You hear of people experiencing Near Death Experiences and seeing family & friends and a light at the end of a tunnel thinking its the gateway to Heaven. Have you ever heard of people who experienced just the opposite, heading towards flames, sensing it was Hell and fighting to avoid it & returning to present day life because they didn't belong there? You never hear about that, but its true from what I've heard by people who experienced it. They experienced horror. Why do some people experience "the light" while others, "the horror" of it all? Why do people fight and/or want to come back to life instead of wanting to stay at either place?
2007-01-22 09:39:48 · 7 answers · asked by ZORRO 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I remember watching a documentary at the movie theater about 30 years ago that stated that people who tried to commit suicide and returned from near a near death experience described pretty much that.
2007-01-22 09:46:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have heard both sides of the story
but the thing is
those who experience positive things during an NDE tend to tick off all the same boxes , because before something can be technically classed as an NDE there is i believe 10 common aspects of it ... proving the NDE to be more than simply lack of oxygen to the brain
the negative experiences dont hold as much proof as those who experience it do not experience the same as others who have had a more negative experience
2007-01-22 17:46:24 · answer #2 · answered by Peace 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard that once on a t.v. show about NDE's. Said it was like goin into a sewer...all dark and dreary...Don't remember the rest. Was a long time ago....Oh yeah, They also said a little about ugly, horrible creatures all over. Kinda like gargoyles.
2007-01-22 17:45:06 · answer #3 · answered by Deb 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have heard both sides, I am not at all sure any of it is true, If it is they have no say, many claim they were in heaven and were told it is not your time yet.
2007-01-22 17:46:15 · answer #4 · answered by gwhiz1052 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had an NDE and have had multiple OBE's.
How I came to experience and NDE is quite personal... but I opened my eyes and found myself in a dimly lit cave. I looked over and saw a huge wolf, easily my size, that I instantly recognized as Fenrir Wolf from Norse mythology. I reached up to place my hand on his shoulder and he wrapped his forepaw around my arm to place his paw on my shoulder in return. Nothing was said, but I knew that it was a gesture of recognition and that I was welcome back any time.
The first time I returned as an OBE, I was undergoing some pretty intense but willing pain, and I found myself cognitively pushed out of my own head and for a moment 'looked down' on myself as I experienced the physical experience, then found myself back in the same cave. Fenrir was waiting for me and he showed me a deep wound in my heart that I'd known about and for a brief moment, he shared his heart with me as a promise that I would one day feel whole, and for that brief moment he shared himself in his aspect of the lone omega, lost and alone with no alpha, no pack, no family, no one to howl back in recognition.
When I returned from that experience, I found I could barely move, I couldn't speak, I had to fight to get myself to my feet and I struggled around into this secluded spot behind a tree and let loose a howl that will haunt me to my grave, to know that a human could actually feel that much PAIN -- it was the sound of utter agony, the sound of a heart being shattered by its wounds. I collapsed, sobbing, and did not stop sobbing for three hours. Christians sorely misjudge the usefulness of Hell to scare me -- Hell pales by comparison to the agony I felt, no words could describe it.
Another time I went over, we were simply talking and I noticed he had lifted his eyes to meet mine. Being that I am an omega-heart, I went to lower my gaze in deference to the Alpha, but he lifted my chin and looked back into my eyes and said, "No. I am your truth. Do not look away."
Despite these experiences, and the overwhelming intensity of them -- I am still a convinced atheist, because I know the neurological bases for these sorts of experiences, and why Fenris is how these experiences manifest, because the symbol of the wolf is the overwhelming symbol of my life and in my life.
Knowing how these experiences arise does nothing to detract from the inherant truth, the personal revelation, the sudden awareness of connection to something greater than Self.
2007-01-22 17:45:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
NDE's are a buncha hooey. people dont really see heaven before they physically die, only to return to life to tell people about it.
2007-01-22 17:42:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Me, I died, went to hell and it is full of disappointed Christians.
2007-01-22 17:43:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