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    Where Science and Spirituality come together.


    5300 Experiences from all over the world in many languages.

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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/bics-afterlife-proof/bics-essay-contest-winners-runners-up/).



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!

***Need Translation help - You can translate one experience or 100, totally up to you. If you would like to help, please let me know. The German, French, and Spanish portions of the translation project are completed, so thank you to all the volunteers who helped make that possible. I do have about 13 languages that we still need help on.I 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.)

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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