A near-death experience (NDE) is an individual personal experience. It is correlated to death or near-death physical conditions. An increasing number of these experiences are being reported by many individuals. They all share similar characteristics. These personal experiences may encompass a variety of sensations. They include conscious emotions and feeling tones. Feeling detached from the body, a sensation of levitation, serenity, security, and warmth. The presence of light is nearly always a large part of the experience. Occasionally negative experiences occur including sensations of distress and anguish.
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Many scientific and spiritual explanations are given to explain this type of experience. Neuroscientists who study the brain, nervous system, and the molecular biology of neurophysiology, biochemistry, psychology, anatomy and the molecular biology of neurons believe it’s a subjective condition brought about by a disturbed body function. But aren’t all experiences subjective? Scientists already know that fact.
What Science Says
John Wheeler an American theoretical physicist. His many accomplishments were notable along with his many quotations. One of the most famous is “there is no out there out there”. If that’s the case, then one can only assume that all experiences must be subjective. What Wheeler was really saying is that what’s out there is an illusion. He’s in good company there. Albert Einstein said “People like us who believe in physics know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion”. “Time in other words”, he said, “is an illusion”.
What Spirituality Says
Jesus Christ said of his time in the desert that “At times, my human sight was so spiritually heightened, I could see through rocks, earth, sand. These now appeared to be only a ‘shimmer of tiny `motes’. He later explained that ‘motes’ were tiny particles (molecules, cells, atoms). Remember, we accept our interpretation of our so-called ‘reality’ comes from our five senses. Jane Roberts, author of the Seth material delivers a message from Seth Speaks Chapter 1: Session 511, January 21, 1970 that “You cannot trust your physical senses to give you a true picture of reality. They are lovely liars, with such a fantastic tale to tell that you believe it without question.” In an earlier channelling, he said “that (your senses) betray you constantly. They form reality for you, and yet the reality that they form is highly distorted; and what you see, dear friends, does not exist and you do not see what does exist.”
What Can You Believe?
It would appear that a variety of sources are telling us that what we call our physical reality is not as stable or as real as our senses would make us believe. This type of experience is also subjectively experienced by those who have gone through a near-death experience. The big difference is that our normal physical senses are not interfering with our perception of reality. The blinders are lifted and we experience a more fundamental perception of the underlying reality behind all creation. Imagine how difficult it would be to go on a hiking or adventure trip with equipment that only gave you certain information and withheld other data. It would be difficult and confusing, to put it mildly.
History
As far back as the 1890s, NDEs have been a topic of enthusiastic controversy. Victor Egger (1848-1909), an epistemologist and psychologist investigated the near-death experiences of climbers, soldiers and others who had experienced the phenomenon. British researcher Celia Green published 400 accounts of NDEs in 1968. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross wrote ‘On Death and Dying’ in 1969 and Raymond Moody is the author of the books about life after death and near-death experiences. a term that he coined in 1975 in his best-selling book Life After Life.
Conclusion
Near-death experiences are real to those experiencing the phenomenon. They are subjective experiences. They have meaning to those going through the process. To deny them is to deny another’s experience. That makes no sense whatsoever. If someone tells you they have a headache, how can you possibly disclaim that? These naysayers and cynics are typically the first to tell you their opinions. And the rest of us are supposed to believe it’s the gospel? The bottom line is that you and only you can make your decisions about what you believe. And can you change your beliefs? See more on beliefs here.
