Afterlife (Endings)

by dhw, Tuesday, June 03, 2008, 13:10 (6015 days ago)

Cary is betting on "a just afterlife". - In the "near-death episodes" thread, David Turell drew our attention to the work of Pim van Lommel, and I have since read a book called AUFERSTEHUNG 
[= Resurrection] by Jörg Zink, in which he also refers to research involving similar experiences: out-of-body, tunnel, extraordinary light and peace, contact with people who had died etc. In the Zink references, the people concerned saw their own lives in a sort of lightning flashback, though I don't recall this being mentioned in the van Lommel accounts. - That thread rapidly moved away from its starting-point, but I would like to come back to it, in the hope that others may share their views and/or experiences. In particular, I would ask the following questions. 1) What other evidence is there of life after death? 2) How do sceptics account for the comparative uniformity of experiences shared by hundreds of people? 3) How do believers conceive of an afterlife? (Cary himself talks of "duration being sustained until all just payments are made - both rewards and punishments." Christians talk of a Day of Judgment.)