So recently, I lost my dog. He was my best friend. To some people that may sound crazy and to others perfectly normal. When I'm feeling down about something, I start reading. Somehow I came across the subject of near-death experiences.
Now, I have always been a skeptic. I believed in spirituality rather than a religion. I know, as a human being, I have a limited capacity for what I am capable of understanding. The more I read, the more fascinated i started to become. There were three specific cases that had a greater impact on me (there are thousands of documented cases).
The first case was of a woman who had a tumor, deep inside her brain. It was almost by her neck. Even though it was so deep in her head, they access it through the top of the skull. Her body was cooled to a certain temperature. Her blood was drained from her body. All brain activity was gone. For 90 minutes (if memory serves) she was absolutely clinically dead under the tightest monitoring by doctors and surgeons. Despite that, she was able to give details about the room, the surgery and certain things that went on. She also passed to another existence. http://youtu.be/mHmo4bREd7M check it out, it's pretty amazing. This woman should not be alive but she is and she is healthy.
Case number 2 was an actual harvard educated neurosurgeon. His beliefs were all naturally based on science. He developed a rare form of menengitis. This is basically a bacteria that was eating his brain causing it to shut down. His frontal cortex was "deactivated". I can not do the story justice so please check it out.. http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/20...rlife.html
The 3rd case was of a young boy. It's a book. This is the link for the review http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/20...-for-real/ the guy who wrote this review is naturally very skeptical. This kid came back knowing things that he should have no idea about. Some pretty crazy stuff.
There's also another one that is particularly amazing but I am looking for the link so ill save it for later.
The thing is, out of the hundreds of these things that I read...they are all similar yet they are all different. I believe that we cannot comprehend the greater existence that is beyond our own. How could we? It is like the fish in a fishbowl on your kitchen table. His entire existence is your kitchen. How can he comprehend anything else? There is a greater existence that we can not understand and knowing this opens our minds that much more. To know that we can not fully understand is to let our minds and consciousness expand and learn. I think that we take ourselves too seriously here. The things we worry about are meaningless. It is all much more simple than we make it.
Thoughts?
Now, I have always been a skeptic. I believed in spirituality rather than a religion. I know, as a human being, I have a limited capacity for what I am capable of understanding. The more I read, the more fascinated i started to become. There were three specific cases that had a greater impact on me (there are thousands of documented cases).
The first case was of a woman who had a tumor, deep inside her brain. It was almost by her neck. Even though it was so deep in her head, they access it through the top of the skull. Her body was cooled to a certain temperature. Her blood was drained from her body. All brain activity was gone. For 90 minutes (if memory serves) she was absolutely clinically dead under the tightest monitoring by doctors and surgeons. Despite that, she was able to give details about the room, the surgery and certain things that went on. She also passed to another existence. http://youtu.be/mHmo4bREd7M check it out, it's pretty amazing. This woman should not be alive but she is and she is healthy.
Case number 2 was an actual harvard educated neurosurgeon. His beliefs were all naturally based on science. He developed a rare form of menengitis. This is basically a bacteria that was eating his brain causing it to shut down. His frontal cortex was "deactivated". I can not do the story justice so please check it out.. http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/20...rlife.html
The 3rd case was of a young boy. It's a book. This is the link for the review http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/20...-for-real/ the guy who wrote this review is naturally very skeptical. This kid came back knowing things that he should have no idea about. Some pretty crazy stuff.
There's also another one that is particularly amazing but I am looking for the link so ill save it for later.
The thing is, out of the hundreds of these things that I read...they are all similar yet they are all different. I believe that we cannot comprehend the greater existence that is beyond our own. How could we? It is like the fish in a fishbowl on your kitchen table. His entire existence is your kitchen. How can he comprehend anything else? There is a greater existence that we can not understand and knowing this opens our minds that much more. To know that we can not fully understand is to let our minds and consciousness expand and learn. I think that we take ourselves too seriously here. The things we worry about are meaningless. It is all much more simple than we make it.
Thoughts?
