Does a Spirit world exist? Is life after death a reality? (Kindly read the following article patiently) A near-death experience (NDE) refers to personal experiences associated with impending death, encompassing multiple possible sensations including detachment from the body, feelings of levitation, total serenity, security, warmth, the experience of absolute dissolution, and the presence of a light. These phenomena are usually reported after an individual has been pronounced clinically dead or has been very close to death. With recent developments in cardiac resuscitation techniques, the number of reported NDEs has increased. Researchers have identified the common elements that define near-death experiences. Bruce Greyson argues that the general features of the experience include impressions of being outside ones physical body, visions of deceased relatives and religious figures, and transcendence of egotic and spatiotemporal boundaries. The traits of a classic NDE are as follows: 1. The notice of unpleasant sound or noise (claimed by R. Moody). 2. A sense/awareness of being dead. 3. A sense of peace, well-being and painlessness. Positive emotions. A sense of removal from the world. 4. An out-of-body experience. A perception of ones body from an outside position. Sometimes observing doctors and nurses performing medical resuscitation efforts. 5. A tunnel experience. A sense of moving up, or through, a passageway or staircase. 6. A rapid movement toward and/or sudden immersion in a powerful light. Communication with the light. 7. An intense feeling of unconditional love and acceptance. 8. Encountering Beings of Light, Beings dressed in white, or similar. Also, the possibility of being reunited with deceased loved ones. 9. Receiving a life review. 10. Receiving knowledge about ones life and the nature of the universe. 11. Approaching a border, or a decision by oneself or others to return to ones body, often accompanied by a reluctance to return. 12. Connection to the cultural beliefs held by the individual, which seem to dictate the phenomena experienced in the NDE and the later interpretation thereof (Holden, Janice Miner. Handbook of Near-Death Experiences. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publishing Data, 2009.). Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-death_experience When the famous English novelist, Somerset Maugham, was expiring in France, aged 91, he summoned the world-class atheist, A. J. Ayer, like a priest to his deathbed, to reassure him that there was no afterlife. Professor Ayer duly delivered the words of consolation Maugham longed to hear. But when Ayer himself was dying two decades later, he wasnt so sure. Having choked on a piece of smoked salmon that stopped his heart for at least four minutes, the famed philosopher saw, and heard things he had spent a lifetime denying. On his return from he knew not where, Ayer wrote a chagrined but enigmatic account of what has become known in Britain and beyond as a near-death experience (NDE). Ayers account of his own NDE, for a man of such formidable intellect, was surprisingly similar to most of the others on record, though more elegantly observed. He wrote of a red light for governing the universe and some barrier he crossed, like the River Styx. The experience, he said, weakened my conviction that death would be the end of me, though I continue to hope it will be. For Ayer to admit doubt about his life-long conviction no God, no afterlife shook the academic establishment in Britain. As a student, he had debated with some of the greatest minds in the country, including the Jesuit Fr. Martin dArcy who described Ayer as the most dangerous man in Oxford University. Not bad at age 21! Following the classic route of Eton, Oxford and the (Welsh) Guards, Ayer became that rare thing, a popularly-known philosopher, mostly through his appearances on the BBC radio program, the Brains Trust. None of his circle, however, denied Ayers claim to have had an extraordinary experience while his heart was stopped. And a year later, his wife said, Freddie has been so much nicer since he died. What his friends questioned was whether his NDE account was the entire truth. Now the surgeon who attended him has broken a long silence. He told an author who wrote a play about the affair: Ayer told me he saw the Supreme Being. There was no further elucidation. The physician said simply that when Ayer recovered, he told me he saw the Supreme Being. His friends were astounded. Ayer had admitted there was a god! Was this another joke? If not, why did he withhold it from his story? Was it that he could not face the possibility that he had built a glittering career on a false premise? And, given below is the analysis of NDEs of Atheists: Dr. Kenneth Ring concludes that religious belief is not required: Religious orientation was not a factor affecting either the likelihood or the depth of the near-death experience. An atheist was as likely to have one as was a devoutly religious person. Regardless of their prior attitudes - whether skeptical or deeply religious - and regardless of the many variations in religious beliefs and degrees of skepticism from tolerant disbelief to outspoken atheism - most of these people were convinced that they had been in the presence of some supreme and loving power and had a glimpse of a life yet to come. Almost all who experienced a NDE found their lives transformed and a change in their attitudes and values, and in their inclination to love and to help others. Some atheists do not need to have a NDE to have their life changed. Dr. Diane Komp, a pediatric oncologist at Yale, was transformed by hearing about childrens NDE reports, such as that of an 8-year-old with cancer envisioning a school bus driven by Jesus, a 7-year-old leukemia patient hearing a chorus of angels before passing away. Dr. Komp states the following about her conversion: I was an atheist, and it changed my view of spiritual matters. Call it a conversion. I came away convinced that these are real spiritual experiences. Dr. Raymond Moody concluded that the identity of the Being of Light is based on the experiencers religious background: Of all the possible near-death elements, the light exerted the greatest influence on the individual. Patients interpreted the light as a being - a being that radiated love and warmth. Christians recognized the light as Christ. Atheists identified the spirit only as a guide. (The Light Beyond, p.22) Source: near-death/experiences/atheists01.html#a01 My conclusions based on the above data: 1. There is after-life. Our spirit being continues to live, separately from the body, even after we die. So death is not a the end as scientists and evolutionists claim. A Spirit world does exist and in it there are spirit-beings of various kinds such as angels, demons (gods) and humans. There is no evidence, whatsoever, of human spirits being transformed in to ants, rams or buffaloes and therefore the vedic concept of re-incarnation is far off the truth. 2. God is a Being: a Powerful (light) Person who can communicate with us and not an undefined, infinite, formless consciousness as Advaita and all other Eastern religions such a Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism claim. 3. God is a Loving person and among the monotheistic beliefs that exist today only the Bible claims that God is love. And, it also says, that He so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. (John 3: 16) Jesus said: And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? (Mark 8: 36) So do not forfeit your own soul; but trust in Jesus sacrifice and make sure you remain in Him, being led by His spirit every day, for He alone is the true way (to eternal life).
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