How do I know myself as Consciousness?

[J_A_S_G]

Originally Posted by Ewwerrin

Liquid Diamond! That's pretty epic to me. Very creative way to describe what was seen.

A truck driver who had a NDE related to Dr. Greyson it was like going through a tailpipe, not a tunnel. Hahaha!

But seriously, much of the way NDEs are related is based on worldly experience that in some respect is 'like' an asepct of the nde. An analogy or metaphor, just like liquid diamond!

[Starman]

Every person describes the death experience differently, according to their own earthly orientation. I have posted some simple notes about my current volunteer work at a local hospice in the Death section on this forum, a thread titled “Interpretations‘ I sit with people who are hours away from death on a weekly basis and they tell me in their words what they are experiencing.

I have seen hundreds of people die, as a combat medic during war in Vietnam, much later an ambulance paramedic, an also having worked as a nurse. I have also had out-of-body experiences myself, and in my opinion death is very intimate and as personal as birth. In fact I see death as a form of birth. We die to the spiritual world when we enter this world and we die to this physical world when we leave this world.

It is really not about death in my opinion, rather it is about birth; with each ending comes a beginning and with each beginning comes an ending, but people tend to focus more on the ending then they do the beginning. I tell people who are dying not to anticipate what is next, just try to stay in the moment and go with each breath until your final breath. Many go through a life review before they die.

Most laugh about the hard times they had here on earth. Some say leaving their body feels like taking off a tight shoe. Not everyone see a brilliant light, some see nothing but darkness, while others have light surrounding them just before they die. In my out of body experiences I would look back at this physical life and it appeared to me as a very faint dream. Every out of body experience which I have had has been incredibly beautiful, extremely fulfilling, and it left me awestruck.

[JustBe]

Originally Posted by J_A_S_G

The philosophy can be defined but I don't see how the experience can be defined. It's kind of like a story told by Dr. Bruce Greyson about NDE researchers interviewing near death experiencers who say certain aspects of what they experienced is beyond words, at which point the researchers say "Great, tell me all about it". LOL!

Haha.. that’s funny.

If one is being it, isn’t it simply the expression of itself? And in the describing of the philosophy if integrated as the experience, wouldn’t it be simply felt and noticed as such?

If you’re living through the awareness it encompasses attributes and actions as I see this. As an example I don’t always understand the philosophy until I’ve experienced something, but I can relate through experience when I read the philosophy from another aware.

[MikeS80]

Originally Posted by Ewwerrin

So people say, you don't exist. And suddenly there is a boundless sense of freedom. In the same way that one meditates and suddenly they feel free.

Actually the opposite happens. It seems like the premise is you do not exist because physical existence is an illusion that is not real, this is like saying existence does not exist.

If people actually lived like this in thier every day to day life, they would not experience anything, and they will not have any experiences to talk about.. People will claim that it is about non duality and about being beyond mind but all of those things are knowledge, information that thier mind uses and learned from gurus/teachers, so it is not being beyond mind at all, it only appears to be beyond mind, and as the saying goes, appearances can be deceiving.