For someone who has died twice already and brought back to life, there is an afterlife and i can't wait to go back. Anyway here is some interesting information you can learn about the afterlife- Scientific evidence of life after death-
1)People have NDEs while they are brain dead.(2)Out-of-body perception during NDEs have been verified.(3)People born blind can see during an NDE.(4)NDEs demonstrate the return of consciousness from death.(5)The NDE study by Raymond Moody has been replicated.(6)Experimental evidence suggests that NDEs are real.(7)NDEs can be considered to be an objective experience.(8)NDEs have been validated in scientific studies.(9)Out-of-body experiences (OBEs) have been validated in scientific studies.(10)Autoscopy during NDEs have been validated in scientific studies.(11)A transcendental "sixth sense" of the human mind has been found.(12)NDEs support the "holonomic" theory of consciousness.(13)The expansion of consciousness reported in NDEs supports consciousness theories.(14)The brain's connection to a greater power has been validated by indisputable scientific facts.(15)The replication of NDEs using hallucinogenic drugs satisfies the scientific method.(16)NDEs are different from hallucinations.(17)The replication of NDEs using a variety of triggers satisfies the scientific method.(18)Apparitions of the deceased have been induced under scientific controls.(19)People having NDEs have brought back scientific discoveries.(20)NDEs have advanced the field of medical science.(21)NDEs have advanced the field of psychology.(22)NDEs correspond to the "quirky" principles found in quantum physics.(23)The transcendental nature of human consciousness during NDEs corresponds to principles found in quantum physics.(24)NDEs have advanced the fields of philosophy and religion.(25)NDEs have the nature of an archetypal initiatory journey.(26)People have been clinically dead for several days and report the most profound NDEs.(27)NDEs have produced visions of the future which later prove to be true.(28)Groups of dying people can share the same NDE.(29)Experiencers are convinced the NDE is an afterlife experience.(30)The NDEs of children are remarkably similar to adult NDEs.(31)Experiencers of NDEs are profoundly changed in ways that cannot occur from hallucinations and dreams.(32)NDEs cannot be explained merely by brain chemistry alone.(33)NDEs have been reported by people since the dawn of recorded history.(34)The skeptical "dying brain" theory of NDEs has serious flaws.(35)Skeptical arguments against the NDE "survival theory" are not valid.(36)The burden of proof has shifted to the skeptics of the survival theory.(37)Other anomalous phenomena supports the survival theory.(38)NDEs support the existence of reincarnation.(39)The scientific evidence supporting reincarnation also supports the survival theory.(40)Xenoglossy supports reincarnation and the survival theory.(41)Past-life regression supports reincarnation and the survival theory.(42)Contact with "the deceased" has occurred under scientific controls.(43)After-death communications have been reported by credible people.(44)Dream research supports the NDE and survival theory.(45)Deathbed visions support the NDE and survival theory.(46)Remote viewing supports the NDE and survival theory.(47)The efficacy of prayer has been demonstrated under scientific controls.(48)The "Scole Experiments" during the 1990s support the NDE and survival theory.(49)Electronic voice phenomena (EVP) supports the NDE and survival theory.(50)Prominent atheists have had NDEs which caused them to believe in the afterlife.(51)
Psychometry supports the NDE and survival theory.
Dr. Bruce Greyson documented perhaps one of the most compelling examples of a person who had a NDE and observed events while outside of his body which were later verified by others. The only way that these events could have been observed by the experiencer was if in fact he was outside of his body. Al Sullivan was a 55 year old truck driver who was undergoing triple by-pass surgery when he had a powerful NDE that included an encounter with his deceased mother and brother-in-law, who told Al to go back to his to tell one of his neighbors that their son with lymphoma will be OK. Furthermore, during the NDE, Al accurately noticed that the surgeon operating on him was flapping his arms in an unusual fashion, with his hands in his armpits. When he came back to his body after the surgery was over, the surgeon was startled that Al could describe his own arm flapping, which was his idiosyncratic method of keeping his hands sterile.
Addressing the frequent rejoinder that such events can be accounted for as hallucinations, Dr. Greyson notes that if NDEs are hallucinations, then how is it that such incredibly accurate and verifiable information is resulting from the NDEs? People on drugs who have NDEs see fewer deceased relatives when they travel out of body. This suggests that people who do see relatives are clear-minded, not hallucinating. In some cases of children, they see dead relatives whom they had never met or seen pictures of. This begs the following question: How could they hallucinate accurately the visual images of someone they have never met? When assessing the surmounting data as a whole, Greyson said that the survival hypothesis is the most parsimonious explanation for the growing database of NDEs.
