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Near Death Experience

stonerfromohio

stonerfromohio

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So I have been watching I survived beyond and back lately and I totally love it, its about people who have died from various things from being run over by a truck to drowning while scuba diving they all have a near death experience but they are then revived and sucked back into their body.

Many people when they die are able to look at their lifeless body and say that as soon as they are out they feel no pain, they experience a sense of lightness and there is this uncontrollable pull to go towards this light, or presence or God they all have various names for it but describe it as the light of 1000 suns and irresistable.

A quick digression when people die in India they often say so and so has left his or her body. Assuming obviously the contiuation of existance after death.

This light is described as being incredibly loving, incredibly forgiving, as knowing everything and it feels like being home. Often times there is a relative or saint or evolved being who often looks like they are at perfect peace and have a warm and loving disposition. They explain to the person they have died that it is not yet their time and they will be sent back. Before they are sent back they are often given a life review, or see various beautiful places, or are just held lovingly by the light.

One of the common things people describe is that there is no sense of time whatsoever in the light, also no sense of obligation or daily dutys to concern or distract oneself with. One lady I watched described the light as so bright she was almost afraid to go to it but upon gazing at it found that even though it was brighter than the sun it didnt hurt and just felt like pure grace and love.

Most people upon beind told they must leave the presence of the light are adamant about staying but as they express their concern about going back they are strongly pulled towards their body.

Ive read many books by Raymond Moody, Kenneth Ring, P.M.H Atwater among others who are leading experts with near death experiences and I am pretty convinced by these peoples experiences.

Many people from all ages of the world seem to have various types of NDE's in India, Tibet, United States, and pretty much all over the world throughout world history. I dont believe at all that they are merely random excitations of neurons and brain activity right before death, nor do I believe they are just hallucinations or dreams. Many people who experience them say these experiences were the most influential of their entire life and felt more real than anything they have ever experienced.

But I was just curious as to what you all think about near death experiences, have you had one, do you think they are fake, do they have validity? Are they merely activity of the brain firing before death? Do you believe 100%? I honestly feel that they are genuine, beautiful to hear about, and reveal something about life/death/the nature of who we are.
 
Jesus Christ has raised me from the dead. This is a result of Christ's Redemption. If He had not died and risen, I would still be a corpse. But, as it is, I've enjoyed 54 years of being resurrected. In case you're not familiar with the details, both Jesus and myself were conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit. As you might have read the story of my beheading (death), when Christ did decide to bring me back, He used normal consummation to do so.

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the light you describe reminds me of the beginning of taking Ayahuasca DMT, although it wasnt bright there was nothing one could do to stay away from it, i think its what happens when the brain is shutting down. i wonder if they would experience the same sort of light if they hadnt died from those kind of accident and had dies from say, a shotgun to the face or something more instantaneous which kills all brain activity.
 
I've read an heard a lot about near death experiences since I was young. My mother taught a high school class that included a big section on the subject (current as of about 1990), and made us very familiar with Raymond Moody, Michael Sabom, and Karl Jansen.

This is definitely one of those paranormal phenomena I'm willing to buy. It's possible NDEs are nothing more than brains shutting down or getting ready to. But I think a respectable case can be made for them being more than that.

Karl Jansen, MD is a pretty interesting guy. He first theorized that the biochemical processes underlying ketamine's psychoactive effects were etiologically close to those underlying the NDE. Though he made an interesting case, notably lacking in his research were people who'd experienced both psychoactive doses of ketamine and NDEs, on separate occasions. To my knowledge, Jansen has largely abandoned this hypothesis. He's both s fan of ketamine's healing properties AND the merit of further research into NDEs, though. I must say, ketamine does make God feel incredibly close, and can be a powerful tool for making major and sudden changes in your life. K-holes take you very far away from this world. But I'd need to have a NDE to be able to say yes, they're the same headspace.

I think it's interesting that people from different cultures tend to have predictably different imagery in their NDEs. Japanese NDEs tend to involve a cave, not a tunnel. Samoan ones tend to involve a flight off the coast of a seaside metropolis! Indian ones I've read about have involved the Hindu lord of the dead in his throne room. If NDEs really are a glimpse at a continuation of our sentient consciousness beyond this mortal life, it's possible that how our dying brains expect the landscapes and citizens of the next world to look determines how they indeed look to us. Or, it could be that the guardians of the other side purposely present themselves to those crossing over in physical looking forms that they know the crosser-over will find easy to understand.

Vegan, I'm eagerly awaiting the results of that study too. I really have my fingers crossed they'll get a few hits with it.
 
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