Is there Life After Death?
Many survivors of near death experiences firmly hold the belief in life after death. These near death-experienced survivors simply don’t think there is a God, they claim they know it. In the article titled Is There Life After Death? the authors Brendan Koerner and Joshua Rich discuss what some psychiatrists such as Bruce Greyson, seem to believe. Greyson has spent years studying the evidence of the mystical. These near death experiences are not new, with stories dating back to over two millenniums ago and these tales from the realm are not limited to the western world. Many stories have emerged from places such as Micronesia and India, with each experience being different for each person, usually based on their background. Often these stories consisted of seeing a while light or a tunnel, finding peace on the other side, finding a rainbow or viewing loved ones while floating above one’s physical body.
Until recently many people dismissed these so called experiences as hallucinations or inventions and many of the people who have described these experiences, fear being labeled as crazy. Perceptions in the medical community began to change when author Raymond Moody published Life After Life. In this book, Moody had interviewed over 150 people who reported their near death experiences. Moody found that the people who claimed to have had these experiences often became less materialistic and more loving. Often these people became more spiritual.
Other psychiatrists and neuroscientists believe these experiences cannot be corroborated. There is absolutely no proving that these experiences cannot be explained away. One neuroscientist claims to have induced these NDE’s (near death experiences), by stimulating the brain. Physiological findings offer glimpses that perhaps the insight is into the human mind, or the experiences into the afterlife result from the brain trying to block trauma.
While many people are instrumental in gathering information, I believe actual experiences cannot be proven. I think it may be possible that some people may have been given a glimpse of an afterlife and after reading some of the accounts, I am touched that people can hold such strong convictions about what they see, so strong that it helps them pass into death, feeling more peaceful with acceptance. I think of these people when I read about children, who at the brink of death see what they believe to be Jesus, leading them into an afterlife. I can’t help but wonder if this is what they have been told and taught to believe or if they actually see into an afterlife? Either way there is no proof.
I totally agree that people that have a near death experience change drastically. My boyfriend got knocked unconcious for 6 hours and they feared they were gonna lose him. When he woke up, he’s a totally different person. I actually had broke up with him a few days before the accident. He is much calmer and nicer and spiritual then ever. I know this for a fact cuz i knew him for a long time. We are back together now becuase he is a better person in general now. I call him the the upgraded version of himself. Patrick 3.0. Haha. I like your research. It’s very interesting.