I fully believe and testify to this reality.. in 1990, my brother died and on the day of his funeral he came to me to reassure me. I described the way he was dressed to my sister who was in tears and awe about the accuracy of the description ... He died in Europe and I was in Australia. I wasn’t able to make it to his funeral.
@@dfkuz, of course… You could also teach me that we have to discern by the “fruits” of it and not merely by visions or emotions… Lets do that. At that time, I was an agnostic and certainly lost.. didn’t know our Lord and didn’t care… What “that” personal experience has done, was a start to my conversion and faith journey on this earth.. Have a blessed journey as well 👋 I will include you in my prayer intentions 🙏 that you may be gifted with a bit more of spirit of discernment and less impulsive judgment in your comments. God Bless you and protect you 🙏
@@bruno-orante Thanks for the nice thoughts but God is not the sugarplum fairy sprinkling gifts on people because others asked. God does not violate the free will he created us with. And Satan doesn't care about whether something he does makes someone seem holier - as long as that person does not realize their need to trust Jesus Christ alone for their eternal life. I met my demons personally (telepathically) in the 1990's and I have made it my job to out as many of them as possible whenever I'm able. My written testimony is accessible from my page.
This is jaw-dropping to me from the standpoint that in the 5th grade (1968), I asked my Catholic School SSND nuns and priests these very questions AND I spent a LOT of time in the Principal's office for voicing the questions!!! My parent's were even called in several times, for conferences!!! The nuns & priests said, "Don't ask questions. You just have to have faith." I told them if something is true, it will hold up to questioning. I was nearly expelled, but that was the year the Catholic Church lost me, and kicked off a 35 year bout of atheism. My parents made me keep going to school & church. What restored my belief in God was an NDE from my fellow-atheist little brother!! Praying that teachers will pick up the flag and respond to young people's questions!!!
All paranormal experiences today are from Satan. God isn't doing any of them because we have the Bible to guide us and Israel's signs and wonders are over because they rejected their Messiah. If you are having any psychic phenomena at all, you need to place your faith in Jesus Christ because it's a sign that you are demon-possessed as many people are today.
I am not Catholic, but love what we have learned from the early church and that the Roman Catholic Church is very slow to change its doctrine. I love Franciscan Theology, it makes a lot of sense to me. Protestant churches change much to easily and try to be “trendy.” With that said, I was raised Lutheran, attend Lutheran and we were encouraged to question, with the knowledge and faith that the Holy Spirit would lead us to sufficient answers. I must say, that I have always been deconstructing my beliefs and to this point the Spirit has never let me down. My Faith has always grown and been strengthened. Sometimes it’s scary, but we all must pass through the wilderness from time to time. I have found that through deconstruction, l still believe the foundational tenets, but often in a new way. NDEs are to me proof of a greater consciousness, who we call God, who is the Father, and we do return to Him, if we allow ourselves to trust in Him. I love Father Spitzer!
Kay Ivy - it means the soul isn’t blind and that what is, is the physical body. There’s no healing of the body and the body doesn’t go anywhere but to the grave; it disintegrates, and the souls goes on continues to learn while living other lives. In my opinion.
Good on you, welcome to the universal church, remember no excuse now, no matter what part of the world you will find a Catholic Church though not as many when I was a kid, so no excuses now to miss mass lol.
Notice what this catholic woman found out in NDE.... NDE - DIANE S.: "I walked away from the catholic church because I realized everything I was raised with was not true. It's a religion based in fear. And ON THE OTHER SIDE I REALIZED THAT THERE'S NOTHING TO BE AFRAID OF BECAUSE THERE'S NO JUDGEMENT, THERE IS NO HELL. Its only unconditional love. It grew more, and I got closer to it, and all of a sudden the light was all around me and I could be at peace. This unconditional love just surrounded me. We are a direct connection from God. Everything we experience, God experiences, and GOD WANTS TO KNOW IT'S GOD-SELF IN ALL WAYS, AND WE PROVIDE THAT."
Just want to say I am so absolutely thrilled to hear that this type of teaching will be coming to Ireland in 2021. It's so true that while middle aged people are reverting or seeking & finding their lost faith because they sense there's something lost that the youth are not being challenged enough on an intellectual level to have confidence in their beliefs. The scientific and philosophical richness of our faith and reasons to believe are and always have been there, but they are not well known and exploited ( Fr. Spitzer drawing on a virtual army of Catholic scientists who understood that seeking God in nature is kind of like the first great Commission 'Go out multiply, fill the earth and conquer it' - John Henry Newman, Thomas Aquinas, GK Chesterton etc. etc ) So happy for my two boys, in fact I think I'll look over the 12plus modules and give them a home introduction. Thank you Father! God bless you and your work! Very exciting indeed!
That is truly great news about teaching this in Ireland. I was in Medjugorje in November and I was very impressed at how many devout Irish people I met. So many reasons why the faith seemed to vanish in Ireland, but please God it will come back stronger than ever. Perhaps smaller, but stronger. I saw a video of Irish Bishops (I think in Knock) they all had face muzzles on and at Communion they all sat on their fat ****s and had EMs give communion and only in the hand. There is the root cause of the current problem. A bunch of managers with little if any connection to the apostles. dia guith a chara.
Notice what this catholic woman found out in NDE.... NDE - DIANE S.: "I walked away from the catholic church because I realized everything I was raised with was not true. It's a religion based in fear. And ON THE OTHER SIDE I REALIZED THAT THERE'S NOTHING TO BE AFRAID OF BECAUSE THERE'S NO JUDGEMENT, THERE IS NO HELL. Its only unconditional love. It grew more, and I got closer to it, and all of a sudden the light was all around me and I could be at peace. This unconditional love just surrounded me. We are a direct connection from God. Everything we experience, God experiences, and GOD WANTS TO KNOW IT'S GOD-SELF IN ALL WAYS, AND WE PROVIDE THAT."
I had an an uncle who was a big addicted gambler, drank a lot, was selfish, a bad husband, left the Church and only worshipped football.... and he had a NDE....in his 70’s in an operation. They lost him and brought him back. He was SCARED OUT OF HIS MIND as he went to HELL. He said he couldn’t share everything as it was too horrifying to recall but he told the dr’s and kept begging not to let him die again and go back. Out of the hospital he was a changed man, went to confession right away and back to Church. His old blind wife who also lost a limb to her diabetes and was dealing with kidney failure and who divorced him years ago so she couldn’t be held responsible for his gambling debts....he moved in and became her caretaker 24-7. Not sure how he is doing now spiritually or if he slid back. He is in his late 70;s and ill.
I’m publishing a weekly UA-cam video on episodes from the life of Don Bosco, entitled ST JOHN BOSCO by JOE ZAMMIT. In this series I’m narrating events and miracles from the splendid life of Don Bosco. St John Bosco used to perform a miracle almost every day, through the intercession of Mary Help of Christians. From the lives of saints we can learn how to love God more and draw closer to him. Thank you
The JeffMara Podcast has NDE stories where people come back so loving and compassionate, dont care about being wealthy or famous, and want only to LOVE.
I once read an excerpt from an ER nurse, and she stated that the majority of NDE's from just resuscitated individuals were negative. They were terrified. It's most likely many people having negative experiences repress the memory. My own grandfather, who was resuscitated, experienced hell.
@@janesawyer3495 Many people report that Re-entering their body is painful - especially if the body was greatly injured or diseased before the NDE - so perhaps that's what the ER nurse was witnessing. Of course there are actual experiences of Hell as well. >
No, you're wrong. I'll prove that. Here are these short NDEs. Notice... NDE - LINDA S.: "The wrathful, vengeful God, as taught by my religion, instilled in me a deep fear of God, death, and the afterlife. The NDE transformed me, showing that God is only a loving God, WHO DOES NOT JUDGE AND PUNISH. THERE IS NO HELL. I knew I was in the arms of a being who cherished me with PERFECT LOVE and carried me from the dark void into a new reality. There was no place that God did not exist and I was within God. I am an inseparable part of the light. THE TRUTH OF WHO I AM, INDEED, WHO WE ALL ARE, IS PERFECT LOVE as a creation of God. I had spent a lifetime of fear of judgment and now, standing with God, I HAD BEEN KNOWN COMPLETELY AND FOUND FAULTLESS. I KNEW GOD REGARDED ME AS PERFECT. Finally it all made sense. God could only love me because God is only love, nothing other than love. All is as it is supposed to be. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE IS OUR TRUE NATURE." Another Christian...and notice, again.... NDE - ROBYN C.: "I KNOW THERE IS NO JUDGEMENT OR HELL. I just know whatever form God takes, he loves us and welcomes us. I felt an overwhelming sense of complete bliss and contentment. I could see the light ahead of me and felt drawn to it, but I was moving slowly and enjoying the wondrous sensations I felt. Since my experience, I have been certain there is a God, but this is different to what I had believed as a Christian." Again, no "hell" and no judgement.... NDE - JASON H.: "I now know that there is a life after death. I NOW KNOW THAT THERE IS NO HELL. In that overwhelming radiating loving light, I met a glowingly beautiful, very loving being. His loving presence completely surrounded me, and together we went through my life and all that I had experienced, IN A LOVING WAY, NOT ANY JUDGING WAY." Yet again, no "hell" and can't be separated.... NDE - GORDON S.: "THERE IS NO 'heaven' and no 'HELL'. I am just now accepting that part of my purpose for coming back is to help other people awaken to the simple truth: WE ARE LOVE, we are part of God, and WE CANNOT EVER BE SEPARATED FROM GOD. The knowing that we are all inter-connected makes it easy for me to accept people, just as they are." Again, no "hell" and no reward.... NDE - STEVE L.: "I soon realized I did not have my body, and that I was surrounded by consciousness. EVERYTHING IS JUST TOTAL LOVE. There was consciousness that came to me in the form of people I recognized. THERE IS NO heaven or HELL. THERE IS NO "REWARD" FOR A "GOOD LIFE". Our careers, mistakes, money, etc., mean nothing. We join the pure consciousness at the time of leaving our body, and we are all one." Notice again, he clearly understood.... NDE - DOUG F.: "IT WAS CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD THAT THERE IS NO heaven or HELL. Every part of the universe was part of me, and every part of me was part of the universe. THERE WAS COMPLETE INCLUSION AND ACCEPTANCE. This was so far beyond any expectation. Another realization came to me. Everything is known, and there is nothing to learn. Life on earth is not a school, there is nothing to learn. LIFE ON EARTH IS JUST AN EXPERIENCE. NOTHING MORE. As I was guided back, first into the 4th dimension, I could feel the expanded awareness shutting down. THIS LIFE IS ABOUT EXPERIENCE THAT IS THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT WE TRULY ARE."
Here are some short WOW NDEs! Notice... NDE - LINDA S.: "The wrathful, vengeful God, as taught by my religion, instilled in me a deep fear of God, death, and the afterlife. The NDE transformed me, showing that God is only a loving God, WHO DOES NOT JUDGE AND PUNISH. THERE IS NO HELL. I knew I was in the arms of a being who cherished me with PERFECT LOVE and carried me from the dark void into a new reality. There was no place that God did not exist and I was within God. I am an inseparable part of the light. THE TRUTH OF WHO I AM, INDEED, WHO WE ALL ARE, IS PERFECT LOVE as a creation of God. I had spent a lifetime of fear of judgment and now, standing with God, I HAD BEEN KNOWN COMPLETELY AND FOUND FAULTLESS. I KNEW GOD REGARDED ME AS PERFECT. Finally it all made sense. God could only love me because God is only love, nothing other than love. All is as it is supposed to be. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE IS OUR TRUE NATURE." Another Christian...and notice, again.... NDE - ROBYN C.: "I KNOW THERE IS NO JUDGEMENT OR HELL. I just know whatever form God takes, he loves us and welcomes us. I felt an overwhelming sense of complete bliss and contentment. I could see the light ahead of me and felt drawn to it, but I was moving slowly and enjoying the wondrous sensations I felt. Since my experience, I have been certain there is a God, but this is different to what I had believed as a Christian." Again, no "hell" and no judgement.... NDE - JASON H.: "I now know that there is a life after death. I NOW KNOW THAT THERE IS NO HELL. In that overwhelming radiating loving light, I met a glowingly beautiful, very loving being. His loving presence completely surrounded me, and together we went through my life and all that I had experienced, IN A LOVING WAY, NOT ANY JUDGING WAY." Yet again, no "hell" and can't be separated.... NDE - GORDON S.: "THERE IS NO 'heaven' and no 'HELL'. I am just now accepting that part of my purpose for coming back is to help other people awaken to the simple truth: WE ARE LOVE, we are part of God, and WE CANNOT EVER BE SEPARATED FROM GOD. The knowing that we are all inter-connected makes it easy for me to accept people, just as they are." Again, no "hell" and no reward.... NDE - STEVE L.: "I soon realized I did not have my body, and that I was surrounded by consciousness. EVERYTHING IS JUST TOTAL LOVE. There was consciousness that came to me in the form of people I recognized. THERE IS NO heaven or HELL. THERE IS NO "REWARD" FOR A "GOOD LIFE". Our careers, mistakes, money, etc., mean nothing. We join the pure consciousness at the time of leaving our body, and we are all one." Notice again, he clearly understood.... NDE - DOUG F.: "IT WAS CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD THAT THERE IS NO heaven or HELL. Every part of the universe was part of me, and every part of me was part of the universe. THERE WAS COMPLETE INCLUSION AND ACCEPTANCE. This was so far beyond any expectation. Another realization came to me. Everything is known, and there is nothing to learn. Life on earth is not a school, there is nothing to learn. LIFE ON EARTH IS JUST AN EXPERIENCE. NOTHING MORE. As I was guided back, first into the 4th dimension, I could feel the expanded awareness shutting down. THIS LIFE IS ABOUT EXPERIENCE THAT IS THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT WE TRULY ARE."
Please don't confuse Catholicism with God...the overwhelming amount of evidence shows that our unified form of consciousness, God, has ZERO JUDGMENT... Catholicism on the other hand is quite judgemental, and that judgment will just take u back here to learn this lesson again... I hope that helped... Ur friend, abracadabra
Do these NDEs support catholicism? Notice... NDE - LINDA S.: "The wrathful, vengeful God, as taught by my religion, instilled in me a deep fear of God, death, and the afterlife. The NDE transformed me, showing that God is only a loving God, WHO DOES NOT JUDGE AND PUNISH. THERE IS NO HELL. I knew I was in the arms of a being who cherished me with PERFECT LOVE and carried me from the dark void into a new reality. There was no place that God did not exist and I was within God. I am an inseparable part of the light. THE TRUTH OF WHO I AM, INDEED, WHO WE ALL ARE, IS PERFECT LOVE as a creation of God. I had spent a lifetime of fear of judgment and now, standing with God, I HAD BEEN KNOWN COMPLETELY AND FOUND FAULTLESS. I KNEW GOD REGARDED ME AS PERFECT. Finally it all made sense. God could only love me because God is only love, nothing other than love. All is as it is supposed to be. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE IS OUR TRUE NATURE." Another Christian...and notice, again.... NDE - ROBYN C.: "I KNOW THERE IS NO JUDGEMENT OR HELL. I just know whatever form God takes, he loves us and welcomes us. I felt an overwhelming sense of complete bliss and contentment. I could see the light ahead of me and felt drawn to it, but I was moving slowly and enjoying the wondrous sensations I felt. Since my experience, I have been certain there is a God, but this is different to what I had believed as a Christian." Again, no "hell" and no judgement.... NDE - JASON H.: "I now know that there is a life after death. I NOW KNOW THAT THERE IS NO HELL. In that overwhelming radiating loving light, I met a glowingly beautiful, very loving being. His loving presence completely surrounded me, and together we went through my life and all that I had experienced, IN A LOVING WAY, NOT ANY JUDGING WAY." Yet again, no "hell" and can't be separated.... NDE - GORDON S.: "THERE IS NO 'heaven' and no 'HELL'. I am just now accepting that part of my purpose for coming back is to help other people awaken to the simple truth: WE ARE LOVE, we are part of God, and WE CANNOT EVER BE SEPARATED FROM GOD. The knowing that we are all inter-connected makes it easy for me to accept people, just as they are." Again, no "hell" and no reward.... NDE - STEVE L.: "I soon realized I did not have my body, and that I was surrounded by consciousness. EVERYTHING IS JUST TOTAL LOVE. There was consciousness that came to me in the form of people I recognized. THERE IS NO heaven or HELL. THERE IS NO "REWARD" FOR A "GOOD LIFE". Our careers, mistakes, money, etc., mean nothing. We join the pure consciousness at the time of leaving our body, and we are all one." Notice again, he clearly understood.... NDE - DOUG F.: "IT WAS CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD THAT THERE IS NO heaven or HELL. Every part of the universe was part of me, and every part of me was part of the universe. THERE WAS COMPLETE INCLUSION AND ACCEPTANCE. This was so far beyond any expectation. Another realization came to me. Everything is known, and there is nothing to learn. Life on earth is not a school, there is nothing to learn. LIFE ON EARTH IS JUST AN EXPERIENCE. NOTHING MORE. As I was guided back, first into the 4th dimension, I could feel the expanded awareness shutting down. THIS LIFE IS ABOUT EXPERIENCE THAT IS THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT WE TRULY ARE."
