NDE\'s and skeptics (Identity)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Thursday, September 03, 2009, 19:46 (5558 days ago) @ David Turell


> > Thanks for the reply and counter to the website. 
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> You always need to look at both sides. If you are skeptical, of course a skeptic website will support you, but you haven't learned anything. When my patients talked to me I was skeptical, until I read both sides.
> -The hard part for me again, is the inability to negate perspective. I'd be willing to experience one myself so I can have a better grasp of what's going on. -> > Case in point: I often experience what I call "deliberate deja-vu." I still think there's a "worldy" explanation for that... just don't know where to begin. 
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> My wife does the same thing. It is a capacity in our brains. But how does it work? The man jumping from the 26th story was on television. Perhaps she picked up the signal. Electromagnetic waves could impinge on circuits in the brain. But what you are doing is advance viewing. And that raises the issue of human species consciousness. Work in this area is suggestive of its existence 
> -Forgive me if I say: that sounds more than a trifle Buddhist, lol. -> > The graduate adviser told me submit my official app today which I did. She said it takes about 3 weeks for the paperwork to run its course.
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> Fabulous!!!
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> > As usual forgot something: If the guy was able to hear something while out, 
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> If his EEG is flat line he is not hearing. It takes a cortex for that. The famous case description is a lady with a very bad brain aneurysm. She was taken to deep hypothermia, but had purposeful noise with molded earpieces in both ears to keep track of brain function by EEG; 90 minutes after anethesia began and she was cooled down enough (60 degrees), eyes taped shut, she had an OBE in which she could describe an instrument used to cut the skull and she described a surgeon's conversaation about her small arteries. Skeptical?-I'm hard-programmed for skepticism, so of course. Nothing wrong with it, just means I'm a little more boring than most people, heh. -I think something was still sending signals. The brain may not have been working to process them (evidenced by the EEG) but that doesn't mean that cells are doing *nothing.* That, more than anything else lies at the center of my probing here. The only way those cells do *nothing* is when they're completely dead. -Is the mind the same thing as the soul? Question for a professional philosopher to be sure...

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