Many people have had NDEs - in fact, Southampton University has/d an experiment set up in an intensive care area of a hospital comprising of things like placards placed on top of cupboards - to try to prove that people really were seeing, thinking and living outside of their bodies. I haven't heard of any results yet.
I was excited when I read this blog by a friend as this happening to a respected surgeon has got to make the scientific community sit up and take notice. I'm wondering what Richard Dawkins will make of it, for instance. :confused:
[url]Tony Lobl: Proof of Heaven? What, Here and Now? Why Not![/url]
As a neurosurgeon Dr Alexander experienced a consciousness he didn't previously believe existed, one that is "completely free of the limitations of [the] brain". And that from a scientist once comfortable with the "modern neuroscience" perspective that "the brain gives rise to consciousness - to the mind, to the soul, to the spirit, to whatever you choose to call that invisible, intangible part of us that truly makes us who we are...".
In that brain-independent consciousness, he experienced the love of "a God who cares for us even more deeply and fiercely than any parent ever loved their child."??Many in his field will be astonished by his acquired certainty God exists. To some scientists, though, the claim of a stand-alone consciousness will seem equally astounding as they regard the brain as either the only game in town or view consciousness as just a by-product of its physical activity. Others are convinced consciousness plays a much more substantial role.
There is also a video here:
[url]Eben Alexander MD at TMI Professional Seminar 2012.mp4 - YouTube[/url]
Love and peace,
Judy
As a point of interest, this is easily achievable without a NDE, moving beyond our everyday thinking aspect of consciousness and embracing the fullness of self, is something which we help people to achieve all of the time.
I have for a long time understood that consciousness does not arise out of the brain, I have built a healing modality around my understanding of how we function within our various aspects of consciousness and how our consciousness (thoughts) creates our life experiences, a modality that heals directly within consciousness to transform it.
On one level of consciousness we are all one, there is no judgement only total acceptance, this is often interpreted as love, but I much prefer to use acceptance, for there are no negative connotations or strings attached to the word acceptance, like there are with the word love.
I can understand the experience of Dr Alexander. What I cannot understand, with him and many others who have such revelatory experiences of Consciousness, is how the leap is made between this experience and the sudden belief in God.
I can understand the experience of Dr Alexander. What I cannot understand, with him and many others who have such revelatory experiences of Consciousness, is how the leap is made between this experience and the sudden belief in God.
I think it perhaps comes down to having experienced something that they cannot logically comprehend, so they associate that with what society has already modelled as something that they cannot logically comprehend... i.e. a god of some sort.
All Love and Reiki Hugs
It's OK guys, I don't believe the god you don't believe in ether! :p
But I do believe in one universal Mind, or consciousness, I do believe in infinite divine Love, in one universal Truth, in eternal Life, which has its being in and of Spirit, in immutable divine law, or Principle, all of which we are one with, which constitutes our real substance and in which we live and have our being.
My point in starting this thread was not to have the same old misunderstandings of the word "God" come up, but to say how delighted i am that a medical practitioner who is used to studying and looking to matter as cause and effect, as beginning and end, suddenly has proof that matter doesn't contain mind - or life - and that his book may be one of the pebbles thrown into the pond of entrenched human thought (almost as entrenched as the anti-god brigade! 😉 ) and help people become more open-minded and to start to accept the possibility of limitless being, rather than finite existence.
Love and peace,
Judy