Has the first evidence of life after death been found?
In the largest study ever done on the sort of thing researchers at the university of southhampton examined 2,000 cases from patients who would suffered from cardiac arrest before they had been successfully brought back to life.
The strange thing they found was that during the moments in time when the brain had absolutely no measurable activity.... what is known as clinically dead....as much as 40% of the cases had recalled experiencing some sort of awareness during that period of time.
A historical backgrounder on the Shroud of Turin, believed to be the burial cloth of Jesus. "The Shroud is a challenge to our intelligence... The Church urges that the Shroud be studied without pre-established positions that take for granted results that are not such... For the believer, what counts above all is that the Shroud is a mirror of the Gospel... The image of human suffering is reflected in the Shroud... The Shroud is also an image of God's love as well as of human sin... (of) the powerlessness of death.. of silence....The Shroud shows Jesus at the moment of his greatest helplessness and reminds us that in the abasement of death lies the salvation of the whole world" (John Paul II in the 1998 Exposition of the Shroud of Turin). This video is from the official website of the Philippine exhibit which started last July 2007
A young boy remembers a past life "reincarnation" he had where he was murdered. The 3-year old correctly identified the spot he was buried, the village he was from, and the murderer. Is this proof that reincarnation is real?
In a region near the border of Syria known as Golan Heights, a boy says he remembers being murdered. At first, no one believed him.
That is, until he lead village elders to the spot where he remembers being buried. Mixed in with the group of village elders was a man by the name of Dr. Eli Lasch. Dr. Eli Lasch is known in Gaza for developing a government medical system. Lasch witnessed all of these events.
The villagers dug up the spot where the boy says his former corpse remains and sure enough there was as skeleton there. Mysteriously, a large axe mark on the skeleton corresponds to a birth mark on the boys head.
The boy says he was murdered with an axe and then lead village elders to the spot where the murderer buried the weapon. Sure enough, they dug up an axe.
The boy then lead people to the village he was from in his past life and told them of his previous name.
When people of the boy's former home village were asked about a man going by this name...they said he had disappeared 4 years earlier and never returned.
Remember, the boy was three years old.
But strangest of all, the boy recounted exactly who the murderer was.
When the boy confronted his killer, the man's face turned a pale white and he started acting very suspicious.
Once the boy lead elders to the exact spot of his corpse and the murder weapon the killer gave in and admitted to the crime -- for which he ended up being charged with.
Is the boy a product of reincarnation? Are we all perhaps reincarnations of our past lives?
The word "heart" is a strong word and a beautiful one. "Take heart!" we say, when we want a man to pick up courage. "He gave her his heart," we say, when a man gives to a woman his pure love. With perfect understanding, we talk of a motherly heart...of a man who puts heart into his work...of the innocent heart of a child...
