In the 1960s, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) technique was adopted across the country, and around the same time, physicians and emergency personnel were hearing a great increase in stories from those who were brought back from the brink of death.
Sometimes they had witnessed their own resuscitation, despite having little or no brain or heart activity, and sometimes they spoke of light and love and a great beyond.
Jeffery Long, a medical doctor specializing in radiation oncology, first came across the phenomenon in the 1990s. He had been flipping through the Journal of the American Medical Association and looking for a cancer-related article when, “completely by accident, I found an article that said ‘near-death experience’ in it,” Long said in an interview with The Epoch Times. He had never heard of it, but stopped to read the article “because how can you not be fascinated by wondering what happens after we die?”…