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Near Death Experiences
"Do you remember how electrical currents and
'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge
about man is still in its infancy."
- Albert Einstein
According to a Gallup poll, 8 to 12 million people
in the United States have had a near-death
experience.
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"How I
abandoned a traditional religion for a
universal spirituality"
An excerpt from
Kevin William's
Near-Death.com website
Ultimately, I reached a point
in my NDE studies where the hundreds of
first-hand eyewitness NDE testimonies of Jesus
I read became far more sensible and
trustworthy to me than the four testimonies of
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John in the Bible.
These gospel testimonies are not first-hand
testimonies as NDE testimonies are and there
are contradictions in the gospel narratives.
NDE research dramatically
changed my ideas of just about everything on a
massive scale. I learned
that God is immensely more
loving, infinitely more forgiving than I once
knew. I knew God would never abandon anyone
forever in hell. The "God of wrath" I once
thought existed I now know to be a man-made
construct for which to project our fear and
own personal weaknesses on. The Devil that I
used to blame my sins on and fear all the time
evaporated when I discovered that the greatest
enemy I will ever have to face and conquer is
self. I began to
appreciate the vastness of God's love for all
people no matter what their religious or
cultural persuasion may be. My narrow
religious system cracked and fell away as it
became more and more ridiculous to me. Worse
still, I discovered my former belief system to
be highly dishonoring to God in that it
portrays him as throwing the majority of
humanity in hell fire to roast and be tortured
forever. My former idea of God resembled
Charles Manson more than it did of a God of
infinite love and I regretted ever having ever
believed it. And I grew to resent the
ignorance within the Church and sympathized
with those still trapped by false doctrines. I
knew God cannot be limited to any book and
realized the universe itself is a greater
revelation of God than a zillion Bibles. I
realized that we can have direct experiences
with God and not have to rely solely upon 2000
year-old experiences. I realized the serious
biblio-idolatry which goes on when a person
elevates a book to the status where people
believe it was actually written by God and was
infallible.
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Edgar Cayce's Revelation of the Afterlife: Near
Death Experiences includes
Edgar Cayce's Near Death-like Experience
Near Death Experience Foundation
The International Association for Near Death
Studies
Loss of Consciousness and Near-death Experiences
"History
and scientific research efforts are replete with
inquiry into the secrets of death, the dying
process, and what, if anything, happens to
consciousness following bodily death. Our
scientific understanding of the psychophysiologic
aspects of these processes, however, remains
relatively limited....The results of loss and
recovery of consciousness experiments in
completely healthy humans may provide insight into
the normal neurologic processes that occur in
association with NDEs and other related
phenomenon."
Into the Light
Near death experiences of children reported by Dr.
Melvin Morse
After the End of the World
A Christian
Science viewpoint of the Afterlife and Near Death
Experiences.
Spirit Web: Near Death Experiences and Its Meaning
to Spirituality
Near Death Experiences and the Afterlife
Near Death Experiences
including
"What's it like to die?"
What Happens When We Die
(from Swedenborg's
point of view)
Do Not Fear Death!
An amazing
excerpt from
Second Sight by Judith Orloff.
"I found myself standing in a sort of tunnel,
feeling safe and secure. It didn't occur to me to
question where I was or how I got there. Although
far in the distance I could hear the wind rushing
past the open windows of the car, I was now
suspended in this peaceful sanctuary while we fell
through space toward the canyon floor hundreds of
feet below."
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