A Short Introduction to Near-Death Experiences (NDEs)

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What are Near-Death Experiences? Are they evidence for an afterlife or the existence of a God? Can they be explained by science or religion? In this short but comprehensive video, I critically investigate these questions. If you find this video to be interesting and/or useful, please consider leaving a LIKE.
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@AheadOfTheCurveVideos Год назад

For those who want to delve deeper into this subject, I have included a list of resource/recommended reading list in the description. These are mostly academic papers and some books. All of which I used in my psychology degree dissertation to support my study investigating how Near-Death Experiences meaningfully impact peoples lives. If you have any further questions feel free to ask! Cheers, James

@TheJudgeandtheJury Год назад

This is an interesting video essay. Glad you are doing videos again James. I haven’t considered the nature of the topic before. Will be doing research after a few books currently reading have been finished. Always a pleasure, cheers. I enjoy the video format. -Lucio Constantine

@consciousphilosophy-ericva5564 Год назад

Excellent video, James! I think NDE’s are quite mysterious. Since I believe in God, however, I think the likelihood that these events are genuinely directed toward the supernatural is rather high. The overwhelming majority of NDE’s, as you noted, have consistent features. Not only are they consistent, but they are often intelligible and imbue the person with a profound sense of understanding. Given the nature of consciousness, I don’t think it’s rash to postulate an afterlife at all. Even Sam Harris, when asked about life after death said, “I don’t know. We would have to understand exactly how consciousness arises, but we don’t.” Ultimately, we don’t know what is, in fact, occurring during an NDE, but a lot them do seem genuine.

@AheadOfTheCurveVideos Год назад

Thanks for checking it out, Eric. As an atheist, even I admit that these events (and certain well-documented paranormal cases) present questions that are clearly beyond our current understanding. In truth, intensely studying this for nearly a year certainly opened my eyes and forced open-mindedness about the true nature of reality.

@craighermon5212 Год назад

Excellent video that succinctly explains near death experiences. It’s a fascinating topic of which is not talked about enough, thank you for bringing light to this topic.

@AheadOfTheCurveVideos Год назад

Cheers, I share the same sentiment. It's a topic that deserves more attention 👌

@johnjosmith42 Год назад

Fascinating. Myself, I’m entirely on the ‘natural processes’ side of this argument; just look what the mind can do when unconscious (in sleep for example); so when the body is under duress there’s bound to be various physiological consequences. It’s great to see and hear that proper research is going into this natural phenomenon and feel confident that one day it’ll be empirically explainable. It’s obvious, I think, that people who see mythological figures during their NDE (the women who saw the devil for eg) are unwittingly reprocessing unconsciously previously acquired information: the mind will know it’s in a critical state, in danger, vulnerable, and associations of death including all its attendant accessories are made. The visions seen under certain psychotropics are often linked to the present condition (mental and physical) of the taker; ‘never trip when you’re in a dark place to begin with’ etc. Again great job with the video; the essay style really suits you, especially with topics where you need to get a lot of information down; you’ve a talent for keeping information flowing and always provide interesting references and quotes. Finally, to my mind the best NDEs in literature [Finnegans Wake aside, where it can be argued throughout the entire book the universe and all its history is in the process of a NDE, regenerating at the end and flowing into stalled life again ie., the final lines of the novel flowing into the opening lines of the novel and so like a möbius strip the process may twist in places but is endless :: see Joseph Campbell’s book ‘skeleton key to FW’ on this] are from Saul Bellow’s Ravelstein (this based on a real experience the author had; very moving and dazzling writing) and the final third or so of Umberto Eco’s ‘The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana.’ Also, I’ve always felt that the famous hallucinogenic final passages of Hesse’s ‘Steppenwolf’ was meant to be metaphor seen through a NDE. I’m sure there’s many more. Do you have any favourites from literature at all? - again, great vid, thanks James. Chin chin 🥃✨ ps., damn, i knew i was forgetting one: Flann O’Brian’s ‘The Third Policeman.’ I think you’d love that book, full of ideas and metaphysical images / scenes, all through the lens of a sort of extended NDE 🚲

@AheadOfTheCurveVideos Год назад

Thanks for your thoughts, feedback, and generous recommendations - will look into these. Much appreciated! And Fair enough you stick with the material approach. I’m a little in the grey area. I think there are things we are yet to understand and measure that lie outside of what empiricism can demonstrate… hard to discern! My favourites… Steppenwolf as you say was surreal. That was great. Not that it’s an “NDE” but Raskolnikov’s dream of the horse being tortured in Crime and Punishment has always stuck with me… Cheers🥃

@dachba213 Год назад

We are eternal spirit beings having an earthly experience. This life here on earth is for spiritual growth. When the physical death occurs, we simply move on with our spiritual journey. We have all been created on purpose for a purpose.

