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Does religion play a role in these kinds of experiences? To this social scientist, all this sounds like a hallucination.
Today i had an identical story with james,upon ingestion of the pills,i vomitted yellow bile very painfully and immediately fell asleep i did not call anyone but i got on my phone when i woke up and found this clip
Lol too funny the presenter 😂4 years ago ,where have i been all my life
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It would be very interesting to also study psychic detective
About three weeks before I found out I was expecting my third son, I had a dream of my deceased grandad. In the dream, I could just see his face. He was smiling and it looked like it was illuminated from the inside out. A wonderous sight. He just looked really happy to me. He wasn't speaking. My grandad had passed away in 1985 and i found out i was expecting in 2002. Id never had a dream of my grandad before and have not since. When i found out i was expecting, i thought again of the dream and it felt like my grandad was coming through to me as if he knew what was to come and how happy he was about it.
I was 9 when I was visited by a glowing orb in my bedroom. I was so stunned that I made extra sure I was awake and this orb asked me for forgiveness. I didn’t know who it was but I said “yes” (this was all mental) and felt my body flood with bliss. The next morning I learned Dolores, my babysitter died. She’d been semi-awful to me and my brother and never warm but I knew it was her who’d visited me the night before… and while my memories of her remain accurate - there’s a love and lightness to them, not the gray meanness that would have remained. I tried materialism on for most of my life but after that orb visit, several other experiences didn’t jibe with rational-materialism. I’ve been relieved and delighted to find science is finally confirming that we exist IN consciousness, that who we are is NOT located in our physical brain. Duh.
Unfortunately, I think this is a question that can never be answered since we can't communicate with those in the afterlife(if it exists). We have been discussing the afterlife for hundreds of years and will continue for hundreds more😢
Anyone interested in looking up things about the afterlife should just start praying on a daily basis and get the help that only regular prayer can give you ☺🙏 I mean this respectfully though! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 Please worship the CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, THE LORD GOD and try not to worry too much about the differences between the different religions and denominations, try to think about the similarities and the things they may have in common more than the differences. Daily prayer is a fundamental part that many people do not practice although it is encouraged
My grandfather came to see me on a sunday. Usually hes pretty grumpy but I loved him for his transparancy and just for being authentic. Anyway....he was really cheerful and was playing with my children and happily bouncing them on his knee We had fish and chips.....he said it was the best meal he had in ages....he never says that. He went home. The next day i fell asleep in the exact seat he was in that day. Had a vivid dream a pure white space two old fashioned chairs with woven backs and detailed legs. His belated wife of 35 to 40 years...and a lady he met afterwards that he also adored. Both just sat there together smiling. No words spoken. I woke up thought it was odd. The week commenced....he usually called most days. I didnt hear anything. The following week I started to worry and called his phone and had been to his house a few times too. Nothing. I knew something was wrong. His health has declined rapidly since the day he spent with me. He had some kind of toxic shock where chemicals went into his brain just days after he was with me and perfectly fine. I spent the day with him....late that night 2am - 3am a sliver of light like a door opening appeared in the room and spooked me. As if something was checking up on him. I caught covid off him so couldnt go back. He died 2 days later peacefully. It was all as if it were by design. He had the best day happy with me. He had three daughters and always wanted a son. Theres more than one boy in the family but he was always so proud of me oddly out of everyone. His passing was all designed in a way to tribute his last day with me. There was certainly supernatural things happening. He since visited me.....i thought it was demonic...but not sure. But I do think that the good ones go to heaven so really we arent supposed to be visited by them.....they just greet us when we pass !
My sister died of a very rare gall bladder cancer, already spread before she had symptoms . She was given only 8 weeks . The day before she passed she wasn't well at all and told her partner that somone had told her that her throat will become very weak in the morning,then the early hours of the morning she passed my other sister said she saw a mist above and behind her head. Im hoping that was my parents waiting for her and comforting her.
I didn’t see shit.
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How does an ugly wrinkled lump of 60% fat crammed in our skulls produce anything, let alone our magnificent consciousness?
