{"id":3814,"date":"2003-12-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/12\/24\/2003-12-24-near-death-experience-survivors-search-for-answers\/"},"modified":"2003-12-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-24T12:00:00","slug":"2003-12-24-near-death-experience-survivors-search-for-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/12\/24\/2003-12-24-near-death-experience-survivors-search-for-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"Near-Death Experience Survivors Search for Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/article.cfm?objectID=594B3E59-4875-4347\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>COLUMBIA, MARYLAND, UNITED STATES, December 19, 2003: Some things cannot be explained! Million in the United States claim to have near-death experience. They were actually declared clinically dead &#8211; but then, they regained consciousness. Their accounts of what happened during that event are strikingly similar. William Taylor, 61, who had a near-death experience. &#8220;In 1979 I had a cardiac arrest and suddenly found myself way out in space, and I could look back and see how everything is connected to everything else,&#8221; he recalls. &#8220;There&#8217;s just a warmth. I could see light in everything. I still could experience and think.&#8221; Mr. Taylor says he made the decision to live. &#8220;There was a very powerful being there and this being said, &#8216;It&#8217;s your choice.&#8217; Mr. Taylor says it was difficult to talk about his experience afterwards, because no one believed him and says that it&#8217;s often most difficult to talk about it with family or close friends. Mr. David LaMotte, a Protestant minister with 25 years of studies in near death experience has spoken with about a dozen people who&#8217;ve had such an experience and has read accounts of hundreds of others. &#8220;It has meaning for everyone, everywhere, in every way,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They are open spiritually to love and knowledge. And they believe that all of us are related, no matter what part of the world you&#8217;re in, no matter what race or religion &#8211; we&#8217;re all related in the beauty and love of the Almighty,&#8221; he says. Many scientific studies are under way to what happens during near-death, and in the meantime, William Taylor has a message for those who haven&#8217;t experienced it. &#8220;It would be good if people could retain an open mind and not put things down just because they don&#8217;t understand it or science can&#8217;t explain it,&#8221; he says. Maybe that&#8217;s really where we go. Maybe we don&#8217;t really die. Just think about some of that.&#8221; <\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceCOLUMBIA, MARYLAND, UNITED STATES, December 19, 2003: Some things cannot be explained! Million in the United States claim to have,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}