I have to ask for your prayers and please offer your Holy Communions and Holy masses for my intentions. I ask St. Philomena and Venerable Pauline Marie Jaricot to pray for ALL of you. Amen. 🙏🙏🙏
Having the presentations on crediblecatholic has been great - the one on near death experiences was my favourite. Kids sometimes seem to tune out watching videos, but having the presentation format and being able to talk about each slide was great.
I’m publishing a weekly UA-cam video on episodes from the life of Don Bosco, entitled ST JOHN BOSCO by JOE ZAMMIT. In this series I’m narrating events and miracles from the splendid life of Don Bosco. St John Bosco used to perform a miracle almost every day, through the intercession of Mary Help of Christians. From the lives of saints we can learn how to love God more and draw closer to him. Thank you
Notice what this catholic woman found out in NDE.... NDE - DIANE S.: "I walked away from the catholic church because I realized everything I was raised with was not true. It's a religion based in fear. And ON THE OTHER SIDE I REALIZED THAT THERE'S NOTHING TO BE AFRAID OF BECAUSE THERE'S NO JUDGEMENT, THERE IS NO HELL. Its only unconditional love. It grew more, and I got closer to it, and all of a sudden the light was all around me and I could be at peace. This unconditional love just surrounded me. We are a direct connection from God. Everything we experience, God experiences, and GOD WANTS TO KNOW IT'S GOD-SELF IN ALL WAYS, AND WE PROVIDE THAT."
Interesting too are people who see relatives who have died be there before they die. I have seen it my friend washed dishes went to her bedroom her husband and sister who had died were there and said they were waiting for her then disappeared. She couldn't wait to tell me about it. A few weeks later she died. My Grandmother saw her father my Dad saw someone sitting on the couch my sunday school teachers wife saw a very handsome angel with beautiful blue eyes. He told her not to be afraid he would be there.
Beautiful narration that explains an NDE experiences of some people. It could remove some people fear of death once they understand that death is not something to fear IF they are in CHRIST JESUS. It is also a big help to anyone who does not believe in the LIFE AfTER, but most consoling to families that their dead relatives are ALIVE in the other world and they will be reunited again. 37:3037:31
Notice what this catholic woman found out in NDE.... NDE - DIANE S.: "I walked away from the catholic church because I realized everything I was raised with was not true. It's a religion based in fear. And ON THE OTHER SIDE I REALIZED THAT THERE'S NOTHING TO BE AFRAID OF BECAUSE THERE'S NO JUDGEMENT, THERE IS NO HELL. Its only unconditional love. It grew more, and I got closer to it, and all of a sudden the light was all around me and I could be at peace. This unconditional love just surrounded me. We are a direct connection from God. Everything we experience, God experiences, and GOD WANTS TO KNOW IT'S GOD-SELF IN ALL WAYS, AND WE PROVIDE THAT."
I've been thinking for quite awhile that the Catholic Church must have something positive to say about this NDE phenomena. Thanks to Fr. Spitzer for having tried to answer my wish. It's so sad that our Church always lagged about new issues that will come out and NDE is one of them. I noticed that other religion are already so advance regarding this matter.
The Church has always been interested in Science. NDEs, as he said, is a fairly recent phenomenon due to advanced technology allowing the person to be resuscitated so they could report it. Look at all the verified Miracles the Church has verified that other churches don't teach.
Yes. Just take a look at these NDEs that people are talking about. Notice... NDE - LINDA S.: "The wrathful, vengeful God, as taught by my religion, instilled in me a deep fear of God, death, and the afterlife. The NDE transformed me, showing that God is only a loving God, WHO DOES NOT JUDGE AND PUNISH. THERE IS NO HELL. I knew I was in the arms of a being who cherished me with PERFECT LOVE and carried me from the dark void into a new reality. There was no place that God did not exist and I was within God. I am an inseparable part of the light. THE TRUTH OF WHO I AM, INDEED, WHO WE ALL ARE, IS PERFECT LOVE as a creation of God. I had spent a lifetime of fear of judgment and now, standing with God, I HAD BEEN KNOWN COMPLETELY AND FOUND FAULTLESS. I KNEW GOD REGARDED ME AS PERFECT. Finally it all made sense. God could only love me because God is only love, nothing other than love. All is as it is supposed to be. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE IS OUR TRUE NATURE." Another Christian...and notice, again.... NDE - ROBYN C.: "I KNOW THERE IS NO JUDGEMENT OR HELL. I just know whatever form God takes, he loves us and welcomes us. I felt an overwhelming sense of complete bliss and contentment. I could see the light ahead of me and felt drawn to it, but I was moving slowly and enjoying the wondrous sensations I felt. Since my experience, I have been certain there is a God, but this is different to what I had believed as a Christian." Again, no "hell" and no judgement.... NDE - JASON H.: "I now know that there is a life after death. I NOW KNOW THAT THERE IS NO HELL. In that overwhelming radiating loving light, I met a glowingly beautiful, very loving being. His loving presence completely surrounded me, and together we went through my life and all that I had experienced, IN A LOVING WAY, NOT ANY JUDGING WAY." Yet again, no "hell" and can't be separated.... NDE - GORDON S.: "THERE IS NO 'heaven' and no 'HELL'. I am just now accepting that part of my purpose for coming back is to help other people awaken to the simple truth: WE ARE LOVE, we are part of God, and WE CANNOT EVER BE SEPARATED FROM GOD. The knowing that we are all inter-connected makes it easy for me to accept people, just as they are." Again, no "hell" and no reward.... NDE - STEVE L.: "I soon realized I did not have my body, and that I was surrounded by consciousness. EVERYTHING IS JUST TOTAL LOVE. There was consciousness that came to me in the form of people I recognized. THERE IS NO heaven or HELL. THERE IS NO "REWARD" FOR A "GOOD LIFE". Our careers, mistakes, money, etc., mean nothing. We join the pure consciousness at the time of leaving our body, and we are all one." Notice again, he clearly understood.... NDE - DOUG F.: "IT WAS CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD THAT THERE IS NO heaven or HELL. Every part of the universe was part of me, and every part of me was part of the universe. THERE WAS COMPLETE INCLUSION AND ACCEPTANCE. This was so far beyond any expectation. Another realization came to me. Everything is known, and there is nothing to learn. Life on earth is not a school, there is nothing to learn. LIFE ON EARTH IS JUST AN EXPERIENCE. NOTHING MORE. As I was guided back, first into the 4th dimension, I could feel the expanded awareness shutting down. THIS LIFE IS ABOUT EXPERIENCE THAT IS THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT WE TRULY ARE."
Yes, Out of body experiences are real It happened to me in a car accident while I was in the car & visited by an angel. Very calming & no fear of death
A World Renaissance is occurring! I'm a Ex-Christian of some 40 years now. (early 20's & never regrated that decision.) Everything about this religion was just wrong from the start. 20 years later, Pam Reynold gave her experience...I knew right away there was truth being told with her. My faith in The Source of everything/The Divine is being reinforced in these NDE's! These NDE's are a glimpse into a world that has always been a part of humanity from the very beginning and 'Religion' can NO LONGER suppress this reality! Religion (Christianity) is co-oping NDE's. Christianity use to claim these are from Satan and the Devil. Now, they are from God/Jesus. No getting around NDE's. They are happening and will continue to happen. Why? Regardless of what YOU believe in, you will continue to live on while being loved by an incredible source of that LOVE. Deny it, Don't believe it, Believe it, Embrace it. NDE's are NOT going away and neither are YOU!
@@Sunfloweraugust Hi Anna. I can't believe there's not more hellish NDE's to be honest. Goes to show, Love conquers all. I believe it's the fear that is bestowed onto people through religion. Fear is so powerful in Islam and Christianity. One is brought up in it. 'Believe or ELSE' an everlasting, eternal hell of.... Satan, Demons & Devils keep the faithful honest and committed. That's why, if this was true and real, we should be seeing this a lot! We don't. Instead, we see in NDE's an overall theme of extraordinary, overabundance of love & free will. Being that our spiritual cords have not yet been cut, one brings that fear of hell and negativity to the other side, till they are shown, they have free will to choose. Is this the life YOU created in that fear, or do you want to choose something that you we're destined for? If the number of NDE's is true. 100's of millions/billions worldwide, it's pretty safe to assume, we all will pass with similar experiences of love and free will. Why I had to leave Christianity. They are constantly pushing/expressing the fear element of their faith. NOT FOR ME! 'I am' all about 'Love Without Fear!' Hope that helps.
Purgatory? Anyway, what kind of a Monstrous God would condemn someone to an eternity of hell, because they didn't stay in a Christian church? Please don't think that all ex-Christians are sadistic perverts or are wickedly bad to everyone else.
@@SunfloweraugustHere's the truth. Read these short NDEs. Notice... NDE - LINDA S.: "The wrathful, vengeful God, as taught by my religion, instilled in me a deep fear of God, death, and the afterlife. The NDE transformed me, showing that God is only a loving God, WHO DOES NOT JUDGE AND PUNISH. THERE IS NO HELL or evil. I knew I was in the arms of a being who cherished me with PERFECT LOVE and carried me from the dark void into a new reality. There was no place that God did not exist and I was within God. I am an inseparable part of the light. THE TRUTH OF WHO I AM, INDEED, WHO WE ALL ARE, IS PERFECT LOVE as a creation of God. I had spent a lifetime of fear of judgment and now, standing with God, I HAD BEEN KNOWN COMPLETELY AND FOUND FAULTLESS. I KNEW GOD REGARDED ME AS PERFECT. Finally it all made sense. God could only love me because God is only love, nothing other than love. All is as it is supposed to be. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE IS OUR TRUE NATURE." Another Christian...and notice, again.... NDE - ROBYN C.: "I KNOW THERE IS NO JUDGEMENT OR HELL. I just know whatever form God takes, he loves us and welcomes us. I felt an overwhelming sense of complete bliss and contentment. I could see the light ahead of me and felt drawn to it, but I was moving slowly and enjoying the wondrous sensations I felt. Since my experience, I have been certain there is a God, but this is different to what I had believed as a Christian." Again, no "hell" and no judgement.... NDE - JASON H.: "I now know that there is a life after death. I NOW KNOW THAT THERE IS NO HELL. In that overwhelming radiating loving light, I met a glowingly beautiful, very loving being. His loving presence completely surrounded me, and together we went through my life and all that I had experienced, IN A LOVING WAY, NOT ANY JUDGING WAY." Yet again, no "hell" and can't be separated.... NDE - GORDON S.: "THERE IS NO 'heaven' and no 'HELL'. I am just now accepting that part of my purpose for coming back is to help other people awaken to the simple truth: WE ARE LOVE, we are part of God, and WE CANNOT EVER BE SEPARATED FROM GOD. The knowing that we are all inter-connected makes it easy for me to accept people, just as they are." Again, no "hell" and no reward.... NDE - STEVE L.: "I soon realized I did not have my body, and that I was surrounded by consciousness. EVERYTHING IS JUST TOTAL LOVE. There was consciousness that came to me in the form of people I recognized. THERE IS NO heaven or HELL. THERE IS NO "REWARD" FOR A "GOOD LIFE". Our careers, mistakes, money, etc., mean nothing. We join the pure consciousness at the time of leaving our body, and we are all one." Notice again, he clearly understood.... NDE - DOUG F.: "IT WAS CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD THAT THERE IS NO heaven or HELL. Every part of the universe was part of me, and every part of me was part of the universe. THERE WAS COMPLETE INCLUSION AND ACCEPTANCE. This was so far beyond any expectation. Another realization came to me. Everything is known, and there is nothing to learn. Life on earth is not a school, there is nothing to learn. LIFE ON EARTH IS JUST AN EXPERIENCE. NOTHING MORE. As I was guided back, first into the 4th dimension, I could feel the expanded awareness shutting down. THIS LIFE IS ABOUT EXPERIENCE THAT IS THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT WE TRULY ARE."
Facts, not philosophy. Here...... Note that NEGATIVE EXPERIENCES ARE RANDOM. The 800 pound gorilla in the room is a simple question: Why do seemingly good people sometimes experience terrifying NDEs, and MAFIA-LEVEL PEOPLE GET BATHED IN UNCONDITIONAL LOVE? This has been researched and is known. Some even happen to small kids, some were 6 year olds. How many 6 year olds is your afterlife torturing? Don't try to categorize them into "good people" and "bad people" categories, it's not true. See here: NANCY BUSH (IANDS) - "Negative experiences further complicate matters, because THEY HAVE NO DISCERNABLE RELATION TO WHAT KIND OF LIFE a person has lived. In other words, being a good person is no guarantee that you won’t get into a terrible car accident and suddenly find yourself experiencing what feels, in a very real sense, "hellish.”" As Bush has seen, “What we think people deserve has nothing to do with whether they have a glorious experience or a terrible one. Saints have reported extremely disturbing NDEs, while felons have encountered bliss. Although people have sometimes wondered whether good people have pleasurable experiences and bad people have distressing ones, RESEARCH HAS SHOWN NO SUCH RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN APPARENT LIFE DEEDS AND TYPE OF NDE. In spite of the findings of these prior studies, this erroneous stereotype persists.” "In addition, AMONG PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD MULTIPLE NDEs, SOME HAVE HAD A PLEASURABLE EXPERIENCE ONE TIME, AND A DISTRESSING EXPERIENCE ANOTHER, IN NO DEFINITE ORDER. NO EVIDENCE supports the conventional assumption that “good” people get pleasant NDEs and “bad” people have distressing ones. THERE IS NO HARD EVIDENCE THAT CHARACTER TRAITS “CAUSE” ANY TYPE OF NDE. The list of character traits that people assume help to create a distressing NDE include: being hostile, cold, repressed, suppressed, unloving, controlling, rigid, sinful, guilt-ridden, non-God-loving, fearful, mean. Although authors, even some researchers, have said those traits are connected to distressing NDEs, no testable evidence has been produced in support; THE LIST IS BASED ON GUESSWORK, ASSUMPTIONS, AND EXPERIENCERS’ SELF ASSESSMENTS (“I think I was unloving”), NOT ON FACTUAL EVIDENCE." "By contrast, THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS WITH A PERFECT FIT TO THOSE DESCRIPTIONS WHO HAVE HAD PLEASANT, EVEN BLISSFUL NDEs. Some describe themselves as having been unloving, even hostile, before the NDE. On the other hand, some kindly, friendly, peaceful, religious, loving people have had a really difficult experience. The observable characteristics of a person simply do not match up to the type of NDE. The weakness I find is twofold: first, that people are so often crippled by their fear and guilt about a literal meaning of the NDE as they understand it (punishment, unworthiness, blame) that THEIR LIFE BECOMES DEFORMED." NANCY BUSH (IANDS): "Now...into all this comes Marilyn Mendoza, a Louisiana woman with a PhD in counseling and a curiosity about what it is like to die in prison. She also wondered if the deathbed visions of dying felons might be especially difficult. So far as anyone knows, deathbed visions differ from near-death experiences only in the fact that their experiencers don’t come back afterwards. Otherwise, the descriptions are virtually identical. Mendoza’s findings are therefore applicable to the study of near-death experiences and are reported in the latest issue of the IANDS newsletter. Her study population is housed at Angola, one of the most notorious of U.S. prisons. In her words: “Angola is a maximum security prison that has been called the bloodiest prison in America. It houses 5,000+ men whose crimes range from mu*der, ra*e, and armed robbery to drug offenses. The majority of men who come to Angola die there." “As is common with most people, THE EXPERIENCES THE CARETAKERS DESCRIBED WERE PLEASANT. The most frequently seen visions were of family members. Caretakers reported that the dying saw mothers, grandmothers, sons, fathers, and other family members. The dying spoke of people waiting for them and calling them to come home. The dying also spoke of angels, beautiful gardens, gates and the Light. The men stared at corners of the room, at the wall and the ceiling. They reached for and called out to the deceased they saw. In other words, the dying prisoners saw and experienced the same things as the general population." "There is NOT A SHRED OF EVIDENCE that 'good people' get good experiences and 'bad people' get bad experiences. The conviction that types of NDEs and deathbed visions are tied to moral qualities and behaviors simply DOES NOT HOLD UP." See this: Dr. J. LONG: "To help understand frightening experiences, it is crucial to know that the experiences with hellish content THAT HAVE BEEN SHARED PUBLICLY ARE NOT NDEs. My physician background helps me distinguish NDE from non-NDE experiences that occur during a health crisis. In general, EXPERIENCES WITH UNEXPECTED ALTERATIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS THAT ARE NOT NDEs, ARE MUCH MORE LIKELY TO BE FRIGHTENING THAN ACTUAL NDEs. These experiences may include (but not limited to) intensive-care unit (ICU) DELIRIUM, DRUG EXPERIENCES, and so on. In addition, PSYCHOTIC EPISODES, or the AFTERMATH OF DRUG ABUSE may be misclassified as “hellish” NDEs. Many individuals who had a frightening experience are very reassured when they understand that WHAT THEY EXPERIENCED WAS AN UNREAL PRODUCT OF ALTERED BRAIN FUNCTION, and not a NDE. Prior studies of frightening NDEs have established that IT IS WRONG TO ASSUME THAT "GOOD PEOPLE" HAVE PLEASANT NDEs AND "BAD PEOPLE" HAVE "HELLISH" NDEs. In spite of the findings of these prior studies, this erroneous stereotype persists. Thus, these should not be considered a threat in any way to everyone that reads this." And this: Dr. Bruce Greyson finds NO CORRELATION AT ALL between “good” people having pleasant experiences and “bad” people having unpleasant experiences. Greyson says that PEOPLE IN PRISON SERVING LONG SENTENCES FOR HORRIBLE CRIMES ARE MORE LIKELY TO HAVE PLEASANT EXPERIENCES, JUST LIKE MOST OTHER PEOPLE. Some people who lead seemingly exemplary lives, on the other hand, have frightening experiences. Only A VERY SMALL PERCENTAGE of those negative experiences are described like the prototypical view of "hell". Greyson observes that THOSE PROTOTYPICAL EXPERIENCES ARE USUALLY DESCRIBED BY PEOPLE RAISED IN A CULTURE THAT MIGHT EXPECT THEM, but not from anyone else. A larger percentage of the negative experiences are described as a "black void". A terrifying experience to some people, BUT SOME HINDUS AND BUDDHISTS EXPERIENCE THE SAME THING AND CONSIDER IT A BLISSFUL EXPERIENCE.