It doesn't. ;-) The brain just serves as a constraint on the physics rule set, as Iain McGilchrist (author of "The Master and His Emissary" and "The Trouble With Things") calls the brain: not the source of consciousness, but rather a permitter of consciousness. <3 According to former NASA physicist and consciousness explorer (for 50 years!) Tom Campbell, consciousness is fundamental, and we are each Individuated Units of Consciousness (IUOCs) that are partitioned off from the Larger Consciousness System (LCS). This "reality" is actually a Virtual Reality (VR), and consciousness is the computer (the rendering engine) that computes this VR and feeds our consciousness the data stream that we interpret as this Physical Matter Reality (PMR) and which we call the physical universe. There are many people known to possess virtually NO actual physical brain matter (just a thin lining around the inside of the skull), and yet almost half of these people have perfectly normal intelligence, so obviously it is not the physical brain that generates consciousness. Tom Campbell has compiled his findings studying "out of body" experiences for 30 years (ten of which with Robert Monroe, of The Monroe Institute, and author of the "Journeys Out Of The Body" trilogy as a grad student in the early 1970s) in his own trilogy called, "My Big TOE (Theory of Everything)". It describes the why and how all of the findings in this video actually are real and can be explained, and not only does it logically derive many other fundamental aspects of our reality, it also can explain all of the many paradoxes that have plagued Materialists/Physicalists since the first "Double-Slit" experiments were first performed over 100 years ago. As a "Big" TOE (as opposed to just a "little" TOE), it encompasses both the physics and the metaphysics, the normal and the paranormal, the objective and the subjective, and it actually reconciles Quantum Mechanics with Relativity Theory! If you're interested, check out: www.my-big-toe.com for more. 🙂
After how many years and how many of these stories, people STILL refuse to believe. Boggles my mind.
I had a NDE when I was 13 and was in a terrible car accident that killed my grandparents. I went into shock and they lost me for a minute I recall standing on the sidewalk beside my grandfather watching the fireman scramble to rescue us. He told me some people were coming to greet us and shortley after I met my grandfather's deceased brother and sister who died as babies that I had never heard about. When I asked my Mom who they were she bursted in tears. How did you know that? I didn't Mom they came with great grandma and grandpa on the other side. After that day I've become developed clairaudient and clairsentient abilities.
I just want to highlight that whatever you believe regarding the history of Buddha's born or re- birth has come to your mind by varies DATA inputs that you got from various sources since your birth. Think about the 1st DATA that you got into your mind after birth. That is " AMMAA" and THAATHTHA" Can't you understand that this data also came to your mind from outside sources. Repetition of this sound "AMMAA" or "THAATHHAA" has been compelled to believe that two people that you called above names are “pure “ truth. You never realised that this is again a another belief. Are you sure that two people that you saw from the birth are the real father and mother? I am sure that YOU ARE NOT 100% sure . Isn't it?? Therefore don't take any knowledge that you grab from outside sauses are pure and real truth.
I just want to highlight that whatever you believe regarding the history of Buddha's born or re- birth has come to your mind by varies DATA inputs that you got from various sources since your birth. Think about the 1st DATA that you got into your mind after birth. That is " AMMAA" and THAATHTHA" Can't you understand that this data also came to your mind from outside sources. Repetition of this sound "AMMAA" or "THAATHHAA" has been compelled to believe that two people that you called above names are “pure “ truth. You never realised that this is again a another belief. Are you sure that two people that you saw from the birth are the real father and mother? I am sure that YOU ARE NOT 100% sure . Isn't it?? Therefore don't take any knowledge that you grab from outside sauses are pure and real truth.
