As is particle physics, but it's not a dream.
It's true.
The pain you feel today is the strength you'll have tomorrow.
Posted on 10/08/2012 3:01:21 PM PDT by WilliamIII
As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences. I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon. I followed my father’s path and became an academic neurosurgeon, teaching at Harvard Medical School and other universities. I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.
... In the fall of 2008, however, after seven days in a coma during which the human part of my brain, the neocortex, was inactivated, I experienced something so profound that it gave me a scientific reason to believe in consciousness after death.
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Atheist Professor’s Near-Death Experience in Hell Left Him Changed
I’ve seen and read of many “near death experiences,” and have kept an open mind, neither accepting nor rejecting the reality of this. But, this one strikes an off note for some reason.
The Pixar cartoonishness for one, the very vague feel good nature of it in contradiction to the Christianity he professes for another, but above all, it’s the sheer self-centered me me me of it all. Loved ones? Nope. An identifiable God presence? Nope, just waves washing through ... him.
How do you know? Have you been dead before?
When the Chinese draw pictures of Jesus, he looks Chinese. I suppose when the Irish draw pictures of Jesus, He has red hair. Maybe Jesus appears to us as what we identify with. But I think Jesus is pure beauty like we have never seen. Time will tell.
>>>There is nothing I can do wrong? Really? And I still go to Heaven no matter what? Cool!>>>
I believe the doctor was referring to when you ARE in Heaven.
I see a hand, Fred would you like to enlighten the class?
Well played. :)
wow! what a description of heaven and I believe and know it is all true. I have not discussed much my visitor from heaven one night over my bed as it filled my body with warmth. It also told me in a wordless way similar to the doctor’s description, that I am well loved and safe now. It has changed my life in amazing ways.
As is particle physics, but it's not a dream.
It's true.
The pain you feel today is the strength you'll have tomorrow.
I remember when my grandmother was in the hospital and we knew she was dying. She was 100. I remember hearing her having a conversation with her two sisters who had died before her. It was like they were welcoming her to Heaven. She died within the hour.
I also note that none of these "near death" experiences involve someone being revived in a terror struck state describing torment and suffering?
You owe me a new laptop keyboard!! LOL!!
“So heaven is unimaginable. For you, you should add.”
Not really. God Himself said that the human mind cannot encompass what He has prepared for us after this life.
Oh, there are ones like that. But most people who see a hellish situation don’t publicize their visions or experiences.
Sam’s Club used to sell the most beautiful Manger sets at Christmas — incrdibly detailed and dressed in “silk” robes. (I have one from several years ago.) The sets were different evey year, but they always came in 2 versions — black figures or white figures. The “white” set had one of the kings who was black, but the black set was all black (I think). The faces were the same — just the skin a different tone and the hair diffeent. Actually I liked the black version better because the colors had a little more depth, but I thought that the grandchildren wouldn’t understand.
The set I have is in a desert scene with a stone manger that looks like a ruined building and palm trees. It’s beautiful.
Very nice. :)
Fascinating story. It confirms a lot of things Christians have always suspected it was like. In a way, I’m glad he was such a skeptic beforehand.
It explains, as much as our earthly minds can fathom, some of the things we are told in Scripture about the joy and peace of Heaven that surpasses all understanding.
I can’t help but think that it will be on a completely different level.
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I think so too. How else can we be reunited with our parents and our children - people who intersect our own lives at very different stages.
But I also believe in near death experiences. My nephew, about age 4, fell out of a window, was unconscious for a time and when he regained consciousness, related that he had “dreamed” of going up in the air to the sky with balloons holding him up. He said it was a wonderful feeling. Could this have been how a four-year-old human brain interpreted what was happening to him?
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