Notice what this catholic woman found out in her NDE.... NDE - DIANE S.: "I walked away from the catholic church because I realized everything I was raised with was not true. It's a religion based in fear. And ON THE OTHER SIDE I REALIZED THAT THERE'S NOTHING TO BE AFRAID OF BECAUSE THERE'S NO JUDGEMENT, THERE IS NO HELL. Its only unconditional love. It grew more, and I got closer to it, and all of a sudden the light was all around me and I could be at peace. This unconditional love just surrounded me. We are a direct connection from God. Everything we experience, God experiences, and GOD WANTS TO KNOW IT'S GOD-SELF IN ALL WAYS, AND WE PROVIDE THAT."
I hope Fr. Spritzer does a video about people in soul form have a Life Review in which they are not judged by Jesus, but they judge their own words whether unkind or kind. Does this go against Church teaching that God judges all?
This is true in some aspect. We will learn the true value of each act/omission. We will know where we belong but Jesus will have the final say, either "get away from me, you evil doer" or "come my faithful servant."
Patti London- at death nobody JUDGES us NOBODY. We see our lives, all out actions and we can appreciate where we went wrong. There will be nothing but love and acceptance of you.
Some short NDEs below, all about judgement. NDE - PAT S.: "I had a feeling of unconditional love, and it was as if all of a sudden I knew everything. AFTER PASSING ON IN THIS LIFE, THERE IS NO JUDGEMENT AGAINST YOU, NO MATTER WHAT YOU DID IN THIS LIFE." Very consistent.... NDE - JUDIE S.: "I know that THE JUDGEMENT I WAS TAUGHT as a child, DOES NOT EXIST." More consistency.... NDE - VERNON C.: "The NDE confirmed what I felt before, about religion. THERE IS NO HELL, OR A GOD THAT JUDGES." NDE - LAURA Z.: "I felt in my heart that God is also all right with our fear, although it will not stop showing us love. God loves us regardless of everything and regardless of ourselves. EVERY CHOICE WE HAVE EVER MADE, OR EVER WILL MAKE, IS ALREADY ACCEPTED. FORGIVENESS IS NOT EVEN A THING. All of us is already LOVED and UNCONDITIONALLY, despite our ideas." Right or wrong?.... NDE - VICTOR P.: "We discussed my life while I relived portions of it. We reviewed my life, proceeding from oldest to younger events. THERE WAS NO CONDEMNATION, AND NO RIGHT OR WRONG. There was COMPLETE ACCEPTANCE AND UNDERSTANDING." Good or bad?.... NDE - SHARON D.: "I was shown that each event in my life was needed for me to be exactly as I am, and how it touched and altered others lives. Not a "life review", MORE OF AN EXPLANATION OF WHY ALL TRULY WAS WELL, and I was perfect for what I was needed for here. Unity so whole that nothing existed but truth. That is what it was like. THERE IS NO GOOD OR BAD, THERE JUST "IS". I felt so loved, so comfortable; there was no emotional pain, no rejection, no separation." Again?.... NDE - RUTHIE C.: "My NDE showed me that earth is just a school TO LEARN FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS. THERE IS NO RIGHT OR WRONG, GOOD OR BAD. It's how we label, or perceive, our experiences here. We all just live to die, and what we do in between is our earthly experiences." No condemnation at all.... NDE - TAMARA J.: "I then felt that I left this world and my body and was in the presence of God/Jesus. I BELIEVED THAT MY LIFE DEPENDED ON ME DOING THE RIGHT THING, AND TRYING TO BE A DIFFERENT PERSON. It was like every cell of my being was at peace and I had the joy of loving myself and being loved the way I always wanted to be. LOVE IS PERFECT, it is all encompassing, it is everything we have ever wanted, and IT IS WITHOUT JUDGEMENT. What I recall are a few messages. The message that THERE IS NO CONDEMNATION, that God loves us and we are all loved. I WAS TOLD THERE WAS NO CONDEMNATION AND NO JUDGEMENT during my NDE. We may choose to turn from God but God does not turn from us. I QUIT THINKING OF HELL THE WAY I USED TO AND NO LONGER CONDEMN ANYONE. Since my NDE I believe THERE IS NO CONDEMNATION." Pay attention to this one.... NDE - RAY C.: "I understood that the light that I was looking at, was my own. Once I focused past the light, I understood everything. THERE IS NO hate or JUDGEMENT. There is no pain. Everyone we ever knew here on earth is there. WE ARE ALL EQUAL THERE. It is where we come from. It is almost like we are on a vacation from there. It is like WE ARE HERE TO UNDERSTAND ALL THE EMOTIONS THAT WE DON'T HAVE THERE, LIKE GREED, ENVY, HATE, LUST, DISGUST, OR PAIN. WE ARE HERE ON VACATION FROM THERE. WE ARE HERE TO EXPERIENCE EMOTIONS. None of that exists there because there is only intense love. Everyone is there all the time. There is no time there, so people are never really gone. WE ARE ALL 100 PERCENT EQUAL.There is an absolute understanding of everyone and everything. WE ARE ALL GOING TO GO TO THE SAME PLACE WHEN WE ARE DONE HERE. Yes, WHAT WE DO HERE HAS NO RELEVANCE THERE. Yes, WE ARE ALL LOVE. The love we can understand here at its maximum, is only a grain of sand compared to the love you have over there." Despite faults?.... NDE - ERINN H.: "I was LOVED UNCONDITIONALLY DESPITE MY FAULTS and fears.” Jesus again? NDE - CARL G.: "I was standing before Christ. He showed me my whole life, the good and the bad and all the rest. HE SAID, "THAT IS ALRIGHT, LIFE IS A LEARNING EXPERIENCE." More Jesus.... NDE - L. HERNANDEZ: "I've been an atheist all my life. I had an NDE and in a few minutes my life changed completely. Part of my experience was with the one people call Jesus. Religion is not from God, I asked and was told this. THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO JUDGEMENT IN OUR CREATOR because only love, he is. HELL IS MAN'S CREATION, SO IS SIN. Is all controlled by fear. NDE - JENNEANE E.: "Powerful UNCONDITIONAL LOVE and it is a feeling of just knowing what it is. I felt like I was a sinner and I WAS AMAZED THAT HE WOULD SHOW ME LOVE LIKE THAT DESPITE MY MISTAKES IN LIFE THAT MAY HAVE HURT OTHERS OR MYSELF." What about sins? No matter what?....NDE - DAN R.: "I had an NDE in 1965. It's the real reality. It is Love that is creating everything. I was brought up as a Roman Catholic, and I considered it wonderful that DESPITE MY MANY TERRIBLE SINS, LOVE LOVES ME. NO...MATTER...WHAT...It was ecstaticly joyful. One of the hardest things for any person to accept is that, in spite of everything, you are loved, unconditionally loved."
@@claritadeluna6609Please say the Creed, any one of them that the Church has given us, very slowly, and think about what we believe. ... "He will come to judge the living and the dead." The living: alive in Christ. The dead: no life in Christ.
Read this article to find out. Nintendo characters? Santa Clause? Yamatoots? Yamraj? For those who want to know the full story.......... THE NDE STUDIES.....(LA Times excerpts) Researchers estimate that around 17% of people have an NDE. That means about 80% don't. Scratch beneath those alleged flat EKG lines and the stories are a veritable Twilight Zone of inconsistencies. Some near-death voyagers claim to have met God - BUT A FEW SAW ELVIS PRESLEY OR GROUCHO MARX, researchers say. Others get to heaven not through the famous "tunnel", but ABOARD GHOSTLY TAXI CABS, FERRIES THAT CROSS THE RIVER STYX, OR SPANGLED COWS. Even some children - often touted as the best source of unbiased information - sometimes return from "death" CLAIMING THEY WERE GREETED IN THE OTHER WORLD by STILL LIVING TEACHERS, and NINTENDO CHARACTERS, and COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS. If encounters with conscious plants, talking insects, roosters, and turtles, doesn’t give you pause about NDEs, perhaps NDEs THAT INCLUDE ENCOUNTERS WITH FICTIONAL CHARACTERS WILL. Melvin Morse reports that a 10-year-old boy had an NDE where he ENCOUNTERED A VIDEO-GAMING WIZARD who loved Nintendo. Karl Jansen similarly reports finding childhood NDEs THAT INCLUDE ENCOUNTERS WITH VIDEO GAME AND COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS. In a collection of pediatric NDEs published in 1990, Serdahely even found a case where A GIRL ENCOUNTERED A FAVORITE TOY DURING HER NDE - AN OLD STUFFED ANIMAL. They differ between people and cultures. Instead of a tunnel and angels, EAST INDIANS MAY DESCRIBE THE RIVER GANGES AND A PARTICULAR GURU. HINDUS WHO BELIEVE IN YAMRAJ, the Hindu god of death, EXPERIENCED MEETING HIM. A Hindu girl "died" AND WENT TO HEAVEN ON A COW. Would that mean western people will be riding cows to heaven? Jews who don't believe in Jesus or "hell", experienced meeting God as described in the Old Testament, while messianic Jews experienced God as Jesus. Any reports of Christians meeting Muhammad, or Muslims meeting the Virgin Mary, or Jews meeting Guru Nanak, if they exist, have not been publicized. Dr. Richard Eby had an NDE and allegedly Jesus told him he had to back, and that he (Jesus) would be returning (2nd coming) before he died permanently. BUT DR. RICHARD EBY HAS NOW DIED AND JESUS HAS NOT RETURNED. A few hospitals have placed signs in their cardiac units - with nonsensical messages visible only from above - BUT SO FAR NOBODY HAS RETURNED FROM DEATH CLAIMING TO HAVE FLOATED UP AND SEEN ONE. In one study carried out, the experiences of 16 Asian Indians were compared with those of Americans, and IT WAS FOUND THAT THE INDIANS HAD ENCOUNTERED YAMRAJ, the Hindu god of the dead, WHILE THE AMERICANS HAD NOT. You would expect that if any one particular religious account of the afterlife was true, NDEs would be pretty much the same. BUT THESE ACCOUNTS ARE SO VARIED AND ARE ARE ALL BASED ON CULTURAL EXPOSURE. IN INDIA, PEOPLE SEE HINDU GODS; IN SAUDI ARABIA ITS ALLAH, MOHAMED, AND A BUNCH OF VIRGINS. The kid from the book/movie Heaven Is For Real, saw a Jesus with sea-green blue eyes ON A RAINBOW COLORED HORSE, GOD WITH HUGE WINGS, YELLOW HAIR AND BLUE EYES; and ONE LITTLE GIRL WENT TO HEAVEN AND WAS GREETED BY A PORTLY MAN WITH A WHITE BEARD AND RED CAP, aka SANTA CLAUSE. The Mapuche people of South America and residents of Hawaii are more likely to SEE LANDSCAPES AND VOLCANOES, whereas NDEs in Thailand rarely involve landmarks, tunnels, or light. For Tibetans, light features more heavily AS DO ILLUSIONS OF REINCARNATION. Europeans and North Americans often visualize beautiful gardens; intriguingly the Kalai of Melanesia are more inclined to SEE AN INDUSTRIALIZED WORLD OF FACTORIES. An NDEr's subjective recollections can be attributed to many factors: THE NDEr's PSYCHOLOGY, PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, BACKGROUND, ETC., NOT JUST CULTURE. The terrain of Heaven also varies wildly - from gardens, forests, and CATTLE FILLED PASTURES in some accounts, to clouds, COMPUTER ROOMS OR CASTLES, in others. A TEXAN SAW BARBED WIRE FENCES IN THE AFTERLIFE. Micronesians describe LARGE NOISY CITIES WITH CARS AND SKYSCRAPERS. Drug addicts, alcoholics, felons (murder), suicides, hedonists, abusers, mean people, and gay people, have all claimed to encounter heaven. Strangely, people have claimed to enter some "hell" FOR THE SAME REASONS. EVEN THE INFAMOUS ADOLF HITLER HAS BEEN SPOTTED IN HEAVEN. Again, strangely, he's also been seen in some "hell". Contradictions abound. There are reports of bad NDE trips involving TORTURES BY ELVES, GIANTS, MONSTERS, etc. Some parapsychologists take these as evidence of the mythical places of various religions. But, IF SO, THEN WHAT IS ONE TO CONCLUDE FROM THE FACT THAT OVER 80% OF PEOPLE NEAR DEATH DO NOT EXPERIENCE ANYTHING, neither the heavenly or the diabolical? This is a wonder. Is the hereafter actually mining and refining raw materials needed to build castles, cars, barbed wire fences, computers, and skyscrapers? From where do they get this material and the tools? Not to mention the raw materials and tools needed to construct an ever increasing number of those cages and cubes in the Christian hell, as a few claim. Who builds those cages? And which of the variety of "hells" do you actually go to? Christian? Buddhist? Spiritualist? Hindu? Muslim? Some other one? The answer seems to be whichever one the experiencer has been exposed to, as Thai NDErs regularly claim to encounter LORD YAMA AND YAMATOOTS, COMPLETE WITH TALKING DECEASED ROOSTERS, and being sentenced to Buddhist "hell" for butchering and eating chicken, then reincarnated as birds. DOES THAT MEAN WESTERNERS WILL UNKNOWINGLY BE HEADING TO BUDDHIST "HELL" FOR EATING CHICKEN? Thai accounts state that butchers become lumps of meat in Buddhist "hell", so what then awaits Western slaughterhouse workers? Even in her rather homogeneous Western European clientele, Kubler-Ross could see the effects of early enculturation: " I NEVER ENCOUNTERED A PROTESTANT CHILD WHO SAW THE VIRGIN MARY IN HIS LAST MINUTES, YET SHE WAS PERCEIVED BY MANY CATHOLIC CHILDREN." But there also are some hard-to-explain differences, Melvin Morse says. Whereas American near-death survivors are typically sent back by God because “it’s not your time yet,” INDIA'S AFTERLIFE VISITORS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE TOLD THERE WAS A “CLERICAL ERROR.” Even more curious: SOMETIMES THE BEING OF LIGHT IS ELVIS PRESLEY. Moody has chronicled at least two such sightings. A PERSON MAY APPEAR DEAD TO OUR SENSES OR OUR SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT, BUT STILL BE PERCEIVING. In fact, we now have evidence that patients who appear brain dead, may in fact be capable of conscious thought. In 2006, scientists in the UK and Belgium did an fMRI on a woman in a vegetative state and FOUND THAT PARTS OF HER BRAIN SHOWED ACTIVITY WHEN SHE WAS SPOKEN TO, AND ASKED TO THINK ABOUT THINGS LIKE PLAYING TENNIS. Yet the evidence for near-death paranormal powers remains shaky at best. TWO STUDIES HAVE FOUND THAT PATIENTS’ “OUT OF BODY” ACCOUNTS OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THE OPERATING ROOM WERE WRONG. So were the 1988 Armageddon forecasts hyped by Ring and others. Michael Sabom, however, offers a compromise stance: He rejects the idea that they provide glimpses of a heaven or hell. "I’m not saying these people didn’t experience something odd. But I am saying that we should take it with a grain of salt, because IF ANECDOTES MEET YOUR STANDARD FOR WHAT QUALIFIES AS EVIDENCE, then you should probably start buying tin foil and food buckets, because THERE ARE JUST AS MANY PEOPLE WHO REPORT SEEING REPTILIANS AND WHO HAVE BEEN ABDUCTED BY ALIENS." But what about veridical NDEs - near-death experiences in which the person supposedly sees something they couldn’t otherwise have known while ‘flat-lining’ and others are able to verify that what they saw is indeed correct. The most notorious example of this is Maria’s shoe. A lady named Maria reportedly left her body, floated around and saw a shoe on a ledge outside her hospital window, that she ‘couldn’t have possibly seen.’ Her critical care provider, Kimberly Clark, looked outside and saw the shoe, just as described. BUT WHEN RESEARCHERS TRIED TO TRACK DOWN MARIA TO CONFIRM CLARK'S STORY, THEY WEREN'T ABLE TO FIND ANY SUCH PERSON OR ANYONE ELSE TO CORROBORATE THE ACCOUNT. And when they placed a shoe on the ledge, it was clearly visible from the hospital room, PROVING CLARK HAD EXAGGERATED AT LEAST PART OF THE STORY. Here’s the topper. There is no record of Maria being in that hospital. Sixty years ago, Dr. Wilder Penfield, a neurosurgeon, poked around the right temporal lobe of some epileptic patients and discovered that they would hear heavenly music, relive their pasts in 3D, and have out-of-body visions. Similar experiments continue. There is Dr. Melvin Morse's discovery of "a portal" in the brain that when stimulated, triggers a NDE. He writes that some are threatened by this, as the discovery makes the experience seem unreal. There’s growing evidence that the temporal lobe plays a huge role in creating NDEs. When patients had their brains scanned after an NDE, it was discovered that they had increased levels of temporal lobe activity compared with those in a control group. THAT COULD EXPLAIN WHY ONLY A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE HAVE NDEs. When Dr. Olaf Blanke implanted electrodes into the brains of patients, HE WAS ABLE TO TRIGGER SUPERNATURAL AND OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCES BY STIMULATING THE TEMPORAL PARIETAL JUNCTION.
