Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Thu, 16 Jan 2025
Dr. Jeffrey Long, the worlds foremost researcher on NearDeath Experiences (NDE) joins Matt Beall Limitless to discuss his lengthy research, interviews, and data on NDE’s. Follow Matt Beall Limitless: https://x.com/MattbLimitlesshttps://www.tiktok.com/@mblimitlesshttps://www.instagram.com/mattbealllimitless/https://www.facebook.com/people/Matt-Beall-Limitless/61556879741320/ Listen on: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mattbealllimitless Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-6727221 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/MattBeallLimitlessCheck out Dr. Jeffrey Longhttps://www.nderf.org/https://adcrf.org/https://oberf.org/https://nderf.com/ Episode Timeline:00:00 Introductions02:59 What is an NDE?32:47 The Beings1:00:38 Is it God?1:29:05 Religious Components1:41:32 The Moment of Death1:47:47 Shared NDE1:56:51 Suicide2:01:19 Reincarnation2:14:06 Point of No Return2:19:32 Supernatural Instances2:27:18 BIG NEWS!2:53:50 ClosingThe views and opinions expressed on this podcast are not necessarily the views of the host or of any business related to the host.
Chapter 1: What is a near-death experience?
God is the most common word near-death experiencers use, but it's a word of convenience. The substantial majority don't want to leave that heavenly realm. They do not want to return to their earthly life. So here they are observing their own resuscitation while under general anesthesia in the operating room. And this is where it gets just dang interesting.
I mean, here they're... Right now, this is where it gets interesting. Yeah.
this is something that I think is a really big deal. That if more people knew that the research that you've done is out there, that it's available, that it could really probably help people in a lot of ways. I mean, certainly people can learn more about, you know, what's potentially coming next.
But it really gives, it gave me, as I'm preparing for this episode, a sense of calm and peace and acceptance. And like, it's going to be okay after you die, when you die even. Yeah.
That's absolutely true, Matt, and we've got a lot of evidence to back that up. I mean, how can one not be fascinated about wondering what happens after we die? Near-death experiences seem to provide some very significant, detailed information. We've got a lot to talk about as we develop what you're already aware of as a remarkably positive message of hope.
Yeah, for sure. Yes. So, Dr. Jeffrey Long, if you could, maybe just as we, prior to getting started, maybe just introduce yourself and tell us, you know, what is your, what's your day job and then what's your passion? What's your hobby? Sure.
Well, I'm a radiation oncology physician, which is the use of radiation to treat cancer. I'm practicing full time in Kentucky. So that's my one full-time job. My other, if you will, full-time job is, as you said, my passion. And that's my study of near-death experiences. I've been doing this for over 25 years. I love it.
It has absolutely been life-changing to me as I've learned about near-death experiences and some of the important insights and messages for literally all of humanity, which we'll get into.
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Chapter 2: What happens during a near-death experience?
Yeah, for sure. Can't wait to get into it. So what is a near-death experience? Let's start there. By definition, what is it?
Well, by definition, as the name implies, you're near death. In other words, you're so physically compromised that you're unconscious or even clinically dead with an absent heartbeat. So that's how near death you are. But it also involves the term experience.
So at this time when you shouldn't have any conscious remembrance because you're unconscious from physical compromise, you do have that experience. And that's the experience part of a near death experience.
So no heartbeat, so no brain function. So scientifically, so if someone's hooked up, if someone's in a hospital and has a near-death experience, what do the various instruments report? Oh, sure.
Now, again, near-death experiences can occur while you're physically unconscious or clinically dead. But yes, a number of patients have reported near-death experiences while they're in the hospital, while they're being very carefully medically monitored. And it's very clear that their heart stops and that monitoring can include not only measures of heart activity.
By the way, Matt, once your heart stops, which is a common precipitating event in a near-death experience, the moment your heart stops, well, immediately blood stops flowing to the brain. And then 10 to 20 seconds after blood stops going to the brain, the EEG or electroencephalogram, that's a measure of brain cortical outside activity, goes absolutely flat.
At that time, it should be absolutely impossible to have any conscious experience because your brain is measurably flatlined. And yet people do, literally by the hundreds, report near-death experiences after their heart stops after cardiac arrest.
