Near Death Experience (nde) Stories

[JustinS]

http://www.nderf.org/index.htm

The Exceptional Archive stories are interesting:

http://www.nderf.org/Archives/exceptional.html

Edited July 9, 2017 by JustinS

[Leo Gura]

Don't just post bald links please. Explain what you're posting and why you're posting it.

[JustinS]

Reason for posting this is because of the number of reoccurring reporting of OOBE, encounter with entities with alien like creatures or deceased loved ones, feelings of warmth and peace. 

Pulled from Wiki: 

Common elements

Researchers have identified the common elements that define near-death experiences. Bruce Greyson argues that the general features of the experience include impressions of being outside one's physical body, visions of deceased relatives and religious figures, and transcendence of egotic and spatiotemporal boundaries. Many common elements have been reported, although the person's interpretation of these events often corresponds with the cultural, philosophical, or religious beliefs of the person experiencing it. For example, in the USA, where 46% of the population believes in guardian angels, they will often be identified as angels or deceased loved ones (or will be unidentified), while Hindus will often identify them as messengers of the god of death.

Although the features of NDEs vary from one case to the next, common traits that have been reported by NDErs are as follows:

A sense/awareness of being dead.

A sense of peace, well-being and painlessness. Positive emotions. A sense of removal from the world.

An out-of-body experience. A perception of one's body from an outside position. Sometimes observing medical professionals performing resuscitation efforts.

A "tunnel experience" or entering a darkness. A sense of moving up, or through, a passageway or staircase.

A rapid movement toward and/or sudden immersion in a powerful light (or "Being of Light") which communicates with the person.

An intense feeling of unconditional love and acceptance.

Encountering "Beings of Light", "Beings dressed in white", or similar. Also, the possibility of being reunited with deceased loved ones.

Receiving a life review, commonly referred to as "seeing one's life flash before one's eyes".

Receiving knowledge about one's life and the nature of the universe.

Approaching a border, or a decision by oneself or others to return to one's body, often accompanied by a reluctance to return. Suddenly finding oneself back inside one's body.

Connection to the cultural beliefs held by the individual, which seem to dictate some of the phenomena experienced in the NDE and particularly the later interpretation thereof.

Stages

Kenneth Ring (1980) subdivided the NDE on a five-stage continuum. The subdivisions were:

Peace

Body separation

Entering darkness

Seeing the light

Entering the light

He stated that 60% experienced stage 1 (feelings of peace and contentment), but only 10% experienced stage 5 ("entering the light"). According to Alana Karran, the NDE stages resemble the so-called hero's journey.

Edited July 9, 2017 by JustinS

[JustinS]

"Anita worked in the corporate field before being diagnosed with terminal cancer. Four years after being diagnosed her body began shutting down. As her organs failed she entered into an extraordinary near-death experience where she realized the cause of her disease as well as waking up to who she truly is. On regaining consciousness she found her condition had improved so rapidly that she was released from hospital within weeks."

My question, do we have to "die" psychologically, physically or both, in order to experience the multi facet of reality? 

[PlasmicProjection]

1 hour ago, JustinS said:

"Anita worked in the corporate field before being diagnosed with terminal cancer. Four years after being diagnosed her body began shutting down. As her organs failed she entered into an extraordinary near-death experience where she realized the cause of her disease as well as waking up to who she truly is. On regaining consciousness she found her condition had improved so rapidly that she was released from hospital within weeks."

My question, do we have to "die" psychologically, physically or both, in order to experience the multi facet of reality? 

Yeah you can do it through learning astral projection.  So no you don't have to die to experience the afterlife.

Edited July 9, 2017 by PlasmicProjection