Lekatt, what are the practical differences between your belief system in which CUs are held together by love, and the Christian belief system in which God is love (1 John 4:16)?
I am not a Christian, but I am a follower of Jesus’ teachings. The important difference is I and my site are positive, and much of Christianity teaches negative concepts. Science also teaches negative concepts. When you switch from negative to positive your life changes forever. That is what a near death experience does for you. It is really simple.
Belief is a coping mechanism that our brain uses to help us make sense of the unintelligible. For example, an inexplicable disaster occurs, or an inexplicable miracle occurs, so it must be god’s will. A person has a brain disruption, such as a neurotransmitter disruption causing the sensation of a presence or of broad comprehension, so it must be a revelation of god or of a higher truth. This sort of coping mechanism is just a feature of the human brain trying to make sense of things that are nonsensical. It does not make the epiphany true.
When people experience religious epiphanies, the epiphanies tend to reflect the culture of which they are already a part, or in which they are involved at the time of the epiphany. Thus the epiphanies of people raised in a Christian culture tend to reflect Christianity; people raised in a Hindu culture tend to reflect Hinduism, etc. (Based on your – lekatt’s – subjective NDE experiences and how you have coped with them by building a structure that melds nondenominational Christianity with atomos/atomics, it wouldn’t surprise me you were an American teenager in the 50s, but that’s just a guess on my part.) It is not that any one religion or spiritual belief is true, but rather that when a person experiences an inexplicable event, such as a sensed presence or broad comprehension, the person’s brain will try to make sense of it, sometimes including creating a spiritual belief. You believe that what your sense is true. That does not mean that what you believe is true, any more than your perceiving a mirage in a hot desert means that what you see actually exists in the air where you see it.
Here is where we get into trouble, for when people strongly believe that what they believe is true, but the belief is based on a coping mechanism of the brain rather than on objective reality, there is a great risk that bad decisions will be made. The very powerful nature of the spiritual experience also leads to a great risk of people pressing on others to accept their belief. A point in case is your belief system that your brain formed for you out of your religious, cultural, and epiphanic background, that has lead you to developing an ethical code in which a brainless woman’s remaining body should be kept functioning despite her not wanting this, and in which you are compelled to proselytise.
If you are a follower of Christ, then you are by definition a Christian. I can relate to not wanting to take that name, since there are so many nasty things done these days in the name of Christianity, but I personally refuse to allow them to take that name away from me.
Can you expand upon what you mean by “science teaches negative concepts”?
I carefully read what you posted. I believe the thing you don’t understand is what you wrote is all opinion, none of it is provable. It is merely the secular explanation of spiritual experiences and nothing more. No one really know what throughts, beliefs, or emotions are being carried by neurotransmitters or if anything at all is being carried by such. Your faith lies in believing this sort of science explanation and mine don’t. I really experienced what I saw and could see the reality of it when I came back to the physical. Where there is no way possible that you can know the reality of your explanation. I will post a list of things that happen during a near death experience. This is not my list but one compiled by the International Association of Near Death Studies. Dr. Bruce Grayson is a member of that organization, the one whose video I posted earlier.
Negativity is so strong in our society and world that most people think it is normal and embrace it as normal. Most, if not all, human organizations teach positive and negative concepts. They teach what they do and what they stand for in positive language, and what they are against and don’t believe in, in negative language.
This only perpetuates negativity. Jesus taught love your enemies, love everyone.
I missed the part where you were in the hospital and a medical professional declared that you almost died.
You know-the necessary “Near Death” part of the NDE.
Not at all. You can follow the teachings of the (probably) historic figure referred to as Jesus Christ without accepting him as your lord and savior. Even self-described Christians selectively follow the teachings ascribed to him.
You claim that the sameness of what you call “genuine” NDEs show that there must be something to them, and yet I don’t recall seeing any NDE reports that are similar to your own in any way.
I never went to the Hospital, I declined the surgery. Only a small percentage of near death experiences actually happen in the Hospital. They happen wherever the trauma occurred that caused the temporary death of the experiencer.
You never went to a hospital. No doctor declared that you were near death. You were disturbed when you went to bed. You either had a waking dream(most likely) or a visitation from an otherworldly entity. You woke up the next morning.
No NDE.