A lot of people hold this idea that well, when you die you die, that's it. Death is a moment, you know you're either dead or you're alive.
But then it was discovered that actually when you look at motion at really small levels - beyond the level of the atoms - Newton's laws no longer apply. A new physics was needed, hence, we eventually ended up with quantum physics. It caused a lot of controversy, even Einstein himself didn't believe in it. Now, if you look at the mind, consciousness, and the brain, the assumption that the mind and brain are the same thing is fine for most circumstances, because in 99% of circumstances we can't separate the mind and brain, they work at the exactly the same time. But then there are certain extreme examples, like when he brain shuts down, that we see that that this assumption may no longer seem to hold true. So a new science is needed in the same way that we had to have a new quantum physics. The CERN particle accelerator may take us back to our roots. It may take us back to the first moments after the big bang, the very beginning. With our study, for the first time, we have the technology and the means to be able to investigate this. To see what happens at the end for us. Does something continue?
But then it was discovered that actually when you look at motion at really small levels - beyond the level of the atoms - Newton's laws no longer apply. A new physics was needed, hence, we eventually ended up with quantum physics. It caused a lot of controversy, even Einstein himself didn't believe in it. Now, if you look at the mind, consciousness, and the brain, the assumption that the mind and brain are the same thing is fine for most circumstances, because in 99% of circumstances we can't separate the mind and brain, they work at the exactly the same time. But then there are certain extreme examples, like when he brain shuts down, that we see that that this assumption may no longer seem to hold true. So a new science is needed in the same way that we had to have a new quantum physics. The CERN particle accelerator may take us back to our roots. It may take us back to the first moments after the big bang, the very beginning. With our study, for the first time, we have the technology and the means to be able to investigate this. To see what happens at the end for us. Does something continue?
 clipped from news.yahoo.comWhat was your first interview like with someone who had reported an out-of-body experience? I have about five hundred or so cases of people that I've interviewed since I first started out more than ten years ago. It's the consistency of the experiences, the reality of what they were describing. I managed to speak to doctors and nurses who had been present and said these patients told them exactly what had happened and they couldn't explain it. There was a cardiologist that I spoke with who said he hasn't told anyone else about it because he has no explanation for how this patient could have been able to describe in detail what he had said and done. He was so freaked out by it that he just decided not to think about it anymore.
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I actually came across a great website in which a scientist named Leo Kim, has the same concepts as you- He also believes that there is a life after death.
This guy has worked as a scientist for 25 years and has experienced first-hand science and spirituality working together. Apparently he has worked with cancer patients and has watched many die, and others being healed. He is actually coming out with a book next month (October) titled, “Healing the Rift.” I for one am extremely excited that such a great scientist (by looking at his bio- he looks very reputable), supports the notion of life after death.
It's a fascinating topic, but I believe anyone who has died and comes back to life must have maintained some sort of brain function, and so the experience becomes mythological/dream-based, and the vision probably just a perpetuation of that person's belief system. This in itself may explain a lot. It may mean when we die, whatever our belief system, that will take our mythos, our essence, in one of many dimensions - but this will be one of our choosing. I don't know. personally I find it hard to believe that when we die our soul or essence or what remains of us can maintain an identity - in other words that our energy field maintains its integrity and intelligence. I believe our energy diffuses into the universe and who we are ceases to exist. We exist the way we existed before we were born - as the possible building blocks for a possible life, but certainly not a living entity as such.
The other aspect to consider is that if there is life after death, there ought to be a vast majority of the non-living out there. Why have we so little information - concrete information, of the afterlife. All the after death experiences happen to conincide very closely with death. You don't hear of someone coming back from the dead weeks, months or years later. If life after death was common reality, people returning from the dead would be common, and we know this isn't true.
As a matter of practical reality, life after death is really manifest in that when we have children, aspects of ourselves continue to exist after our demise. It is us, part of us, and part of others. This is a truth I can believe in, and is also reassuring. It does not get rid of the fear of ultimate death though, but that is something we probably need to accept.
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