April 10, 1998: NDEs, OBEs, & Lucid Dreams - Dr. J. Timothy Green
Green presents compelling evidence for the reality of NDEs, noting that children who have them consistently report seeing only deceased relatives and never living parents. Dr. Green argues that NDEs, OBEs, and lucid dreams are all forms of what the ancients called ecstasy, the experience of conscious awareness outside the physical body.
Dr. Green describes his mastery of lucid dreaming and explains how he teaches it as a therapeutic tool for clients facing terminal illness. He recounts a case where shamanic journeying produced verifiable information from a deceased person and discusses the connection between these experiences and the right temporal lobe of the brain.
Key Moments
Stan Dale: a second El Nino building east of Japan: From Perth, Stan Dale reports that the Otis thermal maps from the Navy in Monterey show El Nino reversing course - a massive heating of water east of Japan and warming sea-surface temperatures off South America just south of the equator, signaling a new El Nino building rather than a normal four-year gap.
Dale ties weather chaos to a 2-3% solar output increase since 1988: Dale points to NASA, JPL, SOHO and Lockheed sun data showing some wavelengths up 2-3% since 1988, calls out current X-ray bursts and a recent coronal mass ejection, and predicts 7-12 years of bad weather tied to solar misbehavior - comparing the current cycle to the 'mother of all' cycle 19.
Melvin Morse children study: NDE kids only see dead relatives: Green cites Seattle pediatrician Melvin Morse's study of hundreds of children with near-death experiences. The finding: children never report seeing living parents during NDEs - only dead grandparents, dead siblings, dead pets - which Green argues is the strongest evidence against wish-fulfillment explanations.
Lucid dreaming proven via Morse-code eye movements at Stanford: Green describes how Alan Worsley in England and Stephen LaBerge at Stanford proved lucid dreaming in the late 1970s. Because most muscles are paralyzed during REM but eye muscles are not, LaBerge - while in a sleep lab and verifiably dreaming - spelled out 'Stephen' in Morse code with his eye movements, ending scientific controversy over the phenomenon.