Title : Is the Afterlife What We Think It Is? A Challenge from Near-Death Studies
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Is the Afterlife What We Think It Is? A Challenge from Near-Death Studies
There are millions of stories now of near-death experiences around the world; each a fragment, a teaser of what seems to exist on the other side of death. No other human drama takes a lot of power this phenomenon makes to unmask the traditions of an "angel of death", and reveal instead a vitality that continues after our bodies take their last breath and our brain stop working.This vitality we call a "beyond", because in most cases, so close to the experimenters death describe similar sounds, or certainly appears to be sparkling luminations of the, finest higher aspects of what we know : cities, gardens, forests, landscapes, roads, rivers, busy people quite alive and doing things, schools, hospitals, opportunities of various kinds to reassess earthly existence, to forgive, learn, and then move towards a goal that can only "spiritual."
term Because the stories that come from experimenters are so compelling, I would like to share some of my research base. Surely after hearing them, you will be impressed that a future life must exist and in fact that life continues after death. Once I have shared these accounts, however, I have the intention to introduce others that will extend what we think we know about life after death. The concept of "other life" may not be as above or widely believed.
The Afterlife articles Arthur E. Yensen died in 1932, at least as close as we can say that did serious injuries in a car accident. The vividness of what happened next remained fresh in his memory, not only after he revived, but around what later became a long and productive life. As Yensen put it: "Gradually the land scene faded, and through it a new, bright beautiful world rose - beautiful beyond imagination for half a minute I could see both worlds at once Finally,!. when the earth was all over, I was in a glory that could only be heaven.
"Basically there were two beautiful mountains, top round, similar to Fujiyama in Japan, "Yensen continued." the tops were covered with snow and slopes were adorned with foliage of indescribable beauty. The mountains appeared to be about fifteen miles away, however, they could see individual flowers growing on its slopes. I estimated my vision to be about a hundred times better than on earth. To the left was a sparkling lake containing a different type of water - clear, golden, radiant and seductive. He seemed to be alive. The whole landscape was covered with grass so vivid, clear and green, which defies description. To the right was a forest of large leafy trees, made of the same material that seemed clear to compensate for everything. "
YENSEN described the people not so young-looking and lively, however, that has a grace without . weight in their movements their bodies were somewhat translucent, so was the grass and trees, its little clothes a man said: "Everything here is pure.. The elements do not mix or decompose as they do on earth. Everything is kept in place by a Master all-pervading vibration, which prevents aging. That's why things do not get dirty or worn, and why everything looks so shiny and new. "Yensen learned the eternal sky could be this man ( Atwater , 1994, 53-55).
Muriel E. Kelly, weakened by rheumatic fever and severe heart murmur, is became very ill and passed into another world "I found myself standing on a cobblestone road with people around me dressed in bright clothes -. red, blue, pink. Everything was so bright and sunny. Birds sang. Baby angels were smiling and flying around. I saw all the different sizes of angels. The music was hauntingly beautiful. "
Hearing his name called, Muriel turned to Jesus at his side, dressed in a white and red robe." He knelt, "she said," and he gave me a hug and hugged him back. I said we were going to talk somewhere. "During the course of their time together, Jesus took her to an apartment building with many doors, and told her that door play. A voice inside sign to come in. It was his mother who had died when Muriel was nine , leaving behind five children. Their reunion was filled with love. "I asked mom where dad was, and Cecil, Willie, John and Paul. Mother told me they were not there because it was not his time. I had no idea what he meant, so he took me to an area where we sat in a cloud and gave everyone. My mother is my father and brothers who were traveling in a car. We could see through it. Dad was driving, and hear my brothers and dad crying, saying: ". I wish Muriel was still here missed it." "Muriel began to mourn for his earthly family and wanted to be with them She got her wish (Atwater. 1999 and 2003, 106-107).
Cecil L. Hamilton swimming with his brother. "I had a problem. I tried to get him out of the water, but in his panic took me under several times. The two suffocate us. He died, but returned. "While Hamilton was in the grip of death, suddenly he found himself entering a world full of light." I realized everything - sky, buildings, glass - its own light is emitted. And it was much more colorful ... a river snaked around. On the other hand there was a city, and a road running through it to another city, and another city, and another and another. Right in front of me, but across the river were three men. They were shown to me. They do not walk or fly; They projected on. I did not recognize them, however, he knew one was Lynn Bibb. "Hamilton said:" I was named after him. He died a matter of weeks before birth. "
Hamilton continued his story:" I knew that these three men were looking out for me, as a welcoming committee to escort me across the river to the first city . I had the feeling that if I went with them, he would not come back, so I hesitated. The first city was like the first grade. People stayed there until they were ready to go to the next city - his eternal progress from city to city. Behind me and to the left was a source of very bright and full of love strong light. I knew it was a person. I called to God for lack of a better term. He could not see; I felt what seemed like a masculine presence. "
God and Hamilton engaged in a long conversation, the young man asking about the universe and reasons for everything. Then God questioned if Hamilton wanted to return to the physical world." I do not want to go back "he said. God asked him why." I said I would help my mother that my father had left with four children and one on the way. God kind of laughed and asked for the real reason. I said I would leave the earth a little better than what I found. 'You can come back with some knowledge of the things you have learned, but the rest will be veiled for a while. I live in a way that will not feel bad when I get back here again. "I woke up face down in the mud of the river bottom and was 'up' to the top" (Atwater, 1991 and 2003, 45-47).
