May sound stupid........Near Death Experience?

Question

I had one, two years ago....long story, but i have been on here, asking about the afterlife, as a friend passed last week, and i am trying to console another friend, as i am convinced they are in the Spirit World now, as i have *seen* it for myself.
I was given a link to a website, all about Near Death Experience, and i am gobsmacked! at the things i read. Not only, have i changed as a person, i have become very! compassionate, to the needs of others, i always was, but i am more so now. I took in a homeless pregnant girl, for a short period, as she needed help, even though, it was very inconvenient, as i have a large family, but i had to help her, i wanted to. I have also acquired an aversion to meat????? i LOVED meat, before my accident, and experience, but for some unknown reason, i cannot! stomach it. I live on fish. The site said, in most cases, NDE r`s develop an aversion to meat! I am totally gobsmacked now, could this just be a coincidence?

Answer 1

The religious community doesn't take readily to NDEs. It doesn't really confirm the Bible taken at face value. Christ was supposed to be the ONly one to have the death experience and come back to tell. There goes that statement by Paul's, that "All men are appointed to die once," load of...

There has been more of an open mind with religions, and in them, there is a noticeable shift.. Scriptures are being written as we speak because of these and other experiences that people are getting by the droves.

Forget the "adding to and taking away from" thing. That referred to an NDE of John's, called "The Revelations of John." The Book Full of Books was not put together until after John The Revealer Died.

The Religious and secular world will get along better when they start having these experiences. There is a commonality. A-theists are experiencing these, as well as people that are close to the dying person, so that cuts out the "brain starving" theories. These blow away preconceived notions more than anything.

Christ was desperately trying to prove that people exist after death, by resurrecting afterwards. Finally people are catching on.

My dad an NDE in a near drowning in his youth. (He was Amish at that time.) Before he died as an old man, he expressed some doubt about life after death, and I reminded him of his NDE and he agreed with me that it had to be real, because he saw and heard these most beautiful strains of music for himself!

My Brother in law saw in a dream that his dying daughter which at the time, was laying beside him on the couch, was being reached for by "Christ." When he woke up, she was gone.

Answer 2

Although I have never had a NDE, I have heard so many stories from those who have, that I can only come to the conclusion that there is something tangible and real being experienced by them. Scientists try desperately to duplicate the NDE and have failed fairly miserably. Nor can I accept the suggestion of "mass hallucination"; too many differences in each experience. It is definitely not stupid, nor do I believe that so many stories could simply be coincidence. Be that as it may, the one thing that I have garnered from all of these stories is that the one who has experienced it has always returned with a changed outlook on living, and has been a better person for it. I really appreciate your sharing this with us.

Answer 3

"Remember your Creator before the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the well. Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it." Ecc.12:6,7.

For "There is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going." Ecc.9:10.

For those who take the word of God as the final word on this subject, they know that "The dead know not anything." Ecc.9:6,10 until the resurrection. 1 Thess.4:14-18.

Paul said that "to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord." Since there is no consciousness in death, at the time of the resurrection, it will be as though there had been no time at all between the moment of death and consciousness again! This is what the apostle Paul meant when he said, "to be absent from the body is to present with the Lord," for as it is written, "The dead do not praise the Lord, nor any who go down into silence." Psalm 115:17. "For the grave cannot thank You. Death cannot praise You. Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your truth.. The living, the living man, he shall praise You, as I do this day." Isaiah 38:18,19.

Answer 4

Actually your aversion to meat is not so odd. Many people in the past believed that meat should be avoided to reach a higher level of enlightenment because when you eat meat you are taking in the pain the animal felt during its slaughter. Also, a NDE usually puts a new perspective on life - the big picture not the selfish little part that we usually deal with.

Answer 5

Never heard of the 'aversion to meat' thing. I got asked several years ago to contribute to a book on "near death experiences" after losing a great deal of blood in an accident and having died on the table multiple times before they stabilized me and were able to keep my heart beating.

Unfortunately for the writer there was nothing to tell. He did try very hard to concoct a story for me but there truly was nothing. He contacted me numerous times asking things like "didn't you see a light of any kind" & "didn't you hear voices"

However, I did meet a woman at the time who was also 'courted' by the same writer who happily gave in and fabricated a story for him. Her feeling was it was an easy $100 for a harmless faerietale.

Answer 6

I have never forgotten my experience with ND. I was young and I had been raised in a Christian home, so I had an understanding of the "heaven, hell concept". However, my experience did not have any hellish aspect to it what-so-ever. It felt very peaceful and calm and welcoming. I had no desire to return to this body....but I was aware of the medical team that was insisting that I return to this world. I did some research on the subject, many years after the experience.....and I couldn't possibly state for certain, if it is a spiritual thing or a bio-physical thing. I dunno!

Answer 7

There seems to be some similarities in NDE, but I would not base too much on it until it has been rigorously investigated. I haven't read or seen anything on cross cultural comparisons of NDE in different cultures.

Answer 8

Did you know that many of the experiences in "nde's" are also experienced during an epileptic seizure? The "bright light" comes to mind.

Answer 9

NDE's have given truth and insight to many, your included it so appears.

I would like DETAILS. Please?

Your issues in regards to meat are interesting as I have heard this from a separate source also. I'm told by this source that "Red Meat" being gone from her diet, has increased her spiritual awarness.

I'm stumped.

Check my sources and e mail me.= if you would.

Answer 10

No one dies .... death is an illusion of the mind....... in near death experiences.... ones mind ...attention comes to the present moment..... and the mind doesnt exist in present..... mind is always thinking of the future or the past....... ... though maybe only for a few seconds or minutes... one experiences "no mind" .... it is only in this state ... do you see the truth...or God........Jesus.... buddha, muhammed were in the state of "no mind" every moment...... this state of transcending the mind... can be achieved by meditation ...