*Scrutinizing Near-Death Experiences: Questions and Observations* *Questioning the Timing of Near-Death Experiences* The two biggest questions I have with near-death experiences are how do they know that the experiences they are having is during the period when they are clinically and technically dead in which the brain have no activity and not having the experience just shortly right before death and after one's been revived? Time in our dreams are a bit whacky and not as concise when we're awake. What might feel like hours or even days in our dreams may have only been minutes. *Doubts about the Authenticity of Near-Death Experiences* Second question is the awareness of the individual during these near death experiences. Many have claimed that it is more real than actual reality itself, more real than when they were alive. To me (now this is just my opinion), their behavior is one i interpret as not someone who fully believe what they're saying is true, but rather someone who convinces themselves that its true. *Similarities between Near-Death Experiences and Dreams* Whenever a person describes their experiences they always tend to describe it the same way as someone who is describing a dream. They are rather vague with their descriptions and only speak about the most significant parts of their experience. They jump from one event to another just like dream experiences. *Lack of Emphasis on the Profoundness of Near-Death Experiences* When a person dreams it is real for that person, its only when we wake from that dream is when we realize that it wasnt. You would think that people who have these near death experiences if what they say is true how real the experiences was for them that they would emphasize that fact, but they dont. *Personal Experience with a Profound Event* For example the time I witnessed a ufo 7 - 10 years ago I wont go into details about what happen, but witnessing that was so profound that I could not drop it I had to tell everyone and not just simply retelling what I witnessed, but to describe it in a way so the person im telling it too would experience it as if they to was there. Here's the big argument against NDEs and that is, if NDEs are real then everyone should have them, but not everyone do. Either everyone have Near Death Experiences or noone does. The similarities i see are not "Death" experiences , but rather "Dream" experiences.
"Here's the big argument against NDEs and that is, if NDEs are real then everyone should have them, but not everyone do. Either everyone have Near Death Experiences or noone does." THAT'S the big argument against NDEs?!? I'm sorry, but that's just nonsensical. That's akin to saying, "If being able to play the piano is real, then everyone should be able to play the piano. Either everyone plays the piano or no one does." Yes, it is best to be open-minded AND skeptical in equal parts, but do you see how your skepticism here has gotten the better of your rationality? ;-)
@jamieedmonds574 That is the most absurd thing I've heard to compare being able to play the piano to having a conscious or a soul whatever you like to call it. Not everyone can play the piano, but everyone do have a soul/consciousness assuming that thats what the whole near death experience is all about a person soul leaving ones body and most cases crossing over, so as I said before, the biggest argument against NDEs not being real and just thoughts projected from a dying brain seems more plausible. So try to come back with a better analogy. If what I say holds no credence than please explain to me why is it only a percentage of people experience a near death experience when it should be everyone?
@@_eXraided_ Why should everyone have to experience a NDE in order for it to attain some sort of arbitrary "reality threshold" that you've created? (And why is this reply highlighted? 🙂 ) If you somehow don't get the obvious parallel between your original ridiculous "all or nothing" statement and my analogy of being able to play the piano, there's not much I can do to help you figure that out. It seems as though your mind is already made up. That's fine, of course, and other readers here can make up their own minds considering what's been posted. Not everyone in this life experiences a NDE, most of us just die when it is our time. Personally, I have survived a cancer diagnosis over 20 years ago, which can be thought of as a sort of low-key, slow-mo NDE, and it definitely changed my perspective on "the meaning of life". 🙂
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We are "Spirit". We have a "Soul" mind, will, emotion, the physical brain, houses the soul, we live in this realm in a *Physical Body* to house our spirit & soul in this physical environment /realm..I know there's SO much more, and I'm eager to learn... A spirit being, never ceases to exist, "death" is separation from the Creator, Ancient of Days, but spirit never simply ceases to be, eternity is now, just figuring out where exactly that is, because actual "death", separation from the Creator, is not intended to be for His Bride /creations, but for the forever loser who tried to suplant Him.. "I will be like God, I will place my own throne next to His, I will be like God.. etc etc etc".. but there's so so much more to learn and "become"..
The same old anecdotes we've all heard before. They've been studying this for decades and haven't been able to provide one single hard piece of evidence, let alone proof.
