{"id":19680,"date":"2025-01-09T18:05:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T19:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19680"},"modified":"2025-01-09T19:27:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T19:27:44","slug":"peter-fenwick-leading-expert-on-near-death-experiences-dies-at-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19680","title":{"rendered":"Peter Fenwick, Leading Expert on Near-Death Experiences, Dies at 89"},"content":{"rendered":"
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He was a neuropsychiatrist who was studying consciousness when a patient explained what had happened to him, and he realized the phenomenon was real.<\/p>\n

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In early 1988, the British neuropsychiatrist Peter Fenwick found himself drowning in letters from people who believed they had survived an encounter with death.<\/p>\n

\u201cI slowly floated down a tunnel, not afraid in any way but looking forward to something,\u201d one man wrote to him. \u201cWhen it came I was absolutely at peace and going towards the most wonderful light. Believe me, it was great. No worries, problems or anything, just wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n

In another letter, a woman described walking down a country lane and coming upon golden gates.<\/p>\n

\u201cInside was the most beautiful garden, no lawn, path or anything else, but flowers of every kind,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThose that attracted me most were Madonna lilies, delphiniums and roses, but there were many, many more.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The letters were among more than 2,000 that Dr. Fenwick received shortly after he appeared in a BBC documentary, \u201cGlimpses of Death,\u201d<\/a> in which he commented on the near-death visions of people who had apparently briefly died, or nearly died, and then come back to life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThese letters were written by people who had never, ever before told anyone about their experiences,\u201d Dr. Fenwick said in a 2012 lecture<\/a> at TEDxBerlin<\/a>. \u201cWhy? Because they\u2019re too frightened. They told it to their wives or their husbands; they said they weren\u2019t interested. They told it to their friends; they said, \u2018You\u2019re mad.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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He was a neuropsychiatrist who was studying consciousness when a patient explained what had happened to him, and he realized the phenomenon was real.In early 1988, the British neuropsychiatrist Peter Fenwick found himself drowning in letters from people who believed they had survived an encounter with death.\u201cI slowly floated down a tunnel, not afraid in any way but looking forward to something,\u201d one man wrote to him. \u201cWhen it came I was absolutely at peace and going towards the most wonderful light. Believe me, it was great. No worries, problems or anything, just wonderful.\u201dIn another letter, a woman described walking down a country lane and coming upon golden gates.\u201cInside was the most beautiful garden, no lawn, path or anything else, but flowers of every kind,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThose that attracted me most were Madonna lilies, delphiniums and roses, but there were many, many more.\u201dThe letters were among more than 2,000 that Dr. Fenwick received shortly after he appeared in a BBC documentary, \u201cGlimpses of Death,\u201d in which he commented on the near-death visions of people who had apparently briefly died, or nearly died, and then come back to life.\u201cThese letters were written by people who had never, ever before told anyone about their experiences,\u201d Dr. Fenwick said in a 2012 lecture at TEDxBerlin. \u201cWhy? Because they\u2019re too frightened. They told it to their wives or their husbands; they said they weren\u2019t interested. They told it to their friends; they said, \u2018You\u2019re mad.\u2019\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19682,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19683,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19680\/revisions\/19683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}