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Near Death Experience * Near death experience reported throughout history in all mystical & shamman tradition writers Plato, Pope Gregory great sufi masters, Tolstoy, Jung, speak of near death experience is powerful psychological experience of undermined origin typically occurring to individual close to death, or in situation of intense physical or emotional danger, precipitating events may be cardiacarrest, or unnoted momentary but quickly corrected hypotensive episode with no antecedent event. Thus life threatening situation is reliable trigger for near death experience includes feeling of peace, cosmic unity, joy-sense, living body entering darkness encountering, meeting spiritual being or deceased person, uncrossable boundary, life review, an altered sense of time, long lasting changes in attitude, belief and values etc..
Near death experiences are just subjective picture show of the brain are meaningless illusions, tranquilising, hallucinative, neurological activity. We are mechanistic animal whose consciousness is product of brain, and meaningless hallucination stimulate psychic in sight. .
A story told by English historian, "The monk Bede in Britain that monk died in night due to illness but at day break returned to his life & adopted very different way of life. He abandoned all worldly affairs & entered monestry. In this story he had near death experience & result into change in his attitude. .
When we are going to bed we remember what we did during day or write diary likewise at death bed we review our life, counting & calculating malicious or meritorious deeds in life & such thoughts & whatever is in subconscious minds are repeated in dream there are visions of dazzling other world scenery overwhelming love acceptance, rapid life reviews & anguished to painfully wounded bodies or our deeper hidden feeling emotions.
Near death experience loaded with images often influenced by one's local culture, e.g. Christians see Jesus Hindus view Vishnu, Americans see cities. Africans see elephants Carol Zaleski emphasizes other world visions. It reflects imaginative modes of thought.
Imagination is private picture show, a wholely subjective fantasy stimulated by brain chemicals, unrelated to objective thingness.
Freud, “N.D.E. are visions like dreams, imaginative portrayals of real unconscious, internal, personal psychological states?
Are NDE symbolic pictures of real worldwide collective archetypal themes as dreams visions & Myths” as vibrant color, sense of tunnes of light & pleasant music. What experience lies waiting behind curtain when we die? Does conciousness disappear? What is proof of appearance -
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