Recently, the phenomenon of near-death experience (NDE) has attracted more and more attention of scientific society and general public.
There are many books in Western literature that describe, systematize, and try to understand this phenomenon. Some scientists, resuscitators, hospice workers are trying to approach this phenomenon from a scientific point of view. Several articles have recently appeared in scientific journals on NDE. Since there is a lot of literature describing near-death experiences, I will not go into detail about this phenomenon here.
Generally, we can say that near-death experiences allow us to draw the following conclusions:
1. The existence of the personality continues after doctors confirm the cessation of vital body functions and brain function.
2. NDE survivors report amazing peace, a sense of safety, calmness and security.
3. Many meet their dead relatives and friends, other luminous beings radiating immense peace and love.
4. Everyone meets a being of light radiating unconditional love. Many have an irresistible desire to connect with this being and stay forever together. All people identify this being as the force, the center and the root cause of everything. Some call the being God, although they emphasize that our word God is too primitive in this case.
5. Return to the body is perceived with great pain and constrains. As if you were placed in small cage. There is a case when one woman experienced near-death experiences during a surgery and then, after she was released from the hospital, she tried to commit suicide in order to go "there" again. And again, when she tried to commit suicide, she had the same experience of unconditional love, peace and tranquility.
6. Meeting with a luminous being (God), unconditional love, unconditional acceptance, the joy of light beings about that person occurs regardless of gender, race, religion (or lack of it), age, country of residence, education, sexual preferences (there are many testimonies of homosexual men who have experienced clinical death, and who describe their near-death experiences in the same way as all other people who have experienced clinical death - love, absolute acceptance, joy, safety and freedom), worldviews, method of death (accident, suicide, disease).
7. The experience is so far beyond our normal perception that people do not find words to describe their experiences, simply because we do not have such words.
It would seem that we are finally beginning to slowly open the veil of the mystery of death. We begin to understand that consciousness continues to exist after death of physical body, that people experience unconditional love, joy, ecstasy. The major religions should finally feel relief and rejoice, because after all now it is becoming more and more obvious that there is some form of afterlife.
However, most of the major religions treat NDEs with disapproval and criticism. After all, they consider NDEs just as hallucinations (well, can you imagine that God loves gays?!?), or a deception from the evil one (as many Christian theologians interpret this phenomenon). Like a trap into which the devil, skillfully pretending to be a boundless unconditional love, light, center and cause of everything, thus deceives poor people into the hell. I will not discuss the problems with logic of such theological explanation. I just want to say that this kind of reaction from churches is to be expected. No major world religion will fully accept the testimonies of people who have had NDEs, for two very obvious reasons.
Everyone who has had a near-death experience declares that faith, religion, dogmas, do not matter. Atheists, Christians, Buddhists, Muslims have exactly the same experience. Experience of unconditional love and acceptance. There are many cases where Christians who had near-death experiences left the church after that, became less religious but more spiritual because dogma and religion did not fit into their own out-of-body experiences.
1. For the church, this means that everything they have done for 2000 years actually does not matter. Dogmas, faith, rituals, prayers, baptisms, weddings, etc. makes absolutely no sense. The ideas on which churches base their activities have nothing to do with what people experience during their near-death experience. It is absolutely impossible to give up all your dogma, your rightness, your faith (for which many religions killed a huge number of people), to admit that you have been doing nonsense for 2000 years.
2. Acceptance of near-death experiences and rejection of rituals and dogmas means that the church will lose control, power, influence and of course money.
I think in the future, scientists, resuscitators, psychologists will learn more and more about the essence of human consciousness and its existence outside the body, at the same time as churches will fight harder and harder for their survival, as always rejecting reality and everything else trying hard to manipulate people's minds. But I'm sure that the reality will still win.
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