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Afterlife: Near Death Experiences, Neuroscience, Quantum Physics and the Increasing Evidence for Life After Death
Since the fall of mankind, death has been an unavoidable element faced by each man and woman who walks this planet. For some, this subject is the source of great anxiety, while others accept this to be a natural part of life. For those with a religious belief system, convictions therein play a great role in what a person feels can be anticipated when this life is concluded. But, what does the Bible say on this matter? How does one reconcile such elements as the Near-Death or Out-of-Body Experience to his or her religious views? Is there really an Afterlife, or do we cease to exist when we die? In Afterlife, you will Real-life stories of Near-Death and Out-of-Body experiences as told by those who experienced them What quantum physics, quantum consciousness, and neuroscience teach us about the manifestation of life after death What it really means to communicate with the dead About the surprising implications made through the Shroud of Turin, and how this single artifact could revolutionize your view of religion How ancient cultural and religious views impact what you believe about the Afterlife Where ambiguous phrases such as Abrahams Bosom and Purgatory originated and what they really mean Where tough questions such If God is such a loving God, why does He send people to Hell? are tackled. The truth about the origins and conditions of Heaven and Hell, and how modern deceptions and misconceptions could misdirect where you spend eternity How resurrection proves the existence of God Surprising elements about our future, resurrected bodies How to prepare for the Afterlife so that you can live forever!
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Published February 1, 2020
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April 6, 2024
A BOOK COVERING NDEs, THE SHROUD OF TURIN, AND OTHER CONCEPTS
The Introduction to this 2019 book explains, “Where do we go when we die? For a Christian the quick answer may SEEM as simple as ‘Heaven’ or ‘Hell,’ yet there are many within the Church who shy away from touching on the subject in-depth because it is so hard to answer related questions with a sense of authority… Many people find such questions… hard to answer; tougher still are such questions as ‘Why does God send people to Hell?’ … Beyond the theological difficulty … is the well-founded caution many have toward ideas such as communication with the dead, the existence of ghosts, the phenomenon of hauntings, and near-death or out-of-body experiences… In the pages of this book, [we the authors] attempt to unravel the mysteries of such confusing modern phenomena while offering a biblical foundation.”
Josh Peck recounts, “I wasn’t seeking an experience… I had recently been saved… and I was watching TV in bed… Yet, it would turn out to be one of the most profound moments in my Christian life… While I still have many questions about what happened to me, this was the first and strongest taste of eternity I’ve ever had… I am reminded of the apostle Paul’s words in 2 Corinthians 12:3, because they seem to describe something similar to what I experienced… I write ‘similar,’ not ‘exactly,’ because I don’t believe I died… I would say my experience falls in the realm of an OBE rather than an NDE… I had an experience that I cannot fully explain. I don’t know if I was in the body or out of the body. Only God knows… I still don’t know the purpose of the experience or why that message was taught to me… I also often wonder how literally I should take what had happened…. Had I been in Heaven, or was this a dream or a vision in which God was using experiential metaphors to teach me a higher truth… more about His love for us?” (Pg. 16-19)
The authors state, “the concept that an NDE could be an altered state of mind, dream, or hallucination due to traumatic injury, blood loss, etc., seems refuted by several facts. The unknowable and accurate details given by patients who were unconscious or clinically dead gives credibility to this phenomenon… a strong consistency through NDE reports crosses age, religious, ethnic, and cultural barriers. If this were a phenomenon designed within the mind of an individual, surely cultural, social, economic, or other facts would impact the visions or subsequent interpretation. Even those who are barely old enough to communicate verbally report similar factors as the elderly. Another element that adds credibility to the reality of NDEs is the fact that those who have experienced them usually return changed… Love becomes a forerunning theme throughout the rest of their lives… the NDErs seem to transition toward spending more resources on interpersonal connection, quality of life, and their newfound sense of purpose and mission.” (Pg. 92-94)
They note, “recent decades have procured life-saving measures… that add considerable time to the process that occurs to the brain at the time of death, allowing people to linger at the edge of death and then return to the living with stories of their experiences… Likewise, it validates the assertions … that the brain remains active after someone is considered medically dead. The distinction between ‘clinically dead’ (the dying process in the brain has completed) and ‘medically dead’ (the heart has stopped, breathing has stopped, etc.) can mean that a period between the two leaves a person standing between the two worlds of life and death until the brain has completed its dying process.” (Pg. 113)
They suggest, “we can begin to understand how something consisting of an extraphysical dimension would see us. An extradimensional being would be able to see all sides of us, including the inside and outside, at the same time. Such a thing is impossible for us to form a clear picture of in our minds due to our limited, three-dimensional understanding and perspective; yet, we can at least grasp the concept.” (Pg. 122)
