OK so i saw that video someone posted about some dude who was dying and "went to hell" and back. Then woke up in a hospital. Now what i'm wondering is I knew some people who have had near death experiences and they say they were just surounded by blackness like when they pass out; no hell no heaven. Then the whole tunnel of light stuff.
How do we explain that some unbelievers see hell, some see blackness and some see a tunnel of light?
2007-03-30 17:35:09 · 18 answers · asked by Banana tree 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Good points.
2007-03-30 17:43:27 · update #1
I don't know. I've been to Hell, but I wasn't having an NDE at the time. I was awake and conscious. Hell is actually located in the Caymen Islands. You don't have to be dead to go there, but it must be a horrible place to spend an eternity. There is a post office, a convenience store, a whole lot of black calcified limestone (not brimstone), and not much else. I wouldn't recommend going unless you're already going to be in the area.
2007-03-30 17:43:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Been there myself as I have been ill awhile. You just explain the truth in near death experiences and "death" experiences. I have had "both." The pitch black experience is one where we are not dead but unconscious/coma. "Time" becomes irrelevant while in this state. There are "two" tunnels. The one of "hell" (darkness) and the one of "heaven." (light) You "get" one of the other depending on where you "stand." According to my "ways" at the time, I have seen "both." Of darkness, a demon came out to "drag" me into it, but "couldn't." Ever seen the movie "Ghost," similar to that. Of light, I was given a "tour" in the spirit. This world was on one side while looking through a veil like a plastic sheet from the "other" side while "God" spoke. You can believe, or not but as a person who is dying I fear no death for I am well aware of the truth and what "happens" when we die. Ever see Hellraiser? Hell is much as this movie except the demons don't exist in the flesh to torture you. Heaven is a place of eternal Peace like I have never felt in this life. After being one of the meanest persons alive at one time (ex marine special op's; during vietnam plus father was in OC), it's the reasons I gave up those ways....
2007-03-30 17:58:13 · answer #2 · answered by Theban 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We just don't know. People might "explain" it to you but we just don't know. I've heard that medicine claims some mechanism in our brains causes the experiences of the light and all that in near death experiences, but I'm sure every experience must have a corresponding "mechanism" so that's also inconclusive. I'd say it's mostly true that we don't understand where we are, right this very minute. Perhaps we should start with that.
2007-03-30 17:44:26 · answer #3 · answered by Nowpower 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I would suggest that you read "Beyond Death's Door", by Dr. Maurice Rawlings http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Deaths-Door-Maurice-Rawlings/dp/0553229702 .
In this book Dr. Rawlings, writes of his experiences as a heart surgeon and doctor for many famous people. He was an Atheist and after hearing these experiences of dieing people's death accounts of Hell and Heaven, he changed his mind.
In his writings, he tells of people who flew above their bodies and actually saw the doctors trying to save them. He became very interested and records each person's experience.
2007-03-30 17:48:36 · answer #4 · answered by 4HIM- Christians love 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm an atheist and I've had a near death experience and many out-of-body experiences.
In all of them, I see Fenrirulfr (Fenris Wolf) of Norse mythology.
No tunnels of light, no hell, no heaven, nadda. A cave and a wolf.
And deeply personal revelations.
2007-03-30 17:38:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
To Hell and back was a movie about a WW2 soldier. Now that was hell
2007-03-30 17:39:31 · answer #6 · answered by xjoizey 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Near death experiences are reproducable under controlled circumstances, where there is no possibility of death . Just ask a test pilot. It turns out it's just your brain freaking out. Nothing more.
2007-03-30 17:43:21 · answer #7 · answered by eri 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
the remnants of dying brain cells deprived from oxygen .
and remember they never really died but were out for a while if they really died they would not have come back so it was really just a premature announcment of a death that did not yet happen in reality much like a coma. medical science has accounted for this phenomenon.
2007-03-30 17:41:55 · answer #8 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
I’ve seen that video too. They always have that same guy talking abut how he went to hell. Most people claim to be going to heaven.
Still, if you say you went to hell and came back, that’s blatant contradiction of the bible. The bible says no one returns from hell.
I won't try to explain it though.
2007-03-30 17:41:09 · answer #9 · answered by A 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I think people see what they think they will see or what a higher power wants them to see in the event that he or she needs a kick in the pants, so to speak.
2007-03-30 17:39:46 · answer #10 · answered by Susan M 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