@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:
As farmerman and others have been pointing out, of late, these reported death or near death experiences are not actual reports from the dead zone. The truly dead do not come back, ever. My thought on the reason for these experiences is as follows: To soften the harshness, to alay the fear and horror of dying, the brain cells register these comforting images. The final and ultimate defense mechanism.
I understand those ideas.
The question remains of whether or not conscious life continues
when the human body becomes dysfunctional. I was informed that
I died during surgery in 2005. I have no memory of this.
I only remember awakening from it in the ICU.
However, during periods of non-stressful existence in ordinary states of health,
I 've had out-of-body experiences, 3 times during routine taking
of depositions in court, once when I was told that my mother
died and once in a restaurant at lunch.
Being out felt nice.
(I have never used recreational nor hallucinogenic drugs.)
This has suggested to me that conscious life can continue
separate from and independent of the material human body,
which molts off, at "death."
To my mind, it seems unnecessarily unkind to
hog this knowledge for myself.
People fear "death" (
not including those who have
returned from "death" defined
as the cessation of all cardiovascular, pulmonary and encephalic activity for a few minutes).
Some people who have returned from "death" in hospitals
have observed their relatives in conversation among themselves
in the waiting rooms, occasionally resulting in disinheritance of nasty-mouthed relatives.
Some have returned with other observations of during-death events that were subsequently confirmed.
In my opinion, it is good to relieve the emotional pain of fear of death.
Additionally, some decedents have reported having Life Review Experiences
during which thay felt their effects upon others; e.g. one Tom Sawyer who reviewed an incident wherein
he slugged a motorist in the mouth repeatedly because of a collision. He reported empathetically feeling
getting slugged in the mouth each time, during his Life Review. (I wonder how that worked out for Saddam.)
He also reported feeling a secondary negative effect felt by people who were not present at the time nor place
of the occcurrence; like ten year old junior who did not get a bike for his birthday as promised because Dad
had to use the cash to pay a dentist.
From this, I extrapolated that inflicting unexpected kindness upon people
might be a good idea, so I started begifting pretty waitresses with $100.oo tips for @ glass of wine thay brought me.
In the 1970s, I stood in a crowded street in midtown Manhattan and distributed $100.oo bills to pretty girls,
as thay passed at lunchtime & a few other things. Its kind of fun.
Dr. Raymond Moody wrote "LIFE AFTER LIFE" wherein he included
the incident about Tom Sawyer (that book or one of its sequels).
Raymond invited me to his place in Alabama, wherein I told him
that my unexpected distributions of cash were the result of
HIS work.
Therefore, he shoud experience the derivative effects thereof
in
his own LIfe Review Experience.
David
