---In [email protected], <mjackson74@...> wrote :
She is obviously telling black lies spawned in the pits of hell to undermine the efforts of all legitimately near dead people from fulfilling their missions by selling books, cds, seminars and other nostrums to people hungry for spiritual solace. On a more serious note, the NDEs seem to exist for 2 reasons. The first is for a few people like Dannion Brinkly to make bucks and get a lot of attention. The second is to affirm the existence of God, Jesus, Ascended Masters and so on and obviously the existence of life after death. So what do you think happens to a person after death Sal, if the NDEs are all just a lot of brain wave activity? Depends on the circumstances. If we get buried we go kinda green and smelly for a bit. If cremated we kinda go smokey for a few seconds. Oh wait, what happens to consciousness? right! I would have thought it's like going under an anaesthetic, one minute you're there and the next you aren't. Maybe in certain circumstances you get a groovy little trip like is outlined in these stories but these things are neurophysiological in origin and require a brain and it's energy system (body) to keep going and therefore won't last beyond the brain dying and the body cooling down. Not much of a rallying call to be honest and I can see why people prefer their comforting illusions to the cold inevitability of realism. Unless everything we know is a comforting illusion and we all go to heaven or somewhere. Or maybe we're already dead and we're in the matrix. Or maybe we're giant hunchback toadoids on Zeta Reticuli playing a computer game called "Earth". I don't see how anyone could possibly know but I can't see how there could possibly be any "us" without a brain for us to be a part of, or where this next world might actually be if it existed. If I was a gambling man I'd give it very low odds indeed. So all in all I go for my first option and "we" just cease to exist. Probably best to make the most of this life rather than hoping there is a better one waiting for us. From: salyavin808 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2014 5:01 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Blackmore on NDE's The recent study on Near Death Experiences was widely misreported by a hopeful media and caused a frenzy in pseudo-science pages on facebook etc. Susan Blackmore has spent a lifetime studying the paranormal and brain functioning and even had an NDE herself, her opinion is obviously worth hearing, her bit starts at 10 mins in: http://thehumanist.com/multimedia/podcast/the-humanist-hour-122-a-discussion-on-the-psychology-of-the-paranormal-with-dr-susan-blackmore http://thehumanist.com/multimedia/podcast/the-humanist-hour-122-a-discussion-on-the-psychology-of-the-paranormal-with-dr-susan-blackmore
