Posted on 11/12/2014 7:44:39 AM PST by southernmann
After reading about the lady in Florida that was dead for 45min, I was wondering about near-death experiences.
There have been a lot of these experiences written about here in our country, but I was wondering if anyone has info on near-death experiences in other countries. Specifically, is there anything recorded about those individuals that are not Christian and have experienced near-death?
This guy saw The Flying Spaghetti Monster.
There are many NDEs from other countries and many different religions. Check out some of these sites:
http://www.neardeathsite.com/index.php
http://www.nderf.org/NDERF/NDE_Archives/NDERF_NDEs.htm
http://iands.org/nde-stories.html
I have read about Muslims who see Jesus in their NDEs. I haven’t heard of any Christians who see Mohammed, although some have seen glimpses of hell.
I first recall a May 1974 Reader’s Digest story on the subject, and it included several atheists describing NDEs, in similar terms as Christians.
I’ve been eating rice and corn noodles of late(no gluten and I have wheat allergies ). wonder if that is sacrilege??
No. It's a well-known scientific fact that no Mormons, Krishnas or Buddhists have ever had any near death experiences.
I would have thought you'd know this...
LMAO!!!!
Don’t have any links, but I’ve read many, many write ups of NDEs that happened to non-Christians, some similar to Christian experiences, some quite different. Even when the person experiencing the vision was an atheist who didn’t believe in life after death, the experience rarely changed their belief system any, and when it did, the change was often short lived. Whether the vision was of a pleasant afterlife or outright hell, they generally embrace the theory that it’s just the brain creating something at one end of the clinical death period or the other.
For that matter, many of the Christians had visions that don’t line up so well with the Bible. Unless we’re heading for very different afterlives, they can’t all be true. From a Christian perspective, some of them may be true, and some of them may be misdirection created by Satan.
I don’t know what constitutes God or the Soul. I Figure this is a normal reaction to death of brain cells and like shock, it is a way to go peacefully when being eaten by large predators. An evolutionary escape mechanism when all is lost.
of course this could all be set up by a creator....without faith I can only guess....actually with faith, one can only wonder.....
I have had Jewish friends tell me that their religion does not have an afterlife, and I assumed they meant ALL of Judaism (as they said ‘Jews don’t believe in an afterlife’). so I suppose it is their particular sect of Judaism and not all of Judaism.
confusing.
Anything from non-Christians? Do they have similar experiences as those that Christians have?
I would like to read about that. Could you give me the reference please?
Thanks
In their opinion, are they capable of NDEs?
“From a Christian perspective, some of them may be true, and some of them may be misdirection created by Satan.”
Misdirection by that crafty serpent is certainly what I chalk it up to. Especially when atheists state that they see blond angels telling them “all is well and you are loved”.
I have Jewish friends who do believe in an afterlife and Jewish friends who do not believe in one. The ones who do not have told me that they believe we are supposed to work to create “heaven” here on earth.
The odd thing to me is that they all worship at the same temple.
Evolutionary?
Think about it.
How do they pass that trait on, and how does it help with Darwinian selection?
Yes, according to books and articles going back to my 1974 reference, members of several major religions have conveyed similar experience.
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