Each of these three accounts describe a particular arrangement of structures, shapes, people and behaviors that are familiar to us - adding weight to the belief that the future life either reflects our earthly life or an extension thereof. The testimonies that follow, however, deviate from what I just retransmitted. The approach with them is more fluid with an absence of a structured way. I'll start with the near death of Ray Kinman I had when I was a teenager from an accidental overdose experience.
"Now this is very hard to describe," said Kinman. "Time ceased to exist. Past and future were completely nonexistent. I was traveling in an intense, burning 'now.' 'Now' was all. I stopped being a noun (person, place or thing) and became a verb (an action). It was Ray-ing, instead of Ray. I got a huge message. Being told me, 'This is what you really are,' as the Universe was opened I could not tell the difference between me and the infinite galaxies I became omnipotent and omniscient -.. I was still being Ray so being introduced me to another being. the beauty and the most incredible that anyone could understand love. it was a greater being of intense light. it was God. the first being led me to this light and let it envelop and swallow me. I became one with the love sometimes by millions , millions, billions of forever and ever. we were made of the same stuff! every Being that had never existed in all creation was now part of the Great whole Being called God. I was one with them, and yet still was ray - all powerful, little old me
" 'This is what you really are," thundered the Light. It looked like a galaxy, except the light spots were not stars, they were beings. Each being there was this incredibly beautiful music sing and praise God. After some indefinite time now-ness, they said I had to come back. I got another message that was very important. They said I can come back anytime he wanted. Returning to my body felt like I was stuck in a bowl of pain and exhaustion. "Kinman was very clear that this is not like any drug experience This was true -.. He was shown the reality of things (Atwater, 2007, 35-36)
Tannis had an attack Prouten . severe anxiety that seemed to reclaim his life as she explains: "I felt like ducking as the ceiling was only an inch from me, then I was out, moving through vast dark space ,." He saw small spheres, round and shiny around she realized was lost souls. Before I could react, "Very quickly I was involved in this most divine, life, white and golden light, my home. Joy, happiness, humility, fear were beyond human capacity to endure. The light was infinite, loving, accepting to be formless. TI had personality. He contacted me telepathically. It was pure TRUTH "
As increasing the intensity of her experience, she realized." I was the light and the light was me. I was still a unique, separate, point of consciousness with the same sense of humor and conscience that always had, but the paradox is that I was more. I had become homogeneous with light. It was all love, wisdom, truth, peace, joy, for all eternity. Human words do not express this experience. Not only was the message I conveyed my true nature telepathically, but experienced the spirit of the message - I felt with every particle of my being. There was absolutely no chance to hide, distort information, or lying in communication with light. I fell madly in love with the spirit of truth! There was no concept of time or space in the Greater Reality. Everything is done or exists in the eternal now. That's my last conscious memory of the experience "(Atwater, 2007, 26-28).
Neath-death experiences that challenge accepted notions
Many nearby episodes death are like the last two, apparently to counter the idea of medieval, mythological or biblical traditions, religious of a future life that has images of basic nucleus for the dissemination of culture and consensus in the whole human family . we have a long history of such common elements especially in regard to death, the greatest of all mysteries, and what happens to us after death. the findings in the field of near-death studies, however they are beginning to question not only traditional beliefs, but traditional too. Perhaps there is more to learn from our shared stories of what we think.
the scenarios are reported openly challenge the idea of an afterlife as an end point or a dwelling or a platform for progressive learning states. Here are some examples of these exceptions and questions that invite
How can there be a future brother concurrent with a gift of one?
Merla Ianello recalls that as a child saw a guest in his house that had three or four years choke to death trying to eat a candy frozen wrapped in plastic called a burst of ice juice. He insisted on naming "Pops death" after that, and one day she asked her mother that the child was. His mother, staring in disbelief, said: "It was you." Merla remembers the screams of his mother and his father was ill, however, could not identify with the child because she worried that child must have been very naughty have caused such a scandal. Although it took years to admit that the child was her, one of the characteristics of the episode was never in doubt - the presence of his brother Michael in the kitchen with the rest of the family. She talked a lot about Michael, much to the chagrin of his mother. You see, Michael was not conceived until the following year. No mention was ever made of a future child nor the mother wants. How then could physically appear and fully present, even holding an ice pop, long before his birth? (Atwater, 1999 and 2003, 142-144).
