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When I started my web site over ten years ago skeptics were telling the world how crazy near death experiencers were in relating their “anecdotal” events in public.<\/p>\n

We were said to be having hallucinations, dreaming, taking drugs, fooling ourselves and living in delusions, and those were the nice things they said about us.<\/p>\n

A skeptic once said to me:<\/p>\n

lekatt, would you ever stop making statements, based purely on your subjective comprehension of reality, as though they’re definitive? It’s most irritating.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Today it is different. There are a dozen universities engaged in some form of research on near death experiences. This research is showing that consciousness does live after the death of the brain and body. That consciousness and brain are two separate entities.<\/p>\n

I am still telling the world about the reality of near death experiences. True, not all skeptics will be convinced, however solid the research becomes. As of now, it is very solid. There will be issues of vested interests keeping many from accepting the research results. Like most controversial issues it will take time for all to accept the reality that we are spiritual.<\/p>\n

© 2009, Lekatt<\/a>. All rights reserved. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I started my web site over ten years ago skeptics were telling the world how crazy near death experiencers were in relating their “anecdotal” events in public.<\/p>\n

We were said to be having hallucinations, dreaming, taking drugs, fooling ourselves and living in delusions, and those were the nice things they said about us.<\/p>\n

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