If you are honest with yourself, you have undoubtedly pondered the one great epistemological question that eludes even the brightest minds amongst us: What happens after I die? Does my spirit leave my body as many religions teach us, or, do I simply find my personality extinguished when the flame of vitality escapes the body.
Are we merely flesh and bones, or are we spiritual beings housed within the confines of the human "house" of our biological bodies.
Is there a ghost in the machine that is me...
or is the totality of my experience simply an illusion created by my brain, a sophisticated piece of internal machinery that creates a reality that there is a "me" inside of me? An endless loop of unanswerable questions, right? Maybe so...
but science is coming a LONG way in making some highly unreported advancements in the wonderful world of mind science, and beyond, and what may await us all at the end of our lives may surprise you.
Right now as I write this in 2008, there are a series of studies taking place in hospitals and trauma wards around the world, studying the near death experience phenomena being reported by many patients resuscitated from deaths door.
Ever since Raymond Moody wrote his seminal, modern work on this obscure phenomena in the 1970's, a small but growing and dedicated group of physicians, scientists and philosophers have been studying the effects of the NDE both immediately after the experience itself, as well as following up with people many years later as well.
Not only do these people (and studies report that roughly 20% of those who enter this state of "clinical death" report an NDE) describe a brilliant experience of leaving their body, seeing themselves at a distance, being greeted by deceased relatives, etc - they also claim that rather than a dream like phenomena, it was actually the most "alive and real" they have ever felt.
Even more telling is the transformational quality that these NDE's have had on the LIVES of the survivors.
Close to 90% of these people claim that their lives have been forever changed, priorities dramatically re-arranged, and the PROOF of this transformation lies in how, when surveyed many years later, these people remain committed to their experience and paradigm shift.
As many world class psychiatrists and mental health professionals will tell you, there is almost NOTHING in the medical textbooks to describe such instantaneous personality shifts of this magnitude, as many people undergo years of therapy without any noticeable change in view! And of course there is far more...
and you have to make your own mind up.
But how would your life TRULY change today, if you believed there was REALLY more coming.
And just when you thought things were coming to an end, they were only, just beginning again?
Are we merely flesh and bones, or are we spiritual beings housed within the confines of the human "house" of our biological bodies.
Is there a ghost in the machine that is me...
or is the totality of my experience simply an illusion created by my brain, a sophisticated piece of internal machinery that creates a reality that there is a "me" inside of me? An endless loop of unanswerable questions, right? Maybe so...
but science is coming a LONG way in making some highly unreported advancements in the wonderful world of mind science, and beyond, and what may await us all at the end of our lives may surprise you.
Right now as I write this in 2008, there are a series of studies taking place in hospitals and trauma wards around the world, studying the near death experience phenomena being reported by many patients resuscitated from deaths door.
Ever since Raymond Moody wrote his seminal, modern work on this obscure phenomena in the 1970's, a small but growing and dedicated group of physicians, scientists and philosophers have been studying the effects of the NDE both immediately after the experience itself, as well as following up with people many years later as well.
Not only do these people (and studies report that roughly 20% of those who enter this state of "clinical death" report an NDE) describe a brilliant experience of leaving their body, seeing themselves at a distance, being greeted by deceased relatives, etc - they also claim that rather than a dream like phenomena, it was actually the most "alive and real" they have ever felt.
Even more telling is the transformational quality that these NDE's have had on the LIVES of the survivors.
Close to 90% of these people claim that their lives have been forever changed, priorities dramatically re-arranged, and the PROOF of this transformation lies in how, when surveyed many years later, these people remain committed to their experience and paradigm shift.
As many world class psychiatrists and mental health professionals will tell you, there is almost NOTHING in the medical textbooks to describe such instantaneous personality shifts of this magnitude, as many people undergo years of therapy without any noticeable change in view! And of course there is far more...
and you have to make your own mind up.
But how would your life TRULY change today, if you believed there was REALLY more coming.
And just when you thought things were coming to an end, they were only, just beginning again?
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