Truly no offense because, I'm just wondering. No bashing here, PLEASE.
You've heard of people having those near-death experiences where they leave their bodies, they see themselves, feel a force that pulls them back, they even see a light (dark or light and bright) and sometimes they hear an unknown voice. Now, if you don't believe in the after-life and that we don't have a soul. If you go under a near-death experience and you go through all that, would that change your mind about life after death? What would change your mind?
I'm just curious 'cause, I've have received very interesting responses from other people and I just want to know.
2007-08-24 19:42:28 · 9 answers · asked by gettingtoknow 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What happens if there are no drugs involved? When you "die" your brain is practically "dead". Thanks for your response.
Also, it's interesting because I have never heard of a person who hasn't gone through those experiences during a near-death experience. Even those who don't believe go through that and I saw on TV once about a young teenager who said he saw a dark space and felt he was being pulled by it and felt a really sad and guilty feeling.
2007-08-24 19:51:54 · update #1
Even people who don't believe have converted because they felt there really was something after death. It doesn't mean they believe there is a God, but they believe there is something after.
My mom also went through that experience and before she could enter the light she saw an image of me and my siblings (no one else) and told a voice that was speaking to her that she wanted to go back because she didn't want us to be left without a mom and she went back. It was a miracle she survived.
2007-08-24 19:54:51 · update #2
Sapere: I don't think your dad lied, either. Don't take any offense, but this is my opinion. I think he didn't feel anything because maybe he didn't go "further" and he was actually saved before he could advance.
2007-08-24 19:57:22 · update #3
In all honesty, never say never. But whatever it is will need to be damn good. I have been to see the elephant on considerably more than one occasion.
AEN
2007-08-24 19:49:55 · answer #1 · answered by Grendel's Father 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a Hindu I do not believe in any eternal afterlife. I do believe in rebirth as something or other, in case of failure to avoid fruits of action in this life.
I cannot swim and accidentally fell into a deep pool in a flooded river. I was drowning; but the past life did not flash before my eyes, nor the afterlife. All that the scientist in me was wondering was as to how I was able to smell the algae in the water through liquid water. I was pulled out before the actual end. While they had me prone on a rock head down and pumping out water, I was thinking that the small ficus plant growing from a crack in the rock would make a nice bonsai.
It is more than 25 years now since that event. The ficus is intact and grown into a fine bonsai. Intact is my disbelief.
2007-08-24 20:48:17 · answer #2 · answered by A.V.R. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I didn't have a near death experience , I had a 2 minutes of actual death experience and I dont remember anything at all. I also don't remember 4 days of my life that that actual death experience was part of.
2007-08-24 20:04:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it's the brain's reaction to a traumatic experience such as getting into an accident or going into a coma. If you beleive in god it's more likeley to seem like a holy experience. Extremley clear dreams are not evidence enough for an afterlife.
2007-08-24 19:50:58 · answer #4 · answered by Tanjo22 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My father had a near death experience. He felt and saw nothing. Afterwards he became non-religious. He never spoke about how he felt exactally, but he made it clear there was nothing waiting, it was like the flame was extinguished.
I have no reason to think he lied.
BTW, they can trigger NDE's in a lab, here in Sudbury, Ontario Canada. Look it up on youtube.. with Michael Schermer..(I think that's his name).
2007-08-24 19:53:10 · answer #5 · answered by Sapere Aude 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's hard to say whether my mind would be changed by an NDE.
I guess the main reason for that would be the fact that you can essentially recreate experiences similar to NDE's by using any sort of hallucinagenic drug.
It's hard to prove that it was anything more than the mind just making it all up in your head.
2007-08-24 19:47:31 · answer #6 · answered by Redac 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
out of body experience can be provooked by stimulating a part of the brain.
google for :
Olaf Blanke van het Geneva University Hospital
http://lnco.epfl.ch/
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2007-08-24 19:54:24 · answer #7 · answered by gjmb1960 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've heard stories of near-death experiences from people whose judgment I trust (my mother being one of them), so I tend to think there is life after death.
2007-08-24 19:51:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
oxygen-deprived brains tend to manufacture hallucinations. It's a medical curiousity, nothing supernatural about it.
2007-08-24 19:48:29 · answer #9 · answered by Dreamstuff Entity 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