Peter Fenwick (1935–2024) was a neuropsychiatrist and neurophysiologist who is known for his pioneering studies of end-of-life phenomena.
In this interview he talks about near-death-experiences (NDE), death-bed-visitors and how we can achieve a good death.
NDE research is at the cutting edge of consciousness research and offers a convincing model for the understanding of what happens when we die. Peter Fenwick describes the different transitional phases of the dying process and highlights the importance of letting go at the end of ones life.
He offers fascinating insights into common phenomena at the end of life, such as premonitions, seeing a light, death-bed-visions and coincidences.
In his opinion everybody should know about death and the dying process, because it is a normal part of living.
Contents:
01:08 What is a neuropsychiatrist?
01:45 What does your daily work involve?
03:13 In broad terms, what can we learn from these scans?
04:18 How did you get involved with near-death experiences?
05:18 How did you go about studying these phenomena?
08:35 Did you get the whole spectrum of near-death experiences?
10:00 Is that dependent on your worldview, on your background?
10:18 What do you think is the value of NDE research?
11:24 Do you think that near-death experiences provide some kind of proof that consciousness can exist without a brain?
16:32 Can you tell us about the end-of-life phenomena which you describe in your book?
23:52 So there are visitors and spiritual beings. Are there any other phenomena around death?
28:35 What happens then when the dying is more difficult?
40:09 Do you have a sense of frequently these things occurring?
41:48 How can we achieve a good death?
47:42 Do you think there is any connection between the way we think and the way we live our lives and the way we experience our death and what comes after?
50:37 The cliché we often find in movies and in literature that a good person has a good death and a bad guy has a bad death – is this what you observed in your research?
51:47 Many of my colleagues, many doctors would say these are just hallucinations. What do you say about that?
53:05 What do you say about the so-called hellish near-death experiences?
55:56 What have you learnt from all this? Is there a special message for our culture?
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Interviewer: Jens Rohrbeck
Director: Mehmet Yesilgöz
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I had a strange experience about 6 years ago,I believe. I was not ill, I had not been in an accident. I was walking in a forest. Lots of pine trees . It was autumn,windy and cold
. I had what I can only call a feeling with the scene. Which was peaceful and beautiful. I lost my feeling of being separated and distinct. I was not in the forest, I was the forest. It was an experience of feelings completely free and completely happy. After a while I come back to sensing myself as I usually do. I have not had that experience again. But I have had some strange things occur every once in a while. I now know that there are states of being that humans can have that our culture does not recognize. Hearing discuss what happens when we enter the death process reminded me of a few times where I went through a transformation that occurred while being very much alive.
Wonderful conversation ! Ty 🕊️💕✨
When my mom was dying she kept hearing what she described as angels singing.
Late in the night I fell asleep when I was awakened by feathers rubbing across my body from my feet to the top of my head. I sat up knowing God had just called my mom home.
For a few days I thought I could feel her presence near me. The feeling was very peaceful and comforting. I still miss her after 40 years. I know she is celebrating everyday in Heaven.
There is no sorting of subjective experience vs. objective reality in this discussion. It is completely subjective. NDEs vary from person to person, and from situation to situation. The role of coincidence is ignored.
The theme that the mind is what the brain does, is very poorly brought out. Without the brain, there is no mind. The brain has self-protective biochemicals that are released at the point of death, and these may have an effect on what the dying perceive. 🎉
Excellent, so interesting, more please but just swap chairs or ND the window. We want to see the interviewee not the interviewer.
I wonder how many people that NDE's are changed by the experience, only to revert back to their old ways. I had a coworker that was racist, conservative and not tolerant of others at all. He had a NDE during a heart bypass surgery. He said he saw Jesus, said we're all connected,etc. Now 5 years later, he seems back to his old self.
11:30the brain is the material, anatomical organ- can the brain appear in the brain?! In other words, I'd rather reverse the question by asking can the brain exist outside of consciousness? Consciousness is the witness, not the doer; the intellect is the doer/thinker but thinking is intermittent while consciousness is always present.
My wife is Thai. When her grandmother died at her parents home, she was lying on a mattress on the floor (they don’t have beds in the house). She was laid out, groomed and dressed. Neighbours dropped in with kids to say good bye and it was all very normal, not tragic, filled with bits of love, laughter, sadness and just normal emotions. Then for three days whisky she was kept in a refrigerated coffin, peopel came and went with food and drinks under canopies set up in the street. On the day of the funeral my wife (who her grandmother effectively raised as a child) led a procession through the village holding her grandmothers photo with all the family and friends connected by a long string the were holding to take her the the crematorium at the local temple. The monks did their ritual and the grandmother was cremated. This scene I witnessed every week in the village and surrounds. Life and death are intertwined and natural
My friend wanted to visit a dear friend. He took a photo of him in his rocking chair which was coincidentally the moment of death. There is a clear photo of a figure made of soft light rising from the chair.
