"Normal light" is what "luminescent" means, doofus.
This is what passes for journalism these days?
You mean there are not 72 virgins waiting there? Some people are going to be pissed!
I have always found this to be a fascinating subject. I personally don’t believe that we will ever know what eternity holds until we cross over to the other side. Many of us have our faith and our beliefs, and that will have to suffice while we walk the earth.
I’m wondering if there are any reports of the opposite, falling into Dante’s Inferno?
You know I have had expericences with this. Not personally but with people close to me including children.
When my youngest son had cancer(he died 8 months later. He was two years old in 1992), I had the privilege of meeting other children who after becoming terminal, related to their parents of the visions they had. One family in particular, who were totally agnostic, were converted to christianity because of their dying 8 year old son, Brendan who had visions before he died of angels telling him he will be going to heaven soon. Now, his parents forbade anything relgious in their lives up to that point.
Even my two yearold son, a month before he died while we were at treatment at UCSF. He was not terminal, there were every indication that he was going to beat his leukemia. He died a month later from septic shock due to a blood infection.
Anyway, while were there in May of 1992, unbeknownst to me, he started to give away personal items to people at UCSF including some patients. He gave away his matchbox cars, a item of clothing and a couple of his favorite books. I was told later what he did. HE KNEW!!! at two years old!!!
I do feel some small comfort in that for sure. The Lord is GREAT!!! I thank him for that Gift!!!
More recently, my brother who almosts died this summer, had a NDE, although he is still trying to put into context what happend to him. He told me this: Liz, mom and dad have a message for you....HANG IN THERE EVERYTHING WILL BE OK! There are other things he still cannot talk about.
Anyway, my experience.
While interesting, it really doesn’t impact my faith.
As a point of interest though, I will tell you that I have had many patients share such stories with me.
Two are stuck in my head.
One lady told me she had two experiences. At the time of the first she was a Christian and had an experience of total love, a bright light, told she has to go back. At the time of her second she was an adherent of a cult that hovers around the periphery of Christianity. This time she reported darkness and torment.
I also spoke with a gentleman who was an agnostic. He had a near death experience and told me that “Hell and retribution are real.” He was always a calm, composed guy, but when talking about this he became very aggitated, almost in a panic.
Nice post - thanks.
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The afterlife. Massachusetts just discovered it.
Baloney.
He has evidence that he just wrote a book.
Soon at fine retailers near you, of course.
I see them too. They’re called children and grandchildren. Obla di Obla da.
Bump for later.
Watch out! They’re setting the stage to make the case for putting Teddy Kennedy’s corpse back down in the Senate to finish his term!
And I was hittin' them all.
And it was GLORIOUS. My NDE was NUDE.
But then God said I gotta come back to Earth. :(
Maybe Rapini could describe to us what God looked like.../s
My dad was dying of cancer and heart disease. He was hurting. Then one day he opened his eyes and looked up, smiled a great big smile, held his arms out like he was about to hug someone above him, and died.
I wish they'd go into more detail on this. If a dying Muslim sees Allah/Mohammed/72 Virgins, and the Christians see Jesus, et al, then it IS a cultural thing. My own thinking is that it's just a "Death Mechanism" (for want of a better term), where the shutting down of the brain brings hallucinations. I understand scientists can recreate a "religious experience" by exciting a certain part of the brain, and if so, then the brain is just tapping into that area as you expire.