The belief of a "beyond" application when incarnations are back-to-back?
Rand Jameson Shields was beaten in the head by a man diving into a swimming pool. Stunned, he ventured into deeper waters and drowned. "The roof of the sky above me rolled back to reveal an infinite universe light, earth dissolves beneath me, and I intuitively understood the purpose of my soul and spiritual nature of the universe." A woman grabbed him and he was raised, however, over the next year his soul separated from his body eighty times. "I physically did 'return to the experience of sixty eight events from previous lives. Thirty-four of these experiences were my most recent life, including the entire period of my soul it happened between my last death and my birth in this life . "Years later he could visit one of the cities involved and uncovered" 114 accurate parts verification tests that each of my thirty-four re-experiences unique childhood gave this man who died twenty-eight months before my birth day. I have not found one piece of evidence that contradicts any of my past life memories "(Atwater, 1999 and 2003, 140-141).
what we have to think about life continuous, one that occurs shortly after the other, rather than an individual to be installed in some celestial kingdom after we die? Or, the full manifestation of a future brother even participate in a family event, long before the child was born? exceptional cases such as these are actually quite common - like twins missing reappearing, aborted fetuses returning as older or grown children, animals much a part of the "other worlds", as they are in it. And here's another "wrinkles", there are group events that extend beyond the time-honored of an afterlife definitions
How can four experiences separate the same. - Y -? Simultaneous
My first encounters with the near-death phenomenon occurred in St. Alphonsus Hospital in Boise, Idaho. The woman who was visiting had suffered a heart attack yet restored. She was white with fear when I arrived and was told that while clinically dead, she had floated out of her body and into a dark tunnel leading toward a bright light. Once the light, he saw a landscape filled arid, rolling hills overflowing with naked people, zombie-like being side by side doing nothing but looking directly at her. This so horrified that she started screaming and broke again in your body. She continued screaming until sedated. As I listened to her, two others entered the room, a man and elderly woman, both in the use of batons. Each had suffered heart failure while at the same hospital, is considered clinically dead but were resurrected. None of them knew each other before being taken to hospital, nor had the same doctor. They learned each other thanks to the nurses who heard their strange stories - the same as the woman who was visiting - which also coincides with that of a person. I could not see this man as he was still sedated after crying uncontrollably. None of these people had the same religion, background or lifestyle. None of them had friends in common or common interests. All had lived long lives of varying degrees of difficulty and success; They were both still married to his original partner and had several grown children. The others were divorced. The only common denominator I could find after asking a lot of questions to them or the people who knew them, was that his strange encounter with death strengthened the pain they felt and from guilt and about deep-seated fears and how they had lived and what he had done in their lives (Atwater, 1988, 14-16).
Why 20 people have the same experience at the same time in the same place?
Arvin S. Gibson shared with me a case where a team of his firefighters 20-person called "big fish" all succumbed from lack of oxygen, trapped by a sudden burst of flames near a summit of the mountain. One by one each of the men and women I fell on the ground, suffocated. Each of the twenty were leave their bodies and float upward. One, named Jake, look towards a crewmate who was born with a defective foot. As the man left his body, Jake said, "Look, Joseph, the foot is straight." A brighter light than the sun shining on a snowy field appeared. Jake met his late great-grandfather, who acted as a guide through a near-death long and extensive stage. Jake pleaded to stay, not wanting to relive in a horribly burned body. then he was told that neither he nor any of his crew, who chose to return suffer effects from the fire. "This was done so that the power of God over the elements manifest itself," Jake said. After the rescue, each crew member confirmed the mutual event. Some claimed to have spoken to each other while out-of-body. Separately, each of these claims was verified. All involved had met deceased relatives as part of their stage, and had to choose whether or not they would land (Atwater, 2000, 165-166).
"see" More beyond the veil of death
is easy to assume that the four people who had matching hellish experiences gathered in death what they had repressed during his life - ". by eating away at them" negative emotions that still Such an assumption would be were consistent with the voluminous writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, a scientist incredible several centuries ago, who had also mastered the ability to "see" beyond the veil of death. It was his assertion that after we die, we enter the realms of our own creation, based on our attitudes and beliefs (Atwater, 2000, 233-235, 424). We could extend this idea by inference that because the infernal accounts were virtually identical, could not have existed at the hospital a type of energy (perhaps from previous emotional outbursts) that the four of them unconsciously activated in a similar manner to outpicture their deeply held beliefs. Possible? Yes, but there is more to consider.
