Science and NDEs

The relationship between science and near death experiences is bitter-sweet. In the 60’s main stream science began to take a wrong turn down the dead-end street of materialism. In the 70’s, researchers like Dr. Raymond Moody, and Elisabeth Keubler-Ross were studying the subject of death and dying in hospitals.

What Moody, and Keubler-Ross researched were events called near death experiences. So named by Dr. Moody. While these experiences were not new, the large number of people experiencing them were new. Due to better methods of resuscitation doctors were reviving more patients that died on the operating tables. Patients that told the doctors they went out of their body and watched the resuscitation of their clinically dead bodies. Fortunately not all doctors dismissed the “stories” of their patient’s near death experiences as dreaming or hallucinating, and so research began in earnest.

Over 30 years later a dozen universities both here and abroad are engaged in near death experience research. There is now a large amount of data from this research that shows human consciousness lives on after the death of the brain and body.

This research represents a serious challenge to main stream science’s belief in materialism. This research shows that materialism is not the only game in town, it shows man is spiritual by nature.

So our world consists of a least two known dimensions: the spiritual and the physical. I don’t think this is news to most people. Spirituality has always played a large role in our society.

But ever since science opted for materialism, or natural explanations for all events, and actions in our Universe, there has been a growing disagreement between spirituality and science.

Now I believe that the solid evidence of man’s spirituality should end this conflict forever. Both science and spirituality can have their rightful places in our society.

Near death experiences just don’t seem to fit into any of the patterns of religion or science. Most experiencers are neither religious nor scientific minded in their approach to life after their near death experience. Maybe there could be a way to integrate religion and science into a higher more complete discipline using principles learned from near death experiences.

Below you can find some links to the research showing consciousness continues to live after the death of the brain and body. Since this blog is mainly devoted to showing the reality of near death experiences more links can be found there.

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What is Truth?

How do we know truth?

Every day we must make decisions. Hundreds of people advising us to do this or do that. Asking us to believe in their truth and make it ours. Join their group, organization, company, religion, etc., and do as they do, so we will be safe, smart, rich, saved, etc. How do we sort through this mass of information and choose the best path? How do we know who is speaking truth and who isn’t?

The good news is, that we all come into the physical with a built-in truth detector. Some call it a conscious, or a wee voice whispering in our ear. The bad news is, that we don’t always follow what we know to be right. A truly honest person can not be deceived, therefor we must always do what we know to be right. Truth comes from the heart, the feelings we get about decisions we have made, or intend to make, those feelings tell us whether that being offered is good and true. As Yoda said: “you will know truth by its peace and calm.”

Here are a few things that guide me:

(1) Look through the “sales talk” into the reality behind it. “Observe what the person does, not what he says.”

(2) Know that truth is open and free to all who ask. No group or organization has any “secret” truth, and no money needs to be paid for it.

(3) Truth can be understood by all. It is never so complicated that only a few “chosen” ones can learn.

(4) Truth is always at hand. You don’t have to go somewhere “special” to find it.

(5) If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is.

and very important…..

(6) Truth will stand up to all questions and remain truth. There is nothing so “sacred” about truth that it can’t be questioned.

Test your truth in reality. You are responsible for your own growth and understanding. While others may advise, you are the one to say what path you will follow. It is you that will reap the reward or suffer the disappointment of your decisions.

I would not ask you to believe what you read on this blog, or anywhere else, until you test it in real life. Put the writings of love to the test. Try it out for truth.

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Ponder this — Skepticism

There are people who say there is no God, or spiritual world, and that all religion is mythology because there is no way to scientifically prove it exists. They call themselves skeptics. Yet skeptics, at least most of them, do believe in things that can’t be proven scientifically. They believe in scientific theories such as the theory of evolution, the big bang theory, and the theory that our consciousness was created by our brain. But there is no real proof that these theories are true, that is why they call them theories. Are they real skeptics or just people with an agenda. Seems to me real skeptics would be skeptical about anything that could not be proven. Not just a few choice items. Ponder this.

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