The Journey Home

Although the connection is obscured by the drama of the circumstances beneath which they occur, according to the author near death experiences are another form of mystic episodes.

People all around history have had times when they spontaneously — or deliberately sought, even though religious exercises — felt a deep connection with the Universe, Life, God, Love… nonetheless you may term it. It’s ofttimes called cosmic consciousness.

People describe it in dissimilar times, but it’s evidently a time of exceedingly heightened knowingness of the popular world as a lot of form of illusion. Or at least that the ways we view and experience space/time is an illusion, and that beyond it is a rudimentary reality given respective terms.

Of course, the main divergence amongst these types of experiences, which may occur at any time, and NDEs is that the latter are much more dramatic and have constituents that may be verified.

If a friend tells you they had a unfathomed experience of God while mowing their lawn, you may or may not be impressed.

However, if that same friend suffers a heart attack, goes into a flat line coma but later recovers talking regarding the Light, you’re going to be more impressed. That’s exceptionally unfeigned if they may accurately describe what happened in the hospital operating room while they were technically dead. Especially if the ER doctors and nurses assert it.

When people have no heart beat, their brain is receiving practically zero oxygen. When their EEGs are flat, their brains have no measurable activity.

This is not a state of sleep or dreaming — which is completely normal and natural — it’s a state where our brains are not even functioning. They surely ought to not be capable to think in the slightest, let alone go through unfathomed experiences of traveling through a tunnel, meeting dead loved ones and so on.

Berman notwithstanding examines both states by interviewing people he’s met through the years. He lets the persons tell their arousing and attention holding stories in their own words, and how their experiences changed them.

He makes the case that going through these kinds of peak experiences is psychologically healthy, based on how persons have changed afterward.

He makes the final point that life after death does stay unproven, but that death is a wake up call to live our lives better.

I agree, but find it hollow in the face of tragic grief.

And at galore point, even if we live our lives very well, we’ll be faced with the loss of a loved one or, at least, our own death. Then we’ll want to recognise the reality.

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