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I never thought much about skepticism before my near death experience. That was before skeptics started telling me I was dreaming, hallucinating, or just making up my experience. I found it odd that these people seemed to know more about my intensely personal experience than I did. Or did they?
Skeptics have been with us a long time. They told George Washington that he could never defeat the British, and they told Lincoln he could never unify our divided country. Every great person had their skeptics to deal with, including Bell, Wright, Edison, Ford, the list is emormous.
Skeptics of near death experiences are only more of the same. We have the evidence now in books,research,videos of surgery,documentaries, and veridical NDEs showing that our consciousness’ will live after the death of our bodies. Dozens of universities with hundreds of researchers are studying near death experiences. Yet the skeptics keep raising old doubts long debunked by the researchers.
Society doesn’t seem to think much about skeptics either. While you can find statues and memorials to the great thinkers, researchers and statesmen of our world most everywhere in parks, you can’t find a single statue erected in honor of a skeptic for his great skepticism anywhere. There are no awards for skepticism, no medals, or prize money.
So while thinkers, reseachers, and statemen go on showing us the path to future knowledge and accomplishments, the skeptics will go on sitting, doing nothing, helping no one, just skepticizing.
When you enter the spiritual world at the end of your physical life you will have a “life review.” Near death experiencers tell about a life review during their near death experience. This life review does not appear in all NDEs, but seems to happen mostly in those experiences where the individual was in a state of clinical death for more than a few minutes.
The life review is a kind of critique of what you accomplished during your lifetime. It serves as a teaching tool to let you know how well you lived the physical life you chose to live. Your journey through the physical is a school for learning about yourself and others, and the life review shows how well you did in learning to love yourself and others. It can be a happy, joyous reward or it can be emotionally painful and hard to endure depending upon your performance.
The review starts with your physical life passing before you like a movie on a screen. When it comes to a place in your life where you helped someone you get to feel that person’s appreciation and joy, when it comes to a place in your life where you have harmed someone you get to feel that person’s pain and suffering. It is like you become the person you helped or harmed and know exactly how your actions made that person feel at the time.
This life review is not a judgment, it is a teaching tool to let you know how your life on earth affected others. Intention is very important, if you intended to harm another the emotional pain can be intense and long-lasting, but if the harm was accidental, something unintended then the pain is considerable less. Nothing is overlooked, smart remarks, gossip, false witness, and even uncaring attitudes are considered. On the positive side smiles, small favors, and other caring attitudes are rewarded.
Life is for learning. It is not about hoarding money, seeking fame, or becoming powerful. These things are meaningless to the life review, all are treated equally whether you were a saint or a sinner. There are no chosen ones. The life review is effective and complete justice for everyone.
I believe if everyone knew they were eternal and would receive a life review at the end they would become kinder and gentler to others. The review is total truth, no opportunity for rationalizations or justifications of any kind. The deepest part of your feelings are known and considered. There are no secrets to the review.
But the life review is not the real reason to learn to love yourself and others. The real reason is your own well-being. When you walk the path of love you will be more successful, more peaceful, and free of fear. Life will be a joy to live, and happiness, and love will walk besides you always.
Dr. Melvin Morse, M.D., is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington. He has studied near-death experiences in children for 15 years and is the author of several books on the subject.
He, like a lot of other near death researchers, got started when he was present as a patient of his had a near death experience. Below is a short video of Dr. Morse that I wholeheartedly agree with, skeptics do not read the material, nor can they offer any reasonable explanations for near death experiences.
Near death experiences are real spiritual experiences. If you are not sure, before you make up your mind, read what near death experiencers have to say. Study the research on both sides. I am a experiencer, there is no doubt in my mind that they are real.
