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3) Premonition some parents reported spiritual vision similar to NDE including spiritual voices telling parents that child was to die, out of body visions, including angels who predicted the child's death.
Post death visitations described as grief induced hallucinations similar to NDE & predeath vision typically described in the context of a dream or waking vision involving vividly real hallucinations of dead relative patient or friend include spiritual intuitions & visions of a mystical light.
The anthropologist D. Lewis interviewed London nurses found reported experiences with dead patients ranging from vague feeling to visual & auditory hallucinations (1987).
Departed spouses in waking state Haroldson reported visual encounters with dead.
Dying can be depersonalized spiritually degrading dehumanizing process. They feel useless & burden to family often draining financial resources for terminal care of minimal benefit dying & comatose patients are often conscious & capable of emotionally & processing information. Spiritual visions can empower the dying patient.
Why some choose return to life & others don't? Mourning involves - 1. accepting reality of loss 2. waking through pain of grief 3. adjusting the new environment without deceased 4. Emotionally relocating the deceased & moving on with life.
Death related vision can affirm spiritual intuitions & faith Death related visions can restore a sense of order to the universe imply purpose of & meaning to death.
Premonition of death involved vague perceptions or feelings with nonetheless can reestablish faith in order of universe & that death has meaning.
Post death visitation often involved dialogues with the dead which anecdotally have been reported to facilitate grieving by allowing the loss to be accepted as well as allowing the survivors to reinvest emotional energy (Morse) NDEs have the power to restore meaning to the process of death because of their mystical role within our society.
In the pivotal episode of both medieval & modern journeys the visionary confronts himself by means of various graphic representation. He meets his thought words & deeds learns the weight of his soul reviews his life in play book Moore.
1. Religion experience is in variably social in that religious life & thought are shaped by linguistic & social forces.
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