{"id":27029,"date":"2025-05-02T15:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27029"},"modified":"2025-05-02T15:24:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T15:24:17","slug":"jeremy-renner-and-the-science-of-extraordinary-near-death-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27029","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Renner and the Science of Extraordinary Near-Death Experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A little over two years ago, the actor was run over by a snowplow. Like thousands of others, he then felt an \u201cexhilarating peace.\u201d Why?<\/p>\n

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A little over two years ago, the actor Jeremy Renner was run over by a seven-ton snowplow<\/a>. In a new memoir, he wrote that as he lay near death, he experienced something extraordinary.<\/p>\n

He could see his entire life at once, and felt an \u201cexhilarating peace\u201d and a connection to the world. He also saw family and friends arrayed before him, telling him not to let go.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I felt was energy, a constantly connected, beautiful and fantastic energy,\u201d Mr. Renner wrote. \u201cThere was no time, place or space, and nothing to see, except a kind of electric, two-way vision made from strands of that inconceivable energy, like the whipping lines of cars\u2019 taillights photographed by a time-lapse camera.\u201d<\/p>\n

What Mr. Renner described is \u201cclassic for near-death experiences,\u201d the term researchers use for such events, said Dr. Jeffrey Long, the founder of the Near-Death Experience Research Foundation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr. Long\u2019s foundation has collected more than 4,000 accounts similar to Mr. Renner\u2019s. Some people who have come close to death have recounted a sense of energy, peace and absence of time, as Mr. Renner did. Some have also described watching their body from above, moving through a tunnel toward a light and even meeting God.<\/p>\n

The general public may be familiar with these events through a genre of memoirs that present near-death experiences as proof of a Christian afterlife. But they have been reported across countries, demographics and religions, as well as by atheists, and have been a subject of scientific research<\/a> for decades.<\/p>\n

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A little over two years ago, the actor was run over by a snowplow. Like thousands of others, he then felt an \u201cexhilarating peace.\u201d Why?A little over two years ago, the actor Jeremy Renner was run over by a seven-ton snowplow. In a new memoir, he wrote that as he lay near death, he experienced something extraordinary.He could see his entire life at once, and felt an \u201cexhilarating peace\u201d and a connection to the world. He also saw family and friends arrayed before him, telling him not to let go.\u201cWhat I felt was energy, a constantly connected, beautiful and fantastic energy,\u201d Mr. Renner wrote. \u201cThere was no time, place or space, and nothing to see, except a kind of electric, two-way vision made from strands of that inconceivable energy, like the whipping lines of cars\u2019 taillights photographed by a time-lapse camera.\u201dWhat Mr. Renner described is \u201cclassic for near-death experiences,\u201d the term researchers use for such events, said Dr. Jeffrey Long, the founder of the Near-Death Experience Research Foundation.Dr. Long\u2019s foundation has collected more than 4,000 accounts similar to Mr. Renner\u2019s. Some people who have come close to death have recounted a sense of energy, peace and absence of time, as Mr. Renner did. Some have also described watching their body from above, moving through a tunnel toward a light and even meeting God.The general public may be familiar with these events through a genre of memoirs that present near-death experiences as proof of a Christian afterlife. But they have been reported across countries, demographics and religions, as well as by atheists, and have been a subject of scientific research for decades.We 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":27031,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27029","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=27029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27032,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27029\/revisions\/27032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}