The Mind-Bending Implications of NDE Research

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One of the biggest themes in the research of NDE’s (Near Death Experiences) is ‘The Life Review', where people not only ‘see’ but -feel- what others felt due to their actions or words throughout their lives, this not only occurs on a particular scene of their lives they were present in but often they can even see the consequences of such actions in the lives of others, this happens in the manner of being in a ‘movie theatre’ of sorts, a 3D clip, bubbles with images etc. where they re-live scenes from their lives, these are just a some ways in which people have described the phenomenon.

While many skeptics deem this as the ‘active imagination of a dying brain’, that would certainly be an unsurmountable feat of imagination, especially if such a large portion of the experiencers are having the same ‘hallucination’, begs the question, why would the experiencers are having the same ‘hallucination’?

More Questions Than Answers

Most people who go through these experiences speak of the big lessons they’ve learned through it and how everything we do affects others, it is often a very emotional story where it isn’t uncommon that the experiencers cant hold back tears, they speak about light, beings, ‘God’, or simply an overwhelming feeling of what they call ‘love’ while all of this is occurring, or at different points of the experience.

Letting aside the fact that this sounds more like science fiction or fantasy rather than contemporary medical research which is the status of the phenomenon as of the writing of this article, experiencers and researchers often undermine certain implications of the phenomenon, for starters, despite that the experiencers constantly make a clear statement of the phenomenon not being a -judgement- rather some sort of an assessment, a realization, is that perhaps there might be such a thing as ‘divine justice’ only not as commonly prescribed by our current dogmatic philosophies.

How many times have we wondered or wished for others to feel how they made us feel at some point in our lives? It seems to be an actual thing, but it goes both ways, perhaps it isn’t as fun as we thought it would be.

Another question, query, peculiarity that is woven into the phenomenon is that there seems to be a system, as mentioned before, this process is often in the presence of a guide, a ‘light’, beings, family members or ‘God’ him/her/it – self, the fact that this ‘review’ repeats in the majority of the experiences indicates that this is a process and like in any process there’s got to be a product and in turn this product must have some sort of purpose. So far, we know the process, this is what’s being researched now, but what’s the product? Us? And what’s the purpose, is this THE purpose of life?

Mind Bending Implications

While the purpose of this article is to bring concise information to the reader, it is not the current purpose to go on a full essay on the purpose of life, however there are more puzzling peculiarities that when brought forward, when looked at directly they make us blink and wonder, does this mean…?

If I’m seeing ‘my’ life played in front of me, reviewing moments of it and I can remember or re-live the feelings but I can also feel what others felt and not only that but see the consequences of what happened to them, who am I at that point? Am I ‘me’, or am I a spectator, how come I can feel the feelings of perhaps not only another person but multiple as often told by the experiencers?

The perspective of the experiencers at that moment is not inside their bodies as they often say they’ve left their bodies and can even see their bodies either laying or being worked on by doctors, they speak about ‘floating’ to the ceiling or moving through thought, sometimes they say they can know the thoughts of the doctors or nurses around them or people who react to their ‘deaths’, they re-live scenes from their lives and feel their feelings and the feelings of others and even sort of follow them and see/experience the consequences of their actions on others, it is as if instead of becoming some sort of a ‘ghost’ at the time of death they become a ‘field’, a conscious field which feels emotions, has thoughts, is non local and indeed, can time travel, a ‘Unified Field of Consciousness’ if one may.

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