Recently a paper was published in the New England Journal of Medicine about electrical stimulation of the brain that seemed to induce an out-of-body experience (OBE), a feature found in many NDEs. The new research is gaining media attention but the conclusions cited in the press are questionable.

To commemorate the first anniversary of the groundbreaking 2006 IANDS conference at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, IANDS is making available a CD with 25 presentations from the conference in MP3 format. This conference was the first international conference in decades devoted to NDEs at one of the world's largest medical research centers. It featured leading researchers from around the world and panels of experiencers discussing their experiences--most notably childhood NDEs and those resulting from combat or suicide attempts--and the effects of NDEs on marriages.

On August 31, 2007, Time magazine posted on their website an in-depth article on NDEs that was also published in their print edition. You can read this article by clicking here.

The Time article does a good job of offering a balanced presentation of the varying opinions of NDE researchers, including those who believe that only a physiological basis can explain NDEs and those who believe that traditional scientific models do not offer adequate explanations. That is, the presentation is balanced until the last paragraph.

All the presentations from the 2005 IANDS conference at Virginia Beach on one CD (Click here for details ). Now you can listen to some of the world's leading researchers and the NDEs of many experperiencers while you are driving, taking a walk or just relaxing at home. Each presentation is a separate MP3 file that can be played in your car's CD player (most newer cars have MP3 compatible CD players), on your computer or home CD player, or it can be loaded onto an iPod or other MP3 player.