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Old 01-04-2012, 10:52 PM
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Notable NDEs

What do you consider to be notable NDEs? Here is an initial contribution.

The earliest written account of an NDE comes from Plato, who relates the near-death experience of the warrior Er:

..the tale of a warrior bold, Er, the son of Armenious, by race a Pamphylian. He once upon a time was slain in battle, and when the corpses were taken up on the tenth day already decayed, he was found intact, and having been brought home, at the moment of his funeral, on the twelfth day as he lay upon the pyre, revived, and after coming to life related what, he said, he had seen in the world beyond. He said that when his soul went forth from his body he journeyed with a great company and that they came to a mysterious region where there were two openings side by side in the Earth, and above and over against them in the heaven two others, and that judges were sitting between these, and that after every judgment they bade the righteous journey to the right and upward through the heaven with tokens attached to them in front of the judgment passed upon them, and the unjust to take the road to the left and downward, they too wearing behind signs of all that had befallen them, and that when he himself drew near they told him that he must be the messenger to humanity to tell them of that other world, and they charged him to give ear and to observe everything in the place.

From out of the tunnels came souls who were returning for a reincarnation on Earth. Souls coming from above spoke of the happiness and beauty that they had experienced. But from below came souls who had endured much suffering for the suffering they had caused others in their last earthly life. Before returning to Earth as a shooting star, each reincarnating soul was required to drink from the River of Forgetfulness. Only Er was not allowed to drink and thus remember what he had seen.
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