What Happens When We Die? AI and Near Death Experiences

From Skeptic to Seeker: Using AI to Unlock the Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences

It All Started with a Click.

I wasn’t looking for God, the afterlife, or a reason to question everything I thought I knew. I was a tech-focused entrepreneur, a data-driven marketer. My world was built on the tangible, the measurable, the kind of stuff you can put in a spreadsheet. If you’d asked me about my beliefs, I’d have given you the classic non-answer: “spiritual, but not religious.” It was a polite way of saying I wanted to believe in something more, but I just… didn’t.

Then one night, a YouTube algorithm suggested a video with a title that would change my life: "The Near-Death Experience of Anita Moorjani."

I clicked. Why? Maybe it was just idle curiosity. But as I listened to the woman in the title describe her journey—leaving her body, feeling an ocean of pure, unconditional love, and hearing things she couldn't possibly have heard—something broke open inside me.

That something was a sudden, overwhelming euphoria and an instantaneous, holistic understanding of the nature of everything. I found myself muttering to my dog, "I know this! How do I know this?"

For three days, I lived in a state of absolute bliss. The world was saturated with that same love Anita described. It was a profound sense of peace and interconnectedness that shattered my materialist worldview. Some might call it a Shared NDE or a Spiritually Transformative Experience. Others might call it a breakdown. Whatever you want to call it, it was a profound experience that change the direction of my life.

When a Seeker's Heart Meets a Tech-Nerd's Brain

Faced with an experience that defied all logic, my inner tech-nerd kicked in. I didn't just want to marvel at the mystery; I needed to understand it. I needed to quantify it. I needed to find the signal in the noise.

This impulse launched me on a four-year quest. I became a digital archaeologist of the afterlife, immersing myself in over 5,800 NDE accounts. I meticulously documented the recurring patterns: the tunnel of light, the life review, the encounters with beings of love.

My hypothesis was simple: One story is an anecdote. Five thousand stories? That's data. And I believed that data, decoded with the help of Artificial Intelligence, could offer the world a new kind of proof.

But the data pointed me toward a truth I never expected.

The most powerful, consistent pattern wasn’t about proving what happens when we die. It was about what happens to people after their NDE. Almost universally, they returned transformed. Their fear of death vanished. Their desire for material wealth diminished. In its place grew an overwhelming urge to love more, connect more deeply, and live with profound purpose.

I realized I was chasing the wrong thing. The real magic of NDEs isn't just about offering a glimpse of the afterlife; it's about providing a blueprint for how to live a better life, right here and now.

This Is Why We Created Project Profound

My personal obsession has grown into something much bigger: Project Profound. We are a small, passionate team dedicated to bridging the gap between science and spirituality. We are using cutting-edge AI to analyze the world's largest collection of NDE video testimonies, not to just prove what’s next, but to unlock wisdom for living today.

Our vision is a world where curiosity replaces fear around life's biggest questions. But we can't build it alone.

Join Us: Your Support Will Build The Future of Consciousness Research and Promote Love Above All Else

We are a grassroots, volunteer-driven initiative. To bring our vision to life, we need your help to fund the essential tools and resources. Your donation will directly support the development of four groundbreaking projects:

A Search Engine for the Soul: We’re building a public NDE video archive, allowing anyone—from researchers and experiencers to the curiously-minded—to instantly search thousands of hours of testimonies for specific concepts, phrases, and themes. (available now)

NDE Research Chatbot: Chat with more than 5500 first person accounts of Near Death Experiences to get a better understanding of the meaning and content of the experience. This experimental chatbot references the videos it found related to your questions so you can go deeper in your understanding. (experimental)

NDE Compassionate Chatbot: Chat a compassionate companion who is grounded in real-world NDE accounts from individuals who have experienced a powerful, transformational event. Whether you are a fellow NDEr or a curious observer, you'll be able to speak with a compassionate companion who understands. (experimental)

An AI Expert to Decode NDEs: Imagine being able to analyze any NDE story with an AI trained on scientifically validated accounts. Our tool will summarize testimonies, score them on established scientific scales (like the Greyson Scale), and generate insightful reports. (coming soon)

Building Credibility Through Science: We are collaborating with psychologists and neuroscientists to validate and refine the scales used to measure NDEs, ensuring they are scientifically robust and culturally inclusive for the 21st century. (in development)

A Public Library of Human Experience: We will create a publicly accessible, multilingual database and visualization tool. This will democratize research, allowing people worldwide to explore NDE data by theme, demographic, and experience. (in development)

Why This Matters Now

In a world that often feels divided and fearful, the message from these experiences is a unifying beacon of hope: we are all connected, love is the fundamental nature of reality, and there is nothing to fear.

By supporting Project Profound, you are not just funding technology. You are fueling a movement to bring this profound wisdom into the mainstream. You are helping to build a bridge of understanding that could change how we live, how we treat one another, and how we approach our own mortality.

Our Expenses

Our development expenses include database, web server, and software fees that increase in cost as more people use the website. All developer costs have been donated.

All of your donations go toward the tools we need to improve our services for researchers, experiencers, and the general public.

Every donation, no matter the size, is a vote for curiosity over fear, for connection over division, and for a more loving, awakened world.

Thank you for considering joining us on this extraordinary journey.

With deepest gratitude,

Tom Wood

for The Project Profound Team

P.S. If you'd like to see our exact expenses, please contact us and we'd be happy to talk to you personally and share links to our spreadsheet.