A Doctor’s Fascinating Investigation of Near-Death Experiences (ft. Dr. Michael Sabom)

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Published 2024-01-12
As a critical cardiologist, Dr. Michael Sabom first thought near-death experiences were "hogwash." After designing and implementing the first scientific study of NDE's in the 1970s, he was stunned at what he found. In this interview, Dr. Sabom discloses his surprising findings and discusses how the professional field of NDEs has radically changed since its inception in the 1970s.

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All Comments (21)
  • @maryronan8446
    My hubby is a marine (ret) and when he was in jump school he had a terrible parachute accident. He suffered for years from terrible back pain until one day at church he cried out to Jesus for healing. Nothing happened. He drove home. Fast forward to 2am that next morning he was sleeping when he said his bedroom flooded with a warm love. He said he knew Jesus was there in the light, Jesus is the light. The light was coming at him in waves of liquid love in heartbeat waves!!!! He said immediately his arms went up in worship and praise!!! This happened THREE NIGHTS IN A ROW!!! His back was completely healed!!! Jesus is real!!!!
  • @forlaw3625
    I had an NDE when I was 12 yrs old, in 1973. I explained it to my older sister, who rescued me after I drowned. She said, "Your life flashed before your eyes!" I thought that was what it was called until about 1976. I was in a Salvation Army store when a paperback book caught my eye. I saw the words,"near death experience. I had shared my experience with my sister & my mother by then, but I felt very blessed because I thought I alone had this knowledge of a Living, loving God. I still feel so very blessed to have been in His presence, to have been in a place where time did not exist, & to have seen colors that human minds are incapable of seeing or experiencing. I've had 2 additional miracles since then. God is so real & I would give almost anything to be able to give that knowledge to others!
  • @msurowka5
    Not a nde but came in one night and a preteen that I had been taking care of for a few years in the kids cancer unit, called me into her room and told me there were two angels come in and out of her room through a door that she knew I couldn’t see. They visited her all night about half through the night she called in and said there was 3 now and one was Jesus. She died about 9 the next morning. So that child had the best escorts to heaven she could have ever had. What a joy that brought to my heart
  • @vannayoung4122
    My Gram was in the hospital passing away. An elderly woman with dementia was sitting in the hall outside my Gram's room. When Gram passed, I had my head on her chest and I heard her last heartbeat. I immediately felt a sense of peace, and I knew she went straight to heaven. I walked out of the room, and that elderly woman said to me, "hey you come here. Did you see them?" I said, "see who?" Then she said, "the angels, there with 3 of them, they just came down and took that lady to heaven." 😮
  • @sheribrogden9247
    My NDE was with Jesus. He let me decide if I would come back. He loves us all so much. I was 35. I am 78 today
  • My mother had a NDE the day I was born on Nov 3 1964 while the hospital staff were watching the election results and she bled to death. She told me about the first time when I was about 10. Then we talked about it a lot over the years. She said she floated out of her body and hovered over the room and saw her body and the Dr coming in and finding her like that and he was cursing at the nurses and throwing stuff around. It’s quite lengthy but the short version. She met Jesus and He asked her to decide if she wanted to come back and she said she didn’t want to because it was so loving and perfect there but then she thought of me and thought yes I’m her mind and was instantly slammed into her body and was cold and in pain and the contrast was horrific. To this day she says we have each other earthly life that day. Kind of fascinating. She swears she can’t wait to get out of here and she talks about death like she is going to a special event and can’t wait.
  • @whoooami2090
    I know when my father was passing away from cancer, he kept saying “look at all the beautiful colors.” Shortly after, he was gone. My mother on the other hand was laughing and I asked her what she was laughing about and she just said she liked watching them play. I have no clue whom or what she was talking about but she was happy and then she passed. They passed within 6 yrs of each other and were both believers in Jesus and born again.
  • @michaelknapp8961
    I’ve never had an NDE but 36 years ago I had a prolific dream with my dead grandmother. She spoke to me for a long time in the dream. It went on for a long time. She said she had to go and I needed to wake up and start my day that day. She told me when I wake up to look underneath the bathroom sink because there’s something of hers in that box. I woke up and went underneath the sink and found this small little cardboard box. What was in it was a blue bandana that my grandma would always wear. It had her scent on it. I told my entire family about what I experienced and nobody cared. Nobody wanted to listen to me or give a damn but I know it was real. I had a real experience. I know it in my heart.
  • I was 17 when I had a NDE. I floated above my body saw how sickly it was due to anorexia ( I'm 5' 11" and was 98 lbs.) and didn't want to go back in. I was above the rooftop of my father's house. I could hear my stepmother and friends in the guest house talking about me and wondering why I had been gone so long. I could feel my father's thoughts in his mechanic shop trying to work on a car, swet home Alabama was on the radio. I shot straight up from there. It was pure dark I had no sense of who I was or what Earth was anymore. I felt every right or wrong thing I had ever done and had to feel it 50x more and how it affected others. I saw a glorious love filled light ahead and felt the acceptance id been searching for my whole life. I was home! A dimmer light came from my right side. I had to choose. The dimmer light told me I could come back to Earth and live a longer life and it would only be a blink of an eye in time. I figured what did I have to lise I was reassured ill get to come back when it's my time. I agreed and shot right back into my body. I woke up to my friend stunned standing above me. I limped to the bathroom and looked in the mirror. I looked like a corpse. I asked the light before I came back what message I should bring " how you treat others while your here is what matters the most" I was completely cured of my anorexia and had a new view on life. It was one of the best things that ever happened to me. I have severe heart damage but 30 years of borrowed time on thus planet❤😊
  • @cherylsabol387
    My grandmother died and was brought back and she told us that she was in a tunnel going toward a bright light when my grandfather & brother stepped in front of her and told her not yet. My grandfather had died just the year before that and I think he knew the family couldn’t lose her yet. My grandmother was a sweet Christian woman who never lied and never raised her voice.
