11-year-old believed to be reincarnated pilot

Lisa Williams: Life among the dead

If you've ever wanted to go on TV with your experiences here's your chance from the people behind "Lisa Williams: Life Among the Dead": Do you live in a place that you believe to be haunted? Have you experienced strange occurrences or witnessed unexplained phenomena? We want to hear from you. We are currently looking for people to participatein Season 2 of our show "Lisa Williams : Life Among the Dead" to air on Lifetime. Using her uncanny abilities to see and speak ...

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Treating the dead

Consider someone who has just died of a heart attack. His organs are intact, he hasn't lost blood. All that's happened is his heart has stopped beating—the definition of "clinical death"—and his brain has shut down to conserve oxygen. But what has actually died? As recently as 1993, when Dr. Sherwin Nuland wrote the best seller "How We Die," the conventional answer was that it was his cells that had died. The patient couldn't be revived because the tissues of his ...

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What is the reality of afterlife ?

Anthony North: We all know about it, whether it exists or not. We know of ghosts and reincarnated entities, and we all have some knowledge of the idea that we might experience afterlife upon death.Philosophers and priests have thought about it for as long as thinking man has existed. Alternatively, scientists have tried their best to sweep it under a thread-bare carpet. So what is the reality of afterlife? Politics and morality: The first thing to realize about afterlife is that it has been quit...

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The boy who lived before

Linda Burgess: If last night's documentary on Prime, The Boy Who Lived Before, had an attitude, it was one of respect. Its subject matter – reincarnation, in this case a small child who had memories of a previous life and of a place which he had never visited – was one guaranteed to get a cynic sneering. But all this documentary set out to do was to allow the audience to observe Cameron's story being checked out. It made for riveting – and touching – viewing. Cameron was only two when he...

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Back from the dead

Submitted by Marvy: Bill Bondar knows exactly where he died: on the sidewalk outside his house in a retirement community in southern New Jersey. It was 10:30 on the night of May 23, a Wednesday, and Bondar was 61—a retired computer programmer with a cherry red Gibson bass guitar, an instrument he had first picked up around the same time as Chuck Berry. He was 6 feet 1 and 208 pounds, down about 50 pounds over the last several years. On that night he had driven home from a jam session with two fr...

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Why we can't imagine death

It should strike us as odd that we feel inclined to nod our heads in agreement to the twangy, sweetly discordant folk vocals of Iris Dement in "Let the Mystery Be," a humble paean about the hereafter. In fact, the only real mystery is why we"re so convinced that when it comes to where we"re going "when the whole thing"s done," we"re dealing with a mystery at all. After all, the brain is like any other organ: a part of our physical body. And the mind is what the brain does—it"s more a verb than i...

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Life before this

Anthony North: Who were you in a previous life? This question is now so popular that many westerners accept that they must have lived before. Believing in the phenomenon of Reincarnation, it is almost a spiritual system in itself. But what is the reality to reincarnation? I don"t know. Maybe it is exactly what people believe. But it is also possible to place other mechanisms upon the subject, and even place it in a totally new paradigm. A case study: To understand the subject in western terms, w...

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'I died in Jerusalem in 1276'

Danny Penman: The last time I died was in Jerusalem in 1276. Pope Gregory X's Crusade against Islam had collapsed and the Christians of the city would soon be abandoned to their fate. My final hours were filled with death. I was besieged in a beautiful vaulted church along with 100 knights. Smokey candlelight glinted off their armour. Some knights were praying, others resting. As dawn broke over the city they readied themselves for the final conflict with an implacable foe. Even the most dev...

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You only live twice

Why do so many people who claim to be reincarnated return to earth as celebrities rather than, say, car salesmen? Richard Macer tracks down some recent second comings for whom this is a matter of life and death. Richard Macer: "What do I have to do to make you believe that I am Elvis Aaron Presley?" So asked the overweight middle-aged man dressed in a white rhinestone jumpsuit. This conversation was typical of many I was having on a journey into the world of the famously reincarnated. ...

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Did Neanderthals believe in an afterlife?

Burial ground believed to contain Neanderthal remains sheds light on their burial customs.While it"s often believed that Neanderthals were incapable of complex symbolic thought, scientists believe that remains discovered in Southeast Spain shed new light on their abilities -individuals found grouped together suggest possible ritualistic burial. The deceased appear to have been intentionally buried, with each Neanderthal"s arms folded such that the hands were close to the head. Rem...

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