The final validator of any proof is the subject (observer/self). If he/she encounters a higher reality (more real than normal real reality), no further evidence is needed, it supersedes everything here, there's a new framework for him/her over there. For your intellect here's a riddle: to generate a persuasive real-time image you need several kilowatts of power with most modern GPUs. Yet that mesh of neurons inside a skull can supposedly produce similar results at tiny fraction of the cost. I know it because I experienced it. Aside from normal "murky dreams" there are also hyper realistic dreams, I had mine after several months long mental work overload. I started having weird moments with flashes of light/extreme loud noises coming out of nowhere when I was transitioning to sleep. One day I woke up in the middle of a vast grass field (it stretched as far as eye could see), everything was crisp, indistinguishable from reality. There was no shadow of a doubt in me the experience was real. The voice which didn't have a distinct source (it sounded like coming from everywhere at once) asked: "So, does this look real to you?" I proceeded to wake up into "normal" world immediately after. Given the amount of energy it takes to generate something that convincing, I don't see these phenomena as being hallucinations. They MUST be results of some sort of "de-tuning" of one's conscious. The conscious, self aware part is not necessary in mechanical world, any human organism out there could easily fake conscious behavior but be a bio robot in essence. Yet one's conscious is axiomatic, self evident etc. So it becomes primary. The simple truth is - it never ends. There is no death. You may now rest.
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The Baha'i Writings tell us that if we knew who wonderful the next world is for the believers, we would not be able to stop ourselves from committing suicide in order to go there. This is why the information is veiled from us. We are told that we are here in this life to create an ever-advancing civilization. If there were mass suicide, civilization would not progress. That is the answer to 39:00
A text from a scripture Al-Qur’an. ( after death experiences). Mind wanders when body is asleep, and may remember its experiences during sleep. Any comments ? V.39:42. “ALLAH take away the Souls at the time of their death, and during their sleep of those who do not die. Then He keeps withholding those on whom He has decreed the Death and send back others for a specified term. Surely there are Signs in that for the People who give thought:”
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For people who can understand Newton Third Law of Motion (Every action has equal & opposite reaction), rebirth is common sense. For example we are borne differently, must be due to a reason before our current birth because nothing happen without a cause.
Fascinating discussion. I am not able to sleep without thoughts of trench warfare. It actually comforts me. Weirdly, thoughts of ping-pong also helps me sleep (and obviously I like that more than the trenches).
My sweet sweeeeeet MOM passed away from Cancer, bacterial meningitis, lungs infection, kidney failure, fits,strokes internal bleeding and finally heart failure. She was only 48 year old ,but I know she’s in Heaven!!! She wasn’t just my mom, but my best friend. Please pray for her.
We are designed to fear death, we as people strive our entire lives to survive. If we had an awareness of something happier after life than during it, suicide would be much more prevalent. We cannot truly know and it’s probably best that we don’t, or we wouldn’t strive for all the things we do in life.
Who really cares???? Black is black until I find out differently. If so you win but not sure what
Have not convienced me. nonsense to me. More into Neil D
Thank you for a great video! I had the same experience, so yes, of course there is a after life. It is total satisfaction. And I think it is for everybody. Who knows, maybe we meet the most evil people in history. Because, in the after life every thing is love. There is no room for human made words such as "justice, moral and evil." The same for everybody. I have been reluctant to tell my story to friends I know is unstable, because with this knowledge, it can be too easy to end it just to take a short cut. But somehow, I don`t think it is allowed to cheat. See you all later!
"Many, many births both you and I have passed. I can remember all of them, but you cannot, O subduer of the enemy!" Bhagavad Gita #4.5 "Whatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, that state he will attain without fail" BG 8.6
Skeptic and atheist here. I think the reason mainstream science tend to shy away from the possibility of the mind existing after coporeal death is because people tend to bring their religious beliefs into it all. Loose the personal religious beliefs.
I do believe in reincarnation; however, I am a bit confused. If a person experienced an NDE and said that he/she saw images of a dead relative, then how can that spirit be reincarnated? My question is based on the first and second Doctor's presentation.
