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NDE. Death is not end we don't like to die hence belief of immortality of soul to satisfy our desire not to die.
Sporadic reports have described a distressing events characterized by feeling of fear or despair nightmarish or hellish. Selom (1982) noted NDEer reported transitory feelings of fright or bewilderment which were replaced by tranquility as experience unfolded Grosso (1981) noted Christian & Hindu iconography were replete with examples of postmortem horrors including dangerous encounters with evil forces even the being of light is described in Tibetan book of Dead as terrifying. Zaleski (1987) has documented an abundance of a journeys to hell or purgatony. Rarity of such experience is due to reluctance of individuals to report or reluctance of olinician & researches to hear them person merits determined type of experience i.e. heavenly & hellish comes to those who have earned them. People who have distressing experience may rest talking about them to avoid reliving a personal horror, or from a sense that others must be spared a knowledge too dreadful to bear. It may seem impossible to be open about dark and distressing experience they take many sessions to open up than patients with peace. Fear enxiety & sense of vulnerability may follow a distressing experience. Rawling (1978) noted variety of distressing experience in contrast to peaceful nature. He finds distressing NDE are less consisteat in contents than peaceful nature & are quickly forgotten or repressed. Rogo concludes that hellish experience might be hallucination produced by the witnesses minds as a reaction to the violent physical ordeals such as chest pounding & electrical stimulation techniques. Negative NDE contains extreme fear panic demonic creative that threatens or taunt the subject sense of hell or torment. Their respondents described such as featureless forbidding faces, being who were present but not comforting, feelings of discomfort, emotional unrest & confusion a sense of being tricked into ultimate destruction & fear about finality of death.
Lindley suggested distress may reside in the transition between a peaceful experience & normal consciousness.
Grey defined NDE as feeling of extreme fear or panic emotional or mental anguish, desperation, intense loneliness & desolation, dark & gloomy environment or barren & hostile, unpleasant event like definite source of some evil force. such as threatening demonic creatures, intensely hot or cold, sounds of torment.
Grey reported distress experience follows sequence of 1) fear panic 2) cut of body experience. 3) entering in black sensing evil force 4) entering hellish environment.
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