*** Near-death experiences go under the French microscope:
More than 1,500 delegates including people who claim to have had NDEs are attending the one-day conference, which aims to take stock of the disputed phenomenon in the most scientific way possible. http://tinyurl.com/zcd59

*** Actress Jane Seymour describes her NDE on Larry King Live:
"I was watching from the corner of the room. And I saw this white light." http://tinyurl.com/bq9ug

*** UA doctor offers reason for near-death experience:
As the body fails, consciousness "leaks out" of the body and becomes part of the "quantum void," he said. In that state, consciousness can exist "for a time." http://tinyurl.com/j8jya

*** Dave Bennett's near-death experience:
"I was in a dark void, but I felt a great peace. Then a light started to glow around me, and I saw several light beings ... http://tinyurl.com/jhrl5

*** Dannion Brinkley's mission at local VA hospitals:
Brinkley was in Spokane Monday visiting sick veterans at the local Veterans Administration hospital. http://tinyurl.com/embqg

*** From life, to death, to life: Dick Reissner's NDE:
As the flatline on his heart monitor sounded his demise, the last thing Reissner remembers seeing was the startled look on his wife's face, which Sue Reissner refers to as her "silent scream." http://tinyurl.com/eo5we

*** Author remembers meaning of life with near-death experience:
During the operation, a slip of the scalpel turned a nondescript surgery into a flat-line emergency during which he became eerily detached from his body yet aware of people and events immediately surrounding him. http://tinyurl.com/errba

*** Near-death survivors recall "the Other Side":
The survey by psychiatrist Peter Fenwick of Kings College in London followed a television program on the subject, after which 2,000 letters were received -- focused on correspondents who seemed to have what researchers describe as "core" experiences, SpiritDaily.com reported recently. http://tinyurl.com/kfrn4

*** A near-death experience:
The New York chapter of the International Association for Near-Death Studies group facilitator recently told the story of his near-death experience while working as a commercial diver in California in 1984.  http://tinyurl.com/kn4dt

*** Sharing their near-death experiences:
"People who were brain-dead could see what was going on in a waiting room, or around them, in precise detail. We are not talking about a hallucination here because it was quite real," he said. http://tinyurl.com/ldjcx

*** Video: Christian Andreason describes his NDE:
"I felt myself being lifted up and surrounded by this light," he said. In real time, he was only gone for two minutes, but what he saw felt like it lasted a lifetime. http://tinyurl.com/7jn83

*** Video: Renee Pasarow speaks about her NDE:
A talk about her near-death experience, Baha'i Faith Educational Series video tape, Reno, Nevada 1989. http://tinyurl.com/evbxy

*** Video: Dr. George Ritchie NDE docudrama (6 min 46 sec)
At the age of twenty, George Ritchie died in an army hospital. Nine minutes later, he returned to life. http://tinyurl.com/je699

*** Video: Dr. Maurice Rawlings: To Hell and Back (1 hr 28 min 52 sec).

This video hosted by Dr. Maurice Rawlings, a noted cardiologist, investigates life after death and his experiences with patients that actually saw the Other Side. http://tinyurl.com/hn6lm

*** Video: Dr. Maurice Rawlings on the NDE (1 hr 37 min 30 sec)
Dr. Rawlings discusses the near-death experiences of his own patients brought back to life.  http://tinyurl.com/gceb4

*** Video: Bill Wiese describes his NDE: 23 Minutes in Hell
(1 hr 36 min 51 sec). Bill was placed in hell not as a casual observer, but as someone who was not saved. http://tinyurl.com/hugce

*** Video: Gary Habermas lectures on the NDE (58 min 0 sec).
Gary Habermas describes a number of cases of near-death experiences and their implications for materialistic philosophy. http://tinyurl.com/erc9r

*** Video: Rev. Kenneth Hagin's NDE docudrama (3 min 35 sec)
At the age of 15, Kenneth had a near-death experience which resulted from a malformed heart - a condition he was born with. http://tinyurl.com/j88mw

*** Videos: Conscious Media Network Video Interviews:
Watch online video interviews of NDE and consciousness-related experts for free. http://www.consciousmedianetwork.com/

*** Paraplegic chronicles his journey to healing mind-body connection:
In several "out-of-body experiences," as he calls them, he says he watched what was happening like it was on TV. http://tinyurl.com/z6ukf

*** Video: Death as an out-of-body experience in Plato's Phaedo:
This video explores Phaedo's Death Yoga, recognizing death as an out-of-body experience, and unpacks the definition of True Philosophy and Phaedo's "Yoga of Death." http://tinyurl.com/ktw35

*** Nearly comatose man's brain rewires itself in most dramatic recovery in US history:
Doctors have their first proof that a man who was barely conscious for nearly 20 years regained speech and movement because his brain spontaneously rewired itself by growing tiny new nerve connections to replace the ones sheared apart in a car crash. http://tinyurl.com/h4vs9

*** Researchers find molecular "brake"' to cell death:
Researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have significantly refined the scientific understanding of how a cell begins the process of self-destruction - an advance they say may help in the design of more targeted cancer therapies. http://tinyurl.com/jbuys