All of our dead relatives still exist in the database (what some religions refer to as "the Akashic Records") and can be queried with the right innate talent, practice, or assistance (like a channeler or medium). The only difference in them is that, since they are now deceased and no longer animating/logged on to an avatar in this Physical Matter Reality, that persona still contains everything they ever were, what they knew, thought, or would have said about X,Y, or Z, etc., but they no longer have free will. They are now a "stored/archived" version of "dead Uncle Fred", that is often put into your data stream in what Tom Campbell calls "the transition reality" during the death phase (like waking up from a dream that you thought SURE was REAL!) or an NDE to help you relax and adjust to your new surroundings. If you have developed a strong religious belief dogma while incarnated, you might often be greeted by something/someone that would seem familiar to you there (pity the one who has bought into "Heaven and Hell", since so many of us would surely fall short). <3
@@jamieedmonds574 Interesting thought! For me, I'm not the great to be in Heaven and not that evil to be in Hell either, so I guess I will be in a limbo state 😁
Sudenly we have ,many more cases,strange how the mind works😅
My coment is,we really died or we are just transitioning.And life is the wave to continue the process
I am not God All this Jesus thing is so hypocritical. Many believe that Jesus walked on water, multiplied fish and bread, cured the sick, resuscitated the dead as he resuscitated from the dead but when I claim being the Second coming ,that I am well acquainted with hell that resides in the consciousness where everything that exists is to be found. In fact, I was spiritually born there, which explains the Myth of the Virgin Mary. I am well acquainted with the paradises where one dies of joy and the Great Conscious Void where there is nothing there but the peace of the mind. It is there that reincarnation occurs. Here, it will be said that God is the musk and the fragrance of musk, thus consciousness and void or unconsciousness and consciousness. Satan asked me three questions, one of which was if God would go to hell as a human, to which God made me respond: I went. Tell me, how many believe Jesus to be God incarnate? The question and the answer point in that direction, don't they? I have performed exorcisms, spiritually immersed myself in a mirror, seeing myself from the inside out, I have nailed a prideful demon against a mirror, sent a demon within me against criminals who ran for their lives and much more. I am currently writing the Last Testament of the Old World, and the proceeds will be given to Doctors Without Borders. My new sacred name is Alif Laam Meem, three letters from the Quran that only God knows why he had them written there. Freely, one can relate Alif to Alpha, God, Laam to the Adamic link, and Meem to the messenger. Violent men, sexual deviants, and stingy rich people will be with me in hell to be purified. Once all human souls have exited hell, God will send Satan and his demons in there that I went to hell often, know well about heaven, did exorcism people sneer and laugh at me, even people of faith. So hypocritical
The last two scientists on the opposite end from Cleese didn't get to speak before question time. Why were they even there? What a snub, ĺol
A panel discussion on life after death, from the Tom Tom Conference around 2020 in Arizona USA. Published? Where? By whom? Cf. Dr. Hayes, Eban Alexander:Proof of Heaven
I will always be me.
Of course there's life after this one you either go to heaven or hell
I had a tumor saw the image results before the Dr I thought it was bad maby this is as it for me . One night , figuring I will die I thought I AM GOIN TO Have the answer to humans geretest question what happens after death man I was psychic up ready to have that answer at that moment if I was standing on a bridge I would have jumped Well the tumor was aspirated and was nothing now 40 years later I figure the answer is no nothing not can’t be dun it’s the human ego driving the thoughts of immortality but I want my remains to fertilize a tree
Interesting and compelling but anecdotal discourse provides poor quality evidence. Even vast numbers of similar anecdotes tell us nothing about what is really happening. There was no indication or even suggestions of how more rigorous testing could be employed. Further, it was disappointing that none of the delegates were ‘devil’s advocates’ and there to challenge the narrative. I’m not saying they’re wrong but the discussion was far too self-affirming to gain credence.
I kept trying to convert my Dad to being a believer in God and the after life, making him so angry every time. He believed when you're dead, you're dead, end of story. You simply cease to exist. The night my Dad died, on Father's day, he came to me beside my bed when I was semi conscientious, just before sleep and told me he's not quite sure how this works (communicating with me) but that I was right (about life continuing). He seemed eager to let me know, yet a little sheepish. He looked at least 20 years younger and stronger. Though I knew he was dead, I had no sense of fear. It was just my Dad, I could not only see him but more feel his spirit
May All of You Realize, Jesus Christ ("I Am" Father) is The Reason We Exist. TURN TO HIM In Faith For Understanding. 🙏 ❤
I love John Cleese. Love Monty Python and I try to be open-minded. I am certain that the speakers are credible and genuine. But, truly, the evidence is anecdotal. If there is hard data please provide it.