Ryan Sickler is used to asking the question that people are afraid to ask: “Is there anyone here who has ever actually died and come back and would be comfortable talking about it in front of all of ...

Several years ago, I was approached to write a popular book on terminal lucidity—a near-death phenomenon in which individuals with severe cognitive impairment experience unexpected moments of clarity ...

Across cultures, religions, and centuries, people who come close to death often report strikingly similar experiences. They speak of leaving their bodies, moving through darkness, feeling overwhelming ...

Understanding near-death experiences In their new paper, Greyson and Pehlivanova outline many facets of NDEs that the NEPTUNE model—and neurophysiology more broadly—still cannot explain. For example, ...

Our brains have been designed through evolution to make it impossible to think of ourselves as not having consciousness, easily leading us down the road of thinking of our minds as being immortal. In ...

The massive winter storm that hit many parts of the South last month also wreaked havoc on the “Duck Dynasty” crew. “Duck Dynasty’s” Jase Robertson told Zach Dasher and Al Robertson about multiple ...