I must add in my comment an experience which has to do with my deceased mother. When my father was critically I’ll in the hospital and stayed with him for a while but when my other siblings came I decided to leave to take a nap at home. I have just barely sleeping for ten minutes when the voice of my mother (she died a year earlier) telling me to go back to my father’s bed. She told me to have a procession for St. Roque on behalf of my father. It awakens me. Later on I told my siblings of mother’s instruction. My sister told me that father donated a statue of the said saint to a chapel where the people couldn’t afford a big statue.Yrs. later I understood that if a procession(at that period procession as a practiced have been removed from the church)was done it could benefit my father’s soul from the prayers of the people devoted to the said patron. Indeed the dead gives instruction to the living when permitted by God.I never knew the my father donated a statue. 1:02:24
The body decays and dies. But the soul which God has given us and created is eternal and no one and nothing can destroy it, it is everlasting. It has the essence and quality of God which is eternal as HE is ETERNAL.
I'd also caution that Satan can come as an angel of light. And even if it is God,the ones I have heard also said that they judge themselves. And that detail would be consistent with teaching.
Some short NDEs below, all about judgement. NDE - PAT S.: "I had a feeling of unconditional love, and it was as if all of a sudden I knew everything. AFTER PASSING ON IN THIS LIFE, THERE IS NO JUDGEMENT AGAINST YOU, NO MATTER WHAT YOU DID IN THIS LIFE." Very consistent.... NDE - JUDIE S.: "I know that THE JUDGEMENT I WAS TAUGHT as a child, DOES NOT EXIST." More consistency.... NDE - VERNON C.: "The NDE confirmed what I felt before, about religion. THERE IS NO HELL, OR A GOD THAT JUDGES." NDE - LAURA Z.: "I felt in my heart that God is also all right with our fear, although it will not stop showing us love. God loves us regardless of everything and regardless of ourselves. EVERY CHOICE WE HAVE EVER MADE, OR EVER WILL MAKE, IS ALREADY ACCEPTED. FORGIVENESS IS NOT EVEN A THING. All of us is already LOVED and UNCONDITIONALLY, despite our ideas." Right or wrong?.... NDE - VICTOR P.: "We discussed my life while I relived portions of it. We reviewed my life, proceeding from oldest to younger events. THERE WAS NO CONDEMNATION, AND NO RIGHT OR WRONG. There was COMPLETE ACCEPTANCE AND UNDERSTANDING." Good or bad?.... NDE - SHARON D.: "I was shown that each event in my life was needed for me to be exactly as I am, and how it touched and altered others lives. Not a "life review", MORE OF AN EXPLANATION OF WHY ALL TRULY WAS WELL, and I was perfect for what I was needed for here. Unity so whole that nothing existed but truth. That is what it was like. THERE IS NO GOOD OR BAD, THERE JUST "IS". I felt so loved, so comfortable; there was no emotional pain, no rejection, no separation." Again?.... NDE - RUTHIE C.: "My NDE showed me that earth is just a school TO LEARN FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS. THERE IS NO RIGHT OR WRONG, GOOD OR BAD. It's how we label, or perceive, our experiences here. We all just live to die, and what we do in between is our earthly experiences." No condemnation at all.... NDE - TAMARA J.: "I then felt that I left this world and my body and was in the presence of God/Jesus. I BELIEVED THAT MY LIFE DEPENDED ON ME DOING THE RIGHT THING, AND TRYING TO BE A DIFFERENT PERSON. It was like every cell of my being was at peace and I had the joy of loving myself and being loved the way I always wanted to be. LOVE IS PERFECT, it is all encompassing, it is everything we have ever wanted, and IT IS WITHOUT JUDGEMENT. What I recall are a few messages. The message that THERE IS NO CONDEMNATION, that God loves us and we are all loved. I WAS TOLD THERE WAS NO CONDEMNATION AND NO JUDGEMENT during my NDE. We may choose to turn from God but God does not turn from us. I QUIT THINKING OF HELL THE WAY I USED TO AND NO LONGER CONDEMN ANYONE. Since my NDE I believe THERE IS NO CONDEMNATION." Pay attention to this one.... NDE - RAY C.: "I understood that the light that I was looking at, was my own. Once I focused past the light, I understood everything. THERE IS NO hate or JUDGEMENT. There is no pain. Everyone we ever knew here on earth is there. WE ARE ALL EQUAL THERE. It is where we come from. It is almost like we are on a vacation from there. It is like WE ARE HERE TO UNDERSTAND ALL THE EMOTIONS THAT WE DON'T HAVE THERE, LIKE GREED, ENVY, HATE, LUST, DISGUST, OR PAIN. WE ARE HERE ON VACATION FROM THERE. WE ARE HERE TO EXPERIENCE EMOTIONS. None of that exists there because there is only intense love. Everyone is there all the time. There is no time there, so people are never really gone. WE ARE ALL 100 PERCENT EQUAL.There is an absolute understanding of everyone and everything. WE ARE ALL GOING TO GO TO THE SAME PLACE WHEN WE ARE DONE HERE. Yes, WHAT WE DO HERE HAS NO RELEVANCE THERE. Yes, WE ARE ALL LOVE. The love we can understand here at its maximum, is only a grain of sand compared to the love you have over there." Despite faults?.... NDE - ERINN H.: "I was LOVED UNCONDITIONALLY DESPITE MY FAULTS and fears.” Jesus again? NDE - CARL G.: "I was standing before Christ. He showed me my whole life, the good and the bad and all the rest. HE SAID, "THAT IS ALRIGHT, LIFE IS A LEARNING EXPERIENCE." More Jesus.... NDE - L. HERNANDEZ: "I've been an atheist all my life. I had an NDE and in a few minutes my life changed completely. Part of my experience was with the one people call Jesus. Religion is not from God, I asked and was told this. THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO JUDGEMENT IN OUR CREATOR because only love, he is. HELL IS MAN'S CREATION, SO IS SIN. Is all controlled by fear. NDE - JENNEANE E.: "Powerful UNCONDITIONAL LOVE and it is a feeling of just knowing what it is. I felt like I was a sinner and I WAS AMAZED THAT HE WOULD SHOW ME LOVE LIKE THAT DESPITE MY MISTAKES IN LIFE THAT MAY HAVE HURT OTHERS OR MYSELF." What about sins? No matter what?....NDE - DAN R.: "I had an NDE in 1965. It's the real reality. It is Love that is creating everything. I was brought up as a Roman Catholic, and I considered it wonderful that DESPITE MY MANY TERRIBLE SINS, LOVE LOVES ME. NO...MATTER...WHAT...It was ecstaticly joyful. One of the hardest things for any person to accept is that, in spite of everything, you are loved, unconditionally loved."
Loved the discussion on NDE from a Catholic perspective. Related to his comment that Catholics can believe in evolution if they like, it was not always this way. Why? Evolution is not consistent with Catholic theology or doctrine. It doesn’t necessarily negate the existence of God, but it does negate the need for God. It also negates the story of Adam and Eve, original sin, Mary’s place as the new Eve and more. If the Bible begins with a lie as the premise for all that follows, none of it really makes sense. Is the story of creation any more incredible than any other story in the Bible? How is the story of Jesus any more or less believable? Are we to believe that creation is too hard for God but the rest isn’t?
I do believe in near death experiences, but if the blind boy never saw a train, how did he know that it was a train he was watching? Also, can anyone tell me how doctors can tell the exact moment that NDEs occur? I imagine an NDE can happen just before brain death, during brain death or afterwards when the brain comes back on line. So for the exception of some cases like the boy seeing the train which would most likely pin point a time where a doctor might claim with accuracy that a brain or heart has stopped working, how is the timing known for sure in other NDEs?
The reports from NDE experiencers are full of such veridical data - overhearing other-room conversations that happened during brain-death, seeing exact detailed behaviours of relatives or hospital staff during brain-death, all of which are verified by others, etc.
Read this informative article on it. Nintendo characters? Santa Clause? Yamatoots? Yamraj? For those who want to know the full story.......... THE NDE STUDIES.....(LA Times excerpts) Researchers estimate that around 17% of people have an NDE. That means about 80% don't. Scratch beneath those alleged flat EKG lines and the stories are a veritable Twilight Zone of inconsistencies. Some near-death voyagers claim to have met God - BUT A FEW SAW ELVIS PRESLEY OR GROUCHO MARX, researchers say. Others get to heaven not through the famous "tunnel", but ABOARD GHOSTLY TAXI CABS, FERRIES THAT CROSS THE RIVER STYX, OR SPANGLED COWS. Even some children - often touted as the best source of unbiased information - sometimes return from "death" CLAIMING THEY WERE GREETED IN THE OTHER WORLD by STILL LIVING TEACHERS, and NINTENDO CHARACTERS, and COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS. If encounters with conscious plants, talking insects, roosters, and turtles, doesn’t give you pause about NDEs, perhaps NDEs THAT INCLUDE ENCOUNTERS WITH FICTIONAL CHARACTERS WILL. Melvin Morse reports that a 10-year-old boy had an NDE where he ENCOUNTERED A VIDEO-GAMING WIZARD who loved Nintendo. Karl Jansen similarly reports finding childhood NDEs THAT INCLUDE ENCOUNTERS WITH VIDEO GAME AND COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS. In a collection of pediatric NDEs published in 1990, Serdahely even found a case where A GIRL ENCOUNTERED A FAVORITE TOY DURING HER NDE - AN OLD STUFFED ANIMAL. They differ between people and cultures. Instead of a tunnel and angels, EAST INDIANS MAY DESCRIBE THE RIVER GANGES AND A PARTICULAR GURU. HINDUS WHO BELIEVE IN YAMRAJ, the Hindu god of death, EXPERIENCED MEETING HIM. A Hindu girl "died" AND WENT TO HEAVEN ON A COW. Would that mean western people will be riding cows to heaven? Jews who don't believe in Jesus or "hell", experienced meeting God as described in the Old Testament, while messianic Jews experienced God as Jesus. Any reports of Christians meeting Muhammad, or Muslims meeting the Virgin Mary, or Jews meeting Guru Nanak, if they exist, have not been publicized. Dr. Richard Eby had an NDE and allegedly Jesus told him he had to back, and that he (Jesus) would be returning (2nd coming) before he died permanently. BUT DR. RICHARD EBY HAS NOW DIED AND JESUS HAS NOT RETURNED. A few hospitals have placed signs in their cardiac units - with nonsensical messages visible only from above - BUT SO FAR NOBODY HAS RETURNED FROM DEATH CLAIMING TO HAVE FLOATED UP AND SEEN ONE. In one study carried out, the experiences of 16 Asian Indians were compared with those of Americans, and IT WAS FOUND THAT THE INDIANS HAD ENCOUNTERED YAMRAJ, the Hindu god of the dead, WHILE THE AMERICANS HAD NOT. You would expect that if any one particular religious account of the afterlife was true, NDEs would be pretty much the same. BUT THESE ACCOUNTS ARE SO VARIED AND ARE ARE ALL BASED ON CULTURAL EXPOSURE. IN INDIA, PEOPLE SEE HINDU GODS; IN SAUDI ARABIA ITS ALLAH, MOHAMED, AND A BUNCH OF VIRGINS. The kid from the book/movie Heaven Is For Real, saw a Jesus with sea-green blue eyes ON A RAINBOW COLORED HORSE, GOD WITH HUGE WINGS, YELLOW HAIR AND BLUE EYES; and ONE LITTLE GIRL WENT TO HEAVEN AND WAS GREETED BY A PORTLY MAN WITH A WHITE BEARD AND RED CAP, aka SANTA CLAUSE. The Mapuche people of South America and residents of Hawaii are more likely to SEE LANDSCAPES AND VOLCANOES, whereas NDEs in Thailand rarely involve landmarks, tunnels, or light. For Tibetans, light features more heavily AS DO ILLUSIONS OF REINCARNATION. Europeans and North Americans often visualize beautiful gardens; intriguingly the Kalai of Melanesia are more inclined to SEE AN INDUSTRIALIZED WORLD OF FACTORIES. An NDEr's subjective recollections can be attributed to many factors: THE NDEr's PSYCHOLOGY, PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, BACKGROUND, ETC., NOT JUST CULTURE. The terrain of Heaven also varies wildly - from gardens, forests, and CATTLE FILLED PASTURES in some accounts, to clouds, COMPUTER ROOMS OR CASTLES, in others. A TEXAN SAW BARBED WIRE FENCES IN THE AFTERLIFE. Micronesians describe LARGE NOISY CITIES WITH CARS AND SKYSCRAPERS. Drug addicts, alcoholics, felons (murder), suicides, hedonists, abusers, mean people, and gay people, have all claimed to encounter heaven. Strangely, people have claimed to enter some "hell" FOR THE SAME REASONS. EVEN THE INFAMOUS ADOLF HITLER HAS BEEN SPOTTED IN HEAVEN. Again, strangely, he's also been seen in some "hell". Contradictions abound. There are reports of bad NDE trips involving TORTURES BY ELVES, GIANTS, MONSTERS, etc. Some parapsychologists take these as evidence of the mythical places of various religions. But, IF SO, THEN WHAT IS ONE TO CONCLUDE FROM THE FACT THAT OVER 80% OF PEOPLE NEAR DEATH DO NOT EXPERIENCE ANYTHING, neither the heavenly or the diabolical? This is a wonder. Is the hereafter actually mining and refining raw materials needed to build castles, cars, barbed wire fences, computers, and skyscrapers? From where do they get this material and the tools? Not to mention the raw materials and tools needed to construct an ever increasing number of those cages and cubes in the Christian hell, as a few claim. Who builds those cages? And which of the variety of "hells" do you actually go to? Christian? Buddhist? Spiritualist? Hindu? Muslim? Some other one? The answer seems to be whichever one the experiencer has been exposed to, as Thai NDErs regularly claim to encounter LORD YAMA AND YAMATOOTS, COMPLETE WITH TALKING DECEASED ROOSTERS, and being sentenced to Buddhist "hell" for butchering and eating chicken, then reincarnated as birds. DOES THAT MEAN WESTERNERS WILL UNKNOWINGLY BE HEADING TO BUDDHIST "HELL" FOR EATING CHICKEN? Thai accounts state that butchers become lumps of meat in Buddhist "hell", so what then awaits Western slaughterhouse workers? Even in her rather homogeneous Western European clientele, Kubler-Ross could see the effects of early enculturation: " I NEVER ENCOUNTERED A PROTESTANT CHILD WHO SAW THE VIRGIN MARY IN HIS LAST MINUTES, YET SHE WAS PERCEIVED BY MANY CATHOLIC CHILDREN." But there also are some hard-to-explain differences, Melvin Morse says. Whereas American near-death survivors are typically sent back by God because “it’s not your time yet,” INDIA'S AFTERLIFE VISITORS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE TOLD THERE WAS A “CLERICAL ERROR.” Even more curious: SOMETIMES THE BEING OF LIGHT IS ELVIS PRESLEY. Moody has chronicled at least two such sightings. A PERSON MAY APPEAR DEAD TO OUR SENSES OR OUR SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT, BUT STILL BE PERCEIVING. In fact, we now have evidence that patients who appear brain dead, may in fact be capable of conscious thought. In 2006, scientists in the UK and Belgium did an fMRI on a woman in a vegetative state and FOUND THAT PARTS OF HER BRAIN SHOWED ACTIVITY WHEN SHE WAS SPOKEN TO, AND ASKED TO THINK ABOUT THINGS LIKE PLAYING TENNIS. Yet the evidence for near-death paranormal powers remains shaky at best. TWO STUDIES HAVE FOUND THAT PATIENTS’ “OUT OF BODY” ACCOUNTS OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THE OPERATING ROOM WERE WRONG. So were the 1988 Armageddon forecasts hyped by Ring and others. Michael Sabom, however, offers a compromise stance: He rejects the idea that they provide glimpses of a heaven or hell. "I’m not saying these people didn’t experience something odd. But I am saying that we should take it with a grain of salt, because IF ANECDOTES MEET YOUR STANDARD FOR WHAT QUALIFIES AS EVIDENCE, then you should probably start buying tin foil and food buckets, because THERE ARE JUST AS MANY PEOPLE WHO REPORT SEEING REPTILIANS AND WHO HAVE BEEN ABDUCTED BY ALIENS." But what about veridical NDEs - near-death experiences in which the person supposedly sees something they couldn’t otherwise have known while ‘flat-lining’ and others are able to verify that what they saw is indeed correct. The most notorious example of this is Maria’s shoe. A lady named Maria reportedly left her body, floated around and saw a shoe on a ledge outside her hospital window, that she ‘couldn’t have possibly seen.’ Her critical care provider, Kimberly Clark, looked outside and saw the shoe, just as described. BUT WHEN RESEARCHERS TRIED TO TRACK DOWN MARIA TO CONFIRM CLARK'S STORY, THEY WEREN'T ABLE TO FIND ANY SUCH PERSON OR ANYONE ELSE TO CORROBORATE THE ACCOUNT. And when they placed a shoe on the ledge, it was clearly visible from the hospital room, PROVING CLARK HAD EXAGGERATED AT LEAST PART OF THE STORY. Here’s the topper. There is no record of Maria being in that hospital. Sixty years ago, Dr. Wilder Penfield, a neurosurgeon, poked around the right temporal lobe of some epileptic patients and discovered that they would hear heavenly music, relive their pasts in 3D, and have out-of-body visions. Similar experiments continue. There is Dr. Melvin Morse's discovery of "a portal" in the brain that when stimulated, triggers a NDE. He writes that some are threatened by this, as the discovery makes the experience seem unreal. There’s growing evidence that the temporal lobe plays a huge role in creating NDEs. When patients had their brains scanned after an NDE, it was discovered that they had increased levels of temporal lobe activity compared with those in a control group. THAT COULD EXPLAIN WHY ONLY A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE HAVE NDEs. When Dr. Olaf Blanke implanted electrodes into the brains of patients, HE WAS ABLE TO TRIGGER SUPERNATURAL AND OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCES BY STIMULATING THE TEMPORAL PARIETAL JUNCTION.