The author Maggie Callanan in her 1993 book, Final Gifts, wrote about an elderly Chinese woman who had an NDE in which she saw her deceased husband and her sister. She was puzzled since her sister wasn't dead, or so she thought. In actuality, her family had hid her sister's recent death from her for fear of upsetting her already fragile health.
On Dec. 9, 2001, Ananova News reported: "Study Proves the Soul Exists" concerning the NDE study by Dr. Pim van Lommel published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet providing verified evidence of out-of-body perception. Then on Jan. 8, 2002, ABC News reported "Brushes With Death: Scientists Validate Near-Death Experiences" about the same study. Dr. Michael Sabom, an Atlanta cardiologist, found that 43% of cardiac arrest patients had NDEs. Patients with long complicated resuscitations were more likely to have NDEs. He also found that patients who had NDEs frequently could accurately describe their own resuscitation in detail. In contrast, control group of patients who had cardiac arrests but no NDEs could not describe their own resuscitation with any accuracy.
Sources:
(a)"People See Verified Events While Out-Of-Body"http://www.near-death.com/experiences/evidence02.html(b)"Brushes With Death: Scientists Validate Near-Death Experiences", ABC Newshttp://neardeath.home.comcast.net/nde/001_pages/22.html(c)"Study Proves the Soul Exists", Ananova Newshttp://neardeath.home.comcast.net/religion/001_pages/03.html(d)"Survival of Bodily Death", Bruce Greysonhttp://neardeath.home.comcast.net/nde/001_pages/80.html(e)
Then a most unusual thing happened. I heard very clearly, once again in my own voice, something that I had learned in nursery Sunday School. It was the little song, "Jesus loves me, yes I know ..." and it kept repeating. I don't know why, but all of a sudden I wanted to believe that. Not having anything left, I wanted to cling to that thought. And I, inside, screamed, "Jesus, please save me."
That thought was screamed with every ounce of strength and feeling left in me.
When I did that, I saw, off in the darkness somewhere, the tiniest little star. Not knowing what it was, I presumed it must be a comet or a meteor, because it was moving rapidly. Then I realized it was coming toward me. It was getting very bright, rapidly.
When the light came near, its radiance spilled over me, and I just rose up – not with my effort – I just lifted up. Then I saw – and I saw this very plainly – I saw all my wounds, all my tears, all my brokenness, melt away. And I became whole in this radiance.
What I did was to cry uncontrollably. I was crying, not out of sadness, but because I was feeling things that I had never felt before in my life.
Another thing happened. Suddenly I knew a whole bunch of things. I knew things ... I knew that this light, this radiance, knew me. I don't know how to explain to you that I knew it knew me, I just did. As a matter of fact, I understood that it knew me better than my mother or father did.The luminous entity that embraced me knew me intimately and began to communicate a tremendous sense of knowledge. I knew that he knew everything about me and I was being unconditionally loved and accepted.
The light conveyed to me that it loved me in a way that I can't begin to express. It loved me in a way that I had never known that love could possibly be. He was a concentrated field of energy, radiant in splendor indescribable, except to say goodness and love. This was more loving than one can imagine.
I knew that this radiant being was powerful. It was making me feel so good all over. I could feel its light on me – like very gentle hands around me. And I could feel it holding me. But it was loving me with overwhelming power. After what I had been through, to be completely known, accepted, and intensely loved by this Being of Light surpassed anything I had known or could have imagined. I began to cry and the tears kept coming and coming. And we, I and this light, went up and out of there.
We started going faster and faster, out of the darkness. Embraced by the light, feeling wonderful and crying, I saw off in the distance something that looked like the picture of a galaxy, except that it was larger and there were more stars than I had seen on Earth.
There was a great center of brilliance. In the center there was an enormously bright concentration. Outside the center countless millions of spheres of light were flying about entering and leaving what was a great being-ness at the center. It was off in the distance.
Then I ... I didn't say it, I thought it. I said, "Put me back."
What I meant by telling the light to put me back, was to put me back into the pit. I was so ashamed of who I was, and what I had been all of my life, that all I wanted to do was hide in the darkness. I didn't want to go toward the light anymore – I did; yet I didn't. How many times in my life had I denied and scoffed at the reality before me, and how many thousands of times had I used it as a curse. What incredible intellectual arrogance to use the name as an insult.I was afraid to go closer. I was also aware that the incredible intensity of the emanations might disintegrate what I still experienced as my intact physical body.
The being who was supporting me, my friend, was aware of my fear and reluctance and shame. For the first time he spoke to my mind in a male voice and told me that if I was uncomfortable we didn't have to go closer.So we stopped where we were, still countless miles away from the Great being.
For the first time, my friend, and I will refer to him in that context hereafter, said to me, "You belong here."
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