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“Sir John Eccles was a Nobel Prize—winning neuroscientist who studied consciousness. He proposed that consciousness may actually exist apart from the brain. Eccles once stated, “I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity. This belief must be classed as a superstition…. We have to recognize that we are spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual world as well as material beings with bodies and brains existing in a material world.”2”
― Jeffrey Long, Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences

“It is medically inexplicable for someone born blind to have a detailed and organized visual experience.”
― Jeffrey Long, Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences

“… I have had patients describe extensive “out of body” experiences during open heart surgery in which”
― Jeffrey Long, Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences

“The other side doesn’t have the kind of pressures that the body imposes. Here on earth, we have to feed and clothe our bodies and provide shelter from the elements. We’re under continual pressure to make decisions that have a spiritual base. We may be taught on the “other side” what we are “supposed to do,” but can we live it under these pressures on earth? From what I saw and heard on the other side, everything is about relationships and taking care of each other. We aren’t expected to be perfect, but we are expected to learn. All of our experiences in a lifetime follow some sort of pattern, and we often learn the same lessons, but in a different way and under various circumstances. This is how we know what we are here to learn and test.21”
― Jeffrey Long, God and the Afterlife: The Groundbreaking New Evidence for God and Near-Death Experience

“They now understood the cosmic law that everything one does to others will ultimately be returned to oneself: hatred and violence as well as love and compassion.”
― Jeffrey Long, Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences

“Greek philosopher Epictetus’s maxim: “All religions must be tolerated . . . for every man must get to heaven in his own way.”
― Jeffrey Long, God and the Afterlife: The Groundbreaking New Evidence for God and Near-Death Experience

“For death begins with life’s first breath,
and life begins at touch of death. —John Oxenham”
― Jeffrey Long, Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences

“A small percentage of NDEs are frightening to the NDEr. This topic is addressed in detail on the NDERF website.”
― Jeffrey Long, Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences

“Blacher points out that “the physicians must be especially wary of accepting religious belief as scientific data.” I might add that equal caution should be exercised in accepting scientific belief as scientific data.”
― Jeffrey Long, Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences

“I will not see what others have done to you. I will see what you have done to others.”
― Jeffrey Long, Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences

“Reuniting with our lost loved ones is the reality—not just the hope—of the NDE. As Mark Twain said, “Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.” It is the convincing stories collected in the NDERF website that lead me to believe these reunions are real and strong evidence of the afterlife.”
― Jeffrey Long, Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences

“Next he showed me my life review. Every second from birth until death you will see and feel, and [you will] experience your emotions and others that you hurt, and feel their pain and emotions. What this is for is so you can see what kind of person you were and how you treated others from another vantage point, and you will be harder on yourself than anyone to judge you.”
― Jeffrey Long, Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences

“Mark Twain said, “Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.”
― Jeffrey Long, Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences

“By scientifically studying the more than 1,300 cases shared with NDERF, I believe that the nine lines of evidence presented in this book all converge on one central point: There is life after death.”
― Jeffrey Long, Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences