Hate preacher Bakri's daughter is 'sex mad': Ex-lover

Tuesday, 30 September , 2008, 09:03

London: The notorious Muslim extremist Omar Bakri Mohammed’s daughter is an “animal” in bed, reveals her ex-lover.

The 20-year-old son of Brazilian immigrants revealed that Yasmin Fostok, 27, was ‘sex mad’.

“We had mad sex. She was very athletic in bed — it was loud,” British tabloid The Sun quoted the lover as saying.

“But then what did I expect? A pole dancer does not just have ordinary sex. She was an animal,” he added.

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Speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals, a barber from London said that it were Fostok’s insatiable demands that forced him to end their relationship.

He did not know that the 27-year-old pole dancer was the daughter of Bakri.

It was so wild I thought she was a bit mad. When I got up in the morning I thought ‘This cannot go further’,” he added.

The duo met in March when Fostok contacted him on Facebook, and asked to hook up.

Their first date, to a comedy club in central London, ended with a simple kiss — but she quickly showed she was after more when she emailed him 11 sexy photos.

Some snaps showed her naked, and in others she sported kinky gear — including a Police girl’s outfit.

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He said that, on one occasion, they were in a Honda Civic with another couple when Yasmin began pawing him.

“She wanted to go for it. I had to tell her to relax. It was embarrassing as my cousin and her friend were there,” he said.

The two parted ways in June.

Readers Opinions: French President's comments

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Sikhs, Muslims must respect our tradition: Sarkozy
ris, UK, says: I am ashamed of our prime minister who unlike Sarkozy did not defend India at the EU.
[29 Sep, 2008 2126hrs IST]

ankur, manila, says: i think racism is more prevalant in the developed western world than anywhere else where outsiders are seen as disturbing their way of life. If you look at countries like india, where people grow up with so many cultures, no one takes againts a sikh, a muslim or even a person from another country. Living in harmony with other cultures does not mean harmonizing them by the way they look or dress, isn't it more of a state of mind where one is patient and welcoming.
[29 Sep, 2008 2125hrs IST]

PS, USA, says: Sarkozy doesn't get it! Does he? Turbans are part of the Sikh identity, not a costume/tradition/custom. It is not a temporal aspect that can be done away with. It is not worn for convenience, rather it is mandated as one of the articles of faith. A Sikh keeps the outer appearance because of the way Waheguru made him/her. Doning a turban is yet another part of his God-conscious-nature and the pride that it brings to a man. I wonder what the Sikh PM really talked to the French counterpart. You got to make a bold statement Mr. PM, protect the fundamental rights of Sikhs, the right to practicing ones's religion freely. I'm glad US has no such discriminatory policy against Sikhs/Muslims. One day world will come to realize that granting (I hate to use this word) such rights is in the betterment of the whole society.
[29 Sep, 2008 2124hrs IST]

any, any, says: I dont advise anyone from India to go to europe, I have been for long outside the india, they are racist people,that is their tradition and custom. I advise students to go the asian countires, singapore, one of the best destination. Asian poeple are nicer and free of ill-will to skin color.
[29 Sep, 2008 2123hrs IST]

ANIL KUMAR, NEW DELHI, says: Sikhs should stop migrating to the country that does not respect them, also Indian Government should have least possible diplomatic relations with them.
[29 Sep, 2008 2116hrs IST]

Shivaji rao Pratap, LA-CA-USA, says: Dear sir, I congratulate the French President to speak in front of our psedosecualr Prime minister regarding the duties and obligations of the minorities towards a nation.Look what is happening in India. The Muslims have their own seaparate laws in democracy! We should get rid of that asap. This is what the congress under mahatma gandhi wanted. One people, one law, one nation. The Muslims can not get out of govt ofices on fridays during govt time to say Namaz! They just can not do Namaz in streets,as it happens in Mumbai to block the trafiic! Muslims can not get govt money to go to Haz! This is agiainst Islam! You should use your hard earned money for pilgrimage not by borrowing, begging or stealing! Askany good and knowlegeble muslim. The Sikhs in Punjab have still some soft corner for Pakistan as their Nankhana sahab gurudwar is there. They have taken help of ISI to fight for separate sikh land. Now it has stopped but still now and then we see people doing things to break the bonds between Hindus and sikhs. In USA, Sikhs would rather have a Sikh identity or a US American identity but will not call them selves Indian or talk of special relationship they have with Hindus. We put billions to punjab, made it the grannery of India, we gave 20% army jobs for them We decoarted them in every possible post from President to PM to CM to every thing. But still sikhs in Kashmir are not 100% with the Hindus. I hope our mahatma PM learns few good lessons from his trip abroad this time. Country, nation, culture comes first. India is essentially a Hindu Nation just like USA, France adn Britain are christian nations. Hindu traditions, culture and heritage comes firsta nd foremost. Secualarism is not appeasement of minority and ignoring the amjority for vote bank politics.
[29 Sep, 2008 2115hrs IST]

rahul, new york, says: India should kick all Europian missionaries out. They are violating the Indian traditions. They make foolish claims that all other religions are false..this is a violation of Indian tradition.
[29 Sep, 2008 2114hrs IST]

Vikramjit Singh, Delhi, says: If the French really respect Sikh traditions then the respect must be in their actions not in their words. Wearing a turban does not disrespect Franch tradition but forcing sikhs not to wear one certainly disrespects Sikh tradition.
[29 Sep, 2008 2112hrs IST]

H Singh, USA, says: They should have stopped MM Singh from meeting French Prez. How can they sign such official pacts with turbaned person? What happened to secularism now? Bottom line is only the powerful will get recogntion. If Saudi Makes a rule that those who want to come and live in middle east, they should circumscise, will everyone start circumscising to respect the rule?? Key point is respect the differences. There are riots between Blacks and whites in Paris every other day. Is it due to religion?
[29 Sep, 2008 2102hrs IST]

Jitendra Desai, Surat, says: Good advice to the PM of a most secular Indian political party! On his return, PM should render similar advvice to our Muslim and Christian brrthren.. to learn to respect Hindu traditions.
[29 Sep, 2008 2059hrs IST]

Sikhs, Muslims must respect our tradition: Sarkozy

29 Sep 2008, 2028 hrs IST,PTI
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MARSEILLES: Insisting that France is not discriminating against Sikhs wearing turbans, President Nicholas Sarkozy on Monday said that he expects the community to respect the customs and traditions of the French people.

"We respect their traditions and customs and I hope they also respect France's rules," Sarkozy said in a joint interaction with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who also belongs to the Sikh community, after the India-EU summit.

"We respect Sikhs, their customs, their traditions. They are most welcome to France. But we have rules concerning the neutrality of the civil servants, rules concerning secularism and these rules don't apply to just Sikhs, they apply to the Muslims, they apply to all on the territory of the French Republic." Sarkozy said.

France in 2004 had imposed a ban under which Sikh students were prohibited from wearing turbans to schools, a decision that has incurred world-wide protests from the community.

Cook dies after eating chilli sauce for a bet

Monday, 29 September , 2008, 13:29
Last Updated: Monday, 29 September , 2008, 14:34

London: An aspiring chef died hours after eating a plate of super-hot chilli sauce as part of a bet with his girlfriend’s brother. Forklift driver Andrew Lee had challenged girlfriend Samantha Bailey’s 29-year-old brother Michael to see who could eat the hottest sauce.

The 33-year-old man complained of itching all over his body as he tried to sleep at night, and later died of heat attack. Bailey woke in the morning, and discovered him dead in bed beside her. The mum of four called paramedics, but they could not revive him.

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“He was a strapping lad,” British tabloid The Sun quoted Andrew’s mother Pamela as saying. “We can only put it down to the sauce. After making it, he stuck his finger in to test it, and went to wash it, saying, ‘Wow, that’s hot’,” she added.

Andrew’s sister Claire revealed that the contest was planned and her father John had especially grown chillis for the contest. “It wasn’t a proper meal because he’d already eaten lamb chops and potato mash after work.

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“He got into bed at 2.30 am and started scratching all over. His girlfriend scratched his back until he fell asleep. When she woke up he’d gone. It’s incredible. Who’d have thought he could die from eating chilli sauce? He loved cooking and wanted to be a chef.

“He used chillis to make Thai dishes but never anything this hot. We don’t know of anything else that could have caused his death. He was perfectly healthy and the post mortem showed no heart problems,” she added.

To improve your marriage -- be quiet

By Barbara Graham


(OPRAH.com) -- Forget everything you've heard about frankness, sharing your feelings, getting him to express his. New research into the male mind makes it clear that discussion may be the fastest way to shut down communication. (Oh, you noticed that, have you?)


Men see discussion of "issues" as criticism and feel shamed, author says.

When I first heard about the book, I thought it was a gimmick. "How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It" sounded like a title somebody's prankster husband dreamed up after a rocky couples' therapy session.

When I mentioned it to Hugh, my own husband -- who in 22 years of marriage has never once said, "Honey, we need to talk" -- his face lit up like the Fourth of July.

Needless to say, I was suspicious. What about the vast repertoire of communication skills women have spent decades perfecting? Were Patricia Love and Steven Stosny, the psychotherapists who co-authored the book, advising us to forget everything we've learned and rethink how we relate to our partners?

The answer is yes -- and they're not kidding.

"The number one myth about relationships is that talking helps. The truth is, more often than not, it makes things worse," says Love, a tall, lean redhead with a down-home Texas twang and a generous smile. She is co-founder of the Austin Family Institute and leads workshops around the country when she isn't making television appearances or co-writing books, including the best-selling "Hot Monogamy."

"Talking about feelings, which is soothing to women, makes men physically uncomfortable," says Stosny, the Maryland-based author of "You Don't Have to Take It Anymore" and an expert on male aggression. "There's literally more blood flow to their muscles. They get fidgety, and women think they're not listening."

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We're relaxing in the sunroom of my house in Washington, D.C., on a golden autumn morning. I learn that it was Stosny's research into the core emotional differences between the sexes that radically altered his thinking, as well as the way he works with clients. When he shared his findings with his friend and colleague Pat Love, they rang true to her, even though they flew in the face of the verbal problem-solving approach she'd been using for 30 years.

Like electric shock and sugar blues

According to Stosny's analysis of several hundred human and animal studies, male and female responses to stress are distinct from birth.

"When a baby girl hears a loud noise or gets anxious, she wants to make eye contact with someone, but a baby boy will react to the same sound by looking around, in a fight-or-flight response," he says. What's more, while newborn girls are much more easily frightened, boys have five times as many "startle" reactions, which are emotionally neutral but pump up adrenaline. Boys need to intermittently withdraw into themselves to keep from becoming overstimulated.

These differences hold true for most social animals and correlate with our biological roles: The female's fear response is an early warning system that serves to detect threats and alert the males of the pack to danger.

As girls grow, they go beyond needing eye contact and refine a coping strategy identified by UCLA psychologists as "tend and befriend." If there's a conflict, girls and women want to talk about it.

Boys and men, however, need to pull away. A man's greatest suffering, Stosny says, comes from the shame he feels when he doesn't measure up -- which is why discussing relationship problems (i.e., what he's doing wrong) offers about as much comfort as sleeping on a bed of nails. Oprah.com: Men and women ... what makes us so different?

So, I wonder, does this explain why, when I reach out and tell Hugh I'm feeling isolated from him -- on the assumption that this will foster closeness -- he gets defensive or withdraws? Do my verbal attempts to re-establish intimacy make him feel inadequate? Is that why he gets that glazed look in his eye and is suddenly compelled to watch men tossing balls on TV?

Yes, yes, and yes, replies Love. And our responses aren't all in our heads. When a man feels shamed by a woman's criticism, his body is flooded with cortisol, a stress hormone with an effect that is decidedly unpleasant.

A woman experiences a similar cortisol rush whenever her husband shouts at her, ignores her, or otherwise does something that scares her and seems to threaten their bond. Love compares the sensation that accompanies the sudden release of cortisol to sticking your finger in an electric socket, followed by the sort of "sugar blues" crash that occurs after you polish off a few too many glazed doughnuts.