And so I want to follow along this same line of questioning, but one kind of sidestep question really quick then. So as the consciousness leaves the body, is there an amount of time that it's just you can't be out of your body for more than five minutes, 10 minutes, 30 minutes, an hour prior to your body accepting you back? Sure.
When you have that episode of unconsciousness, or especially if it's clinical death where your heart stops beating, your body is not going to be able to physiologically recover after a certain period of time. That can range from seven to 10 minutes in most situations of heart stoppage. For these rare events of what we call cold water drowning, people have been reported
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Chapter 3: Do people see God during their near-death experiences?
Chapter 4: What are the beings encountered in the afterlife?
When you have that episode of unconsciousness, or especially if it's clinical death where your heart stops beating, your body is not going to be able to physiologically recover after a certain period of time. That can range from seven to 10 minutes in most situations of heart stoppage. For these rare events of what we call cold water drowning, people have been reported
to be able to be resuscitated after even over 30 minutes. So it's somewhat variable on the circumstances that the heart stops.
Okay. Okay. So if you're chilled, if you're put on ice, then maybe then you can last a little bit longer. That's fascinating. Right.
Last a little bit longer. And children tend to bounce back from that kind of cold water drowning more than adults.
Okay.
But you're not talking... Your point's very valid. I mean, you're not talking about hours that you can have an absent heartbeat and be able to recover physiologically. So that's the time. During that time is when people have their near-death experiences. But you've studied... How many of these cases? In over 25 years I've been investigating this, we've studied over 4,000 near-death experiences.
We actually have them posted on our research website, nderf.org. It's the largest volume of near-death experiences available for scientific study that have ever been investigated. So it's very exciting to have that huge data set that we can learn more about near-death experiences than was ever possible before.
And then above and beyond that, in the websites that we collect, when people share them, we have like over 80 different questions. So heroically, all these people have filled out a very detailed survey. So it's not only the large number of people of near-death experiences we study, but it's that very detailed responses to those innumerable, it seems, survey questions.
So that's allowed us to learn about near-death experiences at a depth that we've never been able to learn before.
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Chapter 5: Is there a correlation between beliefs and the perception of God?
Chapter 6: What role does free will play in near-death experiences?
Chapter 7: Is hell a real place in near-death experiences?
Chapter 8: What common themes arise from near-death experiences?
So, so you said most of the time it's, it's a rising above the accident or there's the, but there's times when, when they, they're, they're backing up from it. There's times when they're at level with whatever's happened. Is there percentage wise, is it 90% they're rising above? Is it 10%? Is it 50% they're rising above? What, what does that look like? Yeah.
It's probably 95% right, their consciousness is above their body. And they're actually seeing and often hearing those ongoing physical events. So it's typically high enough up that they can get a view of the area around their body. They may describe it often as in the corner of a room or often up near the ceiling.
As far as their consciousness going level with their physical body, that's probably only about 5%. So by and large, these out-of-body experiences involve that consciousness over the body seeing ongoing earthly events. And remarkably... it's not just a matter of their consciousness being directly above or in the vicinity of their physical body.
We have literally scores of near-death experiences where that out-of-body experience, that conscious point of reference, actually leaves the vicinity of their physical body and observes things like you would say city blocks away, even over a mile away. And when they make those observations and then they so often come back and check out what was the accuracy, the validity of what they saw,
remarkably almost invariably what they saw close to their body or far from their physical body accurate down to the finest details i mean absolutely impossible for them to have that kind of information that kind of visual awareness unless their consciousness their point of reference really was actually above their body or even far from their physical body far outside of any possible physical sensory awareness yeah i want to go into maybe a couple of examples of of that i i
I heard a couple on the other podcast, so I'm hoping to hear a couple of new ones. But you mentioned a horse accident and a car accident. Those were over a mile away, I think you mentioned. So that's fascinating. Yeah. But so... So what about time after they leave their body? Does five minutes feel like five minutes? Does it feel like an hour? Any time dilation?
Oh, yeah, great question.
If that's the right word.
One of the most commonly observed things in a near-death experience is that time is radically different than earthly time. And it typically seems to be a dilation of time in the sense that in the near-death experience, particularly when they're in these unearthly heavenly realms,
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