Near death experience is a condition described by people who have been close to death or clinically dead and then returned to life. The visions containes altered sensory impressions as strong light phenomena. These impressions are often interpreted as evidence of an afterlife, but can possibly be expained as lack of oxygen in the brain. For many, these experiences lead to a perception that death is not the end of life. Common is an affiliation with the universe and floating against a light tunnel. The person can meet relatives and friends. People have had out-of-body-experiences; they have been foating around the room and claim that they could see their bodies from above. And then the person is pulled back in the body and will wake up. In scientific medicine it is considered that near death experience depends on a change in the blood flow to the brain, which causes hallucinations. But scientific explanations can not explain observations that may have been made from a point outside the body - at least not yet. People who have had near death experiences claim that they have been in heaven or in hell and after that their lives have changed completely. For these people, here on earth, time has only one dimension, but in heaven, the time is three-dimensional and it is possible to experience the past, the present and the future at the same time. But most people experience only darkness when they have been dead, like dreamless sleep. I believe that death is the end of everything. But some people claim that they have seen themselves from above when they were dead. Do you believe in an afterlife?
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Yes OP. But why would you spend your time and energy writing this afterlife topic in this mostly atheist forum?
Recently I (disguised as Jean Stan) also asked this guy Richard Martini on Quora:
Hello Richard. This is a serious question: How would you convince those hard-core skeptics and atheists that there's definitely something greater beyond this physical world?
and his answer (copy pasted from the link above):
"You can't. Why bother?
It's like asking "How can we convince someone that spaghetti carbonara is the best pasta in Rome?"
First; does it matter? To whom? Why?
Skeptics can argue spaghetti comes from China. There is no "Rome." That their Uncle Pete in Yonkers makes the best. That there's no objective evidence when it comes to pasta. How was it tested? Was there a lab involved? No university with peer reviewed scolars has observed it. Blah blah blabety blah.
Meanwhile their pasta gets cold.
Experience is reflexive. If one hasn't experienced bypassing the filters on the brain they cannot conceive or comprehend an experience of doing so.
People who have had an experience of bypassing the filters have a knowledge of doing so. During an NDE, OBE, LSD, Ketamine therapy, hypnotherapy, meditation, people can and do experience bypassing the filters.
Those results can be objectively studied.
That is a subjective, anecdotal experience can be objectively studied through data. Dr. Bruce Greyson's "After" is an example. Author of over 100 peer reviewed studies of NDEs objectively examines the thousands of clinical case reports. Notes the similarities, cross references consciousness studies, refers to case histories throughout human history.
One doesn't have to examine the results. That's a choice. But not liking results doesn't change the data.
Same goes for flipside research. Whether data is gathered through eyewitness reports from hypnotherapy, mediumship or meditation the results are relatively the same. The thousands of clinical cases from Dr Wambach, Dr Weiss or Michael Newton and the Newton Institute become data.
I've filmed 100 people accessing the same information, half without hypnotherapy. Its not my opinion theory or belief they report the same things the clinical case studies report, it's on film.
Whats my motivation?
If people report that incarnation is an option, it means we can choose to return here. And then leaving fresh air water and earth becomes a priority. Not just for our children, but to prevent the selfish, egocentric humans from destroying this planet.
Reportedly earth is not the only choice.
Over 30% of the Newton Institute reports come from people with off world memories. So lets just say that i hope those people who don't like it here, don't want to return here, don't care about others, take it up with their guides, teachers or classmates and not raise their hands when asked for volunteers.
I've never been interested in proving something to anyone.
It reminds me of the tourist i saw on the Spanish Steps of Rome. The seller said "I dont understand you" in Italian. The buyer waved a US twenty in front of his face and spoke loudly and slower. "This.. is… American.. money… I want.. to.. make.. a deal." Italian shrugged and said in italian "Friend, I don't speak your language. Talking slower and shouting is not going to help me understand you."
People choose lifetimes. They choose livea that include strong filters on the brain. Maybe that choice helps them cure cancer because if they knew their loved ones were okay, they wouldn't try so hard. That was why they chose their lifetime. To not be aware of something outside their perception.
If someone wants scientific evidence, i recommend three books that came out of UVA this past month. "After" by Dr. Greyson, "Before" by Dr Tucker, and "Consciousness Unbound " by Ed Kelly PhD. Scientists using objective data to demonstrate consciousness lives on.
For those who may have an inkling, i recommend Dr. Wambach's "Reliving Past Lives." Michael Newton's "Journey of Souls." Dr Weiss "Many Lives Many Masters." all report conversations with the flipside.
If they get that far, then there's my 8 books. A tad more irreverent.
Because i dont care to convince someone of something i already know: carbonara is the king of all pastas in Rome. La Tana dei Noantri in Trastevere cimes to mind, as just saying it brings the memory of friends, sitting outside in the warm summer evening, laughing while dining.
My advice is, if someone saya "I dont buy it" i reply. "Great. I'm not selling." If someone says "I dont believe it " i quote Harry Dean Stanton, an old pal I interviewed a week after his passing and a week prior to his memorial. I asked what he wanted me to say at his memorial.
Famous for his skepticism and atheism he replied (via a medium who works with law enforcement agencies nationwide) "Tell people to believe in an afterlife." I laughed.
"Harry, all your friends are skeptics. None will believe I spoke to you." He gave me three private messages to give his closest pals. Each were flabbergasted as it was information only he could know from the flipside. Personal health issues no one knows.
I repeated what he said, "Tell people to believe in the possibility of an afterlife so they won't waste another minute of their life arguing about it like I did."
Wise words.
Tell them to believe in "the possibility" which opens the door they've kept locked their entire lives. If they can't allow for possibility, then there's no point in conversing. My two cents."
