Researcher Alinaghi Ghasemiannejad Jahromi, PhD (Kermanshah
University Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran)
Researcher Jeffrey Long, MD (Near-Death Experience Research
Foundation Houma, Louisiana, United States of America)
Iranian Muslim OBE case S8:
I was near the ceiling. I could see doctors and nurses who were
performing surgery on my body. One of them dropped his scissors
and picked them up. (S8)
I’m not afraid of dying. I’m afraid of being alone after death. I’m
afraid to be alone when I die. I am afraid there will be no compassion
there. (S8)
[About aftereffects] I don’t like to go outside. I want to avoid social
interactions. However, for the sake of my kids and family, I really
can’t. (S8)
Iranian Muslim OBE case S17:
I saw myself for a moment from above. I saw my mom and dad and
even myself on the bed. I realized that the soul was separated from
my body. I saw the nurse who was trying to resuscitate me. Then,
while I was watching, I stared at the sign on my right on the wall:
Keep Silence! (S17)
Iranian Muslim OBE case S3:
When I got out of my body, I saw the light channel. This channel was
not something I wanted to get into. It was just like a vacuum cleaner.
I don’t know how to express it. I was being dragged towards it, and it
all happened immediately. There was no other choice, like a vacuum
cleaner. There was no distance. I can’t describe this space. It’s hard
for me to explain. (S3)
In the end, they forced me back. (S3)
When I wanted to go back to my body, I endured severe torment that
I will never forget. It was a very painful return. It was as if they put
me in a press and crushed me back into my body. (S3)
[About aftereffects] I easily get along with everyone. No matter who
they are: friends, relatives, family members, strangers. (S3)
Iranian Muslim OBE case S2:
I saw in my experience Ayatollah Khomeini who was alive at that time.
He was sitting in the library room with his robe. I went forward, put
my head on his feet, and cried from the bottom of my heart. (S2)
The next point was that the speed of time was slower than usual. It
was something like pondering things deeply at a very, very slow pace.
(S2)
[About aftereffects] My understanding of religious beliefs has
become more realistic, deeper, and more meaningful after my NDE
(OBE). (S2)
Iranian Muslim OBE case S1:
Then a clear tunnel appeared to me that was neither wide nor
narrow. My guess is now that I was dragged into the tunnel and had
no choice. (S1)
The first thing I saw was that my head was on my grandmother’s feet.
My grandmother died a few years ago. She was wiping blood
droplets from my forehead. Then I saw my brother. My brother was a
martyr in the Iran-Iraq war. I also had an aunt who had passed away
20 years before I was born, and I had no image or memory of her. I
had a brief meeting with her in my experience, and I was told that
“She is your aunt.” She loved me so much. When I came back and
described her appearance to my mother, she confirmed that she was
my aunt. (S1)
I visited with some religious figures and imams in my experience that
I don’t want to say much about them and these visits. (S1)
They [spiritual beings] showed me a lot of events from the future—
about my own future and the future of the world. One of the events
that I was told about is the numerous wars that will take place before
the reappearance of Imam Mahdi in the world and in the Middle East.
(S1)
My brother gave me a choice to go back or stay there. He told me if I
came back, I’d regret it. However, he also insisted on my returning
because of our mother who was very dependent on me. So I decided
to return. (S1)
Now I have no fear of dying. Death is really beautiful. The world is no
more than a passing place. It’s not a place to reside. (S1) I believed in God and the afterlife, but after my NDE I became more
and more confident. (S1)
[About aftereffects] My prayers and other religious practices are not
the same as before. I worship with a special feeling of love. It is as if
God is getting closer and closer to me. (S1)
[About aftereffects] I was very isolated before my NDE. But now I
have become more social and go out more. (S1)
Iranian Muslim OBE case S5:
At one point I felt that my whole life was being shown to me with all
the things I had done: the sins I had committed and the severe
psychological torments that appeared to me after these sins. I felt
like my soul was pulling back like a movie and feeling all my behaviors.
The torments were all psychological, including feeling ashamed
before God and the martyrs. (S5)
That luminous face didn’t introduce himself to me. I just felt that he
might be one of the imams. (S5)
I realized that everything became dark. A curtain appeared behind
me, which I passed through. The space behind the curtain was very
unpleasant and horrible. Until that moment, I had never seen such
things with my own eyes. Behind the curtain was a space where the
hands and feet of the people were bound with shackles and
manacles. Anyone who entered this place would be pushed forward.
I also wanted to put myself into these shackles and manacles to go
along with others. (S5)
There were some people standing in line for several hours. The
queues were too long. I didn’t like standing in the queue or going back to my body. I said, “Let me go with the rest of the people who
are going to the other side.” They came to me and said, “No! You
have to go back.” Again, the luminous person came and took my
hand and returned me to my body. (S5)
[About aftereffects] After my experience, I do not like to interact with
anyone. I became very uncommunicative; however, I value and
respect my mother very much. I do not become very comfortable and
intimate with others like before, maybe only saying hello and
greeting. (S5)
(From the free e-book named “Scientific Evidence for Reincarnation, NDEs and Karma with Personal Stories.”)