*** Learning about life from those facing death:
"Life happens now and it can be lost in yesterday or misspent waiting for tomorrow," says Dr. William E. Hablitzel, author of "Dying Was the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me: Stories of Healing and Wisdom along Life's Journey." http://tinyurl.com/h34mb

*** Brushes with death renew life for most:
Most people who brush up against death live with renewed vigor and spirituality, said Lee W. Bailey, philosophy and religion professor at Ithaca College in New York. http://tinyurl.com/hho3s

*** Dead right:
"About 10 percent of people who come close to death or who survive actual clinical death have a near death experience," according to Peter Fenwick of the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, London. http://tinyurl.com/kut64

*** "Mind over matter" no longer science fiction:
Brunner and two colleagues from the state-financed Wadsworth Center in Albany, New York were demonstrating a "brain computer interface (BCI)," an astounding technology which digitalizes brain signals emitted as electrical impulses -- picked up by the electrodes -- to convey intent. http://tinyurl.com/k4qvd

*** Human brain waves control robot:
In a step toward linking a person's thoughts to machines, Japanese automaker Honda said it has developed a technology that uses brain signals to control a robot's very simple moves. http://tinyurl.com/fgxus

*** Coming soon: mind-reading computers:
An "emotionally aware" computer being developed by British and American scientists will be able to read an individual's thoughts by analyzing a combination of facial movements that represent underlying feelings. http://tinyurl.com/gwqlq

*** Woman with perfect memory baffles scientists:
Give her any date, she said, and she could recall the day of the week, usually what the weather was like on that day, personal details of her life at that time, and major news events that occurred on that date. http://tinyurl.com/r6c2t

*** Satellite could open door on extra dimension:
An exotic theory, which attempts to unify the laws of physics by proposing the existence of an extra fourth spatial dimension, could be tested using a satellite to be launched in 2007. http://tinyurl.com/m4hxb

*** The strange world of quantum entanglement:
Entanglement is a strange feature of quantum physics, the science of the very small. It's possible to link together two quantum particles, photons of light or atoms, for example, in a special way that makes them effectively two parts of the same entity. You can then separate them as far as you like, and a change in one is instantly reflected in the other. http://tinyurl.com/jgnxv

*** Molecule-sized switch could control DNA machines:
A molecule-sized switch just 50 nanometers wide may someday control microscopic machines and also could make DNA sequencing faster, less expensive, and more precise. http://tinyurl.com/zxf5j

*** The past-life memories of children:
His book "Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous Lives" tries to verify statements from children who claim to have had past-life experiences. http://tinyurl.com/gj4a8

*** What is enlightenment? Explores "Reincarnation: the evolution of death and life and everything in between":

Carter Phipps, senior editor of "What Is Enlightenment?" magazine, takes readers on a scientific and philosophical journey into the whole evolving process of death, reincarnation, and the afterlife. http://tinyurl.com/f4nkr

*** Dreams that predict the future:
Famous psychic Edgar Cayce maintained that the visions presented in dreams are necessary for personal development and should be applied in waking life. http://tinyurl.com/fqjq3

*** Famous discoveries from dreams:
Otto Loewi and his Nobel Prize winning dream, Srinivasa Ramanujan and his mathematical discoveries, Kekule and his molecular discoveries, Louis Agassiz and his fossil discovery, Madame CJ Walker and her million dollar product, Elias Howe and the sewing machine, Abraham Lincoln and his premonition of death, Paul McCartney and "Yesterday", Mary Shelley and "Frankenstein", Stephen King and "Misery", Robert Louis Stephenson and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Jack Nicklaus and his champion-wining golf swing. http://tinyurl.com/pnvbw

*** Tap your dreams to change your life:
A young guitarist has a dream in which he hears amazing guitar riffs. He awoke abruptly and, in a near panic, grabbed his guitar, turned on his recorder, and played the riffs from his dream before they faded from his mind. The resulting song became the band's first number one hit. The song revolutionized rock music. The young guitarist was Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones and the song is "Satisfaction."  http://tinyurl.com/gdlpe

*** Video: Excerpt from "How to trick your body into falling asleep to enter a lucid dream":  http://tinyurl.com/g6cym

*** The real "Medium" writes about spirit world:
In her new book, "We Are Their Heaven," forensic psychic Allison DuBois tells readers about her experiences with people who have lost loved ones.  http://tinyurl.com/h73cz

*** Signs: Gifts from dead? Scientists study question; many bereaved believe:
Butterflies, rainbows, garage doors that go up and down for no reason -- these are the kinds of stories the living tell about signs they believe they have received from the dead. http://tinyurl.com/eabuo

*** "I've found God," says man who cracked the genome:
The scientist who led the team that cracked the human genome is to publish a book explaining why he now believes in the existence of God and is convinced that miracles are real. http://tinyurl.com/myb9u

*** Dog makes cell phone call to save owner's life:
Beagle receives award after dialing 911 when man suffered seizure. http://tinyurl.com/e5bed