It would be interesting to hear Father Spitzer's take on Panpsychism and Idealism. These are gaining increasing traction against philosophical materialism, as a more parsimonious explanation of reality. Panpsychism holds that all things are conscious (though it may be a different form of consciousness to our own), while Idealism suggests there is only consciousness, and what we perceive as a material world is merely a persistent form of conscious awareness. Both to different extents have precedents in Christian belief - one thinks of St Francis and John the Divine.
When the person is revived and speaks of things the soul learned while out of the body, the person's brain is of course engaged in the person's relating of the event. So the question arises, how could the brain have received from the soul the information gained by the soul when it was separated from the brain? Hitherto (to our understanding) the brain has always only received information, which it then communicates to the soul, through the physical senses. How can it be otherwise now? There is more going on here than we realize. Can it be that the communication between the brain and the soul is a two-way street, and that the soul is (at least sometimes) capable of receiving information from sources other than the brain and is capable of communicating that information to the brain?
Is it true that some people believe that there is no cure for experiencing a series of near death experiences? Like Jobs friends believed before god set them all straight including Job at the time about that set of assumption possible explanations for troubles that we humans often come up with too?
Well, let's see what Jesus says about some of this, in these few short NDEs below. Notice what they were told and shown. A Jesus NDE - JIM S.: "I was hit by a car while riding my motorcycle. I died on the operating table. I went through the dark into the light - a soft bluish light. An entity (Jesus to me) was of the light, and the light was a doorway. I was not in this body, but I was as normal as my body here. We spoke without speaking. Joy was all over me. I was relieved to know it is real! Jesus said, "I know it hurts and I know it is bad. You have not done what you said you would do and must go back." I refused. Jesus said, "You will come here, just not now…not yet. I am sorry." Then I was on the operating table and heard someone say, "We got him” and then "Oh my God, he is awake.” I AM NOW AN ORDAINED MINISTER AND I PREACH. I WAS SHOWN THERE IS NO HELL. We all go home." Another Jesus story, notice what she was told... NDE - KARIN F.: "She took me and placed me in a crystal-like bed and told me to rest because there were beings who wanted to honor and welcome me. I saw beings cued up to greet me. I SPIED JESUS AMONG THEM and immediately felt as though something was wrong. I asked the being who brought me, how it was that Jesus wants to honor me. I told her that I was afraid that putting myself at the same level as Jesus would damn me to hell. SHE LAUGHED AND TOLD ME THERE IS NO HELL. WE ARE ALL EQUAL IN SPIRIT FORM. I believed all that nonsense. I KNOW NOW THERE IS NO HELL, and God is unconditional love. Yes we are all connected and NO ONE IS MORE OR LESS THAN ANYONE ELSE. That our souls are eternal and WE ARE HERE TO EXPERIENCE LIFE. Love is what we are, and will be again. I REALIZED THAT WE WERE ON EARTH AS A VACATION FROM ETERNITY AND BLISS. I have no fears. I have a knowing and I feel oneness with all things. Fear actually kills love." Now look, Jesus gives her an instructive mission to go tell people...notice what it is.... NDE - BETTY E.: "I was out of my body. I turned to look down and could see myself laying there, and I came down for a closer look. My spirit went out and I arrived at my home. My husband was sitting in a chair reading, and the kids were running around all over the place. I came into a pitch blackness, but I had no fear, I was bathed in love. I saw a pinpoint of light, and when I came to the end of that light, I could tell it was a male figure. I KNEW THIS WAS JESUS, AND THAT I HAD ALWAYS KNOWN HIM. A council of men explained to me that I had not fulfilled the calling that God had for me, and it was given to me what my mission was...and that was to bring back all the information they had given me, and to share it. AND I SAID TO JESUS, HOW ON EARTH AM I GOING TO SHARE THIS? HOW AM I GOING TO TELL PEOPLE THAT THERE IS NO HELL? How am I going to tell them that? They believe it! HE SAID TELL THEM THIS: IF THEY AS A GOOD PARENT WOULDN'T CAST ANY ONE OF THEIR CHILDREN IN A LAKE OF FIRE, OR WOULDN'T THROW THEM INTO OUTER DARKNESS FOREVER, HOW MUCH GREATER IS GOD'S LOVE THAN YOURS? And I thought wow, that solves it. It's necessary that people learn that God loves everyone. Jesus died on the cross to save us from our sins, and he says in every way he can...look, you're mine and I PAID THE PRICE, so forget about that. Freedom from fear, so you can be the person that you mapped out...it's a blueprint...you made yourself to be. There are few, if any, coincidences in anyone's life." Again, told directly from God.... NDE - BARBARA M.: "In my NDE, I WAS TOLD HELL DOES NOT EXIST. In the future, everyone is at final form already, and there is no holy war. TOLD DIRECTLY BY ANGELS AND EVEN GOD." Jesus again.... NDE - L. HERNANDEZ: "I've been an atheist all my life. I had an NDE and in a few minutes my life changed completely. Part of my experience was with the one people call Jesus. THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO JUDGEMENT IN OUR CREATOR because only love, he is. HELL IS MAN'S CREATION, SO IS SIN. It's all controlled by fear. Religion is not from God, I asked and was told this." Notice, he was told.... NDE - PATRICK F.: "I had an NDE in 1996 from a car accident. I've not been able to explain how I received the information I did, except to say it was 'downloaded'. I WAS TOLD THERE IS NO HELL, and that it was created by man to keep each other in check. I was raised rather religious, but I do not buy into the BS they spew." Again, notice what she's told.... NDE - ANNA M.: "I 'popped' from my body and was met with a bright light. THIS GAVE ME UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, and explained I had to return as I had three children to raise. Without words, I was told many mysteries of the world. THERE IS NO HELL, THERE IS JUST EXPERIENCE. NO GOOD OR BAD EITHER! There is only one God! HE LOVES US ALL, NO MATTER WHAT! HE DOES NOT JUDGE. I had been taught wrong by religion!" Yet again, he was told.... NDE - NICHOLAS P.: "The Light told me many things, which I choose not to talk of. I was told, 'you have chosen an experience, you wish to live, and it is far from over.' I WAS TOLD THERE IS NO HELL. The original sin is most people don't know they are a spirit having a human experience." And this... NDE - SALLY P.: "Many times since, I've wanted to return to that place of love and confirmation. I learned that every human's belief in a supreme being is real, and that EVERYONE goes to heaven, paradise, whatever. GOD'S FORGIVENESS TRULY DOES PASS ANY HUMAN UNDERSTANDING, and HELL DOES NOT EXIST. Since my NDE, I have shared with bereaved friends and strangers, and tried to confirm others' hopes of an afterlife." Another one... NDE - L. MASON: "I died. Time froze. Met God that appeared as a pure white light. Let me ask questions. Told me I had to return. EARTH IS A PLAY PEN. THERE'S NO HELL. WE ARE ALL FORGIVEN WHEN WE DIE. We all are connected when we die. In human bodies that link is very faint. That is the hole we try to fill with money/drugs/addiction." Again, she was told.... NDE - R. MORENO: "I'm Native American and experienced an NDE. I WAS TOLD THERE IS no religion and NO HELL. I was shown many things. It has not been easy being here as I didn't want to come back." And again.... NDE - JEWEL F.: "I had an NDE in a head-on car accident. God is 100% love. THERE WAS NO HELL. I'm also looking forward to go back when it's my turn." No "hell", and religions are abuse?.... NDE - GAIL A.: "I instantly realized that life goals are a waste of time and that RELIGION IS A FORM OF ABUSE TO CONTROL THE MASSES. THERE IS NO HELL. Hell and heaven are BS. I was aware that I could communicate without speaking and that I could know all that I wanted to know. There was a feeling of peace and calm, unlike anything I've experienced since. Then I was told that I had to go back, which didn't make me happy at all, as I knew that being alive would hurt." Now, notice this one.... NDE - B. ELSWORTH: "But personally, through my own NDE, I remember coming back and as beautiful and shocking to my ego as the experience was, I remember driving in my car and laughing to myself thinking, 'Well I wish I could tell my younger self he's NOT GOING TO HELL, BECAUSE THERE IS NONE!' YOU CAN'T DO ANY WRONG...even (ra*e + mu*der) in God's perspective, but that's not a license to do crazy stuff, God is just that unconditionally loving. HE CAN'T EVEN FORGIVE YOU, BECAUSE YOU CAN DO NO WRONG. We truly are inseparable from boundless infinite love.” See this one... NDE - NORMA E.: "Two male medical people came along and they're interacting with these two females, and I can see this amazing light they're consuming. And the two young ladies began to discuss...they both attended the same church. The one who went to church is describing the sermon that was preached, and it had to do with hell. I want to scream at this woman, THAT'S NOT TRUE, THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS HELL, let me tell you about what it's like on the other side, but of course I can't speak."
Looking forward to the illumination of conscience where God will encounter all and show each soul the truth around the world. Catholic prophecy. The second Pentecost.
Dreams, aside from the mere wanderings of the mind while asleep are forbidden; including if it is "God" sending them; as the Baltimore Catechism makes quite abundantly clear in its writing, Father Spitzer.
========================= God is inviting you into a relationship with Him today! The Salvation Prayer Father, it is written in Your Word that if I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in my heart that You have raised Him from the dead, I shall be saved. Therefore, Father, I confess that Jesus is my Lord. I make Him Lord of my life right now. I believe in my heart that You raised Jesus from the dead. I renounce my past life with Satan and close the door to any of his devices. I thank You for forgiving me of all my sin. Jesus is my Lord, and I am a new creation. Old things have passed away; now all things become new in Jesus’ name. Amen.
So the souls seen going into darkness are they just we gay men and women Catholics that are rejected or are they some other groups, also. I am excommunicated from the Church I know because I could not keep myself pure as I was told year upon year when I tried to keep my Easter duty at least.. My Jesuit confessor at Gonzaga warned me of that fact in 1968, when I stopped trying and accepted my fate awaiting me at death. I fully am aware it will not be a pretty picture Catholics like me.
Go liberal protestant. At least you will feel accepted and relatively happy while on earth. Appreciate your Jesuit confessors honesty. It's to help you not harm you. All harm happening to you you are doing to yourself. Be responsible for your actions. Totally 100%. Do not blame others for your predicament. It's called Free Will.
These NDEs below, prove that some people will be upset, and others will be relieved. Notice... NDE - LINDA S.: "The wrathful, vengeful God, as taught by my religion, instilled in me a deep fear of God, death, and the afterlife. The NDE transformed me, showing that God is only a loving God, WHO DOES NOT JUDGE AND PUNISH. THERE IS NO HELL. I knew I was in the arms of a being who cherished me with PERFECT LOVE and carried me from the dark void into a new reality. There was no place that God did not exist and I was within God. I am an inseparable part of the light. THE TRUTH OF WHO I AM, INDEED, WHO WE ALL ARE, IS PERFECT LOVE as a creation of God. I had spent a lifetime of fear of judgment and now, standing with God, I HAD BEEN KNOWN COMPLETELY AND FOUND FAULTLESS. I KNEW GOD REGARDED ME AS PERFECT. Finally it all made sense. God could only love me because God is only love, nothing other than love. All is as it is supposed to be. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE IS OUR TRUE NATURE." Another Christian...and notice, again.... NDE - ROBYN C.: "I KNOW THERE IS NO JUDGEMENT OR HELL. I just know whatever form God takes, he loves us and welcomes us. I felt an overwhelming sense of complete bliss and contentment. I could see the light ahead of me and felt drawn to it, but I was moving slowly and enjoying the wondrous sensations I felt. Since my experience, I have been certain there is a God, but this is different to what I had believed as a Christian." Again, no "hell" and no judgement.... NDE - JASON H.: "I now know that there is a life after death. I NOW KNOW THAT THERE IS NO HELL. In that overwhelming radiating loving light, I met a glowingly beautiful, very loving being. His loving presence completely surrounded me, and together we went through my life and all that I had experienced, IN A LOVING WAY, NOT ANY JUDGING WAY." Yet again, no "hell" and can't be separated.... NDE - GORDON S.: "THERE IS NO 'heaven' and no 'HELL'. I am just now accepting that part of my purpose for coming back is to help other people awaken to the simple truth: WE ARE LOVE, we are part of God, and WE CANNOT EVER BE SEPARATED FROM GOD. The knowing that we are all inter-connected makes it easy for me to accept people, just as they are." Again, no "hell" and no reward.... NDE - STEVE L.: "I soon realized I did not have my body, and that I was surrounded by consciousness. EVERYTHING IS JUST TOTAL LOVE. There was consciousness that came to me in the form of people I recognized. THERE IS NO heaven or HELL. THERE IS NO "REWARD" FOR A "GOOD LIFE". Our careers, mistakes, money, etc., mean nothing. We join the pure consciousness at the time of leaving our body, and we are all one." Notice again, he clearly understood.... NDE - DOUG F.: "IT WAS CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD THAT THERE IS NO heaven or HELL. Every part of the universe was part of me, and every part of me was part of the universe. THERE WAS COMPLETE INCLUSION AND ACCEPTANCE. This was so far beyond any expectation. Another realization came to me. Everything is known, and there is nothing to learn. Life on earth is not a school, there is nothing to learn. LIFE ON EARTH IS JUST AN EXPERIENCE. NOTHING MORE. As I was guided back, first into the 4th dimension, I could feel the expanded awareness shutting down. THIS LIFE IS ABOUT EXPERIENCE THAT IS THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT WE TRULY ARE."