How can England vs Rotterdam be a cross-cultural investigation?
You are all European-caucasian.
The moment I realized that we really havee a soul is when I asked myself is an AI able to become conscious. To me that is completely impossible and that explains that there is something out of the brain. Life itself is consciousness. I think that every cell of our body is conscious.
Here's the MAGIC. PhD, MD, 165 IQ, NEURO GENIUS, ect, ect, ect and ect. No one fuck8ng knows until they die. It's where ones heart is and faith lies.
What about going to the Spirit World? If our Loved Ones come to meet us, where have they come from?
This blending with the Universe isn't quite right. I've seen Spirit and heard them. I've had Lucid Dreaming. There is a Spirit Where we reside after this World.
Oh no I want my dog
To greet me at the end that’s the most important thing to me
It’s really distracting when someone is making sounds to show understanding during the interview
It would have been much better to ask and allow them to answer quietly
It is funny, the night my father died, I was driving home from work and was stopped by a drawbridge. As I sat there, the water, the sky, the lighting were very spiritual and I had a realization. I experienced a transfer where God became my true father and I realized my dad a lovely man who I was blessed to have raised me, and he was very sick and suffering.. with that, the draw bridge settled and the gate went up and I drove home. I got the call to come to the hospital. I was there as my father passed. I looked up to the ceiling and corner of the room to say goodbye to his spirit.
So when I was attacked by this thing I was sleeping it was late night then before I slept I looked out of the window there was a drone I mentioned that before in 2020 augst so then I felt this Whoopi g sound woof woof like as if some thing attacked me it was flashes of pstuff I saw I saw Dalai Lama n he threw a vajra like on me I saw him n then I saw these flashes so bad it was hitting my head so I started praying to lord Buddha because I saw him I mean I’m a Hindu half my dad is Buddhist so I started asking him to help me then I felt some thing covered my head it was totally dark I could hear a muffled sound out side but my had was covers like with a robe or a in a come so then I tried to get up I couldn’t open my eyes it was so dark n I started calling my family for help my voice did not go out so I thought I was dead I was like really I thought that is the end but after may be 20 minutes or something that attack stopped it was so quiet n then I was still in but then slowly this thing moved like some robe like or bed sheet it was a robe it let me out I was like so happy to just wake up n ever since that all this happened next day Dalai Lama said thank u for the birthday wishes I was actually praying n I heard I do t know I said happy birthday n it was on the you tube then there were some rituals on the you tube I actually saw that because I thought I t would help me from the attacks but it did not very chaotic for 2 years I saw this going to the universe everyday different skies like crazy some were having planets n different dimension we live in they are true but it took me every srcoind to pray to gif I kept on crying n crying then yeah I was saved by real Buddha I think because one day there was a sky on sky it was some thing almost killing me then it was on you tube u so some one kept putting witch craft crude on me I heard this witch too she spoke in a different language she wanted some thing I don’t know I could not understand properly but I heard her saying I want n then I woke up crazy bitch any way so yeah I hope u will take action for the crime like this it’s not fair also there was a tear drop a black tear on you tube I saw that was when I saw the small spark in some silver and black thing escape it was in the sky then that u can check it I don’t knew ehst is going on but I gave u the details to check
So then also one day I t took me under water I was sleeping n I saw me jump into the water but strangely it felt real n I was breathing like I did not feel like I was drowning how strange that is what is it I don’t know but I don’t want to go to the other side it’s sick pathetic dirt that is hell like so much dirt n this person tries to put me there every time I saw a lot of business people stick in the dark on a bus like I Ont know who they were may be there is something
Nun chucks that Bruce Lee guy
He's absolutely wrong on past dogs and cats and pets of all types not greeting you. The first 25 years of research never asked about pets — thus the numbers listed were low. Recent research has included pets in NDE interviews and its overwhelming the response they did indeed welcome them.
Dr. Bruce Greyson, one of the best-known NDE researchers. In a 2023 peer-reviewed article, Animals and Near-Death Experiences, he reviewed cases in which people reported encountering deceased animals during NDEs.
Deceased pets have appeared in documented near-death experiences, including rare cases in which the experiencer reportedly did not yet know that the animal had died. I could go on and on documented such cases, but the bottom line is the Great Divine would NEVER give us love, only to deny us that same love in an afterlife. HE"S VERY WRONG!!!!
Describe ‘after death”
Enjoyed listening to this very kind gentleman. ❤
Hi sterling and team are they really cloning celebrities?
When I was a child I was saw a small dog under my bed it was glowing? What did I see?I must have been about 4 years old