Godspeed - 11/6/11

THE IMPACT OF NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES, WITH LEE WITTING

  

Carole Hallundbaek speaks with Reverend Dr. Leland Witting, Pastor of the
Union Street Brick Church in Bangor, Maine and Staff Chaplain at Eastern
Maine Medical Center. He holds a doctorate in Near Death Studies from
Bangor Theological Seminary and is a board member of the International
Association for Near-Death Studies. Founded in 1978, it was the first
organization in the world devoted to the study of near-death and similar
experiences and their relationship to human consciousness.

Topics in this hour include: what a near death experience (NDE) is;
Witting's own experience of an NDE at age 8; who coined the term near
death experience in the 1970s and its prevalence in culture and films; the
4 phases of NDE - disassociation, naturalistic/supernatural perception,
life review, return; distressing NDEs; some aftereffects of NDE; how his
affects his service as a hospital chaplain; stories of NDEs – accounts
that he has found particularly striking; why is it important to study
NDEs; its unifying impact on religious communities; the material and the
spiritual; how today's crises, including the Occupy Wall Street movement,
is a result of a deep-seated desire for a change in values that are
spiritual at their core; and more.

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