Tag: death
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Scoping Near Death Experience
As you may know, I have an interest in the topic of near death experiences (NDEs). I believe there is now enough evidence in the scientific literature as well as enough quality first-person accounts to suggest some form of veridical experience occurs in the first few minutes of cardiac arrest (we cannot know further out…
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We do.

Nothing we do can stop time’s passage and all the things that keep happening that we don’t want, like aging and loss. Even with a very deep and well-established practice that has grown new neurons and reduced stress and accomplished everything else that scientific studies promise, even then we still touch the sadness of life.…
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Near-death Experiences in Childhood.
I am currently reading Consciousness Beyond Life, The Science of the Near-Death Experience by Pim van Lommel M.D. My full review will follow once I finish it but the chapter on children and near-death experiences (NDEs) led me to look up one of the papers mentioned in the book. The first systematic study of NDE’s…
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Near death experiences and a change in worldview
Hans Zingmark (a pulmonologist) and Anetth Granberg-Axell (a retired physician) wanted to examine the worldview-altering impact of near-death experiences (NDEs) amongst a group of survivors of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) in Sweden. Suspending their judgements on whether NDEs are veridical, they wanted to study these reports from a phenomenological perspective. That is, they felt that…
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90 seconds.
90 seconds.still plenty of timeto forget The DOOMSDAY clock has recently been adjusted to stand at 90 seconds to midnight. It has never been this close. What is the Doomsday clock? SOURCE: https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/timeline/ Ok, 90 seconds. Bullet point the reasons for me. SOURCE: https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/nuclear-risk/ Listen, now you are depressing me. Can’t you just review a…
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Do you remain awake for a short time after having your head lopped off?
OK, I don’t even know what to do with this. I came across it looking for something else. And if you are squeamish you might want to move on right about now. But. I know that when you watch a movie, like Game of Thrones or some other horror movie or period piece, and somebody…
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4 documents that probably need your attention too.
“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” ― Isaac Asimov Kelly and I are preparing for our next road trip in a couple of weeks.We thought it was about time to button up four important things that until now we have left in a perpetual state of half-arsed incompletion. 1. Will. 2.…
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A Dutch study on NDE.
A Near-Death Experience (NDE) is a form of non-ordinary experience that can be summarised as: “the reported memory of a range of impressions during a special state of consciousness, including a number of special and universal reported elements such as an out-of-body experience, pleasant feelings, seeing a tunnel, a light, deceased relatives, a life review,…