The experience of group of twenty Hotshot firefighting challenges the findings of Swedenborg and any other person, including me, who tried to tie close scenarios to death only attitudes and beliefs of the experimenters - the idea that what "you get what you expected." seems obvious may not necessarily be as true as it seems.
There are a lot of shared experiences, such as between a father and a son in the same accident, friends die together and similarly revive, among people who never knew each other, but their mutual episodes learned years later, once he began to ask questions. People on opposite sides of the world can go through the same, in the same or different times, however, their separate lives, beliefs, feelings not coincide nor is it ever - despite their experiences near death did. And there are even incidents like what happened to Nadia McCaffrey.
Nadia was a participant in the original investigation that child had with experimenters from nearby states to death (Atwater, 1999 and 2003, 86-88). Years later, while taking care of a woman who was dying, nearly dying herself after severe seizures. Several days later, still in pain, she called me and we exchanged stories. The result was that Nadia's seizures had started at the same time our granddaughter Myriam seizures had. When Nadia died, so I had Myriam (bacterial meningitis). The two met each other in spirit as they died. Myriam Nadia allowed to have another near-death experience, this time one that clarifies and mission of his life is detailed. Myriam had always been unique in this sense, not having the ability to force, push, or help a person to access your own inner truth. first near death of Nadia had left him with many questions, especially about its purpose of being alive experience. His second, thanks to Myriam, full of the missing pieces and helped launch a new type of hospice (Atwater, 2004, 122-123).
How can you explain this incident? Or any that I have shared? Make our moments on the verge of death or clinically dead while actually reveal a future life? Or, is there something else going on that we miss in our great hurry or even greater desire to accommodate what is ahead of us and the name of what our traditions say it is?
Episodes near death as growth events
Two tracks, present in almost all cases I've worked, caused me to throw the notion of "another life." I no longer consider relevant. To help understand why I say this, a presentation of the tracks and my observations follows
Track # 1 -. Almost to a person close to the experimenters death say "I got what needed. "
to some extent, Swedenborg was right. What was lost is what people really meant when they spoke these words, and broader perspective needed to interpret what people experienced and what he actually witnessed. Being literal is not always productive. It's like trying to see an aura. Aiming his gaze a little beyond what is in front of you and suddenly you begin to see things never before. Do this with the phrase, "I got what I needed" and will realize as I did that near-death experience unfolds in the pattern that mimics an accelerated "growth event." Life insists growth and change. If we block these impulses, something will happen to unlock them. That something is what I call a "growth event."
One case is the growth of any kind of sudden turn, unexpected in life that revolves around and change their attitudes and extends his mind. growth events, all of them, give us the opportunity to deal with our inner self and be honest about what we found, at higher glimpse, the most spiritual realities, to expand beyond the limiting ideas, to discover the impossible and experience the "paranormal", to become somewhat transformed way.
I think the experience near death is an event growth, perhaps one that seems "reserved" for people who need a "big push" to make changes in your life. Here is a brief synopsis of what I have found it highlights the following:
- more near-death episodes occur during major junctures or moments of unusual stress in an individual's life, when the guidance or direction would be helpful.
- Young children, relatives and caregivers can be affected as well - to the extent that it is almost as if the child had the experience for them. However, the degree to which the episode transforms the young becomes more evident as he or she matures, and can be a quiet but powerful directive on the chosen way of life.
- causes and conditions of death may reflect, at least symbolically, beyond the experimenter or the current state of psychological growth.
- Greeters at the threshold of death always coincide (accommodate) whatever is necessary to alert or calm the experimenter.
- As the episode deepens, the message of the scenario is almost exactly parallel to the subconscious needs of the person at that moment in time.
- life review sessions and "Conference" cover material is omitted, ignored, or have not yet learned in the life of the person involved. - Previous life alert to what could be the future views. for better or worse
- Then the experimenter's behavior tends to change what has been developed or partially developed - physically in the sense of brain function / -nerve sensitivity, and psychologically in the sense of personal growth / maturity -. like what traits are not present in the process of maturation of the individual now being "filled" (Atwater, 2007, 244)
Track # 2 -. the phrase most repeated many times near the experimenters death say that after his episode is "there is always life."
This caught my attention. While it is true, and I think it is, how can there be a future life? Or before life? Or anything else, but life? Implicit here is that somehow, somewhere, somehow, forever and ever, life exists as a permanent extension of the same, acting on and interact within himself, always aware, intelligent and conscious .. .. endless life. Indicated, so we are that life existing within the existence of an ever you can count. These four words summarize and explain everything else. They take us beyond the attitudes, opinions, dogmas, preferences, traditions, even what we can imagine. These four words are like the answer to a prayer.
Once recognized the import of this, all the stories experimenter had never encountered or heard of other researchers made sense. If you allow yourself to step back from all the minutiae - who said what, where and under what conditions - a different image that transcends the individual stories of adults and children arises. espacio.
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