@johnjosmith42 Год назад

if i may, are you familiar with Saul Bellow? He was, by degrees, of the same mind as you. I’ve recently reread one of his masterpieces ‘Humboldt’s Gift’ and there’s a lot of his thoughts of this topic (what you say above) within that novel; perhaps you’d find it illuminating 🍃

@dachba213 Год назад

@johnjosmith42 Thank you friend

@Masterdebator881 Год назад

There is no “spiritual journey” based in reality. Nothing in regards to what you consider “you” exists outside of your living body. Show me irrefutable, repeatable, proof based in reality if you disagree please.

@dachba213 Год назад

@Masterdebator881 the experience of knowing the Father and receiving from Him is the repeatable, irrefutable proof you are looking for. I feel His presence, I speak in a language I don't understand. He answers my prayers. It's undeniable that Jesus lives because of my experience of knowing Him. I've surrendered, have you?

@Masterdebator881 Год назад

@@dachba213 You’re insane, not interested.

@tracezachdaniels4264 Год назад

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@sandraburkett2681 Год назад

Some people get messages or knowledge that a misfire of norons can not explain

@user-nt4bc2qb7b Год назад

Thanks for sharing this information! Do you have any sources that you can point me to on near death experiences from different cultures? Also, how do you think that this relates, if at all, to the spiritual experiences that people get when they are dying? There seems to be an increase in seeing dead loved ones.

@AheadOfTheCurveVideos Год назад

Hi, I have shared my resources / recommended reading list in the description. Here are some papers/books which deal with or discuss NDEs in different cultures: Greyson, B. (1996). The near-death experience as a transpersonal crisis. In B. Scotton, A.B. Chinen, & J.R. Battista (Eds.), Textbook of transpersonal psychiatry and psychology (pp. 302-315). New York: Basic Books. Ferrara Carunchio, B., & de Oliveira Maraldi, E. (2019). A survey of near-death experiences in Brazil: exploring socio-demographic characteristics and relationship to psychopathology and mystical experiences. Études sur la mort, (1), 89-103. Pasricha, S., & Stevenson, I. (1986). Near-death experiences in India: A preliminary report. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 174(3), 165-170. Perera, M., Jagadheesan, K., & Peake, A. (2012). Making sense of near-death experiences: A handbook for clinicians. Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Ring, K. (1982). Life at death: A scientific investigation of the near-death experience. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. Sabom, M.B. (1982). Recollections of death: A medical investigation. New York: Random House. van Lommel, P., van Wees, R., Meyers, V., & Elfferich, I. (2001). Near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest: A prospective study in the Netherlands. The Lancet, 358(9298), 2039-2045. My degree psychology dissertation was on NDEs, if you have any further questions I may be able to point you in some directions! Cheers for watching.

@AheadOfTheCurveVideos Год назад

To answer your second question: As I say in the video, those from varying cultures have been found to report different kinds of visions (but holistically similar) such as seeing pathways or roads instead of tunnels. NDErs in Asia tend to report this, for instance.

@user-nt4bc2qb7b Год назад

@@AheadOfTheCurveVideosThanks! I was thinking of hospice experiences and regular deaths, as opposed to near death experiences, when I wrote that question. I'm sorry if there was any confusion. I was wondering if these were similar to what happens in near death experiences, since they are not quite the same but similar.

@user-nt4bc2qb7b Год назад

@@AheadOfTheCurveVideosThank you! I guess I missed those. Looks like I have some good reading ahead of me!

@AheadOfTheCurveVideos Год назад

@@user-nt4bc2qb7b I see! I think, after all, if there is some kind of afterlife, then the visions or broader spiritual experiences experienced in hospital settings may be related to the phenomena testified by NDErs. If this helps, there are two types of NDEs: those which ocurr in medical settings (hospitals) and those which occur outside of medical settings (car accidents, etc). So, ultimately, a "Near-Death Experience" of any category can be compared and contrasted. Cheers, James