be lacking. There is power in choosing to believe something without
seeing it. As for evidence, however,
I believe there is plenty. Judicial
systems determine the guilt or
innocence of a criminal based on
one or two accounts of witnesses.
There are hundreds of thousands
of accounts of NDEs. How many is
enough? I don’t think physicians
are different from other people in
the sense that they are threatened
by the concept of life after death
and it is much easier to casually
discount and discard accounts of
NDE. I think this reflects an intellectual arrogance (that if we are
smart enough and skilled enough
we can understand and control
everything), a laziness (it takes
time and effort to collect data),
and mostly a fear (if there really
is a God and there really is life
after death, then we each become
accountable for our choices, our
behaviour, our treatment of others,
and how we spend each moment of
time). Humans try to control what
we do not understand.
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