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originally posted by: Joeshiloh
a reply to: Bluntone22
Does this also apply to people who were clinically dead and then come back to life with these incredible stories. Or is that something people don't want to talk about.
originally posted by: visitedbythem
We are spirit beings in an animal body. I've been out of my body twice. The first time, someone actually saw me, and I didnt know I was out, until I saw them. That changed my beliefs in an instant.
originally posted by: Out6of9Balance
You don't want to memorize a belief system, you want to grow one from own experience.
Ritchie's NDE is in a class of its own. You will find his experience to be one of the most profound NDEs ever documented. His NDE is also one of the most important cases of "NDE veridical perception" which are NDE out-of-body observations later verified by third-parties. During his NDE, Ritchie traveled out of his body for a distance of thousands of miles where he observed detailed events later verified to be true.
Dr. George Ritchie's Near-Death Experience
I know of several reports by patients in my practice, and I have spoken to neurosurgeons who have had patients with experiences that can be confirmed. Indeed, about 20 percent of NDE's are corroborated, which means that there are independent ways of checking about the veracity of the experience. The patients knew of things that they could not have known except by extraordinary perception -- such as describing details of surgery that they watched while their heart was stopped, etc.
Near-Death Experiences
That almost single-handedly shoots down the skeptical argument that near-death experiences are due to pre-existing beliefs or cultural influences. We’re not seeing a shred of evidence that corroborates that at all. In fact, that finding is actually corroborated with another major scholarly researcher who actually reviewed over 30 years of near-death experience research and came up with the same conclusion.
Materialist explanations of NDEs fail to explain the phenomenon
originally posted by: Out6of9Balance
a reply to: visitedbythem
We are animals submitted to spirits.