And let's see what Jesus says about it, in these few short NDEs below. Notice what they were told and shown. A Jesus NDE - JIM S.: "I was hit by a car while riding my motorcycle. I died on the operating table. I went through the dark into the light - a soft bluish light. An entity (Jesus to me) was of the light, and the light was a doorway. I was not in this body, but I was as normal as my body here. We spoke without speaking. Joy was all over me. I was relieved to know it is real! Jesus said, "I know it hurts and I know it is bad. You have not done what you said you would do and must go back." I refused. Jesus said, "You will come here, just not now…not yet. I am sorry." Then I was on the operating table and heard someone say, "We got him” and then "Oh my God, he is awake.” I AM NOW AN ORDAINED MINISTER AND I PREACH. I WAS SHOWN THERE IS NO HELL. We all go home." Another Jesus story, notice what she was told... NDE - KARIN F.: "She took me and placed me in a crystal-like bed and told me to rest because there were beings who wanted to honor and welcome me. I saw beings cued up to greet me. I SPIED JESUS AMONG THEM and immediately felt as though something was wrong. I asked the being who brought me, how it was that Jesus wants to honor me. I told her that I was afraid that putting myself at the same level as Jesus would damn me to hell. SHE LAUGHED AND TOLD ME THERE IS NO HELL. WE ARE ALL EQUAL IN SPIRIT FORM. I believed all that nonsense. I KNOW NOW THERE IS NO HELL, and God is unconditional love. Yes we are all connected and NO ONE IS MORE OR LESS THAN ANYONE ELSE. That our souls are eternal and WE ARE HERE TO EXPERIENCE LIFE. Love is what we are, and will be again. I REALIZED THAT WE WERE ON EARTH AS A VACATION FROM ETERNITY AND BLISS. I have no fears. I have a knowing and I feel oneness with all things. Fear actually kills love." Now look, Jesus gives her an instructive mission to go tell people...notice what it is.... NDE - BETTY E.: "I was out of my body. I turned to look down and could see myself laying there, and I came down for a closer look. My spirit went out and I arrived at my home. My husband was sitting in a chair reading, and the kids were running around all over the place. I came into a pitch blackness, but I had no fear, I was bathed in love. I saw a pinpoint of light, and when I came to the end of that light, I could tell it was a male figure. I KNEW THIS WAS JESUS, AND THAT I HAD ALWAYS KNOWN HIM. A council of men explained to me that I had not fulfilled the calling that God had for me, and it was given to me what my mission was...and that was to bring back all the information they had given me, and to share it. AND I SAID TO JESUS, HOW ON EARTH AM I GOING TO SHARE THIS? HOW AM I GOING TO TELL PEOPLE THAT THERE IS NO HELL? How am I going to tell them that? They believe it! HE SAID TELL THEM THIS: IF THEY AS A GOOD PARENT WOULDN'T CAST ANY ONE OF THEIR CHILDREN IN A LAKE OF FIRE, OR WOULDN'T THROW THEM INTO OUTER DARKNESS FOREVER, HOW MUCH GREATER IS GOD'S LOVE THAN YOURS? And I thought wow, that solves it. It's necessary that people learn that God loves everyone. Freedom from fear, so you can be the person that you mapped out...it's a blueprint...you made yourself to be. There are few, if any, coincidences in anyone's life." Again, told directly from God.... NDE - BARBARA M.: "In my NDE, I WAS TOLD HELL DOES NOT EXIST. In the future, everyone is at final form already, and there is no holy war. TOLD DIRECTLY BY ANGELS AND EVEN GOD." Jesus again.... NDE - L. HERNANDEZ: "I've been an atheist all my life. I had an NDE and in a few minutes my life changed completely. Part of my experience was with the one people call Jesus. THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO JUDGEMENT IN OUR CREATOR because only love, he is. HELL IS MAN'S CREATION, SO IS SIN. It's all controlled by fear. Religion is not from God, I asked and was told this." Notice, he was told.... NDE - PATRICK F.: "I had an NDE in 1996 from a car accident. I've not been able to explain how I received the information I did, except to say it was 'downloaded'. I WAS TOLD THERE IS NO HELL, and that it was created by man to keep each other in check. I was raised rather religious, but I do not buy into the BS they spew." Again, notice what she's told.... NDE - ANNA M.: "I 'popped' from my body and was met with a bright light. THIS GAVE ME UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, and explained I had to return as I had three children to raise. Without words, I was told many mysteries of the world. THERE IS NO HELL, THERE IS JUST EXPERIENCE. NO GOOD OR BAD EITHER! There is only one God! HE LOVES US ALL, NO MATTER WHAT! HE DOES NOT JUDGE. I had been taught wrong by religion!" Yet again, he was told.... NDE - NICHOLAS P.: "The Light told me many things, which I choose not to talk of. I was told, 'you have chosen an experience, you wish to live, and it is far from over.' I WAS TOLD THERE IS NO HELL. The original sin is most people don't know they are a spirit having a human experience." And this... NDE - SALLY P.: "Many times since, I've wanted to return to that place of love and confirmation. I learned that every human's belief in a supreme being is real, and that EVERYONE goes to heaven, paradise, whatever. GOD'S FORGIVENESS TRULY DOES PASS ANY HUMAN UNDERSTANDING, and HELL DOES NOT EXIST. Since my NDE, I have shared with bereaved friends and strangers, and tried to confirm others' hopes of an afterlife." Another one... NDE - L. MASON: "I died. Time froze. Met God that appeared as a pure white light. Let me ask questions. Told me I had to return. EARTH IS A PLAY PEN. THERE'S NO HELL. WE ARE ALL FORGIVEN WHEN WE DIE. We all are connected when we die. In human bodies that link is very faint. That is the hole we try to fill with money/drugs/addiction." Again, she was told.... NDE - R. MORENO: "I'm Native American and experienced an NDE. I WAS TOLD THERE IS no religion and NO HELL. I was shown many things. It has not been easy being here as I didn't want to come back." And again.... NDE - JEWEL F.: "I had an NDE in a head-on car accident. God is 100% love. THERE WAS NO HELL. I'm also looking forward to go back when it's my turn." No "hell", and religions are abuse?.... NDE - GAIL A.: "I instantly realized that life goals are a waste of time and that RELIGION IS A FORM OF ABUSE TO CONTROL THE MASSES. THERE IS NO HELL. Hell and heaven are BS. I was aware that I could communicate without speaking and that I could know all that I wanted to know. There was a feeling of peace and calm, unlike anything I've experienced since. Then I was told that I had to go back, which didn't make me happy at all, as I knew that being alive would hurt." Now, notice this one.... NDE - B. ELSWORTH: "But personally, through my own NDE, I remember coming back and as beautiful and shocking to my ego as the experience was, I remember driving in my car and laughing to myself thinking, 'Well I wish I could tell my younger self he's NOT GOING TO HELL, BECAUSE THERE IS NONE!' YOU CAN'T DO ANY WRONG...even (ra*e + mu*der) in God's perspective, but that's not a license to do crazy stuff, God is just that unconditionally loving. HE CAN'T EVEN FORGIVE YOU, BECAUSE YOU CAN DO NO WRONG. We truly are inseparable from boundless infinite love.” See this one... NDE - NORMA E.: "Two male medical people came along and they're interacting with these two females, and I can see this amazing light they're consuming. And the two young ladies began to discuss...they both attended the same church. The one who went to church is describing the sermon that was preached, and it had to do with hell. I want to scream at this woman, THAT'S NOT TRUE, THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS HELL, let me tell you about what it's like on the other side, but of course I can't speak."
4:40 - record of near death experiences.....going back to 1978. Done by a Dr. 5:56 - 15 seconds aftr body death brain doesn't get oxygen. IE from auto accident, heart attack, drowning. Brain starts 2 shut down. 13:16 - but one Utube vid said this was made up because there was no record of this lady in the hospital. (The lady that saw the shoe on the ledge of the hospital roof. Also different vids say they were different people she told.....a nurse, friend social worker).
Except Lazarus, who of course was raised through Jesus, and Jesus himself. Apart from that your statement is true. However, your premise is still false in that science has shown that the brain is utterly incapable of any activity, so actually physically 'brain dead' at the time of the proven veridical experiences of the person claiming an NDE.
@@cord11ful A claim in a book is not defacto true just because a certain group of people label that book as inspired by a god. There are lots of magical claims in lots of books but none of these magical claims have been "shown" to be true. I said "dead and rotting" not a brain that was labelled inactive. You also seem to have conveniently forgotten that there is zero evidence that any NDE memory was actually formed during a period of brain inactivity. I say again 37.2 trillion dead and rotting eucaryotic cells stay dead and rotting.
@@divinewillprayers What part of "shown" are you struggling to understand? You are doing nothing more than presupposing that the story is true without a shred of evidence that it is.
You're a good reminder to me of why I'm no longer a Roman Catholic. You choose to believe worldly experience over God's word. God created man a "living soul," so there's nothing that can separate from us to go anywhere. When we die, we sleep in the dust of the earth until the resurrection; some to eternal glory, some to everlasting shame depending on whether we have believed God or not, especially what he inspired his prophets to write about his Son, Jesus Christ, that he died for our sins and rose again for our justification. Demons are what drove me out of the Catholic Church when I realized saying the rosary summoned them, as does any activity that causes a state of altered consciousness. Demons give unsaved people (like Catholics) NDE's in their minds to prevent them from learning the truth due to the proclivity of human beings to trust something they believe they experienced over the word of God.
The demons do not want you to say the rosary because by it they are trampled upon by a woman...Our Blessed Mother, Mary. Come back to your Mother, she will protect you, the demons are powerless before her. The Queen of Heaven will hold your hands and lead you to her son, Jesus Christ- True God and True man...run to her and let her do this for you, please.
I don't have a horse in the race, but the Bible says nothing about NDE phenomena. Of all the people who were brought back from death, none mentioned an NDE. Therefore, how can Christianity claim NDE fit their teaching?
It is true that there are real Christians in the Roman Catholic communion. Thousands in that church are serving God according to the best light they have. However, Romanism as a system is no more in harmony with the gospel of Christ now than at any former period in her history. The Protestant churches are in great darkness, or they would discern the signs of the times. The Roman Church is far-reaching in her plans and modes of operation. She is employing every device to extend her influence and increase her power in preparation for a fierce and determined conflict to regain control of the world, to re-establish persecution, and to undo all that Protestantism has done. Every cardinal, archbishop, and bishop in the Catholic Church takes an oath of allegiance to the pope, in which occur the following words: ‘Heretics, schismatics, and rebels to our said lord the pope, or his aforesaid successors, I will to my utmost persecute and oppose!'' The papal church will never relinquish her claim to infallibility. All that she has done in her persecution of those who reject her dogmas, she holds to be right; and would she not repeat the same acts, should the opportunity be presented? Let the restraints now imposed by secular governments be removed, and Rome be re-instated in her former power, and there would speedily be a revival of her tyranny and persecution.
You’re tripping, dear heart. Where did you get your kool aid? Absurd! You are doing your self a grave error in spewing such nonsense! I shall keep you in prayer for the Gifts of knowledge, wisdom and love. Study the Fathers of the Church and Church Mystics. Enlarge your pitiful perceptions. You are embarrassing yourself in this display of deep ignorance! Blessings+++
Jesus came to me one morning--maybe because we are both Jews--and he told me that religion is dangerous because people come to believe things that are totally untrue. Thank you Jesus. I wanted to pass on his wisdom. He also said he was totally pissed of how much false information got into the Bible.
Dear Jewish friend Jesus is the messiah that over 300 Old Testament prophecies came to pass in Christ 1st coming. Please read Isaiah 53 about Jesus and the suffering servant ! Jesus is the only way to eternal life after leaving this body behind ! I encourage you to make that decision! Jesus is the only savior no salvation without Jesus ❤️
You are a fool. Fooled by a vision from Satan. What you Jews write about Jesus and Mary and Joseph in the Talmud is absolutely disgusting. Such unclean people you are.
That priest is lying about "ghost". He knows very well from NDE's that the souls have only 2 choices when they leave their body & they are: either go back into the body & resume their life on Earth or stay with Jesus/God/Heaven. They do NOT get the option to roam the earth as "ghosts." He very well knows that these "ghosts" are not human souls, but that they probably are other entities such as demons.
The phenomenon we call "ghosts" includes a range of manifestations. Some of these resemble demonic entities (poltergeists, for example), some are crisis apparition where a loved one appears before their death is officially known, others are more like recordings of people going about their usual business. Some are recognised as apparitions immediately, others only subsequently when their presence cannot be accounted for by ordinary means. Some interact with the living, most do not. It's unwise to bracket all apparitions as one thing, even the effect on the percipient varies. As for soul choices, the NDE record appears to show different paths. The majority are drawn through a tunnel towards a divine light, but again, not all. Some enter a heavenly realm immediately. Others occupy the vicinity of the hospital for some time, reading the thoughts of medics and their visiting relatives. At least one case has an individual walking the streets of his city, recognising the living and the deceased before going to the distant places of his childhood. For a comprehensive NDE experienced by a medical professional, look at the account of Dr. Mary Neil.
@When I Was Born for the 7th Time Fr Spitzer wants to introduce evidence to metaphysics, and I applaud him for it. However evidence requires going where it leads, and in the case of ghosts it's fair to say it's more complicated than presented. Catholics often had blessings performed on houses they moved into, which suggests a belief in psychic residues rather than full possessions or vexation. I suspect individual priests are more openminded about what those represent, and whether they are lingering spirits of the deceased unable to move on, some kind of historical recording a susceptible individual is picking up on, or the numerous other possibilities ghosts and apparitions represent. I always thought the demonic interpretation for all such phenomena was more of a protestant notion than Catholic.
Im glad to hear from another self righteous christian that knows everything about nde,s and ofcourse hijacks nde phenomona to smuggle in their best little friend Jesus and demons to boot !! If you had any clue what your talking about you would know that ndes are strongly colored by your religious beliefs and that all the majour researchers in this department like Bruce Greyson , Raymond Moody does not agree with you at all kk!! First of all your little Friend Jesus is someone you just assume is him, and you are not judged by anyone but your self when you go through the life review so the Christian view that God is gonna judge us is false 😐 so unfortunately you wont get your wishes about us sinners are gonnna burn in hell!! It just boogles ones mind how ya all religious folk , are so sure that you know the mystery about life and death and all from one single ancient 📜 you know it all !! You deny science unless you can use it to smuggle in your creepy doctrine 😒 And this catholic jackass is ofcourse spewing fourth his personal beliefs with no expertise on the subject 🙄 Be a little humble instead and admit no one knows if anthing happens to us at all when we die , it might just be a brain phenomenon or like what some scientist like Pim von lommel suggest that it might be non local consciousness!!!
I have been virtually *forced* into overt anti-theism and atheism *by* the wording of the Catechism of the Catholic Church where it rightly condemns the occult; *just simply* to avoid such a sin- the demise of the mere *idea* of God is vital, as is the extinction of the next world. In short, if you have to wipe out all of eternity just to make sure to eradicate Perdition, then that is a most acceptable sacrifice; especially proving that prayer has no benefit whatever to anyone- that'll do it alright. This is not to deny that science needs a deity to get the whole ball rolling; of that I am strongly convinced, but to avoid sins condemned by the wording of the Catechism it has proven necessary and right to wipe out all belief in a next life in the process.
There is a great deal of high-quality scientific research, including non-Christian research, that consistently show that prayer is effective in physical as well as psychological healing. Google Scholar--publicly available.
If prayer is effective in healing it is a testimony to God actions according Scripture: 'Ask and it will be given to you.' Mt. 7:7. For more scientific evidence of God, please watch this video where you commented--A LOT of scientific evidence.
Atheism is a spiritual vacuum; science says that vacuums are quickly filled. To be ethical and avoid slavery of the senses: pornography, anger and raging passions, etc., understand that evil is not neutral but spiritual. Doing evil is worship of it and bonds one to it leading to addictions and spiritual wounds.
In short, we are fodder for evil that easily leads us around by our noses when we reject our only defense: God who loves us; all good comes from Him; we cannot be good without Him. One might be able, with difficulty, to be ethical without God, but one cannot be holy without Him. He is the source of all good.
@@sjo9292 Good doesn't come out of authority at all, it comes out of defiance towards authority, as all authority, as a command function, is entirely evil and untrustworthy in its very nature.
Frankly, what you are saying sounds informed but very uncomfortable to see a man in sunglasses talking to you. Maybe transition lenses but VERY BAD cinemetography. Makes people immediately question what kind of person you might be for those who do not know you. If you make future videos, please take basics of video recording so you don't come across as so visually sketchy. In fact, stopping video now. Looks too odd.
@@imtired6104 Thank you for sharing. I wanted to hear what he was saying but uncomfortable with presentation. I will go back and listen again. Thank you for sharing.
It is amazing how most people upon having an NDE or OBE jump to the conclusion that it was a God experience, or proof of some divine power. Yes and no. What it shows us is that our awareness and intelligence while in the body is greatly limited. The experiences out of the physical body, while transcendental, are still occurring within the natural universe, a universe we are woefully ignorant of. We should leave all the superstitions in our dark past and pursue a more rational and measured approach to these events.