They then turn to the Shroud of Turin, observing, “Some believe that a statue-like object… was heated and pressed into the linen… Of all the origin theories, this one makes the most sense alongside the scientific information… However… the alterations of the fibers … don’t add up to what we see on the Shroud, and we still have the blood to answer for…” (Pg. 157-158)
Of the carbon-dating of the Shroud, they comment, “we shouldn’t assume that one single cut-and-0test of the linen is the golden standard when we have so much evidence … that the sindon is much older than AD 1260-1390… the results [should] be considered as a POSSIBILITY, and not as an ABSOLUTE, until more data can be compiled. Archaeologists are actually quite bewildered at how seriously this single radiocarbon dating test … has been taken by the world.” (Pg. 193)
They summarize, “These authors… find it interesting how quickly the world will find any explanation under the sun except the most obvious, just to avoid admitting that maybe, just maybe, we actually do have our hands on ‘the’ holy sindon of the Son… if science proved tomorrow that the Shroud was … a forgery, our belief in Jesus… would not falter… But one thing needs to be said: Most often, alternative original theories about the Shroud… take far more faith to believe than just believing the cloth is what it represents itself to be. And if it IS the authentic burial cloth of Christ, then it DOES tell the story of a man who died for the sake of the world… who left proof of His deity … in a photo-finish artifact that we couldn’t ever---and maybe weren’t ever supposed to---decode.:” (Pg. 202)
About the interpretation of Jesus promising ‘Paradise… today’ to the thief on the cross, they explain that some “maintain that upon Jesus’ death, the ‘waiting place’ was opened, allowing all souls therein to ascend to Heaven, and that THIS is what Jesus promised the man… [Another theory is] that the righteous have always gone immediately to Heaven upon death; there are not now, now have there even been, locations such as Limbo OR Purgatory.” (Pg. 235)
They consider the ‘Annihilation’ theory: “Some contend that casting all those who died without faith in Christ … along with death and Hell, into the Lake of fire, spoken of as the ‘second death,’ is a picture of final annihilation. They believe that … this is the final termination of the existence of the soul. Reinforcing this concept is that while the Bible speaks of eternal life, the Bible does not use the term ‘eternal death’… According to this thought, the suffering in Hell of those who die without Christ is forever terminated they are when cast into the Lake of Fire. Though this sounds ruthless, the other possibility sound exceedingly cruel, and if it were not in Scripture, would almost be unbelievable.” (Pg. 266)
They also add, “Some believe that the resurrection of damnation is taught throughout Scripture to be everlasting, day and night forever and ever. Others state that it equals a total annihilation of those sent to the Lake of Fire, who subsequently will cease to exist. Both concepts are terrifying, as each represents permanent and eternal separation from God.” (Pg. 268)
This book will be of interest to Christians studying such topics.
The Introduction to this 2019 book explains, “Where do we go when we die? For a Christian the quick answer may SEEM as simple as ‘Heaven’ or ‘Hell,’ yet there are many within the Church who shy away from touching on the subject in-depth because it is so hard to answer related questions with a sense of authority… Many people find such questions… hard to answer; tougher still are such questions as ‘Why does God send people to Hell?’ … Beyond the theological difficulty … is the well-founded caution many have toward ideas such as communication with the dead, the existence of ghosts, the phenomenon of hauntings, and near-death or out-of-body experiences… In the pages of this book, [we the authors] attempt to unravel the mysteries of such confusing modern phenomena while offering a biblical foundation.”
Josh Peck recounts, “I wasn’t seeking an experience… I had recently been saved… and I was watching TV in bed… Yet, it would turn out to be one of the most profound moments in my Christian life… While I still have many questions about what happened to me, this was the first and strongest taste of eternity I’ve ever had… I am reminded of the apostle Paul’s words in 2 Corinthians 12:3, because they seem to describe something similar to what I experienced… I write ‘similar,’ not ‘exactly,’ because I don’t believe I died… I would say my experience falls in the realm of an OBE rather than an NDE… I had an experience that I cannot fully explain. I don’t know if I was in the body or out of the body. Only God knows… I still don’t know the purpose of the experience or why that message was taught to me… I also often wonder how literally I should take what had happened…. Had I been in Heaven, or was this a dream or a vision in which God was using experiential metaphors to teach me a higher truth… more about His love for us?” (Pg. 16-19)
The authors state, “the concept that an NDE could be an altered state of mind, dream, or hallucination due to traumatic injury, blood loss, etc., seems refuted by several facts. The unknowable and accurate details given by patients who were unconscious or clinically dead gives credibility to this phenomenon… a strong consistency through NDE reports crosses age, religious, ethnic, and cultural barriers. If this were a phenomenon designed within the mind of an individual, surely cultural, social, economic, or other facts would impact the visions or subsequent interpretation. Even those who are barely old enough to communicate verbally report similar factors as the elderly. Another element that adds credibility to the reality of NDEs is the fact that those who have experienced them usually return changed… Love becomes a forerunning theme throughout the rest of their lives… the NDErs seem to transition toward spending more resources on interpersonal connection, quality of life, and their newfound sense of purpose and mission.” (Pg. 92-94)
