Synapses, not synanpases!

I read somewhere that oxygen deprivation causes the brain to produce strange effects like the near-death experience. Synanpases are triggered which produce memories of vivid experiences like the journey down the birth canal, and images of people who meant a lot.

Just been reading back on this thread, and I'm quite surprised by how many people seem to think that because so and so had a near-death experience or technically 'died' that what they remember must be proof of an afterlife.

The fact is that they didn't die.

They wrote a book about what they think happened while they were unconcious - that's not proof of anything other than perhaps a vivid imagination!

grannypiper wrote:
'My son, when he was a little boy believed that god took your bones when you died and made them into babies. My DM had died 15 months before my son had a new baby brother. Maybe he was right'
My Mum died on Feb. 22, and our first grandson was born the following day, Feb. 23.

The whole existence of life and the universe is fantastic and I am so glad to have been given this adventure - I can see no reason why it shouldn't continue after death. I do think though no one alive can imagine or come close to imagining what the afterlife is really like. Exciting!

The after life - anyone read "Heaven is Real"? It did it for me. I liked its simplicity.

Years ago I had my own personal experience of this subject.

My son, when he was a little boy believed that god took your bones when you died and made them into babies. My DM had died 15 months before my son had a new baby brother. Maybe he was right

Crikey - not keen on the 'Karmic' issues line.
Would like to think that I have led a fairly blameless life......hmmm hope so I don't want to be greeted by a long line of people waiting to 'sort me out'!

Of course there's an afterlife! I have personal knowledge/experience of earlier incarnations, also of reassuring/warning messages from my father. Spiritualists have a helpful and comforting answer to the problem of miscarriage/stillbirth/neonatal death. This life is so short that only after we die can we continue to grow and mature and there are too many similar descriptions of the "Summerland" for it all to be coincidence. My feeling is we experience what we expect, until we feel ready to move on, but the one thing I'm pretty sure of is that everyone we want/need to see will be among those we meet very early after death (either because of love, or because there is a Karmic issue which needs resolution). And there are animals there!

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"Heaven is Real" gave me lots to think about. I don't loose
anything by believing. After all, no-one can buy time shares
in heaven - people earn the right to be there. . .

Not at all jinglebells, for me it's quite the opposite. Many people fear death, having faith in God takes that fear away. Not all books are written by charlatans. Some books bring massive comfort to a lot of people. That can only be a good thing.
Why want an afterlife? well the word afterlife is just a word, when we die we are simply going home. That is our real life. They're my beliefs anyway.

Speak for yourself Jings. A lot of us on here most certainly hope for an afterlife.

Actually, why would you want an afterlife at all?

Why would you want to read books like that? It must concentrate your mind on dieing. Not healthy, or inducive to any happiness or contentment now. They are written by charlatans. Don't go there.

I want to get that book LuckyDucky. Have you read Proof of Heaven....a neurosurgeons journey into the Afterlife?, another faith enhancing book, about the American neurosurgeon who died and visited Heaven? Well worth a read.

Ever read "Heaven is Real?" I found it compelling. Apart from the book, my father's family believed in life after death, as I do.

I find it comforting I'll be reunited with my father's family et al, particularly my paternal grandfather
as I was only two when he died.

For those who don't believe, why not read the book, trying to keep an open mind. Then, see if you still think the same.

As a Christian I defintely believe there is. My faith has kept me going at dark times in my life.

I will just wait and see

I keep an open mind as to the how and where of it, but I do believe there is an afterlife. Perhaps it's merely waking up somewhere else and this life is the illusion...but one can get dizzy thinking of of stuff like that.
I do have an interesting (ghostly) anecdote however...It happened in April of 1970, the day after my grandfather died. My mom and grandma began having a heated argument over the estate. It seems my grandparents owned a second small house. When his own father (my great grandfather) died in 1959, my grandfather let his widowed stepmother move in, rent free or through some other arrangement. My grandfather wasn't rich but in the latter years he needed the extra income, yet refused to sell the other house because his stepmother was by then in her mid eighties, infirm and he didn't have the heart to evict her. After he died, my grandmother found herself in a very dire financial situation. My mother told her she really had no choice than to sell the house and went on with options for the old widow. Grandma wouldn't hear of selling and they got into a heated argument. They were really going at it, when an entire wall of floor length heavy drapery was literally ripped off a heavy brass rod, rings and all, by an invisible hand. The entire thing just collapsed to the floor all at once. Needless to say, the three of us just sat there open mouthed and completely stunned. To this day, I still can't explain what happened there, but my grandfather was known for his hot temper. I should add that his stepmother died that same year in her sleep, and grandma sold the house not long after that.

Ooh emergency grammar check! Where will all the animals be. Don't know where that 'going' came from.

Where will all the animals going to be? I'm looking forward to seeing all our old pets again!

It will be interesting to see how the different concepts of an afterlife are catered for, too. Will there be one section for the Christians with God on his throne, Jesus at his right hand, angels archangels and cherubim in attendance and everyone singing praises? Will the Muslims be in another area, each attended by their quota of 72 virgins, the Vikings somewhere else again, feasting on roast sheep and oxen, drinking strong mead from horns, singing lustily and boasting about the battles in which they died?

Well, if there is some sort of after life it will be interesting. .. a new adventure, ..and if not, I won't care because I will be dead. So why worry.

Christ choose his disciples which should give you all hope

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