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Thinking about Memory: Kimberly Clark Sharp Shares Her Near Death Experience from 1970
Before watching the below video, allow me to set the scene a bit. It’s 2008 in a run-of-the-mill 1980s decor hotel conference room in Durham, North Carolina. Attached to the cream cloth wall is a light hovering like an angel … Continue reading
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Near Death Experience (NDE) Watch: Waiting for Dr. Sam Parnia
Late last year, the Wall Street Journal had an interesting piece on near death experiences (NDEs), and it included an aspect on the phenomenon that I’d never heard of before: near death awareness: In his book, “Visions, Trips and Crowds,” David … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, body, cancer, death, God, life, mind, NDEs, near-death experiences, psychology, skeptic
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Three Fascinating Near Death Experiences: A Homemaker, a Businessman, and a Blind Woman
Three near death experiences (NDEs) from a BBC documentary on the subject: Oops. It doesn’t embed. You have to watch it on YouTube. It’s worth clicking over. Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsV2oWL0bK0
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Does an Epiphany Await Each of Us?
This near death experience comes from a BBC documentary on the subject:
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Tagged death, eleusinian mysteries, epiphany, life, light, love, NDEs, near death experience, near-death experiences, the ground of being
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Today’s Question: Is the Goal of Existence an Epiphany?
Is the goal of existence, the end, an epiphany—a vision, as it were of God—as in “I see you”? Or is the goal of existence rational coping with passing appearances, seeking to enjoy one’s existential freedom and independence from the (opaque and … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, consumerism, death, epiphany, God, life, love, near-death experiences, the ground of being, the ontological mystery
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The great I don’t know? An agnostic develops serious doubts about his agnosticism, and starts affirming “the great I don’t know”
At Andrew Sullivan’s blog today, an agnostic nurse writes movingly about his hospice work: I came into this experience as an agnostic who often had leanings to atheism, but while working with hospice patients my faith in something has been … Continue reading
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Christopher Hitchens: It is the height of immorality to lie to people about what you really know about death
That is, nothing. I agree with Christopher Hitchens that religion is shameless in its manipulations of death fears via the carrot and stick of heaven and hell: it really is a moral outrage. One should never claim more about death—or anything, for … Continue reading
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Sea World’s Dawn Brancheau was Drowned by a Killer Whale Yesterday. Maybe This is What Happened Next
In the afterlife (if there is such a thing, and I hope that there is) I picture a group of people sitting around an outdoor table beneath warm, late summer skies and talking about their mortal lives, including how each … Continue reading
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Christina Rossetti was Born on December 5, 1830
That would be 179 years ago today, wouldn’t it? Here’s Christina Rossetti’s sonnet, “In life our absent friend is far away”. It’s the 28th sonnet from a collection of her sonnets that she titled, “Later Life”: In life our absent … Continue reading
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Promissory Materialism and Second Coming Messianism?
This struck me as a provocative way to frame materialism v. dualism. It comes from a 2003 paper in NeuroQuantology, and it was written by Donald Watson and Bernard Wilson: The “psychophysical identity” proposition is today’s most popular model for … Continue reading
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Rick Strassman, a Pioneer in the Field of DMT Research, on the Pineal Gland and Near Death Experiences
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Swine Flu (H1N1): Children, Atheism, Transcendence, and Near Death Experiences
I’ve noticed, since having kids (they are three and five), that I’ve been unusually anxious about flu seasons (something that, when I was single and kidless, I barely thought about). And this season, with swine flu (H1N1) out there without … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, atheism, atheist, death, fitness, flu, H1N1, health, life, near-death experiences, Reinhold Niebuhr, swine flu
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I Like What These Two Women are Saying
This woman experienced mystical and poetic Blake light energies for months after her near death experience: And this woman says love is what life’s about: I’m listening. If God exists, S(he) is the groovy hippie ground of being in love with … Continue reading
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This Man’s Near Death Experience Has a Moving Turn at the End
From my vantage, people who have had near death experiences have a certain “street cred” when they claim that death is nothing to be frightened of. We believe human testimony in many other matters, and unless we are philosophically committed … Continue reading
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In Three Days He Revived: A Russian Neuroscientist Has a Dramatic Near Death Experience
In 1976, this Russian neuroscientist was hit by a car and pronounced dead. But after his body spent three days chilling in the morgue, it revived on the autopsy table! I. Shit. You. Not. Oh, and he says we don’t die. Watch it: … Continue reading
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Really.
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Atheism, Philosophy, Near Death Experiences, and Causal Dependency
In terms of atheism and philosophy, a big issue that near death experiences (NDEs) drive us to confront is what we think about the causal dependency of the mind upon the brain. In British philosopher Keith Ward’s exceptional book, Why There … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, apologetics, atheism, atheist, death, jerry coyne, keith ward, near-death experiences, philosophy, PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins, science
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What I Think about Near Death Experiences (NDEs)
For the past couple of weeks now, I’ve been reading and thinking about NDEs as a phenomenon, and if I were forced to bet, I think that the near death experience is real. In other words, it’s probably more than … Continue reading
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A British Chemist Shares Her Near Death Experience
And she says she experienced absolute audio and visual clarity when her mind was outside of her body:
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Trial Lawyer Chris Murphy Shares His Near Death Experience
And he learned something important: And:
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