He had heard about near-death experiences (NDEs), of course ... The field was clear; it was also dismissed. The world according to science in the 1960s was mechanistic and purely material.

In 1998, he and his wife established the Near-Death Experience Research Foundation, whose website allows people from around the world to document their own spiritual and out-of-body experiences.

Fenwick received shortly after he appeared in a BBC documentary, “Glimpses of Death,” in which he commented on the near-death visions of people who had apparently briefly died, or nearly died ...