a middle ground to ‘examine one’s
own mind’ touches on the idea
of spiritual explanations for near
death experiences, proceed further into religious ideas of ‘heaven’
and ‘hell’ and deciding ‘where they
want to go next’. Janice Holden
esized afterlife experience might
change drastically once one is physically irreversibly dead. Research
with irreversibly dead people is
challenging--though perhaps the
most promising is research using
mediums, such as that being conducted at the Wind
bridge Institute.“
Other opinions on
the afterlife can
vary, some people
believe an afterlife is merely a
myth such as Dr
Kevin Williams who
explains the afterlife as a ‘void’ that
is visited briefly in Near Death
Experiences.
He
suggests that “the
general consensus
among near-death reports is that
the void is totally devoid of love,
light, and everything. It is a realm
of complete and profound darkness where nothing exists but the
thought patterns of those in it.
It is a perfect place for souls to
examine their own mind, contemplate their recent Earth experience,
and decide where they want to go
next.”6 This idea of ‘the void’ and
also suggests that “The limits of
NDEs to inform about an afterlife
being acknowledged, I concur with
cardiologist and NDE researcher
Pim van Lommel who has asserted
that a “convergence of evidence”
from research on several phenomena point to the existence, if not
the specific nature, of an afterlife.
These phenomena include NDEs;
nearing-death phenomena such
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