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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve read a lot about near death experiences and people’s experiences around death.   There’s a remarkable consistency in the stories.  There’s so much to this world we don’t know, and I think it’s somewhat arrogant to assume what we can see, touch, feel, hear and taste comprise all of what exists in the universe.   Dog’s hear things we can’t.  Birds see things we can’t.  We have this small life, we come and we go.  I believe there’s something more than what we can understand and I’m open to learning as much as I can about it.    [/quote]

A lot of the NDE stories have been tentatively explained by neurologists who say the brain's sensory functions under stress can produce imagery that feels like tunnel vision and floating above one's body.  Even seeing dead loved ones and feeling drawn to a bright light. Who knows.

My mother was in a car accident when she was 18 and had a NDE. She swears she floated above her body in the hospital room and heard the doctor telling her parents she was not likely to live. She says she knew she had a choice, and she chose to live -- although she says she did it only to stop her parents' pain. She says the alternative (dying) at the time seemed much better somehow. She knew she was giving up something wonderful to go back to living.

She isn't remotely religious, but she doesn't fear death. She says she knows it will be painless and "wonderful" in some way. But not in the sense of living another life as who she is now. More like becoming something new.

I think that goes to the conservation of energy model -- our "soul" is the energy that makes us alive. When we die, it leaves our body and dissipates, eventually becoming part of something else. So, in a sense, yes. There is life after death. [/quote]

I’ve had ketamine infusions where I’ve believed I was floating above my body. But obviously my consciousness wasn’t actually floating above my body. [/quote]

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