Susan Blackmore has found there have been individuals who have felt cursed by their NDE or have become so traumatized by it that they have become fearful, angry or paranoid. Blackmore asks how much of the circumstances involved is really a NDE and how much is just coming close to death and having to contemplate ones own mortality.
Atwater found the vast majority comes back to speak of a "Greater Plan" and all of us have a job to do and a purpose for living. Those who had a NDE have stated that if your job is done, you can leave this plane of existence. If not, you just stay and "get busy" doing it. She says some come back knowing exactly what their job is but most do not and express regrets that they don't. Atwater mentions many people come back with awakened spiritual gifts and a renewed mission in life. This includes vivid dreams/visions, healing abilities, enhanced creativity and a desire to serve others. Also Atwater found those informed of their mission in life have become innovators in style of dance, developed healing sounds, inventors of several patents, become computer geniuses, written scientific theories and developed new ways of teaching morality to children.
Blackmore concluded that any adventures of "beings" encountered happens in the persons mind but in no way minimizes the significance of what was learned during a NDE. She finds some groups use the Final Judgment and Hellfire as intimidation to scare people into line or submission. She thinks that if people researched this for themselves, they would not be susceptible to such wicked scare tactics. Blackmore says it makes little sense on why people use fear to justify their belief in a loving God.
Most of those who experienced a NDE reported to Atwater of unconditional love, forgiveness and the non judgmental aspects of near death episodes. When children were involved, Atwater found that a different storyline was involved. They were met by a "being" whose role was that of a 'loving or critical" parent. This "being" either gives orders, judges them for past deeds or prepares them to meet and fulfill their destiny by warning them in advance what to look for and how to behave. Atwater finds an interesting characteristic of NDE's is the past life review. It seemed to be an opportunity for everyone to witness past events in their life and see how their actions affected others and fully learn what exactly happened and do better in the future.
Blackmore claims that the Life Review occurs when uninhibited and random firing occurs in parts of the brain that organizes memories. Memories come flooding back at death but it can also be done in a lab setting by brain stimulation. Michael Persinger has produced many aspects of NDE's by temporal lobe stimulation. Those who have been in his stimulation chamber have testified that it was powerful stuff. To some, the common cause in all NDE's is cortical uninhibition. This happens when the inhibitory cells in the cortex of the brain stops ding its job of dampening down the activity of other cells. The rapid random firing of cells happens all over the brain, and causes the effect of floating, music and the tunnel with the light at the end of it.
Blackmore says if one can examine the claims that certain body processes explain away the phenomenon, they can find it easy to do in principle but difficult to test in practice. Hallucinations, whether caused by centrifugal spinning or oxygen deprivation does not bring about the type of details near death states do. Nor can they begin to match the consistency of the overall pattern found in NDE's.
Atwater finds it moving experiences to talk to someone who has been close to death. She found those who have gone though a NDE have a special relationship with something most people fear, that being death. Synchronicity becomes an everyday occurrence for them, as they seem to tune in and find each other without using words.
The NDE reveals more about life than it does death. What it invites us to do is redefine what we mean by life.
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