  • I had an NDE. It was not my time as God told me and sent me back. I had my son years later. We all have a purpose. My son who I gave birth to told me at 2 years that he chose me as his mother as he pointed up and said “God is up there”and told me he and God chose me to be his mom.
  • @msurowka5
    As a pediatric nurse for 45 yrs I’ve had children experience nde
  • @deannekliene2673
    Years ago i fell asleep watching tv, suddenly i "knew" my grandmother (who raised me) was in the corner of the room...i told myself *tomorrow i need to call her, she wont be around long.." the next day i called her and my cousin answered telliing me she died at 2 oclock that morning, the exact time i felt her in the room saying goodbye! It truly helped my grief....
  • @bilalkhan4168
    My sweet sweeeeeet MOM passed away from Cancer,bacterial meningitis,lungs infection,kidney failure,strokes and finally heart failure.She was only 48 year old ,but I know she’s in Heaven!!! She wasn’t just my mom,but my best friend.please pray for her.
  • It's not hogwash; I broke my leg in 3 places and crushed my heel & ankle, bleeding to death, I remembered everything; including the two doctors working on me, what all was said, done what they had on, I was floating above them watching, I was gone for 7 minutes, it seemed more like three weeks. I didn't want to come back, but was told that I had to; that I had too much left to do. I told the Dr. That preformed manual cpr and used the paddles on me, I told him everything that happened that I remembered, He turned white as a sheet, he cracked my breast plate, I was thankful to him, and wanted to thank him, the next time I saw him was about 6 months after this. When I told him and the doctor that was the surgeon working on me everything, including things that I was told while I was gone that were going to happen, and those things did happen. I was told things that were going to happen in the future, that Im not supposed to say anything about. Some of the things that I was told I could tell. The doctors and the nurses were shocked and in awe. They told me that I was gone for seven minutes; and that I had lost so much blood that they were close to calling it; I saw things going on like the bone saw. I have metal rods in my legs, I have a bolt across my ankle, two metal plates on top of my foot, & around my heel and they replaced my heel and ankle bones. There are more things I could tell you, but it's too much. But Thankyou for doing what you do, I wouldn't be here if weren't for people like you.
  • @flossypark3169
    My father-in-law had a near death while having surgery for bowel cancer, he survived for many years after but sadly passed away a couple of years ago following a stroke. I was the only person he told, I think he felt he ‘imagined’ it but needed to tell his story. He described being above the operating table and found himself watching the procedure.  It’s sad that people still feel unable to speak of it.
  • @01IveR01
    I flatline a few times in my lifetime. The 1st NDE happened when at age 10½ I lite a quarter stick of dynamite thinking it was a candle inside the house. I lite it & noticed it was sparking, my little sister standing next to me. I got scared so I turned on the water to put out the sparks but it wouldn't turn off thats when I knew it wasn't a candle. I switched the candle fast to my other hand & push my little sister hard under the kitchen table & it blew up. It hit the newly remodeled kitchen ceiling & bounce back & hit me in my chest. Thats when I felt myself get up than saw my own body bleeding from my chest & hand. Than all off a sudden I was going super fast thru the ceiling. I than returned back as my grandma was doing CPR on me than flatlined again. Got to the hospital grandma carrying her suppply of blood to give me. In the local hospital I flatlined I believe 2 times more I was out of my body looking at the emergency room Dr & nurses working to save me. Than I flatlined again saw myself pale white on the table my mom in the er waiting room than I was going full speed up thru a very brighly lite tunnel straight up. I than stood in front of a golden gate that had the biggest beautiful white shining mansion & an old man at gate, he was starting to open the door when I told him I need to go back to my mom & I was sent back to my body. But on the was to another hospital i flatlined multiply times in the ambulance including demons, dead people and people that said were here to protect you. A few days later I had woken up thats when I was told I had flatlined a few times. Than I told them I know I saw the whole thing. Years later I flatlined during a simple operation again I could see everything the ER staff was doing and saying & I could also see other things as well we like dark shadows following certain people. God never left me. The hardest part during that ordel was speaking but no one could hear me accept the man with a golden crown he said its not your time yet & sent me back. People still wonder how I'm still alive with all the stuff ive gone thru.
  • My wife AnnMarie died and my son Erick died of Leukemia at age 14,i suffer a stroke and can no longer walk,i listen to all the NDE i never had an NDE and im very sad,, hope to die soon and hope to rejoin my wife AnnMarie and my son Erick ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
  • @user-gx2yy1df6f
    i didn't have an n.d.e. but one night i was drawing with some colored chalk and smoking a ciggarette, all of a sudden i expierienced the most stark terror and extreme fear, it came out of nowhere, i thought i saw something on the wall , just a flash of something and i cried out for God to please forgive me , that's what i wanted most in the world at that moment, when i said that the terror left and i was back to normal, i thought maybe i inhaled some of the chalk dust and that's why it happened but whatever it was was so terrorfing that i don;t have words for it . but one cry to God and it was gone!