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Man near death - departure of spirit from body. A dualistic term separated spirit looking down its former dwelling place with in different or contempt. After living body visionary finds himself hovering just overhead & watching the scene of crisis in a mood of detachment, other world journey signaled by motifs of visionary topography & travel paths valley, tunnels, Both medieval & modern journeys visionary confronts himself by means of various graphic representation. He meets his thoughts, words, deeds, review his life like reading book or seeing play or movie, motifs of paradise topography are much same in both periods, shining edifices, gardens, meadows heavenly cities when the dramatic action of the other world journey seems to be suspended & unmediated awareness floods in play resumes messages is formulated & visionary feels compelled against his desires to return to life upon revival the visionary is physical & spiritually changed. In both period other world journey narrative evolves through the visionary's conversation with others & narrative shapes whether sermons, allegory, chronicle, polemic tabloid testimonial, stalatical study.
Blackmore has developed computer model of images the brain receives from the retina at point of death. The macula is doubly innervated & may cause a persistence of light images as the brain dies an increase in cortical irritability could destabilize the uniform visual image that we perceive & result in the perception of concentric rings lines & tunnels.
Out of body experience result from the dying brain attempting to reconstruct a model of the universe from limited sensory input we are constantly constructing a model of reality from a wide variety of competing sensory input when that input ceases we rely on memories & frogments of perceptions to reconstruct memory model of reality seem perfectly real. ·
Any time brain is confronted with memory gaps & pieces of information don't seem to fit it will attempt to make its best effort at creating a memory & will believe it to be true we don't precisely remember dreams & memories but are constantly recreating them memory expert Elizabeth Loftus has convincingly shown that false memories are fairly easy to create this respective falsification model depends on fragments of perceptions of a chaotic disorganized brain which is psychologically &/or physiologically stressed coupled with a secondary reorganization into coherent story. .
NDEs are either disfunction or normal 'function of temporal lobe.
Coma involves cessation of cortical functioning & wipes clean state of consciousness (Plum & Posner 1978) Researcher describes NDEs are normal temporal. Jobe activity (Morse).
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