Near-Death Experiences As Proof of a God

Various Places | 8/18./2024 | By Laz A. Mataz

[Lazamataz]

I've been a fan of watching YouTube accounts of Near Death Experiences lately. There are certain common elements:

• Leaving your physical body and observing people operating on them. In some cases, people were able to leave that location and see other people and places. One young lady left the operating room, travelling through walls, and went to find her father in the hospital.
• There is, of course, the tunnel you travel through and the bright light at the end of it.
• There, TO A PERSON, they describe a Life Review of all your significant actions, but not from your perspective, but how the OTHER person experienced it. Your best and your worst actions are all covered. Incredible peace and joy. Living forever in that doesn't sound so bad.
• In some cases, they describe vastly increased sensory perception. Vision beyond anything we can experience. Sound unlike anything we currently can hear, although all communication with other entities is telepathic.
• Most examples detail Entities that some describe as 'angels' and others describe as 'guides'. In many of the cases, they are reuniting with deceased relatives, including some that the subject doesn't even know... ancestors such as great-great-great grandparents.
• Since these individuals 'come back', they are given either the choice to decide to come back or to stay, or they are directed to, and in some cases, given a laundry list of things they are to accomplish. One example was striking; she was given a glimpse into her future that actually manifested. The primary lesson from the Near Death Experience was that only the love you gave others (including to animals) was important to the entities on the other side. One major entity, most desribed as 'God'. It was the single most powerful, loving, non-judgemental entity of the entire group.
• In some examples of NDE's, they were informed that we are sent back time and time again, to other lifetimes, to live and learn new lessons.

Various neuroscientists have stated that simple biological processes of death produce these effects. Maybe the tunnel and the light can be explained by this, but the rest? No way. I cannot think that mere biological processes could manifest such a detailed series of accounts. Nor is there any evolutionary benefit to these processes, obviously... you are dead, right? Evolution is highly unlikely to be a factor here.

So this, to me, seems like quasi-scientific proof of a God. Now, religions have added all sorts of nonsense around these concepts, since almost to a person, the subject of an NDE describes a God that is utterly nonjudgemental and loving. So, take the 10 Commandments: Seems like the 10 Commandments were written to make OUR lives better, and it is not some cosmic scorecard that God is judging us on.

One person I know personally that had an NDE, would not talk a lot about it, but the one thing he did relate is that 'all the nonsense religion spouts? The beings on the other side, they don't care. Just be loving.'

And that aligns with what Jesus said: To love God with all your heart, and to love your fellow man.

[sauropod]

Me as well. Including finfing mom after she had passed. I got to witness to her a couple of days prior.

[Celtic Conservative]

I care, you just caught me at a bad time. My mother had one. I was 4, my sisters were in between 10 and 12. She begged to go back to finish raising us. I was with her when she died 35 years later. She was in at-home hospice. She just glided away.

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[JudyinCanada]

I have heard a number of these accounts and there’s just no way some of the circumstances can be explained by these “scientists” who are usually determined to spread their Godless beliefs.

I remember one lady in a hospital, dying in her bed. She left her body and went around various areas of the hospital, including the outside. She was brought back awhile later after flatlining, and they were quite surprised. She told them of her amazing encounter with God, what she saw, who she saw, etc. They assured her it was brain function, etc.

So she told them about certain people in certain rooms of the hospital. Then she told them to go and check the cement sill surrounding the outside of the building over on the west side, at around the 8th floor, as there was an old sneaker someone had tossed out there. They found the sneaker and didn’t say another word.

It’s out there, Laz. I guarantee you. Unless God decides that this corrupt and vicious world needs Christ to come back and straighten things up first. Either way, it’s our only hope. So, believe, be good, and love and forgive.

[MayflowerMadam]

“God isn’t giving tours of Heaven. You are to die once.”

Exactly.

[Larry Lucido]

I guess I’ll need noise canceling headphones in the afterlife. Can you recommend a brand?

[cgbg]

Excellent podcast:

https://podbay.fm/p/where-is-my-mind

Episode 5 is Near Death Experiences

Episode 6 is The Life Review

[JudyinCanada]

I’ve actually prayed and asked God to please skip that part with me. I am fully aware of my many failures and will feel great remorse. Yikes is right.

[Guenevere]

In my mother’s womb, God knew me, as He created me
He knows the plans He has for me

He knows my beginning ….and the date I pass into Glory
It is already written

When we die, if we know the Lord as Savior, our souls immediately go to Heaven

And on that great Judgment Day when He returns every knee shall bow, every tongue confess, that Jesus is Lord

And those who know him, who have been redeemed, even if now dead, will rise up…..renewed and complete…..and meet Him in the air
This is not from me…..this is found in His Word

[Candor7]

Whatever one might believe in terms of God, Jesus, Allah, or other religions, the fact is that the process of death itself has been mapped out for a thousand years in a Tibetan Text called the Bardo Thodol.

