Dualism (Identity)

by David Turell , Sunday, March 15, 2015, 14:55 (3320 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained


> >David: If your scenario is true, how do NDE'rs see other people who have died?
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> Tony: I have no good answer for that. I can not say for certain that they do. Suffice to say this much, though. From a christian perspective, there is another layer of life that is somewhat parallel to our own. The spiritual realm is said to actively interact with the material realm that we are all familiar with. Do they really see people that they know? I am not sure. Do they see something? I do not doubt that at all. -My perspective is from reading many of these 'experience' descriptions. Many are veridical, that is, newly discovered information found only through the experience, is shown to be true. But the NDE'rs recognize people they know and converse with them telepathically. I don't know how a blob of consciousness/ soul can have external features. The example in Eben Alexander's book of his finding a dead sister, whom he did not know existed, who acts as his guardian angel, is striking. (He was adopted and she died before his birth.) He is not a nut job. His background was that of an academic neurosurgeon atheist before his coma and obviously is a firm believer now.-My thought to explain this is to turn to the religious belief that the body is simply a vessel for the soul. When the soul is separated from the dead vessel it can express an aura of the vessel's appearance (i.e., the living body) to another soul. And although dhw giggles at this, I think it works at the quantum level somehow. God based reality through quantum activity. This is where basic explanations lie, but of course we are not there yet, if we will ever be.