@fresco,
fresco wrote:Any student of stylistics or semantics will be able to reel off a list of "metaphor studies" related to "the senses". Whether of not "near death experiences" have any relationship to that of others is partly a function of metaphorical leeway, and partly may be attributed the neurological effects of oxygen starvation.
No doubt, those who have such experiences need to come to terms with their survival, and religious connotations are on obvious source of psychological rationalization.
As to metaphorical speculation on specific words like "light", English speakers tend to forget the bible was not written in English, and their analysis is a function of their parochial conditioning rather than indicative of any mystical "Truth". (ref. Derrida). For an example of real "mind-bending" textual analysis of the original language of the bible they should look up Gematria
HOW does that
relate to observations, during death, of
remote defamations
resulting in disinheritances or observations of and comments upon
relatives who deemed smoking anathema, lighting up cigarettes
with a smoker, because of fear-based tensions concerning decedent,
who made those observations while in a state of death??????
I 've had several out-of-body experiences while awake on-the-job
in an ordinary state of health and no drugs. Therefore, I deem
getting out of one 's body after death of that body
not to be odd nor less than plausible.
Note that none of
these particular experiences had anything to do with religion,
nor with seeing "light".
David
