________________
- the separation from mother at birth, relation of dark tunnel as mother's birth canal & bright light as mother's radiant face or the world outside canal. But Susan Blackmore showed that even people born by caesarian section & naturally have the tunnel experience so it is wrong to say it is birth traumic. Susan Blackwell emphasize NDE is based on mental models, mind creates various mental models of reality based on their experiences. A.J. Ayer – “My death will be end of me there is no God NDE does not have transforming effect.” Positivist assumes that anything not verifiable by the senses is nonsense since. N.D.E. marks end of senses. Like Ayer rejects anything beyond sense data observation such as immortal soul or God. Ayer's philosophy is explicitly rooted in John Locke's formula "Nothing is in mind that was not 1st in senses.” Mind gets information through senses. One's way, of knowing is methodology epistemology or hermeneutics how one seek to interpret. If way of knowing is senses it is empirical what is observed. During N.D.E. through sensory means or hidden memories of sensory experiences if truth test fails, N.D.E. is nothing but fantasy, hallucination or nonsense. NDEs are for Kal Jensen is brain neurology; Blackmore feeling of bliss, chemicals acting is specific parts of brain. Morse - temporal lobe mediating to N.D.E. but cant be reduce to brain activity – dilectic. Ronald Siegel approach N.D.E. through an empirical methodology. N.D.E. cant be communicated like sensory perception & shared by several observers, cant be subjected to objective, consensual validation as events in the external world, then they must be subjective events like hallucination.
Veridical out of body experience
· N.D.E. Survivors reports rising out of their bodies & passing through hospital wall to hear what others are saying in other rooms during their death. A Russian Scientist Dr. George Rodonaia died & observed an infant crying in a nearby room. No one could figure out why baby was crying but he could see in the out of body experience the child had a broken bone when he returned to his body & woke up he told the doctors to look for broken bone & x-ray revealed exactly the fracture where he located. Study of blind people from birth who report visual information after their N.D.E.s raises question of limit of empiricism. An alternative to empiricism is philosophical premise that mind contains inherent a priori ideas or psychic patterns that organize experience Kant proposed such a priori noumena behind all phenomena. One can't know noumena behind all phenomena. One can't know the noumena or unconscious directly but only as it manifests through phenomena such as tunnel or light.
46 :
Jain Education International
For Personal & Private Use Only
www.jainelibrary.org
