Near Death Experiences

What our eyes can see are limited. What our mind can imagine are also limited. In the usual cases people don’t believe things exist unless their eyes have seen. The existence of dualism of both human flesh and the spirit or the existing life and afterlife seem to be a doubtful topic. Most people’s belief seem to fall in the category of monism which “only one basic substance exists as the ground of reality” (Web Dictionary). That reality is the human body, the materialistic world that we see everyday with our eyes made of flesh. Or in the cases where people cannot decide whether consciousness still exists after death of the body. However, people with the testimony of near death experiences do not seem to fall in the category of monism, but dualism. What they have experienced with the split second of body and soul, at the edge of life and death are unexplainable. Their personal experience reassured the veracity of consciousness survives after the death of the body, and there will be an afterlife besides the life that we see exists on this Earth today.

First story seems very significant to approve the existence of dualism is a woman named Rebecca. During her death experience she had been proved to be clinically dead. Clinically dead means that “as far as can be ascertained by a clinical examination the patient is dead. There is no pulse, no respiratory movement and no corneal reflex” (medical dictionary). Which means her heart stopped beating. Being clinically dead for five minutes, with what she has experienced it's convincing that another life do exist. The conscious mind do exist, or else if someone is proved to be dead, then there should be appearance of either darkness or a memory of nothing. She felt some kind of Being wa...

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...eaven or hell where certain souls are kept” (Dictionary). Most of these stories that are being posted people often experienced a sense of peace and love. And they also seen either eternal light- heaven, or eternal darkness and fire- hell. They do have to have some types of explanation to it than just matters explains by science. For the above near death experiences and the case of experiencing the spirit cannot be proof by science. Because science can only approve what exist in this life today. Science is a study of matter, which is a “systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation” (dictionary). These near death experiences seem to involve physical phenomenon inside the brain, however, they cannot be scientifically proven by the physical or material world. So consciousness would still exist away from the body.