"A cortisol hangover can last for hours in men and up to several days in women," Love says. "It's no wonder both sexes try to prevent it."

Compassion more important than love

Okay, this makes sense, but if talking about relationships makes men twitchy and drunk on cortisol, then what's the alternative? Charades? Oprah.com: How to be a black-belt communicator

"It's the connection, stupid!" exclaims Love, quickly adding that it's not me personally she's calling stupid. "Everyone -- men, women, myself included -- needs to learn that before we can communicate with words, we need to connect nonverbally. We can do that in simple ways, through touch, sex, doing things together. The deepest moments of intimacy occur when you're not talking."

Stosny puts it this way: "We need to stop trying to assess the bonding verbally and instead let the words come out of the bonding." Interestingly, he adds, "When couples feel connected, men want to talk more and women need to talk less, so they meet somewhere in the middle. Being aware of the fear-shame dynamic helps."

To illustrate the point, Love tells the story of an afternoon when she and her husband were lying in bed naked after showering. "I was wondering if he'd initiate sex, when all of a sudden in my mind I crossed over to his side of the bed and got a sense of what it was like to be him, never knowing if he's going to be accepted or rejected. It was terrifying. I understood then how deeply ashamed that must make him feel," she recalls. "It was an epiphany that changed my life." She immediately began emphasizing compassion in her work with clients, and has come to believe -- as does Stosny -- that it's even more crucial to the success of a long-term relationship than love.

The tricky part is that men and women must empathize with vulnerabilities they don't feel to the same degree -- namely fear and shame. To do this requires what the authors call binocular vision, in which each partner makes a conscious effort to consider the other's point of view. "The problem is that when you're angry, you're wrong even when you're right because you can't see the other person's perspective," Stosny says. "That's when you lose the thing you long for most, the connection."

Okay, I get it: Connection rules. But it's hard to imagine most people being capable of reaching out to their partners in the heat of an argument. Love and Stosny acknowledge that it's a tall order. Still, they say, for couples to productively address the hurt that underlies anger, it helps to have a previously agreed-upon signal such as a hand gesture to keep disagreements from spiraling out of control. This doesn't mean they should try to ignore their feelings, but instead find a way to convey that the other person matters more than whatever they're resentful or anxious about -- and then talk. The beautiful part, Love says, is that "it takes only one person to make the gesture. The partner will feel the impact, even if he or she can't drop the anger right at that moment."

Admittedly, this approach is most effective for couples in a precrisis state, Stosny says, "when there's still time for the man to step up to the plate and stop withdrawing or being reactive, and for the woman to understand that her husband really does want to make her happy and to stop being so critical. Men are better able to stay in the room and listen to women if they don't think they're being blamed for their distress."

But ultimately, Love adds, "couples have to decide that the relationship is more important than all those things they do that annoy each other." Oprah.com: Are you a nag? How to stop

"Even when Hugh throws his sopping wet towel on the bed, forgets to put gas in the car, or stares into space when I try to tell him something that really matters to me?" I ask, only half joking.

"If you give him positive reinforcement instead of criticizing him, he'll start doing more of the things you want him to do," Love says.

The next night over dinner, I give it a whirl. "I love it when you put gas in the car and hang up your wet towel," I say. He looks at me like I've gone off the deep end. "What's up?" he asks suspiciously. "Why are you being so nice?"

But a few days later when I'm distraught over a potentially scary mammogram report and he jumps in too quickly to reassure me that everything will turn out fine (it does), I decide to try out the binocular vision that Love and Stosny recommend. That's when I see that Hugh feels like a failure because he wants to make things better and he can't.

So instead of my usual knee-jerk irritability at what I perceive as his lack of sensitivity, I say, "I'm terrified and I just need you to listen." Which he does, patiently, lovingly. After I've finished reciting my laundry list of fears, he holds me close and neither of us says anything for a long time. We don't need to.

It's the connection, stupid!

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Politics & Humour............!

