Life Beyond Death ?

[Medo]

Hello,


http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/D...periences.html


Medo

[SPEEDO]

Near death experiences!

Is just what the name implies Near Death! Or not DEAD YET!

SPEEDO

Speedo, it depends on your perception of death. I have died twice or as most people say I have had two “near death experiences.” To die is to cease to function; when you have a near death experience your body ceases to function and you are dead IMO.



I guess the only way anyone could understand it is to go through it.

[DutchMaster]

Somebody saw the movie Flatliners..

[DutchMaster]

I guess the mind is playing with your perception since it doesn't get enough blood thus not gettin enough oxygene. Same thing like dreaming in my opinion or when you faint, only on a bigger scale.

[fatal xception]

Scientists Validate Near-Death Experiences

The study does not provide a way to scientifically measure whether or not there is life after death, however.

That's certainly interesting.

Oh, I see, it is a hallucination caused by the lack of oxygen or an increased amount of endorphins .

The same woman who says it is endorphins says: "They're valid experiences in themselves, only they're happening in the brain and not in the world out there." Perception is how your consciousness sees everything in the world around you.


Don’t you find it to be a bit odd that so many people have similar hallucinations when they are DOA or clinically dead?

[Knothead]

It's not my policy to comment on or evalute anybody's Religious beliefs, but I think this thread is more about Spiritual stuff, (which, IMO, is or CAN be a COMPONENT of those beliefs,) so I guess it's okay.

What we're talking about here is the idea of us being a body plus a spiritual entity, which co-exist. The body can die, but that spirit continues on.

I had an experience many years back which demonstrated this quite forcefully to me.

I woke up one morning in terrible lower back pain. It was, like SNAPPING over and over. I called some friends who took me to the hospital (pain was so bad it took almost an hour to get from bed to the car, a distance of about 30 feet; man, it was BAD!)

They took x-rays, couldn't figure it out, other than the fact that my spine was convulsing, and chomping at the central nerve cord. (oh, I'd like to point out here, that I didn't die. )

They gave me drugs which didn't do anything, and this continued in episodic bursts for several days.

Later that day, I was lying on the cyan-blue carpet (they tell you to lie on your back, on the floor.) Another attack came, a REALLY bad one...

....Then all of a sudden, it didn't hurt anymore, and I had this feeling of well-being and peace. Hard to describe, so I won't try, but...then I sort of sensed/saw a body writhing on a field of cyan blue...and felt sorry for it, and wanted to help...suddenly, I became aware that it was my OWN body there, and WHAP!
OWOWOWOW!!! I was back in it, just like before.

Immediately afterward, I knew exactly what had just happened and it gave me something to ponder between the attacks. (Eventually, they went away after a few days, and they occasionally come back every few years, but never that bad.)

But the point is, I know that I left my body. There is no other Theory, man. This was no endrphin rush or oxygen trip. I know what I know.

Like I say, don't wanna step on anybody else's beliefs, but I thought I would share this. I absolutely believe we are spiritual beings, and we do continue after death. Respectfully, KH

[fatal xception]

Originally posted by jad1097
Don’t you find it to be a bit odd that so many people have similar hallucinations when they are DOA or clinically dead?

Not really. Basic functionality would be the same (most likely everybodies brain may react the same way to suffocation).

[fatal xception]

One funny thought:

Everyone dies of one thing?

Anyone know?