This is a follow up to the article, to near death experience in an airplane. Few questions arise from near death experience are,
Is it evidence to afterlife is prevailing?
How near-death experiences occur?
How near-death experiences changes life?
Imagine a typical scenario of near-death experience. Imagine someone in a hospital, with a medical condition and suddenly stopped heart function. After several hours of extensive effort his heart is reverted, and he is back to life. After waking up, he describes what he has undergone. He may explain the experience as an outer body experience, or travelling through lights and waiting to enter, sometimes they may explain bad experiences like going through darkness.
How can we explain above experiences?
We will understand this as two scenarios. Imagine your life is like a room. And afterlife is next room. Near death experience may be that you have left your room, entered the next room and due to some reason came back to your room again. In this scenario, it is true it will represent afterlife.
In the second scenario, you never left the room and just bumped into the door, you didn't see the other side, but just saw the door. It doesn't prove that there is another room at all behind that door. Really speaking, most of scientists and philosophers believe this is the most likely explanation to near death experiences. It may be due to extreme chemical fluctuations they had during such episodes.
So we have some answers to first two questions.
Maybe near death experience is not evidence of after life
Maybe it is just because of chemical fluctuations, after all you are never "dead" as you wake up after near death.
More importantly how near-death experiences change life?
It is a common to see near death experiences changes the most of lives of such people who have experienced that. Markedly and so often. These transformative effects of near-death experiences are not explained by chemical fluctuations. However, if you followed my previous article you would know, there is no need to have gone through the process of dying or near-death for these transformative effects to occur. As even having a vasovagal attack and thinking I am in the process of dying, created some transformative thoughts in me. It seems they are merely psychological.
Looking through the window of the empty tower
I cannot see beyond the horizon,
Where water lilies flower
Crimes of the past when they haunt me an every hour.
Curled on the floor when they bleed.
sweet memories
I savored.
Similarly, we should think if such death is inevitable, how we should live our life?
Thank you for reading philosophical insights to near-death experience.
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