Read this informative article. Nintendo characters? Santa Clause? Yamatoots? Yamraj? For those who want to know the full story.......... THE NDE STUDIES.....(LA Times excerpts) Researchers estimate that around 17% of people have an NDE. That means about 80% don't. Scratch beneath those alleged flat EKG lines and the stories are a veritable Twilight Zone of inconsistencies. Some near-death voyagers claim to have met God - BUT A FEW SAW ELVIS PRESLEY OR GROUCHO MARX, researchers say. Others get to heaven not through the famous "tunnel", but ABOARD GHOSTLY TAXI CABS, FERRIES THAT CROSS THE RIVER STYX, OR SPANGLED COWS. Even some children - often touted as the best source of unbiased information - sometimes return from "death" CLAIMING THEY WERE GREETED IN THE OTHER WORLD by STILL LIVING TEACHERS, and NINTENDO CHARACTERS, and COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS. If encounters with conscious plants, talking insects, roosters, and turtles, doesn’t give you pause about NDEs, perhaps NDEs THAT INCLUDE ENCOUNTERS WITH FICTIONAL CHARACTERS WILL. Melvin Morse reports that a 10-year-old boy had an NDE where he ENCOUNTERED A VIDEO-GAMING WIZARD who loved Nintendo. Karl Jansen similarly reports finding childhood NDEs THAT INCLUDE ENCOUNTERS WITH VIDEO GAME AND COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS. In a collection of pediatric NDEs published in 1990, Serdahely even found a case where A GIRL ENCOUNTERED A FAVORITE TOY DURING HER NDE - AN OLD STUFFED ANIMAL. They differ between people and cultures. Instead of a tunnel and angels, EAST INDIANS MAY DESCRIBE THE RIVER GANGES AND A PARTICULAR GURU. HINDUS WHO BELIEVE IN YAMRAJ, the Hindu god of death, EXPERIENCED MEETING HIM. A Hindu girl "died" AND WENT TO HEAVEN ON A COW. Would that mean western people will be riding cows to heaven? Jews who don't believe in Jesus or "hell", experienced meeting God as described in the Old Testament, while messianic Jews experienced God as Jesus. Any reports of Christians meeting Muhammad, or Muslims meeting the Virgin Mary, or Jews meeting Guru Nanak, if they exist, have not been publicized. Dr. Richard Eby had an NDE and allegedly Jesus told him he had to back, and that he (Jesus) would be returning (2nd coming) before he died permanently. BUT DR. RICHARD EBY HAS NOW DIED AND JESUS HAS NOT RETURNED. A few hospitals have placed signs in their cardiac units - with nonsensical messages visible only from above - BUT SO FAR NOBODY HAS RETURNED FROM DEATH CLAIMING TO HAVE FLOATED UP AND SEEN ONE. In one study carried out, the experiences of 16 Asian Indians were compared with those of Americans, and IT WAS FOUND THAT THE INDIANS HAD ENCOUNTERED YAMRAJ, the Hindu god of the dead, WHILE THE AMERICANS HAD NOT. You would expect that if any one particular religious account of the afterlife was true, NDEs would be pretty much the same. BUT THESE ACCOUNTS ARE SO VARIED AND ARE ARE ALL BASED ON CULTURAL EXPOSURE. IN INDIA, PEOPLE SEE HINDU GODS; IN SAUDI ARABIA ITS ALLAH, MOHAMED, AND A BUNCH OF VIRGINS. The kid from the book/movie Heaven Is For Real, saw a Jesus with sea-green blue eyes ON A RAINBOW COLORED HORSE, GOD WITH HUGE WINGS, YELLOW HAIR AND BLUE EYES; and ONE LITTLE GIRL WENT TO HEAVEN AND WAS GREETED BY A PORTLY MAN WITH A WHITE BEARD AND RED CAP, aka SANTA CLAUSE. The Mapuche people of South America and residents of Hawaii are more likely to SEE LANDSCAPES AND VOLCANOES, whereas NDEs in Thailand rarely involve landmarks, tunnels, or light. For Tibetans, light features more heavily AS DO ILLUSIONS OF REINCARNATION. Europeans and North Americans often visualize beautiful gardens; intriguingly the Kalai of Melanesia are more inclined to SEE AN INDUSTRIALIZED WORLD OF FACTORIES. An NDEr's subjective recollections can be attributed to many factors: THE NDEr's PSYCHOLOGY, PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, BACKGROUND, ETC., NOT JUST CULTURE. The terrain of Heaven also varies wildly - from gardens, forests, and CATTLE FILLED PASTURES in some accounts, to clouds, COMPUTER ROOMS OR CASTLES, in others. A TEXAN SAW BARBED WIRE FENCES IN THE AFTERLIFE. Micronesians describe LARGE NOISY CITIES WITH CARS AND SKYSCRAPERS. Drug addicts, alcoholics, felons (murder), suicides, hedonists, abusers, mean people, and gay people, have all claimed to encounter heaven. Strangely, people have claimed to enter some "hell" FOR THE SAME REASONS. EVEN THE INFAMOUS ADOLF HITLER HAS BEEN SPOTTED IN HEAVEN. Again, strangely, he's also been seen in some "hell". Contradictions abound. There are reports of bad NDE trips involving TORTURES BY ELVES, GIANTS, MONSTERS, etc. Some parapsychologists take these as evidence of the mythical places of various religions. But, IF SO, THEN WHAT IS ONE TO CONCLUDE FROM THE FACT THAT OVER 80% OF PEOPLE NEAR DEATH DO NOT EXPERIENCE ANYTHING, neither the heavenly or the diabolical? This is a wonder. Is the hereafter actually mining and refining raw materials needed to build castles, cars, barbed wire fences, computers, and skyscrapers? From where do they get this material and the tools? Not to mention the raw materials and tools needed to construct an ever increasing number of those cages and cubes in the Christian hell, as a few claim. Who builds those cages? And which of the variety of "hells" do you actually go to? Christian? Buddhist? Spiritualist? Hindu? Muslim? Some other one? The answer seems to be whichever one the experiencer has been exposed to, as Thai NDErs regularly claim to encounter LORD YAMA AND YAMATOOTS, COMPLETE WITH TALKING DECEASED ROOSTERS, and being sentenced to Buddhist "hell" for butchering and eating chicken, then reincarnated as birds. DOES THAT MEAN WESTERNERS WILL UNKNOWINGLY BE HEADING TO BUDDHIST "HELL" FOR EATING CHICKEN? Thai accounts state that butchers become lumps of meat in Buddhist "hell", so what then awaits Western slaughterhouse workers? Even in her rather homogeneous Western European clientele, Kubler-Ross could see the effects of early enculturation: " I NEVER ENCOUNTERED A PROTESTANT CHILD WHO SAW THE VIRGIN MARY IN HIS LAST MINUTES, YET SHE WAS PERCEIVED BY MANY CATHOLIC CHILDREN." But there also are some hard-to-explain differences, Melvin Morse says. Whereas American near-death survivors are typically sent back by God because “it’s not your time yet,” INDIA'S AFTERLIFE VISITORS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE TOLD THERE WAS A “CLERICAL ERROR.” Even more curious: SOMETIMES THE BEING OF LIGHT IS ELVIS PRESLEY. Moody has chronicled at least two such sightings. A PERSON MAY APPEAR DEAD TO OUR SENSES OR OUR SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT, BUT STILL BE PERCEIVING. In fact, we now have evidence that patients who appear brain dead, may in fact be capable of conscious thought. In 2006, scientists in the UK and Belgium did an fMRI on a woman in a vegetative state and FOUND THAT PARTS OF HER BRAIN SHOWED ACTIVITY WHEN SHE WAS SPOKEN TO, AND ASKED TO THINK ABOUT THINGS LIKE PLAYING TENNIS. Yet the evidence for near-death paranormal powers remains shaky at best. TWO STUDIES HAVE FOUND THAT PATIENTS’ “OUT OF BODY” ACCOUNTS OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THE OPERATING ROOM WERE WRONG. So were the 1988 Armageddon forecasts hyped by Ring and others. Michael Sabom, however, offers a compromise stance: He rejects the idea that they provide glimpses of a heaven or hell. "I’m not saying these people didn’t experience something odd. But I am saying that we should take it with a grain of salt, because IF ANECDOTES MEET YOUR STANDARD FOR WHAT QUALIFIES AS EVIDENCE, then you should probably start buying tin foil and food buckets, because THERE ARE JUST AS MANY PEOPLE WHO REPORT SEEING REPTILIANS AND WHO HAVE BEEN ABDUCTED BY ALIENS." But what about veridical NDEs - near-death experiences in which the person supposedly sees something they couldn’t otherwise have known while ‘flat-lining’ and others are able to verify that what they saw is indeed correct. The most notorious example of this is Maria’s shoe. A lady named Maria reportedly left her body, floated around and saw a shoe on a ledge outside her hospital window, that she ‘couldn’t have possibly seen.’ Her critical care provider, Kimberly Clark, looked outside and saw the shoe, just as described. BUT WHEN RESEARCHERS TRIED TO TRACK DOWN MARIA TO CONFIRM CLARK'S STORY, THEY WEREN'T ABLE TO FIND ANY SUCH PERSON OR ANYONE ELSE TO CORROBORATE THE ACCOUNT. And when they placed a shoe on the ledge, it was clearly visible from the hospital room, PROVING CLARK HAD EXAGGERATED AT LEAST PART OF THE STORY. Here’s the topper. There is no record of Maria being in that hospital. Sixty years ago, Dr. Wilder Penfield, a neurosurgeon, poked around the right temporal lobe of some epileptic patients and discovered that they would hear heavenly music, relive their pasts in 3D, and have out-of-body visions. Similar experiments continue. There is Dr. Melvin Morse's discovery of "a portal" in the brain that when stimulated, triggers a NDE. He writes that some are threatened by this, as the discovery makes the experience seem unreal. There’s growing evidence that the temporal lobe plays a huge role in creating NDEs. When patients had their brains scanned after an NDE, it was discovered that they had increased levels of temporal lobe activity compared with those in a control group. THAT COULD EXPLAIN WHY ONLY A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE HAVE NDEs. When Dr. Olaf Blanke implanted electrodes into the brains of patients, HE WAS ABLE TO TRIGGER SUPERNATURAL AND OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCES BY STIMULATING THE TEMPORAL PARIETAL JUNCTION.
A lot of blather, nothing of substance from this con-man. People die, nothing survives, only fond memories of the dead in the minds of those left behind.
@@barbaradimascio4623 You are correct dear. Not a rocket scientist, just an intelligent, rational human being who hasn't been brainwashed by dogmatic religious zealots. Nonetheless, thanks for your intended insight, although it was totally worthless and something I already was fully aware of.
I don’t have a soul
I am a soul
I have a body
-CS. Lewis
CS Lewis was part of the problem, not the solution. God created man to be a living soul.
I don't' have a soul I am a soul, I don't have a body, I am a body (FTFY, Clive)
Really?
I fully believe and testify to this reality.. in 1990, my brother died and on the day of his funeral he came to me to reassure me. I described the way he was dressed to my sister who was in tears and awe about the accuracy of the description ... He died in Europe and I was in Australia. I wasn’t able to make it to his funeral.
Thank you ❤
Amazing!
And you don't realize that demons can do that?
@@dfkuz, of course…
You could also teach me that we have to discern by the “fruits” of it and not merely by visions or emotions…
Lets do that. At that time, I was an agnostic and certainly lost.. didn’t know our Lord and didn’t care…
What “that” personal experience has done, was a start to my conversion and faith journey on this earth..
Have a blessed journey as well 👋
I will include you in my prayer intentions 🙏 that you may be gifted with a bit more of spirit of discernment and less impulsive judgment in your comments.
God Bless you and protect you 🙏
@@bruno-orante Thanks for the nice thoughts but God is not the sugarplum fairy sprinkling gifts on people because others asked. God does not violate the free will he created us with. And Satan doesn't care about whether something he does makes someone seem holier - as long as that person does not realize their need to trust Jesus Christ alone for their eternal life. I met my demons personally (telepathically) in the 1990's and I have made it my job to out as many of them as possible whenever I'm able. My written testimony is accessible from my page.
This is jaw-dropping to me from the standpoint that in the 5th grade (1968), I asked my Catholic School SSND nuns and priests these very questions AND I spent a LOT of time in the Principal's office for voicing the questions!!! My parent's were even called in several times, for conferences!!! The nuns & priests said, "Don't ask questions. You just have to have faith." I told them if something is true, it will hold up to questioning. I was nearly expelled, but that was the year the Catholic Church lost me, and kicked off a 35 year bout of atheism. My parents made me keep going to school & church.
What restored my belief in God was an NDE from my fellow-atheist little brother!!
Praying that teachers will pick up the flag and respond to young people's questions!!!
The JeffMara Podcast has some wonderful NDE stories
Y7
All paranormal experiences today are from Satan. God isn't doing any of them because we have the Bible to guide us and Israel's signs and wonders are over because they rejected their Messiah. If you are having any psychic phenomena at all, you need to place your faith in Jesus Christ because it's a sign that you are demon-possessed as many people are today.
@@joykushner1203 what does your comment mean? Rubbish!
I am not Catholic, but love what we have learned from the early church and that the Roman Catholic Church is very slow to change its doctrine. I love Franciscan Theology, it makes a lot of sense to me. Protestant churches change much to easily and try to be “trendy.” With that said, I was raised Lutheran, attend Lutheran and we were encouraged to question, with the knowledge and faith that the Holy Spirit would lead us to sufficient answers. I must say, that I have always been deconstructing my beliefs and to this point the Spirit has never let me down. My Faith has always grown and been strengthened. Sometimes it’s scary, but we all must pass through the wilderness from time to time. I have found that through deconstruction, l still believe the foundational tenets, but often in a new way. NDEs are to me proof of a greater consciousness, who we call God, who is the Father, and we do return to Him, if we allow ourselves to trust in Him. I love Father Spitzer!
My Father had this experience in 1950. It changed him enormously.😊
If you don’t mind, I have a few questions. How did it change him? What happened?
Thanks.
Amazing work Father, you are wonderful. God bless you
Fr. Spitzer is so brilliant
Fr Spitzer was the president of the college I went to. Fantastic to come across this!
Father Spitzer is such a gift to us. I can listen to him for hours on end.
Excellent father. My wife died of cancer nine months back, what I heard from you is so comforting and reassuring. thank you and God bless you.
"Blind people can see in the after life". It shows how we are healed when we enter the after life.
Kay Ivy - it means the soul isn’t blind and that what is, is the physical body. There’s no healing of the body and the body doesn’t go anywhere but to the grave; it disintegrates, and the souls goes on continues to learn while living other lives. In my opinion.
U no what they say about opinions...love 2 u
My husband and I love Father Spitzer we are new Catholic
If you are new to Catholicism please spend much time reading about traditional vs progressive.
God Bless you 🙏❤️ Welcome home
Good on you, welcome to the universal church, remember no excuse now, no matter what part of the world you will find a Catholic Church though not as many when I was a kid, so no excuses now to miss mass lol.
Welcome! So glad to have you with us.
Notice what this catholic woman found out in NDE....
NDE - DIANE S.: "I walked away from the catholic church because I realized everything I was raised with was not true. It's a religion based in fear. And ON THE OTHER SIDE I REALIZED THAT THERE'S NOTHING TO BE AFRAID OF BECAUSE THERE'S NO JUDGEMENT, THERE IS NO HELL. Its only unconditional love. It grew more, and I got closer to it, and all of a sudden the light was all around me and I could be at peace. This unconditional love just surrounded me. We are a direct connection from God. Everything we experience, God experiences, and GOD WANTS TO KNOW IT'S GOD-SELF IN ALL WAYS, AND WE PROVIDE THAT."
Just want to say I am so absolutely thrilled to hear that this type of teaching will be coming to Ireland in 2021. It's so true that while middle aged people are reverting or seeking & finding their lost faith because they sense there's something lost that the youth are not being challenged enough on an intellectual level to have confidence in their beliefs. The scientific and philosophical richness of our faith and reasons to believe are and always have been there, but they are not well known and exploited ( Fr. Spitzer drawing on a virtual army of Catholic scientists who understood that seeking God in nature is kind of like the first great Commission 'Go out multiply, fill the earth and conquer it' - John Henry Newman, Thomas Aquinas, GK Chesterton etc. etc ) So happy for my two boys, in fact I think I'll look over the 12plus modules and give them a home introduction. Thank you Father! God bless you and your work! Very exciting indeed!
That is truly great news about teaching this in Ireland. I was in Medjugorje in November and I was very impressed at how many devout Irish people I met.
So many reasons why the faith seemed to vanish in Ireland, but please God it will come back stronger than ever. Perhaps smaller, but stronger.
I saw a video of Irish Bishops (I think in Knock) they all had face muzzles on and at Communion they all sat on their fat ****s and had EMs give communion and only in the hand.
There is the root cause of the current problem. A bunch of managers with little if any connection to the apostles.
dia guith a chara.
I died in a sailing accident. We are here to love and experience.
This is a blessing. Ty for covering this.
Notice what this catholic woman found out in NDE....
NDE - DIANE S.: "I walked away from the catholic church because I realized everything I was raised with was not true. It's a religion based in fear. And ON THE OTHER SIDE I REALIZED THAT THERE'S NOTHING TO BE AFRAID OF BECAUSE THERE'S NO JUDGEMENT, THERE IS NO HELL. Its only unconditional love. It grew more, and I got closer to it, and all of a sudden the light was all around me and I could be at peace. This unconditional love just surrounded me. We are a direct connection from God. Everything we experience, God experiences, and GOD WANTS TO KNOW IT'S GOD-SELF IN ALL WAYS, AND WE PROVIDE THAT."
I myself have seen my death.not really physical death but mentally which triggered suicidal thoughts. Jesus is true living God and he healed me.
