The First Five Minutes After Death - A three year study will explore the nature of death and consciousness

After countless accounts of near-death experiences, dating as far back as ancient Greece, science is now taking serious steps forward to explore the nature of the phenomenon. A new project aims to determine whether the experience is a physiological event or evidence that the human consciousness is far more complicated than we ever believed.

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the near-death experience could be another state of consciousness with a different set of rules than what we currently understand, and beyond the limits of what current scientific methods can explain.

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During the time that people report the feeling of detachment from their physical body, or an out-of-body-experience, they report a perception of floating above their body, or floating near the ceiling in the room where the experience occurs. This aspect of the experience plays an important role in the study.

Some speculate that St. Paul had a near-death experience that may have influenced the New Testament.



When folks have near-death experiences, they often return with a completely different view of the world, and their role in it.

Almost to a person, they become more spiritual. Their accent becomes love. They look at everyday worries — in the light of eternity — as trivial.

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That question (and it is only a question) arises because of the famous line in 2 Corinthians 12:4, whereby the great disciple, Paul (once Saul), wrote, “I know this man — whether in or outside his body I do not know, God knows — was snatched up to Paradise to hear words, which cannot be uttered, words which no man may speak.”