You make an excellent point. So I will try to answer it. First there are literally millions of people who have had the same experience that believe as I do. Second I have had many experiences and communications of the same nature. I have seen what is sometimes called Heaven but is really the Spirit World. Others have also seen it and described it similarly. I have seen my body while outside of it. So I know I don’t need a brain to be alive. So have many others. I believe, rather I know because I have experienced it personally many times.
You are correct. Animals also have a mind which is their spirit. When they die they return to the spirit world also. There are accounts of seeing their pets during the experience.
The AMA would consider her dead. The term near death experience is a misnomer. Better to be call a temporary dead experience. The experience usually always changes the perceptions of the experiencer. I can’t speak about your experience.
Well, lot of people have indeed had an experience where it seemed they left their body.
I have had one. I do not have an explanation for the phenomenon, but making shit up about spirits and souls, just to have *some *kind of explanation, does not help.
I know science will never change your mind on this subject but could you comment on the recent study I linked to earlier in the thread where they do have a practical scientific explanation for your NDE’s.
You will find the evidence not in my writing but in the research links provided at the beginning of my writing or in the books I recommended. These studies were also published in medical journals.
Yes. Lets say a violent burst of brain activity does happen in the first 30 seconds after the heart stops. Even if that were true it does not explain the typical NDE. In the typical experience the heart stops and the patient leaves his body. He observes his body from a position near the ceiling. He is very surprised. He observes the activity around the body. The doctors are frantically trying to resuscitate him. He notices a light and goes down a tunnel. Love surrounds him, unconditional love and he does not want to return to his body, but a Being of Light tells him he must return because it is not his time. He may meet deceased relatives or loves ones even his pets that went before him. But he is drawn back into his body against his will and wakes up. He tells the staff he saw them working on him and describes it accurately. He tells them he saw his dead relatives and the staff don’t believe him etc. That don’t cover the future events he sees and the knowledge he gains through the experience. Please read some of the experiences for more.
What about the rest of your claims on the breakdown of society and the creeping nihilism?
Brains can survive without damage for several minutes without oxygen. Even if near-death experiences appear to last longer than that, it’s quite an assumption that a dying brain is a good judge of the passage of time.
I did have a quick look, but honestly would rather you saved me the trouble of looking through all your links and researching the books you mention. Do you have any links to good papers which conclude that any of the claims you have made in this thread are true?
If resuscitation attempts are started immediately. Some experiencers woke up on the way to the morgue. Might be a factor for a few but not for the majority.
I wish I could provide you with a shortcut to this subject, but I don’t know of any. It took me three years to get a decent understanding of it. You might try just reading the experiences offered on the web. I have collected 300 of them and some site a lot more.
Your collection of stories from lonely anonymous people trying to make their own lives seem interesting to other lonely anonymous people is of no use to those who are searching for facts.