They note, “recent decades have procured life-saving measures… that add considerable time to the process that occurs to the brain at the time of death, allowing people to linger at the edge of death and then return to the living with stories of their experiences… Likewise, it validates the assertions … that the brain remains active after someone is considered medically dead. The distinction between ‘clinically dead’ (the dying process in the brain has completed) and ‘medically dead’ (the heart has stopped, breathing has stopped, etc.) can mean that a period between the two leaves a person standing between the two worlds of life and death until the brain has completed its dying process.” (Pg. 113)
They suggest, “we can begin to understand how something consisting of an extraphysical dimension would see us. An extradimensional being would be able to see all sides of us, including the inside and outside, at the same time. Such a thing is impossible for us to form a clear picture of in our minds due to our limited, three-dimensional understanding and perspective; yet, we can at least grasp the concept.” (Pg. 122)
They then turn to the Shroud of Turin, observing, “Some believe that a statue-like object… was heated and pressed into the linen… Of all the origin theories, this one makes the most sense alongside the scientific information… However… the alterations of the fibers … don’t add up to what we see on the Shroud, and we still have the blood to answer for…” (Pg. 157-158)
Of the carbon-dating of the Shroud, they comment, “we shouldn’t assume that one single cut-and-0test of the linen is the golden standard when we have so much evidence … that the sindon is much older than AD 1260-1390… the results [should] be considered as a POSSIBILITY, and not as an ABSOLUTE, until more data can be compiled. Archaeologists are actually quite bewildered at how seriously this single radiocarbon dating test … has been taken by the world.” (Pg. 193)
They summarize, “These authors… find it interesting how quickly the world will find any explanation under the sun except the most obvious, just to avoid admitting that maybe, just maybe, we actually do have our hands on ‘the’ holy sindon of the Son… if science proved tomorrow that the Shroud was … a forgery, our belief in Jesus… would not falter… But one thing needs to be said: Most often, alternative original theories about the Shroud… take far more faith to believe than just believing the cloth is what it represents itself to be. And if it IS the authentic burial cloth of Christ, then it DOES tell the story of a man who died for the sake of the world… who left proof of His deity … in a photo-finish artifact that we couldn’t ever---and maybe weren’t ever supposed to---decode.:” (Pg. 202)
About the interpretation of Jesus promising ‘Paradise… today’ to the thief on the cross, they explain that some “maintain that upon Jesus’ death, the ‘waiting place’ was opened, allowing all souls therein to ascend to Heaven, and that THIS is what Jesus promised the man… [Another theory is] that the righteous have always gone immediately to Heaven upon death; there are not now, now have there even been, locations such as Limbo OR Purgatory.” (Pg. 235)
They consider the ‘Annihilation’ theory: “Some contend that casting all those who died without faith in Christ … along with death and Hell, into the Lake of fire, spoken of as the ‘second death,’ is a picture of final annihilation. They believe that … this is the final termination of the existence of the soul. Reinforcing this concept is that while the Bible speaks of eternal life, the Bible does not use the term ‘eternal death’… According to this thought, the suffering in Hell of those who die without Christ is forever terminated they are when cast into the Lake of Fire. Though this sounds ruthless, the other possibility sound exceedingly cruel, and if it were not in Scripture, would almost be unbelievable.” (Pg. 266)
They also add, “Some believe that the resurrection of damnation is taught throughout Scripture to be everlasting, day and night forever and ever. Others state that it equals a total annihilation of those sent to the Lake of Fire, who subsequently will cease to exist. Both concepts are terrifying, as each represents permanent and eternal separation from God.” (Pg. 268)
This book will be of interest to Christians studying such topics.
October 5, 2024
The cover is this book says “Near Death Experiences, Neuroscience, Quantum Physics and evidence for life after death.” It started out great but it quickly became a Christianity-focused sermon that tells incorrect information about pagan deities. These “stories” of NDE are by Christian’s who simply want to confirm that the Bible tells the truth. This book contains very little quantum data or scientific information. It discusses “mythology” as if Christianity is superior to all other belief systems in the world. The amount of influence from other religions and cultures is astounding and no one can say for certain that the Bible is even accurate.
A quote from this book “ when we compare the Bible to ancient Greek thought, the Greeks get a lot of stuff wrong.” The Christian superiority of this book is total BS. “other religions were able to get the basic ideas correct, but missed the mark with the particulars.” A quote that perfectly describes the superiority complex of Christians today.
This book is NOT focused on the science behind NDE’s but rather the teachings of the Bible. No thank you.
A quote from this book “ when we compare the Bible to ancient Greek thought, the Greeks get a lot of stuff wrong.” The Christian superiority of this book is total BS. “other religions were able to get the basic ideas correct, but missed the mark with the particulars.” A quote that perfectly describes the superiority complex of Christians today.
This book is NOT focused on the science behind NDE’s but rather the teachings of the Bible. No thank you.
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