ND Experience: When was the first recorded account of a person seeing a tunnel with a light at the end of it?

Thanks artsy08dream for the references. It is interesting information.

But not really what I am looking for.

As we all know there are many different descriptions of the things that happened to people during NDE’s. Unlike others accounts that vary greatly though out the world as well as changes though out time. This particular experience seems to be relatively common though out the developed world and amazingly across religious boundaries. Though granted the Christian perspective seems to be the most commonly reported.

What is interesting to me is that this particular description also seems to have coincided with the invention and subsequent use of a particular device.

So before I present my hypothesis I need to verify that there are NO accounts of the tunnel and light description before the late 1950’s.

While I do believe that there are truly spiritual NDE’s as well as unexplainable things that have happened to people that were on the edge of death. This particular experience I believe has a very simple explanation. Especially when experienced by people that were not really in any serious danger of dieing.

But for the hypothesis to “hold water” the description of a hallway/corridor with a bright light cannot have happened before 1950.

Thus the reason I am looking for accounts of only this particular description before 1950.

As The Bible teaches:

Proverbs: 14:15:

The simple believeth every word:

but the prudent man looketh well to his going. (KJV)

Or put another way.

A simple man believes every word he hears;

a clever man understands the need for proof. (New English Bible 1970)

I hope there will be a few more helpful answers before the close of this question.

Thanks in advance for everyone’s help.

Unfortunately there does not appear to be anyone else going to answer this question.

I am sure a lot of people read this question. I want to thank everyone, though you may have been tempted, for not posting garbage answers.

artsy08dream thanks again for the references, I will be digging though the information as well as the sources referenced in the material for a while. As I said above interesting and I do appreciate it. Though I was hoping someone could point to one specific case. (If it exists)

As for my personal beliefs when it comes to NDEs, I believe there are some NDEs that are very real that can not be explained by science (at least not at our current technology or level of understanding).

I also believe that there are a great many NDE experiences which are told that are false, exaggerated and exploited for reasons other than Glorifying Our Lord.