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Some OBE Numbers from William Buhlman

Based on more than 16,000 responses to a survey conducted by William Buhlman, author and seriously experienced OBE'er.

         Average Age of First Out-of-Body Experience

The average age group is 4-12 years old.  This is often a repeated experience that declines during the early teen-age years.

Average Number of Out-of-body Experiences Reported per Person

1 - 36%

2-5 - 41%

6-19 - 13%

20-100 - 3%
Over 100 - 7%

I probably fall into the upper end of that 3% catagory myself.

William just posted the most fascinating newsletter to his yahoo group. When its posted somewhere publicly I will post a link to it here on In Repose.

In this April 2009 article he talks about a particular astral plane he has visited so many times where many discarnate spirits reside. Basically its a place where people who have died, but who have not moved on spiritually, and who create with others, a virtual replication of physical earth, complete with all of our own 3D earthly limitations.

The only thing sadder are those entities who think nothing at all exists beyond death, as that is exactly the reality they create for themselves!

Dannion Brinkley and the Twilight Brigade

Dannion Brinkley is an interesting fellow. He has had three NDEs (near death experiences) in his life. Twice he was struck by lightning and the third time during a heart operation in the hospital. It took the third experience for him to accept all of the implications. He says he has great compasion for those who believe that nothing exists after death, because he himself was a staunch atheist until after his the third NDE experience.

Self-deprecating and unflinchingly honest, he describes himself as a former "bully" selfish in all ways and just plain mean.He is making up for his former transgressions.

Author of several books, including Secrets of the Light, he is also the founder of the The Twilight Brigade, a volunteer service with the following description:

Twilight Brigade's trained corps of volunteers visit patients in Veterans' Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Hospitals and Hospice facilities. Based upon patient requests and needs, the volunteers provide:

• Reassurance and human companionship to the dying. 
  

• Relief and support to loved ones and caregivers. 

• Compassionate 24-hour attention through the last hours, allowing people to die in peace and with dignity.

All provided at no cost for services to either the patient or the family.

Here is a short less than three minute youtube interview with this down-to-earth man who had dedicated his life to helping others, especially veterans, stop having fear about the death experience:

Do NDEs Prove an Afterlife?

NDE stands for Near Death Experiences. Afterlife means conscious existence after permanent earthly bodily death.

Find out for yourself what your very own computed and calculated answer would be to this age old question by taking this brief survey. It takes YOUR assessment and your probability percentages of single specific concepts and evidence and computes the likelihood of an afterlife using your very own standards of probability. It was fast and fun. Try it HERE.

You will get a numerical answer. Here was mine:

    The percentage chance that there IS an afterlife, based on your selected data is: 99.999904%
    The percentage chance that there is NOT an afterlife is: 0.00009600000000000003%
    This means afterlife may be considered proven beyond a reasonable doubt

Told ya!