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The Afterlife
“Near-Death Experiences” Are Not Hallucinations, Says First-Ever Study Of Its Kind, is the title of an article by Doctor Kate Spalding discussing the implications of that peer reviewed statement. Her article rightly starts with grappling with the definition of what it means to be dead, recognizing death is ‘technology’ dependent. A thousand years ago, brain dead was just sleeping or coma. Heart death was dead. Now, with fMRIs and EEGs suggests death is not binary, on or off, but perhaps analog, you just wind down. The fact that technology necessarily changes the definition of death, which requires considerable thought placed into the ethics of how we treat the dying, it also suggests it changes the definition of the beginning of life. Our understanding of when awareness starts, and when viability of fetus surviving outside the womb has also changed, due to technology. As tech continues to improve, the definitions of life starting and ending extends further. But what if there is no beginning or end, except for the temporary bodies we assume as ours?
While doctor Spalding is considering the meaning of death, I am considering the others who have been saying NDEs are real for years, such as Ian Pretyman Stevenson, M.D., researching reincarnation, Many Lives, Many Masters, Doctor Weiss, M.D., Journey…