That map covers the dissolution of sensory perception, the order of that dissolution ( hearing is the last to go), and the process one goes through in transitioning through death into rebirth. Rebirth can occur into a heaven, or into another life with a corporeal body according to the text. How one arrives at the next life depends on the habitual aspects of ones heart at the time of death.If one habitually acts as a glutton, one can be reborn as such, for example.

The cycles of negative karma can either be gone through by acting habitually out, or transcended according to ones path of relating to the world while one is here on earth.

I highly recommend everyone to read this edition of the Tibetan "Book of the Dead" as it is called in the West.The true title the text is " “Liberation through Hearing in the Intermediate State (bardo)”

Reading his text, no matter what ones religion is, is very helpful , it does not create any problems. it just describes the process of death ( dissolution) and how one can achieve a favorable rebirth or how it is possible to escape the cycle of birth, old age ,sickness and death.

I highly recommend this version with a forward by my root teacher,Chogyam Trungpa, the Tibetan text of the Bardo Thodol translated by Francesca Freemantle:

Source Tibetan Book of Dead by Freemantle

[grobdriver]

Your best and your worst actions are all covered.

Uh oh - curtains for me.

[PGalt]

+ thanks

[Lazamataz]

The ones I find particularly confusing are those wherein the experiencers come back into their bodies with declarations like, "Everything you do during your life is good and fine. There is no guilt or reason to worry." This I find very strange because, like most of us, I have seen (and still see) some people do some really evil things.

I slept on this, and also those who objected to me saying God was (reportedly) without judgment.

Remember, you still have a life review, and during your life review you experience everything significant you did -- even as a child! -- from the perspective of your victim or beneficiary.

So, take Hitler: He'd have to experience the anguish and desolation of each and every Jew in the gas chamber... and that's just one of his actions!

Maybe it's not God that judges you. Maybe YOU judge you, during your life review. I wouldn't expect Hitler's, or Mussolini's, or Pol Pot's life review to be fun.

Not any fun at all.

[Lazamataz]

"Your best and your worst actions are all covered."

Uh oh - curtains for me.

If you are kidding, good one.

If not, start logging some good actions, so at least you will have those!

[Lazamataz]

I guess I’ll need noise canceling headphones in the afterlife. Can you recommend a brand?

Nossir. See, you will need experience-cancelling headphones, and I don't know of any of those.

[Danie_2023]

“Some people live their lives without ever really knowing their purpose in the world. I am not one of them.”

And some people live their lives neither knowing, nor caring, that they “have” a purpose in this life. You are blessed to know that truth.

[RoosterRedux]

Not all have life review experiences. And some who do find them quick and easy...not poignant.

While life reviews are a significant part of many NDEs, they do not occur in all cases. The content of an NDE can be influenced by a variety of factors, including cultural background, personal beliefs, and the circumstances of the NDE itself.

[lyby]

Appreciate your sharing, Laz.

Book(s) by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross helped me after my grandfather died when I was 21. (I was the oldest granddaughter born on his birthday.) His death from a heart attack while mending fence on the farm hit me very hard.

Kübler-Ross was a pioneer in hospice and palliative care and wrote “On Death and Dying” (1969) as well as numerous other books addressing NDE.

(LOL your joke about NeverTrumpers.)

[cgbg]

“you experience everything significant you did — even as a child! — from the perspective of your victim or beneficiary.”

Exactly correct.

Once you have done that you know what you need to know—and evasion is impossible. No outside judge is needed.

The leftist materialists believe they can get away with anything without consequences—major blunder.

[Lazamataz]

Ok, I’ll tell you two of the coolest experiences.

One young lady died on the operating table, and she hovered over her body for a bit. Then she got curious where her father was. She drifted through a few hospital walls to find him in the cafeteria.

She saw him there, buying a Reeses Peanut Butter cup. She remembers thinking, “Wow, that’s weird. He’s such a health fanatic, and he’s buying THAT!”

When she was brought back, much later she related her vision, and the dad was gobsmacked! “How did you see that! You were unconscious in an operating room!”

The other experience was even more profound. In it, the lady was directed that she had to come back. She didn’t want to, but it was decreed to her. She was given a laundry list of things she had yet to do.

One of them stuck out to her: Her son was going to die prematurely and she had to hold the family together through it, during its grief.

Her son was seven at the time.

So now she’s back, and every morning she wakes up, dreading the possibility... “Will he die today?”

This goes on, year after year, until finally she writes it off to a hallucination or something.

Then, at the age of 18, her son dies in a car wreck. She remembered her mission, and held the father and the two daughters together as a family.

Got chill bumps on that one.

[Ezekiel]

And that aligns with what Jesus said: To love God with all your heart, and to love your fellow man.

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Avalon

Would you like to know where this place is, Laz? Because I can show you exactly where it is. I've mentioned it before around here, but so far nobody has inquired. Maybe they think I'm joking around, but to know the Author of humor is to take these sorts of things as seriously as a heart attack.

You know how it goes... people don't really want to know because then they'd have to deal with it.

There's always the proverbial 2 x 4. It's a "staple of construction", just not in the way people thwa... think.