• NDERF is the largest Near-Death
    Experience (NDE) website in the world.

    Where Science and Spirituality come together.


    5300 Experiences from all over the world in many languages.

All are welcome!

With your help, NDERF has over half a million readers a month to spread the word of love, peace and global unity.


NDERF NDE Definition:

"A lucid experience associated with perceived consciousness apart from the body occurring at the time of actual or threatened imminent death."

In Search of Immortality

11/26/2021 - The Bigelow contest, officially known as the BICS contest, is the first contest of its kind to explore if there is evidence for consciousness outside of the body. Over 1,000 people from around the world participated in this contest. Just over two hundred essays were allowed to proceed to convince the judges that "Yes" consciousness can, and does, exist separately from the body - even after death. Many questions were explored, such as: What is consciousness?; What evidence is convincing? How do we know? A distinguished panel of judges evaluated the BICS essays and constituted one of the most stringent and scholarly peer-reviews conceivable. Dr. Pim van Lommel, one of the leading researchers in the world on Consciousness, and Dr. Jeff Long, founder of NDERF and media personality, brought home significant prizes. Dr. van Lommel was awarded the number 2 prize and Dr. Long was in the runner-up group. (Click the links above to read these papers) For the NDE community, this is one of the highest public affirmations of the validity of NDE, as well as other types of paranormal experiences that are actually "normal." A hearty congratulations for these life-time achievement awards in moving humanity forwards!

(see BICS essay contest: https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/index.php/essay-contest/).



NDE Explained


Above is Filmed by Eric Bunch.

Lionsgate presents "Died and Survived" Dr. Long is in Episode 101 and 108 Click this link to view the series.

Who We Are

The perfect mix of science, community, spirituality and service!

We are looking for a volunteer who can help us out at NDERF a few hours a week maintaining the nderf.me phpbb bulletin board. The current volunteer is retiring . . . but will be happy to train someone.

***Need Translation help - You can translate one experience or 100, totally up to you. If you would like to help, please let me know. Right now, I have about 100 new experiences that need to be translated from English to SpanishI can usually receive one or two e-mails from mainland China, before communication is blocked. You can use WeChat for Jenny at: ekim902

(The line of boxes below starting with the turquoise-colored "Humanitarian Service" is an accordion element: click on the boxes below to find out more about NDERF.)

PHILOSOPHY/MISSION STATEMENT:

If enough people read about love, peace and hope; maybe they can change to become more loving, compassionate people who truly live their lives without fear.

We can then change the world to become a better place like heaven on earth - as above, so below.

Jody Long is a retired attorney, formerly licensed in Washington, New Mexico, Louisiana, and the Navajo Nation. Critical thinking, intense curiosity, and being a book reader extraordinaire, helps discern truth and allows for crucial commentary on a wide range of subjects from spirituality, history, economics, social organization, and power structures. Two of the newest projects just starting: The first is helping people not to be afraid of death with projects through our non-profit NDERF organization. The second project is a freedom video podcast (https://freewillconnect.com/) documenting various lines of reasoning from hundreds of books and critically analyzing them to discover the most loving and happiest paradigm for humankind.

She is webmaster for the Near Death Experience Research Foundation (NDERF) for 20+ years and provides support and a forum for NDErs and those who want to know about the afterlife. She has several decades of experience researching paranormal and related phenomena. She is also webmaster for After Death Communication Research Foundation (ADCRF) www.adcrf.org and the other consciousness experience website which is everything that is not an NDE or ADC (OBERF) www.oberf.org

Jody helped with "Evidence of the Afterlife," the New York Times best selling NDE book. She has written "From Soul to Soulmate: Bridges from Near Death Experience Wisdom" and "God’s Fingerprints: Impressions of Near Death Experiences," which was the first book of its genre published in mainland China.

Jeffrey Long, M.D. is a radiation oncology physician practicing full-time in Kentucky. Over 25 years ago he founded the Near-Death Experience Research Foundation (nderf.org). Dr. Long has investigated over 4000 near-death experiences (NDEs), which is by far the largest number of NDEs ever scientifically studied. Portions of the NDERF website have been posted in over 30 languages allowing global outreach. The results of his previous research were published in the New York Times bestselling book Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences. Millions of people have seen Dr. Long discuss his research on shows including the NBC Today Show, The Dr. Oz Show, National Geographic television, History Channel, CBS Inside Edition, The O’Reilly Factor, and on television broadcasts around the world. Dr. Long was interviewed for the NDE-themed movie After Death which was released to over 2600 theaters throughout America in October 27, 2023.

Dr. Long, author of "Near-Death Experiences: Evidence for their Reality" published in the medical journal, "Missouri Medicine" and is now listed in the National Library of Medicine. This is a big deal for establishing the credibility of NDE with scientists and the medical community. You can download and read the free article by clicking here.

Our Featured Projects

NDERF inspired books!

Jeffrey Long, MD

For those who want to know


God and the Afterlife expands upon Dr. Long’s findings about the afterlife and is the first deep scientific exploration of NDE accounts that encounter God or spiritual beings. He shares accounts from NDErs who meet God. What he discovers is that these testimonials share unique similarities that provide overwhelming evidence that God is real.


Jody Long, JD


Read some of the best NDEs.


This is a feel-good book with some of the most profound NDEs ever submitted to NDERF. This book was written to share NDEs with people who enjoy reading books or who don't have access to a computer.




Jody Long, JD

Love & Relationships


Love is the number one idea described by the NDErs and learning about love through relationships is the number one reason we come to earth. This book puts the two concepts together to help learn to apply them in our own lives.



Jeffrey Long, MD

Takes NDE Research to a whole new level!


“There is currently more scientific evidence to the reality of near death experience (NDE) than there is for how to effectively treat certain forms of cancer,” states radiation oncologist Dr. Jeffrey Long in his groundbreaking book Evidence of the Afterlife.



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We have two other websites devoted to other aspects of consciousness experiences. ADCRF www.adcrf.org is for after death communications (ADC). OBERF www.oberf.org is for all other experiences that are not an ADC or an NDE, such as spiritually transformative event, power of prayer, out of body experience, meditation experiences, premortal existence, precognitive dreams, etc.


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