Near Death Experiences are nice to read, but?

Question

Has anyone else noticed this about them

Contradicting versions of Jesus Christ's Life (hanged by neck, Crucified)
Inaccurate Future Predictions
Varying Accounts of God (We become one, We don't become One, etc.)
Seeing people that are still alive
Completely different versions (Tunnel, No Tunnel, Hell, No Hell, Reincarnation, No Reincanation, etc.)

Is anyone else bothered by these things or am I just not seeing the whole picture?

Man Reports Jesus was hanged.

near bottom of the third paragraph

http://www.nderf.org/wayne_h's_nde.htm

Answer 1

The inconsistency of NDEs, along with the natural physiological explanation is enough to make me think NDEs are just brain-induced hallucinations.

Death is a physiological condition, not a spiritual one.

Answer 2

Human beings are notoriously bad reporters. Ask 5 people at an accident scene what happened and you get 5 different accounts. I've never heard that account for instance, about Jesus being hung by the neck. Accurate predictions are a matter of interpretation. And of course, NOBODY experiences anything the same way as anyone else.

And while the basic experience can be replicated through drugs and oxygen starvation, those only 'turn on the radio'. They don't bring out real communication with the next level.

Answer 3

What about those of us who did die and were brought back to life. It is real.
You are putting wrong information up here. Jesus did not hang by his neck. His wrists were nailed to a cross.
I think another problem of yours is that you are mixing metaphors and facts up, thinking they are the same. Ex. Jesus calls the husband and wife "one". In another place it says God and Jesus are one; although there are over 500 places that state God is God, Jesus is Jesus Gods son. It dose not mean that when a couple gets married they become a single person, just that they are together from then on yet can walk to opposite sides of the room. Jesus is the one who obeyed God the best, so they are closest.
Are you using the King James Bible? For King James was a very Catholic king that ordered his people not to have bibles. But they kept being smuggled in. So he ordered his own made with 400 words changed (times each used) to wrong words. There are 800-900 more words that meanings have totally changed over the past 400 years too. In 1945 a cave was found with the Bible and other books in it too from 200 A.D.. And they found that by the Bibles being written by hand through the past 1,400 years that a lot of words had been written wrong. So you would be best to use a modern translated Bible where wrong words have been removed and/or fixed.

Answer 4

There are many more people that have near death experiences that see absolutely nothing.

But those don't make for interesting reading, and never get told and retold.

What you do end up reading, are cultural reflections and expectations of the person who is experiencing it. Our brains emit wonderful chemicals and send off signals to try to make the painful experience of death a little more pleasant and less traumatizing. (Not sure I understand the "why" of it, but it doesn't really matter to me, either way, just glad the brains does it!)

So I don't read much into the stories that I've read about them, other than they are wonderful entertainment, and fascination that our minds are capable of such imaginations.

Answer 5

I don't know if you are seeing the whole picture. If you are reading about something that you are skeptical about, there will always be stories you are more apt to believe than others...and certain people will come off as crazier than others. You will have to separate out the attention seekers from those who actually had an experience that they cannot explain. I don't think that you can say that all of them are invalid because they do not all have a 'script' they follow or they don't match what other people have said. Until you experience this type of thing yourself you will not know, in my opinion.

Answer 6

As somebody that helps the validity of a great many paranormal activities I heavily doubt the caims of close to-loss of life journey. in some years of looking into the magical I even have purely uncovered an extremely few of of those reviews that weren't friendly, even between people who via wouldn't have such issues (unrepentant murders, rapists, pedophiles who're no longer purely unrepentatn yet are happy they did what they did and willingly acmit their desire to do it lower back). the only that have stated unsightly reviews have been purely misinterpreting yet another journey as those that I even have got here across have been greater resembling the comments of shamanic initiatory reviews that the rest...I totally settle for that there is a physiological phenomen in charge for the comments of close to-loss of life reviews...in spite of the indisputable fact that such issues could have a profound non secular effect on the guy experienceing it.

Answer 7

Exactly, my friend. What NDEs are, is "getting what one would expect."

For some reason, Catholics run into the Virgin Mary, Buddhists go to some underworld place, and Jews have reported meeting the Messiah - but it wasnt Jesus. This is because each near death experience mirrors what the experiencer already beleives...

I encourage you to take a look at www.near-death.com

Answer 8

I eschew near death experiences along with the Pentecostal understanding of speaking in tongues.

The "hell" these people describe sometimes seems like it is coming straight out of Dante's Inferno.

Answer 9

No, your seeing the picture quite clearly. Many others choose not to. Keep your skepticisms for both your intellectual and moral health, don't worship barbaric Gods that represent the worst of cultures far inferior to our own.

NDEs can be fully explains physiologically and reproduced with certain chemical compounds.

Answer 10

Not bothered by them. I've known for a very long time that NDEs are nothing more than our oxygen starved brains hallucinating. There is nothing mystical or other worldly about them.