Now this is some sweet NDE

[Miss Hepburn]

Originally Posted by Guillaume

It's really amazing how similar are the effects of deep meditation and NDEs.

Thank you...No one mentions this very much.
But, YES! ---Long, deep meditation and suddenly I have exp's like NDE folks!!
Beautiful, holy, outta this world, so to speak.

[Still_Waters]

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Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn

I didn't know why there is a 'but' there.
I thought in our circles it was common knowledge that we get what we expect and on the Other Side, that, and what we are comfy with.

one reason I enjoyed this NDE a lot...it was non-denominational.

You're absolutely right, as usual , that I shouldn't have put my "but" in there as it should more appropriately have been an "and" since "but" in that context does have a negative connotation.

In some ways, the NDE was indeed non-denominational, as you duly noted. I will concede that. However, as soon as I started listening to it (even before the explicit Christian references), I intuited her Christian orientation and subsequently checked her obituary which confirmed my intuition.

In assessing Truth, one eventually looks for conditioning or biases that influence such experiences. In this way, one can better arrive at Truth by eliminating as best as possible the conditioned aspects of the reported experience. Henry James did that quite well in his classic "Varieties of Religious Experiences".

[Still_Waters]

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Originally Posted by Guillaume

Do you know the true reason for it to have happened? Had you (unconsciously/deeply within you) planned to go on a wrong direction and then to "wake up" by this way, or is it something you still can't explain?

I completely misinterpreted some of the directive aspects of my NDE. However, as life progressed (in terms of years, not days or weeks), everything became crystal clear. Nothing remained unexplained.