Discussion near death experience

[eremito]

how reliable/unreliable are reports about near-death-experience for you? Upon dying, people can see their late relatives welcoming them and sense the presence of spiritual beings at their side.
Those reports are mostly quiet, peaceful and positive. Have you heard any reports about near death experience from a person who did CTB? Where they negative?
Most people saw lights and was travelling in a tunnel. But this is a Christian version of the story.
What experiences are reported by non-religious people: atheists, agnostics?
What experiences are reported by people who observe other religions than Christianity?

 

[Cryptonite]

how reliable/unreliable are reports about near-death-experience for you? Upon dying, people can see their late relatives welcoming them and sense the presence of spiritual beings at their side.
Those reports are mostly quiet, peaceful and positive. Have you heard any reports about near death experience from a person who did CTB? Where they negative?
Most people saw lights and was travelling in a tunnel. But this is a Christian version of the story.
What experiences are reported by non-religious people: atheists, agnostics?
What experiences are reported by people who observe other religions than Christianity?

you can try for yourself, a psychedelic called DMT is known to cause something that is very very close to near death experiences, and it only lasts for around 20 minutes

 

[Shu]

Other than my Life review. I did not see anyone that I have known to pass. I saw these blue beings made of light. I also didn't travel through any kind of tunnel. The only bright lights that I saw were the beings that were in front of me.

 

[locked*n*loaded]

Anything that someone "sees" during an NDE is just that person's brain doing what it does, much like what it does while we are sleeping and dreaming. The brain rearranges information, connects some information with other information, etc. If you've been of the belief for your entire life that there is life after death, no doubt you have had many thoughts in your mind of how nice it would be to see Aunt Jane, or your mom, or your sister, once again, after you die, in Heaven, or whatever it is that your religion calls it. That information is already in your brain because you had thought it. If you have an NDE, which I have no doubt, is much deeper than any sleep we experience, your body and brain, most likely, realizes that it is a state of being much more than it experiences while sleeping, thus connecting your thoughts of afterlife and seeing Aunt Jane, with the experience you are going known as an NDE.

 

[MrShino]

Anything that someone "sees" during an NDE is just that person's brain doing what it does, much like what it does while we are sleeping and dreaming. The brain rearranges information, connects some information with other information, etc. If you've been of the belief for your entire life that there is life after death, no doubt you have had many thoughts in your mind of how nice it would be to see Aunt Jane, or your mom, or your sister, once again, after you die, in Heaven, or whatever it is that your religion calls it. That information is already in your brain because you had thought it. If you have an NDE, which I have no doubt, is much deeper than any sleep we experience, your body and brain, most likely, realizes that it is a state of being much more than it experiences while sleeping, thus connecting your thoughts of afterlife and seeing Aunt Jane, with the experience you are going known as an NDE.

Can't really be the case, as the neurological pathworking of the brain is completely shut down. People have had these experiences being clinically dead, meaning there are no brain activity at all - yet the spirit/mind depart from the body and have this astonishing experience.

 

[Sakura94]

I have not looked these up, I admit, but there must be some level of brain activity or they would be brain dead upon coming back and not be able to tell what they saw. They have to very careful with anesthetic because of this.

 

[outrider567]

About 15% of people experience NDE's, its a fascinating subject