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Life After Death
What really happens after we
die? How can we find out? One source of information is by talking to those
who have been pronounced dead, only to be revived several minutes later. In a
widespread phenomenon, large numbers of people who have been "dead", have come
back, and many of them have fascinating accounts of what it is like to be
dead...
There is a strong similarity
in these accounts, a similiar sequence of events...you may find yourself out
of your body, looking down at it, or standing off to the side. You will be
able to see and hear what is going on, and recall these things later. You may
try to communicate with the other people in the room, but to no avail.
And then, you may feel
compelled to leave the scene behind you, you may even feel as though you are
being pulled in a certain direction. A light may appear, at the end of a long
tunnel or hallway. You move towards the light-you cannot resist. You may see
someone you know who has died, you may be guided by others towards the light.
Once you get there, however, someone stops you from continuing. You may be
told "It's not your time," and you are sent back, to return to your body, to
be revived, once more a part of the living...
Some people have reported a
different scenario, however, especially those who have attempted suicide.
These people don't speak of white lights, and beautiful beings and a sense of
perfection, safety, peace. Some of these people report just the opposite.
They see and hear their loved ones weeping and asking "why?" wracked by the
grief of their suicide. They're shown others in torment, who are
suffering. There is no angelic beings, no loving guides, no white light, no
sense of love and peace. Are they being shown Hell?
People who have died and had
the white light experience claim they are no longer afraid to die. That they
KNOW we do not really die, that our spirits live on. How, then, must the
people who have the second experience feel? After all, you cannot avoid
death. If they're convinced that what they experienced was real, how do they
handle the fear that experience must have given them of death?
In spite of the sheer number
of reports from people who insist they know what it is to be dead, the
scientific and medical community may disagree. There may be a physical cause for the phenomena of the tunnel and white light
experience. As the brain begins to die, the chemical changes that begin to
occur cause the brain to hallucinate, to give a convincing but false
experience of the tunnel, the while light, the loved ones who come to guide
you. A defense mechanism of the brain, in other words. A last-ditch effort
to ease the death experience. Those who suffer the negative experience,
however, may suffer that due to guilt, or remorse, or simple fear. Not all
brains will hallucinate the same way, but the theory does make sense that an
organic cause is the reason for after death experiences.
I personally believe in life
after death. I believe in reincarnation, I believe in ghosts, spirits,
whatever you want to call them. I believe we don't really die, that our
spirits, our souls, our ESSENCE survives. In my mind, there is too much
evidence otherwise. In any event, the odds are that when I die, whether there
will be an ACTUAL white light waiting to welcome me, or whether my brain eases
the transition, what I see and experience then will convince me even more...
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