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Pleasant or heavenly experience leads to reassurance of self validation. Heavenly scenario of loving family reunions with those who have died previously, reassuring religious features or light
being.
Transcendented experience are expansive revelation alternate realities exposure to other worldly dimensions & scenes beyond individuals frame of reference sometimes, includes revelations of greater truths.
All 4 types can occur during same NDE can exist in varying combinations or can spread out across series of episodes may seem as positive or negative.
The value & meaning of an NDE depend on each individual involved & his response to what happened. Psychological after effects 1. Unconditional love – perceive themselves as equally loving, openly
generous. 2. Lack of boundries familiar codes of conduct can lose relevance
or disappear unlimited avenues of interest & inquiry take priority. Timelessness experience begin to flow with natural shift & time rejecting clocks & schedules as they exhibit heightened awareness of present moment & importance of now. Psychic insights extra sensory perception like in Jainism there are five types of knowledge 1) Mati gyana 2) Shrutgyan 3) Avadhi gyana 4) Manaparyaya & 5) Keval gyan. Out of which later three knowledges are extra sensory knowledge. While mati & shruti gyan are knowledge acquired through senses.
Various type of psychic phenomenon become normal & ordinary person's religious belief which don't prevent expansion of faculties or enlargement of perceptual range this can frightened the unprepared & misconstrued as devil's.
Reports can be fabrication, friction or attempt to receive attention or recipient reports can be amassed. A direct experience can't be gathered. A person keenly interested in NDEs may never have had such experience is forced to rely on reports from other people. NDE are also reported by people whose life were not in danger. Production of NDE requires central nervous system that is still in working order means reports are not made on round trip journey to the realm of death.
Permanent cessation of life is followed by a blissful spiritual state but NDE provide no such evidence Russell Noyes concludes that most reports shows both a state of hyper alertness & state of depersonalization on psychological level depersonalization may be interpreted as defense
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