"I am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere.
Come and bring a friend - if you have one."
...George Bernard Shaw (to Winston Churchill)
"Impossible to be present for the first performance.
Will attend second - if there is one."
...Winston Churchill, in reply


"If I were married to you, I'd put poison in your coffee."
...Lady Astor (to Winston Churchill)
"If you were my wife, I'd drink it."
...Winston Churchill, in reply


"You will either die on the gallows or of a loathsome disease."
...John Montague (to John Wilkes)
"That depends on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress."
...John Wilkes, in reply


"He can't help it - he was born with a silver foot in his mouth."
...Ann Richards (about George Bush)


"Nixon's motto was: If two wrongs don't make a right, try three."
...Norman Cousins (about Richard M. Nixon)


"If you haven't found something worth dying for, you aren't fit to be living."
...Martin Luther King, Jr.


"Kites rise highest against the wind--not with it."
...Winston Churchill


"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
...Winston Churchill


"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
...Martin Luther King Jr.


"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."
...Dan Quayle


"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself."
...Mark Twain


"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind."
...John Fitzgerald Kennedy


"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the
opportunity in every difficulty."
...Winston Churchill


"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
...John F. Kennedy


"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom."
...General Patton


"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much."
...Jackie Kennedy


"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
...Margaret Thatcher


"Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society."
...Rush Limbaugh (like he's one to talk)


"Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die."
...Herbert Hoover


"Pro is to con as progress is to congress."
...Unknown


"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount."
...General Omar N. Bradley


"My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth."
...George Washington


"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
...Sir Winston Churchill


"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
...Sir Winston Churchill


"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
...Sir Winston Churchill


"No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it."
...Sir Winston Churchill


"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
...Sir Winston Churchill


"Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always."
...Mahatma Ghandi


"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies."
...Groucho Marx


"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
...Henry Louis Mencken


"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."
...Ronald Reagan


"Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then - we elected them."
...Lily Tomlin



"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
...Theodore Roosevelt


"There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head."
...Theodore Roosevelt


"I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't."
...Mark Twain

"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress."
...Mark Twain

"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."
...Harry S. Truman

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
...Harry S. Truman

"I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."
...Abraham Lincoln


"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."
...Abraham Lincoln


"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
...Abraham Lincoln


"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."
...Abraham Lincoln


"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
...Ronald Reagan


"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
...Plato


"Politics is actually a combination of two words: "poli", which means many, and "tics", which means bloodsuckers."
...Jay Leno


"To err is human. To blame someone else is politics."
...Hubert H. Humphrey


"For seven and a half years I've worked alongside President Reagan. We've had triumphs. Made some mistakes. We've had some sex ... uh...setbacks."
...George Bush

What Happens When We Die?

By M.J. STEPHEY
Tue Sep 23, 6:40 PM ET
A fellow at New York City's Weill Cornell Medical Center, Dr. Sam Parnia is one of the world's leading experts on the scientific study of death. Last week Parnia and his colleagues at the Human Consciousness Project announced their first major undertaking: a 3-year exploration of the biology behind "out-of-body" experiences. The study, known as AWARE (AWAreness during REsuscitation), involves the collaboration of 25 major medical centers through Europe, Canada and the U.S. and will examine some 1,500 survivors of cardiac arrest. TIME spoke with Parnia about the project's origins, its skeptics and the difference between the mind and the brain.

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What sort of methods will this project use to try and verify people's claims of "near-death" experience?

When your heart stops beating, there is no blood getting to your brain. And so what happens is that within about 10 sec., brain activity ceases - as you would imagine. Yet paradoxically, 10% or 20% of people who are then brought back to life from that period, which may be a few minutes or over an hour, will report having consciousness. So the key thing here is, Are these real, or is it some sort of illusion? So the only way to tell is to have pictures only visible from the ceiling and nowhere else, because they claim they can see everything from the ceiling. So if we then get a series of 200 or 300 people who all were clinically dead, and yet they're able to come back and tell us what we were doing and were able see those pictures, that confirms consciousness really was continuing even though the brain wasn't functioning.

How does this project relate to society's perception of death?

