Question:
Verified OBEs and NDEs? Proof of Some Form of Afterlife?
2014-04-07 07:57:35 UTC
In assistance with my life after death research, there are many OBE's and NDE's (according to what I've read) that have been verified in the fact that people are able to accurately tell of events which happen outside of their field of view or any of the other senses. In addition to this, some experiences of this nature have, apparently, been told to have occurred during flat-lined EEG recordings and in the case of Pam Reynolds, whilst the brain was frozen to stop all processes during operation. Now, although the brain in many cases was not technically 'dead' since all were revived, and although there may be quantum processes yet undiscovered, the case of Pam Reynolds especially gives me reason to believe that consciousness may survive physical death. I would greatly appreciate your opinions on the subject: oxygen deprivation, DMT, natural death reaction, spiritual enlightenment, actual glimpses of the afterlife (my personal belief) etc. Please, no simple answers, please explain why you believe in your opinion, it would be very much appreciated. Also take a look at my other questions, this would also be very much appreciated :)
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2014-04-07 08:51:26 UTC
I have never had an OBE or a NDE, but my twin sister had a NDE and I can verify to the truthfulness of her story. Her account is reliable because I was the cause of my sister being concussed and taken to hospital. It happened in 1951 before she knew anything about God or religion and before the first satellite photos of earth were taken. Please note:



1) My sister did not see Jesus, or God or angels or dead relatives.

2) Nobody asked her to relate any experience after she revived.

3) The fact that this account is different to most other NDE’s is good. If every experience was exactly the same, the accusation would be made that it was an inbuilt evolutionary coping mechanism, or some such thing. Differences in details indicate a lack of collaboration with others, or of being influenced by a common story.



Here is her story: “When I was a toddler I was concussed, breaking my collar-bone, and was taken to hospital. I was too young to remember anything after hitting the ground (though I have a clear memory of the events leading up to the fall). I learned afterwards that the doctors in the hospital had to resuscitate me. One vivid memory was of looking down on planet earth from being way out in the universe. The blackness of the universe contrasted sharply with the vivid colours of earth. Linking me to the earth was a thin silvery thread or cord that curved from my left side down, down, down, back to earth. That dream-like snap-shot memory didn't make any sense until I was much older.



Despite parental teaching that there is nothing after death - no soul, no awareness - I later noted what Ecclesiastes chapter 12 says about the silver cord being broken at death, and our spirits returning to God, who gave them. I now realise that I was on my way back to God - my spirit had left my toddler body in the hospital. But it clearly wasn't my time, so I was brought back. Don't forget - this was when I was no more than a toddler - in the early 1950s, decades before out-of-body experiences were of popular interest, before satellites were orbiting earth sending back photos in November 1959, before we even had a black and white TV in our home. How could a toddler know she lived on a planet that looked like that, from outer space, a planet that was round and brilliantly coloured? And where in all creation would she 'know' about that silver cord?”



Check out the links below for more information on what has happened to other people. Howard Storm was an atheist, by the way, when he had his NDE.



LM
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2014-04-07 07:59:41 UTC
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) is the most junior and most populous order of chivalry in the British and other Commonwealth honours systems.[1] Often, if incorrectly, shortened to the simpler "Order of the British Empire", it was established on 4 June 1917 by King George V, and comprises five classes, in civil and military divisions, the most senior two of which make the recipient either a knight if male, or dame.[2] There is also the related British Empire Medal, whose recipients are affiliated with, but not members of, the Order.
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2016-04-21 12:38:55 UTC
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2014-04-07 08:14:03 UTC
OBE in England means: Order of the British Empire - can't think this is what you are talking about.



Mo

Atheist
Ernest S
2014-04-07 08:06:55 UTC
Moral awareness proves an afterlife.



Moral awareness cannot arise from nothing but must be given. Those dead to it remain forever dead to it, as with the animals who live only from instinct.



Moral awareness is totally nullified and rendered totally of no value or effect if there is no final judgement.



Moral awareness itself teaches that there must be a reckoning for wrongdoing. That is its self evident puurpose.



A final judgement can only be if there is an afterlife.







