now happen over two days. As medicine progresses, we will end up with lots and lots of ethical questions.
But what is happening to the individual at that time?
What's really going on?
Because there is a lack of blood flow, the cells go into a kind of a frenzy to keep themselves alive. And within about 5 min. or so they start to damage or change. After an hour or so the damage is so great that even if we restart the heart again and pump blood, the person can no longer be viable, because the cells have just been changed too much. And then the cells continue to change so that within a couple of days the body actually decomposes. So it's not a moment; it's a process that actually begins when the heart stops and culminates in the complete loss of the body, the decompositions of all the cells.
However, ultimately what matters is, What's going on to a person's mind? What happens to the human mind and consciousness during death? Does that cease immediately as soon as the heart stops? Does it cease activity within the first 2 sec., the first 2 min.? Because we know that cells are continuously changing at that time. Does it stop after 10 min., after half an hour, after an hour? And at this point we don't know.
What was your first interview like with someone who had reported an out-of-body experience?
Eye-opening and very humbling.
Because what you see is that, first of all, they are completely genuine people who are not looking for any kind of fame or attention.
In many cases they haven't even told anybody else about it because they're afraid of what people will think of them.
I have about 500 or so cases of people that I've interviewed since I first started out more than 10 years ago.
It's the consistency of the experiences, the reality of what they were describing.
I managed to speak to doctors and nurses who had been present who said these patients had told them exactly what had happened, and they couldn't explain it. I actually documented a few of those in my book What Happens When We Die because I wanted people to get both angles - not just the patients' side but also the doctors' side - and see how it feels for the doctors to have a patient come back and tell them what was going on.
There was a cardiologist that I spoke with who said he hasn't told anyone else about it because he has no explanation for how this patient could have been able to describe in detail what he had said and done.
He was so freaked out by it that he just decided not to think about it anymore.
Why do you think there is such resistance to studies like yours?
Because we're pushing through the boundaries of science, working against assumptions and perceptions that have been fixed.
A lot of people hold this idea that, well, when you die, you die; that's it.
Death is a moment - you know you're either dead or alive. All these things are not scientifically valid, but they're social perceptions. If you look back at the end of the 19th century, physicists at that time had been working with Newtonian laws of motion, and they really felt they had all the answers to everything that was out there in the universe. When we look at the world around us, Newtonian physics is perfectly sufficient. It explains most things that we deal with. But then it was discovered that actually when you look at motion at really small levels - beyond the level of the atoms - Newton's laws no longer apply. A new physics was needed, hence, we eventually ended up with quantum physics. It caused a lot of controversy - even Einstein himself didn't believe in it.
Now, if you look at the mind, consciousness, and the brain, the assumption that the mind and brain are the same thing is fine for most circumstances, because in 99% of circumstances we can't separate the mind and brain;
they work at the exactly the same time.
But then there are certain extreme examples, like when the brain shuts down, that we see that this assumption may no longer seem to hold true.
So a new science is needed in the same way that we had to have a new quantum physics.
The CERN particle accelerator may take us back to our roots. It may take us back to the first moments after the Big Bang, the very beginning. With our study, for the first time, we have the technology and the means to be able to investigate this. To see what happens at the end for us. Does something continue.
Loved ones…we are of and within a quantum hologram…inner space is far greater than outer space…within you now is your will power, your ability to focus and your unconditional love….
...all 3 of these are not of this time and space dimension…
your soul is your connection to your guardian angel…and your soul will continue after you “pass on”.
I petition for the White Light of the Holy Spirit to enclose and surround all earth pilgrims as we all learn our lessons with the least amount of pain.
You and all your loved ones are always in my prayers,
Samuel Joseph Bell
www.quantumhologram.com
www.angelicinfusion.com
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
angels are participating
Loved Ones…each day …as I work with my patients…who are… sick and dying individuals in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, sub acute care and hospice settings patient’s angels are participating.
Loved Ones…Each of us is here…we came here specifically…
to learn our own particular lessons…
lessons about patience …lessons about not judging ourselves or others…lessons about compassion…lessons centered around about the experience of learning we all are one…and that the source of you and me is our Divine Parents…Mother and Father God.
