Life on Mars (General)

by David Turell , Tuesday, August 05, 2008, 21:47 (5751 days ago) @ Carl
edited by unknown, Tuesday, August 05, 2008, 22:43

My best guess about afterlife is that there isn't any, just sweet oblivion. But if there is one, I have faith that it won't be punitive. I say faith because I have plenty of religious dogma to contradict me, and nothing to support me except a conviction that a being powerful enough to create the universe would not be petty enough to punish me for being human. I also agree that, if there is a spark in us, it also exists in other animals, but again, no proof. - I think there is some proof there may be an afterlife. As I mentioned elsewhere on the website, the Lancet article, peer-reviewed, described a man with a flat line EEG who was able to identify the nurse who took his teeth several days after his resuscition. There is a level of consciousness which survives a non-functioning cerebrum. Further the more complex the episode, the more it correlated with the time of the subsequesnt death of the patient. This part of the article was a prospective study, seeing how long they survived after resuscitiation. Further the Near to Death literature, a fair portion of it in books and articles by MD's, identifies third party corroboration of what a revived NDEer's finds out during the episode. These are not hallucinations. When they communicate during the experience it is always with dead people. And in these communications they find out someone is dead, and there is no way they could have known that before the episode. It is startling when you read this stuff. And the stories go back in history to ancient Greece. It was only recognized in the modern era when Kubler-Ross published some of her findings.