So the proof of God, a final judgement and an after life is with every single one. God has made sufficient known to every single one.



No one has any excuse and all are on warning.
Spacecloud
2014-04-07 08:02:48 UTC
Not one single claim of OBEs or NDEs has been verified.
Straightshooter3
2014-04-07 08:00:34 UTC
As it turns out, no OBE or NDE has been objectively or legitimately verified. Check your facts, and you'll discover that.
2014-04-07 08:00:50 UTC
The short answer is: not so far.
Artemis
2014-04-07 08:03:35 UTC
I believe in the afterlife. That we are souls - spiritual beings having a human experience. I believe because I have read many credible accounts of people's past-life regressions, near-death experiences, channeled messages, mediums, etc from many different sources from all over the world.



Such as this:



In 1980, a woman, Catherine, was being hypnotized by psychiatrist Dr Brian Weiss as a solution to her uncontrollable anxiety and nightmares. Unexpectedly, while under hypnosis, Catherine began to narrate events from the “between lives” state:



"Soon she saw herself floating above her body, drawn to the familiar light. Her head began to roll slowly from side to side, as if she were scanning some scene. What she said next left me breathless, pulling the air from my lungs.



"Your father is here, and your son, who is a small child. Your father says you will know him because his name is Avrom, and your daughter is named after him. Also, his death was due to his heart. Your son's heart was also important, for it was backward, like a chicken's. HE MADE A GREAT SACRIFICE FOR YOU OUT OF HIS LOVE. His soul is very advanced. . . , His death satisfied his parents' debts. Also he wanted to show you that medicine could only go so far, that its scope is very limited."



Catherine stopped speaking, and I sat in an awed silence as my numbed mind tried to sort things out. Catherine knew very little about my personal life. I had been well schooled in traditional psychotherapeutic techniques. The therapist was supposed to be a tabula rasa, a blank tablet upon which the patient could project her own feelings, thoughts, and attitudes. I had kept this therapeutic distance with Catherine. She really knew me only as a psychiatrist, nothing of my past or of my private life. I had never even displayed my diplomas in the office.



THE GREATEST TRAGEDY IN MY LIFE HAD BEEN THE UNEXPECTED DEATH OF OUR FIRSTBORN SON, ADAM, who was only twenty-three days old when he died, early in 1971. About ten days after we had brought him home from the hospital, he had developed respiratory problems and "Total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage with an atrial septal defect," we were told. "It occurs once in approximately every ten million births." The pulmonary veins, which were supposed to bring oxygenated blood back to the heart, were incorrectly routed, entering the heart on the wrong side. It was as if his heart were turned around, backward. Extremely, extremely rare. Heroic open-heart surgery could not save Adam, who died several days later. We mourned for months, our hopes and dreams dashed. Our son, Jordan, was born a year later, a grateful balm for our wounds.



At the time of Adam's death, I had been wavering about my earlier choice of psychiatry as a career. After Adam's death, I firmly decided that I would make psychiatry my profession. I was angry that modern medicine, with all of its advanced skills and technology, could not save my son, this simple, tiny baby. My father had been in excellent health until he experienced a massive heart attack early in 1979, at the age of sixty-one, and he died three days later. His Hebrew name, Avrom, suited him better than the English, Alvin. Four months after his death, our daughter, Amy, was born, and she was named after him.



Here, in 1982, in my quiet, darkened office, a deafening cascade of hidden, secret truths was pouring upon me. Catherine could not possibly know this information. Th re was no place even to look it up. My father's Hebrew name, that I had a son who died in infancy from a one-in-ten million heart defect, my brooding about medicine, my father's death, and my daughter's naming-it was too much, too specific, too true. This unsophisticated laboratory technician was a conduit for transcendental knowledge.



"Who," I asked, "who is there? Who tells you these things?"



"The Masters," she whispered, "the Master Spirits tell me. They tell me I have lived eighty-six times in physical state." Catherine's breathing slowed, and her head stopped rolling from side to side. She was resting.”



Many Lives Many Masters - Dr Brian Weiss

A graduate of Columbia University and Yale Medical School, Brian L. Weiss M.D. is Chairman Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami.


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