People commonly perceive death as being a moment - you're either dead or you're alive. And that's a social definition we have. But the clinical definition we use is when the heart stops beating, the lungs stop working, and as a consequence the brain itself stops working. When doctors shine a light into someone's pupil, it's to demonstrate that there is no reflex present. The eye reflex is mediated by the brain stem, and that's the area that keeps us alive; if that doesn't work, then that means that the brain itself isn't working. At that point, I'll call a nurse into the room so I can certify that this patient is dead. Fifty years ago, people couldn't survive after that.

How is technology challenging the perception that death is a moment?

Nowadays, we have technology that's improved so that we can bring people back to life. In fact, there are drugs being developed right now - who knows if they'll ever make it to the market - that may actually slow down the process of brain-cell injury and death. Imagine you fast-forward to 10 years down the line; and you've given a patient, whose heart has just stopped, this amazing drug; and actually what it does is, it slows everything down so that the things that would've happened over an hour, now happen over two days. As medicine progresses, we will end up with lots and lots of ethical questions.

But what is happening to the individual at that time? What's really going on? Because there is a lack of blood flow, the cells go into a kind of a frenzy to keep themselves alive. And within about 5 min. or so they start to damage or change. After an hour or so the damage is so great that even if we restart the heart again and pump blood, the person can no longer be viable, because the cells have just been changed too much. And then the cells continue to change so that within a couple of days the body actually decomposes. So it's not a moment; it's a process that actually begins when the heart stops and culminates in the complete loss of the body, the decompositions of all the cells. However, ultimately what matters is, What's going on to a person's mind? What happens to the human mind and consciousness during death? Does that cease immediately as soon as the heart stops? Does it cease activity within the first 2 sec., the first 2 min.? Because we know that cells are continuously changing at that time. Does it stop after 10 min., after half an hour, after an hour? And at this point we don't know.

What was your first interview like with someone who had reported an out-of-body experience?

Eye-opening and very humbling. Because what you see is that, first of all, they are completely genuine people who are not looking for any kind of fame or attention. In many cases they haven't even told anybody else about it because they're afraid of what people will think of them. I have about 500 or so cases of people that I've interviewed since I first started out more than 10 years ago. It's the consistency of the experiences, the reality of what they were describing. I managed to speak to doctors and nurses who had been present who said these patients had told them exactly what had happened, and they couldn't explain it. I actually documented a few of those in my book What Happens When We Die because I wanted people to get both angles - not just the patients' side but also the doctors' side - and see how it feels for the doctors to have a patient come back and tell them what was going on. There was a cardiologist that I spoke with who said he hasn't told anyone else about it because he has no explanation for how this patient could have been able to describe in detail what he had said and done. He was so freaked out by it that he just decided not to think about it anymore.

Why do you think there is such resistance to studies like yours?

Because we're pushing through the boundaries of science, working against assumptions and perceptions that have been fixed. A lot of people hold this idea that, well, when you die, you die; that's it. Death is a moment - you know you're either dead or alive. All these things are not scientifically valid, but they're social perceptions. If you look back at the end of the 19th century, physicists at that time had been working with Newtonian laws of motion, and they really felt they had all the answers to everything that was out there in the universe. When we look at the world around us, Newtonian physics is perfectly sufficient. It explains most things that we deal with. But then it was discovered that actually when you look at motion at really small levels - beyond the level of the atoms - Newton's laws no longer apply. A new physics was needed, hence, we eventually ended up with quantum physics. It caused a lot of controversy - even Einstein himself didn't believe in it.

Now, if you look at the mind, consciousness, and the brain, the assumption that the mind and brain are the same thing is fine for most circumstances, because in 99% of circumstances we can't separate the mind and brain; they work at the exactly the same time. But then there are certain extreme examples, like when the brain shuts down, that we see that this assumption may no longer seem to hold true. So a new science is needed in the same way that we had to have a new quantum physics. The CERN particle accelerator may take us back to our roots. It may take us back to the first moments after the Big Bang, the very beginning. With our study, for the first time, we have the technology and the means to be able to investigate this. To see what happens at the end for us. Does something continue?