Did you ever have an NDE ? did it change your views about God/religions?

Question

NDE= Near Death Experience

Answer 1

I was completely dead once to what I had perceived myself to be, I died standing up one very hot day, although I never fell to the ground, the ground and everything else fell away from me. I was in the void as it is called in Buddhist term or one mind, no mind, Buddha mind, but it is the same for all who know just different words are used to try and describe this indescribable place or is it no place? Looking at ones face before ones parents are born is a very profound experience. Unborn and undying the words that all the Mystic's and true Holy men/women are pointing to are seen with the same eye they see with, I could go on but words do not do this no place Justice it must be experienced for oneself as you know. : )

Answer 2

I have never had one personally but I know people who have had some and usually it does profoundly affect them, most of the time it reinforces their belief in a deity that was held before the experience or leads them to one, or even leads them away from one. There have been many explanations for an NDE. I am not entirely sold on the argument "for" and "against" it. Random Firing of Neurons would create random images, DMT influx explains only a minority of NDE's as does temporal lobe stimulation.

Answer 3

I was once "saved". It was a very emotional and transforming experience. I learned to focus and improve my life.

However, as a young man, it was too tempting to see a few old friends and smoke a little pot. One day I smoked too much and felt like I was going to hell. I'm sure this was related to my guilt after having been "saved".

This was an intense horrible feeling. I felt like my body was putrifying, decaying green flesh sinking into a place of eternal hopelessness. It felt completely REAL. Maybe I was poisoned with something and nearly died.. I dunno...

It went away of course, but it made me think about how others feel fear of hell. I could never fully accept the christian gospel, and I finally let it go. I grew into a philosophy that sits well with me now.

But now I am sensitive to religious people, because they may have had a VERY strong feeling to cause them to believe the way they do.

Answer 4

The one time I was distinctly near death, I didn't think about religion at all--I was thinking more about avoiding a head-on collision with the other car. The last time I was in serious pain, I was thinking more about getting a painkiller than in religion.

One time, though, when I was in pain following a hernia operation, I did think about God/religion--and I realized just how utterly worthless religion was compared to a single codeine tablet...

Answer 5

My NDE is not typical but it includes a lot of knowledge that was uploaded to me during my NDE. Most NDErs don't try to explain what they were uploaded with. http://nhneneardeath.ning.com/profiles/blogs/meet-me-on-the-other-side

Answer 6

In 1998 I was involved in a car accident. I was taken to hospital in a collar and i know for a fact that it was a miracle that Lived. Everyone was completely galvanised that having been hit by a car so strongly, I was still breathing.

Answer 7

Yes, and no not at all. Because I understood that seeing my mother holding my hand was just random firing of the brain during an extremely stressful situation where I was thinking "I want my mommy".

Answer 8

Yes, I realized how much God loves me and accepts me. At the time, I thought I was such a horrible person, but in my heart I loved Jesus so much. God looks on the heart.

Answer 9

not yet, but I think if it happens i won't change an entire life of the certainty that god doesn't exist.

Answer 10

yes and yes it made me more aware of myself multidimentionally and how important it is to find the self not religion.