By Birk Engmann
ISBN-10: 3319037285
ISBN-13: 9783319037288
The expression "Near-Death Experience" is linked within the renowned realizing with entry to wisdom approximately our transition among the states of existence and demise. yet how may still such reports be interpreted? Are they verifiable with clinical equipment? if this is the case, how can they be defined? trying to relate concerns of clinical wisdom to subjective event and the area of trust is a tough balancing act, and has resulted in a number of techniques to the subject. This paintings scrutinizes the various perspectives, and in addition myths, approximately near-death stories and describes them from a systematic point of view. located on the intersection of neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and spiritual stories, this e-book will attract a wide viewers of either scientists and basic readers.
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There accompanies them a virgin who resembles the soul of that member of the Elect. ) place the drinking vessel in his hand and mount up with him in the Column of Praise to the sphere of the moon, to Primal Man and Joyfulness, Mother of the Living, to where he at first was in the Gardens of Light. . 35 ascend to the sun, becoming divine. But the rest of the body, all of which is Darkness, is flung to the lower regions. 151) Mani’s disciples proselytised and Mani’s religious system subsequently became a major competitor for Christianity.
Absence of pain, a clear mind, a review of one’s own biographical history. 329). For someone who wanted to avoid either “physiological” or “philosophical” explanations, his observations were simply evidence that death occurs with great feelings of comfort. 336). Subsequently, in the medical scientific literature, more and more non-spiritual views began to appear and eventually predominate. In 1907, a popular scientific brochure was published about the secrets of death. This brochure was probably a revised and updated edition of a book from the mid-1850s, edited by the Leipzig-born physician and popular scientific writer Gottfried Wilhelm Becker (born 1778, Leipzig; died 1854, Leipzig).
This includes the following problems, which we repeatedly encounter today in discussions about near-death experiences: t the wide range of experiences, t the fact that the same mental states can be realized by different triggers, t the influence of personal religious and cultural background on the configuration of such experiences. In Splittgerber’s case, it is important to emphasize that he gave an impartial report. Of course, his account does mirror his own world view, but he scrutinizes many assumptions, especially the assumption that certain contents of these experiences, especially religious ones, are taken as premature evidence for the validity of the religion of the experiencer.
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