Reddit reviews Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon--Survival of Bodily Death

NDE people actually give up on religion and become agnostics with some spiritualism tossed in. At least according to a famous NDE book I once read. They give up on the dogmas and theologies of organized religion.

On top of it, it was found that there was no variable on who has these experiences. The devout have them, murderers have them, atheists have them, etc. Interestingly enough, the event is colored by the local belief. Christians see Christ or Christian imagery, Hindus see hindu imagery, etc which is pretty good proof that this stuff is probably just hallucinations in one's head. The book also guesstimated that only 10 or 20% of people have these experiences. Most just see nothing at all and experience an empty nihilism.

I'm pretty sure it was "Life after Life" by Raymond Moody. He's a doctor who compiled these stories from his patients and other doctors.

Sure. :) I was trying not to hijack the thread, but I'll just put the list here and that way anyone can have it. Keep in mind, these aren't all collections of stories, some of them are research topics, but none of them that I've browsed through look like bad reads. The ones I have read I've tried to note.

Iroquois Supernatural: Talking Animals and Medicine People - Michael Bastine, Mason Winfield - most closely related to thread topic

Life After Life - Raymond Moody - Very good intro to Near Death Experience research

Reunions: Visionary Encounters with Departed Loved Ones - Raymond Moody

Journey of Souls - Michael Newton - Read this one, it was great, changed my views on reincarnation

The Day Satan Called - Bill Scott

Hunt for the Skinwalker - Colm Kelleher, George Knapp - read parts of, need to finish

The Vengeful Djinn - Rosemary Ellen Guiley - I've read this one, it's really good too, has a large "slow" section in the middle that quotes the Q'uran a lot, but some good creepy Djinn stories.

The Djinn Connection - Rosemary Ellen Guiley

Ghost Culture: Theories, Context, and Scientific Practice - John Sabol

Zones of Strangeness - Peter A. McCue

Lost Secrets of Maya Technology - James O'Kon

The Mythology of Supernatural - Nathan Robert Brown - this one might sound cheesy, but I've read a book on world mythology by the same author, and apparently the writers of the show did their research

Holy Ghosts: Or How a (Not-So) Good Catholic Boy Became a Believer in Things That Go Bump in the Night - Gary Jansen

Short answer: we have no idea. I've read a book about it which is the closest thing to a scientific study done on the subject. It's called Life After Life by Raymond Moody, a very interesting read.

I highly recommend Life After Life. The author studied people who had died and come back and recorded their experiences... It's really interesting! And while it is a non-fiction novel, it's pretty short and interesting enough that I think it's worth looking into!

She's with you in spirit! Seriously nothing ever really dies. Earth is just a place to come and learn. It's just a blink and then you'll be back and remember we're all eternal and exist outside of this dim mirror :-)

Focus on good feelings, and remember that we're all connected experience life together. It's a ride… and we're here for you. cheers, and happy halloween.

I don't believe in religion at all, but had a near death experience myself. Went somewhere I remembered and it tripped me out. If your interested in reading something that might be comforting: Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon http://www.amazon.com/Life-After-Investigation-Phenomenon--Survival-Bodily/dp/0062517392

If you don't like philosophical arguments, you can try reading some information on mystic experiences or near death experiences. You may not accept them as valid, but there's the only events in human history we have that can be considered "evidence" for God. In fact, they are thought to be the basis for several world religions.

The classic analysis of mystic religious experiences is psychologist William James' The Varieties of the Religious Experience. NDEs have a lot of New Age woo surrounding them because NDE researchers often have a new age bend, but there's still some good analysis of them out there, including a journal. Moody's Life After Life was the first statistically study of the phenomenon.

you should really check out this book

there is a lot of subjective evidence if you research into the NDE phenomenon

for example this book of documented cases by dr. moody

http://www.amazon.com/Life-After-Investigation-Phenomenon--Survival-Bodily/dp/0062517392/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1425671139&sr=8-2&keywords=life+after+life

life after life

It is terrifying to think you would have to do it again. Ergo, change it. Just a small step, bit by bit, towards more light versus darkness. That's it. Just a small step in a better direction, pit, pat, pit-pat, to step-step, step-skip (yeh, skip), skip-jog, run. Terrifying to have to do it again under worse circumstances, so take any variable, and improve upon it. A great book I've skimmed (the important bits) is 'Life after Life,' a case-analysis of near-death-experience. Lots of similarities cross-culture/gender/circumstances.

http://www.amazon.com/Life-After-Investigation-Phenomenon-Survival-Bodily/dp/0062517392

The main points, that you review you your life. "Have you done enough?" In a non-judgmental question. "What do you have to show me, are you finished?" In a non-judgmental question. Did you live?

Its rough when you think, "no," "worthless," and the like. But, the fact that you still live, gives you those little steps, bit by bit, to get just a little bit happier.

And a little bit happier.

And it becomes a cascade, until you forget how easy it is to slip into "just a blade across the arm," "bottle across the throat," where even memories of being terrified and alone in happiness, washes away.

What can be fixed is now, in a small simulacrum of steps, and its stupid fucking hard, but, it gets easier, and easier, even if its the most minutiae of accomplishments. Even just smiling is an accomplishment, if you are at that low of a low.

Nothing else, nothing more. Just move forward. And it is stupid-fucking-hard.

But, its living, and it gets better.

As I recall (based on the work of Ramond Moody, MD., see here for example), most people who have NDE's (Near Death Experiences) report visiting an extremely loving place after their "deaths".

Whether or not you and your wife are theists, I think it might be healthy to relay this information to your children, even if it doesn't do any good - which indeed it may - it seems unlikely to do any harm...

From the book description on amazon:
The extraordinary stories presented here provide evidence that there is life after physical death, as Moody recounts the testimonies of those who have been to the "other side" and back - all bearing striking similarities of an overwhelming positive nature. These moving and inspiring accounts give us a glimpse of the peace and unconditional love that await us all.

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