Posted on 11/09/2006 4:41:54 AM PST by KarinG1
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I believe this - I have 2 friends that have experienced "the light" and both explained it in similar terms. One experienced it as a child - one as an 45 year old. I find the whole thing fascinating.
They are probably no more than lucid dreams.
"I really do believe that we're here to learn about compassion and love, and anytime we're not doing that, we're not doing our job,"
Seems so easy but such a difficult thing to do...I believe the better you can aspire to these true virtues, the better person you are. Unfortunately, it is the flaw of the human character to stray from such ideals. We are fortunate we have a forgiving God.
I had a near-death experience late Tuesday night watching the returns come in. Wasn't that great.
I read a book about such. Good book:
My Descent Into Death: A Second Chance at Life
by Howard Storm
"Paris, the City of Light..."
This happened to my sister. She was drowning in a river. Her husband "saved" her. She described a similar experience. Did not want to "come back." Yes, there is more to life than this. My thoughts, "Behave yourself and God, our true father, will teach you His love for others." What is this experience for those who worship a god of hate?
If so, they must be caused by archetypes buried somewhere deeply. Usually people's dreams are pretty individualized and do not follow somene else's script.
People want to believe in this, so they believe in it. The mind is a very powerful force and can come up with all kinds of visions and experiences that aren't real.
"I had a near-death experience late Tuesday night watching the returns come in."
LOL!
You should have turned the rooms lights off and put the TV on a blank channel and pretend it was "the light".
Before reading comments on your post I know what I am going to find. Just a trick of the mind, just the oxygen leaving the brain causes such events.
I bet you will get some rather disturbing remarks from your post.
People have strayed so for away from God they hold no belief in life after death.
While I have never experienced this near death event in my life I do carry a peace as you describe. It is a peace I have everyday because I love the Lord Jesus Christ and only he gives such peace.
"They are probably no more than lucid dreams."
Wouldn't a 4 year old hallucinate something more fitting for a 4 year old mind then? Why not being carried away on a pretty pink pony, or running in a sunny field with a fluffy puppy? Or, if the young 4 year old was raised in a bad home, like a crack whore's house, mean cussing men monsters dragging them into a fiery darkness? For those who claim out of body experiences, it seems that none of the various life styles they may have been influenced by changes this hallucination, it always seems to be one of intense warm light, a sense of a powerful peace and love.
Thanks for clearing that up for me ...
I remember reading a near-death experience of a man who actually experienced it very negatively - it appeared he was on his way to hell. It also changed his life tremendously, he eventually joined the clergy.
it is my earliest memory - and i never spoke of it to anyone except my wife, well before Ive become a Christian. I didnt understand it until my mother explained my birth when I was a teen. I apparently strangled on the cord and was purple and essentially dead when I was delivered. I experienced nothing more than a figure I would later understand as Christ telling me "it's not your time".
I have an older freind that actually argued with the emt's for repeatedly bringing him back from a heart attack. He explained a serene peace.
could be nothing more than neurons firing, or endorphines being released....but its always reminded me that Christ is with me
Im a pastor today
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