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Saturday, December 11, 2010

“Death seems to be not death any more. It is a continuity of consciousness”- Pim van Lommel, M.D. (part 1)

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“Death seems to be not death any more. It is a continuity of consciousness”- Pim van Lommel, M.D. (part 2)

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