Please…please…recognize Mother and Father God have sent many numerous avatars to this planet…
these avatars are master teachers…
Master Teachers…like Lord Buddha…Lord Muhammad…Our Lord Jesus the Christ…and many many others who are not even well known…
these mentor teacher incarnates came here and are coming here to help you and me…
to help all of humanity learn our lessons with the least amount of pain…
as this earth is really a school…a school of experience….a school of real testing…real testing…for Palestinians to love Israelis…for North Koreans to love Americans…for George Bush to love the president of Iran…for you and I to love our neighbor…
Along with this stream of incarnated avatars are an unlimited number of legions of angels…
more than can be counted….
and these different types of spiritual entities are here right now…next to you right this moment…
and one special one… is your own guardian angel… who is on your right hand side….
your guardian angel is next to you at this moment while you read this…and they are smiling…and they love you…and they want to help you…but you must ask…you must petition…as they will never over ride your free will.
They stand next to you as a messenger…some stand there 80 years before the incarnate requests their help…others…learn early about angels and regularly incorporate their help as we all learn our lessons.
Loved Ones…read the following information….and understand…you have spiritual resources present ….spiritual resources mandated by Mother and Father God to help you graduate from this school and go home…to our real home…to our Divine Home…a place with “many mansions”
More than half of all Americans believe they have been helped by a guardian angel in the course of their lives, according to a new poll by the Baylor University Institute for Studies of Religion. In a poll of 1700 respondents, 55% answered affirmatively to the statement, "I was protected from harm by a guardian angel."
The responses defied standard class and denominational assumptions about religious belief; the majority held up regardless of denomination, region or education - though the figure was a little lower (37%) among respondents earning more than $150,000 a year.
The guardian angel encounter figures were "the big shocker" in the report, says Christopher Bader, director of the Baylor survey that covered a range of religious issues, parts of which are being released Thursday in a book titled What Americans Really Believe.
In the case of angels, however, the question is a little stronger than just belief. Says Bader, "If you ask whether people believe in guardian angels, a lot of people will say, 'sure.' But this is different.
It's experiential.
It means that lots of Americans are having these lived supernatural experiences."
Sociologists may need further research to determine how broadly the data should be interpreted. The Baylor study tested other statements that might indicate a similar belief in the supernatural intruding into everyday personal experience -
"I heard the voice of God speaking to me"; and "I received a miraculous physical healing."
But far fewer people claimed to have had those experiences. This raises the possibility that guardian angels, which famously support an industry of sentimental accessories, are just so darned attractive that they exist in a charmed belief niche of their own.
But other factors may be in play. On one end of the spectrum of American religion are the analytical churches, on both the right and the left theologically and politically, which are primarily concerned with establishing Biblical principles to live by - and are suspicious of any modern-day irruption of the supernatural into religious life.
Their miracles all took place in the Bible. At the opposite end of the spectrum are the more experiential churches, like many African-American denominations and those in the Pentecostal movement, that lay heavy emphasis on the workings of the Holy Spirit, where the supernatural, through gifts like healing, prophesying and speaking in tongues, makes regular visits in the pews.
In the middle are sacramental faiths like Roman Catholicism, where the supernatural has a regular place on the altar (after all, the Eucharist is said to be the literal body and blood of Christ) but one that occurs only within the restrictions of very specific ritual.
What's interesting about the Baylor findings on guardian angel experiences is that they cross all boundaries.
They have scriptural writ (in Psalm 91 and elsewhere). They are clearly experiential. And guardian angels are a prominent part of Catholic belief that happens to float freely outside of a sacrament. The cross-spectrum legitimacy of the notion of angelic interventions may free Americans to engage in the kind of folk faith that is part of almost any religious system but is not always officially acknowledged.
Randall Ballmer, chairman of the religion department at New York's Barnard College, says that the Baylor angel figures are one in a periodic series of indications that "Americans live in an enchanted world," and engage in a kind of casual mysticism independent of established religious ritual, doctrine or theology.
"There is," he says, a "much broader uncharted range of religious experience among the populace than we expect." Just possibly, Baylor has begun to chart it.
Loved Ones…include all my patients in your prayers…that they all learn all their lessons with the least amount of pain.
You and all your loved ones are always in my prayers,
Samuel Joseph Bell
www.angelicinfusion.com
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Thursday, April 3, 2008
once you go to heaven
Loved Ones…I am a California Licensed Speech-Language Pathologist S.P.3037…and a Florida Speech-Language Pathologist SA9466..
I have tramped up and down the halls more than 30 years in skilled nursing homes, sub acute hospitals, board and care homes, schools and private homes working hands on with individuals with communication and or eating challenges…the same muscles you use to talk you use to eat…
and my job is the heal these life threatening challenges.
Sometimes I am the last person to be with the patient …that is one to one… in conversation…before they die…
I have been bedside many, many times as men and women draw their very last breath…and the warmth of the hand flows away and they become very, very relaxed...and their hand becomes cold.
When I first started in my profession and my friend, my patient died I would be devastated…destroyed…
If I was in a hospital I would struggle to keep it together till I could run out the emergency exit where I would commence to cry and cry…
I would walk around the block crying…till I was able to relatively compose myself and then go back into the facility and try to readdress my professional duties…Loved ones I have cried many many times.
On September 21, 1996 while I was a minister in training with Sylvia Browne…I went to the “other side” and received a blessing…a blessing to communicate with angels….
Loved ones…once you go to heaven…you no longer believe in God…you KNOW there is a God and you KNOW there is a heaven.
As a result when our Divine Parents take one of Their children back home I now no longer burst into tears of despair…but rather feel wonderful…knowing they have learned all their lessons and now are in the loving embrace of Mother and Father God.
If you do not believe this I fully understand…If someone had told me this before September 21, 1996 I would have politely backed away and split.
Here is one true story…
I am the speech pathologist at a large skilled nursing facility in San Mateo California…I walk into the rehab room…look up at the black board and see I have a new evaluation to do…
I see that the patent's room number is across from the nurse’s station and I know from experience that usually they put the most ill patients across from the nurses…
Sandy the rehab director tells me to go do the eval now as the patient might die soon.
I book it down the hall…peak into the room and see an older man…he has the “rattle”…or the sound of someone who is not going to last much longer…on the far side of the bed are two men who are basically holding up an older women between them…all three are somber with tears..
I go behind the nurses station and try to get the patients chart but the Philippine nurses are all clamoring to write orders and get doctors orders so there is no way I can peak at it …even for a moment…
I go back across the hall, grab a chair for the older women…bring it in and introduce myself…I start to ice his lips as he is parched…it is evident he is on his way out…
It is most obvious the wife and the two sons have been at his bedside all night and are exhausted…I suggest they all go across the street and get smoothies and come back…I promise to stay there with him while they are briefly gone…
They leave and I am alone with this tall thin handsome man about 85 years old…he is unconscious and struggling with each remaining breath…
As I ice his lips to comfort him he suddenly opens his eyes and looks at me…I tell him, “ when the light comes down to go up the light”…he closes his eyes…during this time I am holding his right hand…gently stoking the back of his hand…suddenly I get this vision of him in a leather jacket flying a B52 over “the hump” in world war 2….this vision is clear…like a picture…no movement but a 3D image …in color…and I “Know” where he is and what he is doing…
Soon the wife and 2 sons return…instead of smoothies they got milk shakes so the sugar is kicking in and they look much better.
They are on the patients left side and I am on the right side holding his hand…his wife is holding his left hand and is stroking his forehead saying, “Its O.K….It’s O.K.”
Now suddenly I see he is taking possibly his last breath…we are all looking at his face waiting for him to inhale again…this pause in time seems like an eternity…super…super…slow…
It looks like he is not going to inhale again and I am starting to feel awkward because when the family is there and the patient dies usually they all go nuts…crying…fainting…the scene gets kind of ugly…it gets weird …like some kind of emotional time warp…
I am staring at his face and then another vision explodes into my consciousness…I see this black cocker spaniel …the dog is ecstatic…in the vision this happy dog is running down from my upper right above the bed and is coming down and pawing at this deceased mans pant leg….
I look at the wife and ask… “Did he fly the hump in world war 2?”
She looks at me strangely and answers, “yes…he was always most proud of that and that is why his two sons are both pilots…one in the air force and one in the navy”…
I look at her with compassion and say, “I do not know what this means but I just had a vision of a totally crazy, totally happy black cocker spaniel running down to your husband and pawing at his pant leg”..
All three of them burst into tears…she says, “That was his dog that he loved very much”…
That man died right then…his family started praying…I pulled the curtain around them…came out and closed the door…went to the nurse station and said the patient had deceased….and then went back to the rehab room to brew myself a strong cup of Peets coffee.
Later the family came down to my office and thanked me…telling me because of what I had shared they knew he was in “Gods arms”
Loved ones …I cannot put a value on that…I cannot describe the feeling I felt knowing I had helped this man and all his loved ones…learn their lessons with the least amount of pain.
You and all your loved ones are always in my prayers,
Samuel Joseph Bell
www.angelicinfusion.com
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