I had an an uncle who was a big addicted gambler, drank a lot, was selfish, a bad husband, left the Church and only worshipped football.... and he had a NDE....in his 70’s in an operation. They lost him and brought him back. He was SCARED OUT OF HIS MIND as he went to HELL. He said he couldn’t share everything as it was too horrifying to recall but he told the dr’s and kept begging not to let him die again and go back. Out of the hospital he was a changed man, went to confession right away and back to Church. His old blind wife who also lost a limb to her diabetes and was dealing with kidney failure and who divorced him years ago so she couldn’t be held responsible for his gambling debts....he moved in and became her caretaker 24-7.
Not sure how he is doing now spiritually or if he slid back. He is in his late 70;s and ill.
I’m publishing a weekly UA-cam video on episodes from the life of Don Bosco, entitled ST JOHN BOSCO by JOE ZAMMIT. In this series I’m narrating events and miracles from the splendid life of Don Bosco. St John Bosco used to perform a miracle almost every day, through the intercession of Mary Help of Christians. From the lives of saints we can learn how to love God more and draw closer to him. Thank you
The JeffMara Podcast has NDE stories where people come back so loving and compassionate, dont care about being wealthy or famous, and want only to LOVE.
I once read an excerpt from an ER nurse, and she stated that the majority of NDE's from just resuscitated individuals were negative. They were terrified. It's most likely many people having negative experiences repress the memory. My own grandfather, who was resuscitated, experienced hell.
@@janesawyer3495 Many people report that Re-entering their body is painful - especially if the body was greatly injured or diseased before the NDE - so perhaps that's what the ER nurse was witnessing.
Of course there are actual experiences of Hell as well.
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No, you're wrong. I'll prove that. Here are these short NDEs. Notice...
NDE - LINDA S.: "The wrathful, vengeful God, as taught by my religion, instilled in me a deep fear of God, death, and the afterlife. The NDE transformed me, showing that God is only a loving God, WHO DOES NOT JUDGE AND PUNISH. THERE IS NO HELL. I knew I was in the arms of a being who cherished me with PERFECT LOVE and carried me from the dark void into a new reality. There was no place that God did not exist and I was within God. I am an inseparable part of the light. THE TRUTH OF WHO I AM, INDEED, WHO WE ALL ARE, IS PERFECT LOVE as a creation of God. I had spent a lifetime of fear of judgment and now, standing with God, I HAD BEEN KNOWN COMPLETELY AND FOUND FAULTLESS. I KNEW GOD REGARDED ME AS PERFECT. Finally it all made sense. God could only love me because God is only love, nothing other than love. All is as it is supposed to be. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE IS OUR TRUE NATURE."
Another Christian...and notice, again....
NDE - ROBYN C.: "I KNOW THERE IS NO JUDGEMENT OR HELL. I just know whatever form God takes, he loves us and welcomes us. I felt an overwhelming sense of complete bliss and contentment. I could see the light ahead of me and felt drawn to it, but I was moving slowly and enjoying the wondrous sensations I felt. Since my experience, I have been certain there is a God, but this is different to what I had believed as a Christian."
Again, no "hell" and
no judgement....
NDE - JASON H.: "I now know that there is a life after death. I NOW KNOW THAT THERE IS NO HELL. In that overwhelming radiating loving light, I met a glowingly beautiful, very loving being. His loving presence completely surrounded me, and together we went through my life and all that I had experienced, IN A LOVING WAY, NOT ANY JUDGING WAY."
Yet again, no "hell" and can't be separated....
NDE - GORDON S.: "THERE IS NO 'heaven' and no 'HELL'. I am just now accepting that part of my purpose for coming back is to help other people awaken to the simple truth: WE ARE LOVE, we are part of God, and WE CANNOT EVER BE SEPARATED FROM GOD. The knowing that we are all inter-connected makes it easy for me to accept people, just as they are."
Again, no "hell" and no reward....
NDE - STEVE L.: "I soon realized I did not have my body, and that I was surrounded by consciousness. EVERYTHING IS JUST TOTAL LOVE. There was consciousness that came to me in the form of people I recognized. THERE IS NO heaven or HELL. THERE IS NO "REWARD" FOR A "GOOD LIFE". Our careers, mistakes, money, etc., mean nothing. We join the pure consciousness at the time of leaving our body, and we are all one."
Notice again, he clearly understood....
NDE - DOUG F.: "IT WAS CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD THAT THERE IS NO heaven or HELL. Every part of the universe was part of me, and every part of me was part of the universe. THERE WAS COMPLETE INCLUSION AND ACCEPTANCE. This was so far beyond any expectation. Another realization came to me. Everything is known, and there is nothing to learn. Life on earth is not a school, there is nothing to learn. LIFE ON EARTH IS JUST AN EXPERIENCE. NOTHING MORE. As I was guided back, first into the 4th dimension, I could feel the expanded awareness shutting down. THIS LIFE IS ABOUT EXPERIENCE THAT IS THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT WE TRULY ARE."
This is a wow discussion, you have nailed it.
Here are some short WOW NDEs!
Notice...
NDE - LINDA S.: "The wrathful, vengeful God, as taught by my religion, instilled in me a deep fear of God, death, and the afterlife. The NDE transformed me, showing that God is only a loving God, WHO DOES NOT JUDGE AND PUNISH. THERE IS NO HELL. I knew I was in the arms of a being who cherished me with PERFECT LOVE and carried me from the dark void into a new reality. There was no place that God did not exist and I was within God. I am an inseparable part of the light. THE TRUTH OF WHO I AM, INDEED, WHO WE ALL ARE, IS PERFECT LOVE as a creation of God. I had spent a lifetime of fear of judgment and now, standing with God, I HAD BEEN KNOWN COMPLETELY AND FOUND FAULTLESS. I KNEW GOD REGARDED ME AS PERFECT. Finally it all made sense. God could only love me because God is only love, nothing other than love. All is as it is supposed to be. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE IS OUR TRUE NATURE."
Another Christian...and notice, again....
NDE - ROBYN C.: "I KNOW THERE IS NO JUDGEMENT OR HELL. I just know whatever form God takes, he loves us and welcomes us. I felt an overwhelming sense of complete bliss and contentment. I could see the light ahead of me and felt drawn to it, but I was moving slowly and enjoying the wondrous sensations I felt. Since my experience, I have been certain there is a God, but this is different to what I had believed as a Christian."
Again, no "hell" and
no judgement....
NDE - JASON H.: "I now know that there is a life after death. I NOW KNOW THAT THERE IS NO HELL. In that overwhelming radiating loving light, I met a glowingly beautiful, very loving being. His loving presence completely surrounded me, and together we went through my life and all that I had experienced, IN A LOVING WAY, NOT ANY JUDGING WAY."
Yet again, no "hell" and can't be separated....
NDE - GORDON S.: "THERE IS NO 'heaven' and no 'HELL'. I am just now accepting that part of my purpose for coming back is to help other people awaken to the simple truth: WE ARE LOVE, we are part of God, and WE CANNOT EVER BE SEPARATED FROM GOD. The knowing that we are all inter-connected makes it easy for me to accept people, just as they are."
Again, no "hell" and no reward....
NDE - STEVE L.: "I soon realized I did not have my body, and that I was surrounded by consciousness. EVERYTHING IS JUST TOTAL LOVE. There was consciousness that came to me in the form of people I recognized. THERE IS NO heaven or HELL. THERE IS NO "REWARD" FOR A "GOOD LIFE". Our careers, mistakes, money, etc., mean nothing. We join the pure consciousness at the time of leaving our body, and we are all one."
Notice again, he clearly understood....
NDE - DOUG F.: "IT WAS CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD THAT THERE IS NO heaven or HELL. Every part of the universe was part of me, and every part of me was part of the universe. THERE WAS COMPLETE INCLUSION AND ACCEPTANCE. This was so far beyond any expectation. Another realization came to me. Everything is known, and there is nothing to learn. Life on earth is not a school, there is nothing to learn. LIFE ON EARTH IS JUST AN EXPERIENCE. NOTHING MORE. As I was guided back, first into the 4th dimension, I could feel the expanded awareness shutting down. THIS LIFE IS ABOUT EXPERIENCE THAT IS THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT WE TRULY ARE."
Fr. Spitzer is knowledgable about science, so he is able to show how science supports Catholic beliefs, rather than refuting them.
Please don't confuse Catholicism with God...the overwhelming amount of evidence shows that our unified form of consciousness, God, has ZERO JUDGMENT... Catholicism on the other hand is quite judgemental, and that judgment will just take u back here to learn this lesson again...
I hope that helped...
Ur friend, abracadabra
Do these NDEs support catholicism? Notice...
NDE - LINDA S.: "The wrathful, vengeful God, as taught by my religion, instilled in me a deep fear of God, death, and the afterlife. The NDE transformed me, showing that God is only a loving God, WHO DOES NOT JUDGE AND PUNISH. THERE IS NO HELL. I knew I was in the arms of a being who cherished me with PERFECT LOVE and carried me from the dark void into a new reality. There was no place that God did not exist and I was within God. I am an inseparable part of the light. THE TRUTH OF WHO I AM, INDEED, WHO WE ALL ARE, IS PERFECT LOVE as a creation of God. I had spent a lifetime of fear of judgment and now, standing with God, I HAD BEEN KNOWN COMPLETELY AND FOUND FAULTLESS. I KNEW GOD REGARDED ME AS PERFECT. Finally it all made sense. God could only love me because God is only love, nothing other than love. All is as it is supposed to be. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE IS OUR TRUE NATURE."
Another Christian...and notice, again....
NDE - ROBYN C.: "I KNOW THERE IS NO JUDGEMENT OR HELL. I just know whatever form God takes, he loves us and welcomes us. I felt an overwhelming sense of complete bliss and contentment. I could see the light ahead of me and felt drawn to it, but I was moving slowly and enjoying the wondrous sensations I felt. Since my experience, I have been certain there is a God, but this is different to what I had believed as a Christian."
Again, no "hell" and
no judgement....
NDE - JASON H.: "I now know that there is a life after death. I NOW KNOW THAT THERE IS NO HELL. In that overwhelming radiating loving light, I met a glowingly beautiful, very loving being. His loving presence completely surrounded me, and together we went through my life and all that I had experienced, IN A LOVING WAY, NOT ANY JUDGING WAY."
Yet again, no "hell" and can't be separated....
NDE - GORDON S.: "THERE IS NO 'heaven' and no 'HELL'. I am just now accepting that part of my purpose for coming back is to help other people awaken to the simple truth: WE ARE LOVE, we are part of God, and WE CANNOT EVER BE SEPARATED FROM GOD. The knowing that we are all inter-connected makes it easy for me to accept people, just as they are."
Again, no "hell" and no reward....
NDE - STEVE L.: "I soon realized I did not have my body, and that I was surrounded by consciousness. EVERYTHING IS JUST TOTAL LOVE. There was consciousness that came to me in the form of people I recognized. THERE IS NO heaven or HELL. THERE IS NO "REWARD" FOR A "GOOD LIFE". Our careers, mistakes, money, etc., mean nothing. We join the pure consciousness at the time of leaving our body, and we are all one."
Notice again, he clearly understood....
NDE - DOUG F.: "IT WAS CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD THAT THERE IS NO heaven or HELL. Every part of the universe was part of me, and every part of me was part of the universe. THERE WAS COMPLETE INCLUSION AND ACCEPTANCE. This was so far beyond any expectation. Another realization came to me. Everything is known, and there is nothing to learn. Life on earth is not a school, there is nothing to learn. LIFE ON EARTH IS JUST AN EXPERIENCE. NOTHING MORE. As I was guided back, first into the 4th dimension, I could feel the expanded awareness shutting down. THIS LIFE IS ABOUT EXPERIENCE THAT IS THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT WE TRULY ARE."
Thank you Father so much God bless
Thank you very much!
Fantastic video! Thanks
I have to ask for your prayers and please offer your Holy Communions and Holy masses for my intentions. I ask St. Philomena and Venerable Pauline Marie Jaricot to pray for ALL of you. Amen. 🙏🙏🙏
Having the presentations on crediblecatholic has been great - the one on near death experiences was my favourite. Kids sometimes seem to tune out watching videos, but having the presentation format and being able to talk about each slide was great.
I’m publishing a weekly UA-cam video on episodes from the life of Don Bosco, entitled ST JOHN BOSCO by JOE ZAMMIT. In this series I’m narrating events and miracles from the splendid life of Don Bosco. St John Bosco used to perform a miracle almost every day, through the intercession of Mary Help of Christians. From the lives of saints we can learn how to love God more and draw closer to him. Thank you
Notice what this catholic woman found out in NDE....
NDE - DIANE S.: "I walked away from the catholic church because I realized everything I was raised with was not true. It's a religion based in fear. And ON THE OTHER SIDE I REALIZED THAT THERE'S NOTHING TO BE AFRAID OF BECAUSE THERE'S NO JUDGEMENT, THERE IS NO HELL. Its only unconditional love. It grew more, and I got closer to it, and all of a sudden the light was all around me and I could be at peace. This unconditional love just surrounded me. We are a direct connection from God. Everything we experience, God experiences, and GOD WANTS TO KNOW IT'S GOD-SELF IN ALL WAYS, AND WE PROVIDE THAT."
Interesting too are people who see relatives who have died be there before they die.
I have seen it my friend washed dishes went to her bedroom her husband and sister who had died were there and said they were waiting for her then disappeared. She couldn't wait to tell me about it. A few weeks later she died. My Grandmother saw her father my Dad saw someone sitting on the couch my sunday school teachers wife saw a very handsome angel with beautiful blue eyes. He told her not to be afraid he would be there.
I went to hell Jesus got me out and two weeks later I cried out to Jesus for help and my soul was saved
Two weeks later? I highly doubt this is true
I believe you.
Praise Jesus 🌹🙏
Are you catholic
Do you mean that two weeks after being delivered from hell your soul was saved a second time when you cried out to Jesus? Did you almost die twice?
A very good explanation.
Beautiful narration that explains an NDE experiences of some people. It could remove some people fear of death once they understand that death is not something to fear IF they are in CHRIST JESUS. It is also a big help to anyone who does not believe in the LIFE AfTER, but most consoling to families that their dead relatives are ALIVE in the other world and they will be reunited again. 37:30 37:31
Fantastic info. Thanks.
Notice what this catholic woman found out in NDE....
NDE - DIANE S.: "I walked away from the catholic church because I realized everything I was raised with was not true. It's a religion based in fear. And ON THE OTHER SIDE I REALIZED THAT THERE'S NOTHING TO BE AFRAID OF BECAUSE THERE'S NO JUDGEMENT, THERE IS NO HELL. Its only unconditional love. It grew more, and I got closer to it, and all of a sudden the light was all around me and I could be at peace. This unconditional love just surrounded me. We are a direct connection from God. Everything we experience, God experiences, and GOD WANTS TO KNOW IT'S GOD-SELF IN ALL WAYS, AND WE PROVIDE THAT."
I've been thinking for quite awhile that the Catholic Church must have something positive to say about this NDE phenomena. Thanks to Fr. Spitzer for having tried to answer my wish. It's so sad that our Church always lagged about new issues that will come out and NDE is one of them. I noticed that other religion are already so advance regarding this matter.
The Church has always been interested in Science. NDEs, as he said, is a fairly recent phenomenon due to advanced technology allowing the person to be resuscitated so they could report it. Look at all the verified Miracles the Church has verified that other churches don't teach.
Yes. Just take a look at these NDEs that people are talking about. Notice...
NDE - LINDA S.: "The wrathful, vengeful God, as taught by my religion, instilled in me a deep fear of God, death, and the afterlife. The NDE transformed me, showing that God is only a loving God, WHO DOES NOT JUDGE AND PUNISH. THERE IS NO HELL. I knew I was in the arms of a being who cherished me with PERFECT LOVE and carried me from the dark void into a new reality. There was no place that God did not exist and I was within God. I am an inseparable part of the light. THE TRUTH OF WHO I AM, INDEED, WHO WE ALL ARE, IS PERFECT LOVE as a creation of God. I had spent a lifetime of fear of judgment and now, standing with God, I HAD BEEN KNOWN COMPLETELY AND FOUND FAULTLESS. I KNEW GOD REGARDED ME AS PERFECT. Finally it all made sense. God could only love me because God is only love, nothing other than love. All is as it is supposed to be. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE IS OUR TRUE NATURE."
Another Christian...and notice, again....
NDE - ROBYN C.: "I KNOW THERE IS NO JUDGEMENT OR HELL. I just know whatever form God takes, he loves us and welcomes us. I felt an overwhelming sense of complete bliss and contentment. I could see the light ahead of me and felt drawn to it, but I was moving slowly and enjoying the wondrous sensations I felt. Since my experience, I have been certain there is a God, but this is different to what I had believed as a Christian."
Again, no "hell" and
no judgement....
NDE - JASON H.: "I now know that there is a life after death. I NOW KNOW THAT THERE IS NO HELL. In that overwhelming radiating loving light, I met a glowingly beautiful, very loving being. His loving presence completely surrounded me, and together we went through my life and all that I had experienced, IN A LOVING WAY, NOT ANY JUDGING WAY."
Yet again, no "hell" and can't be separated....
NDE - GORDON S.: "THERE IS NO 'heaven' and no 'HELL'. I am just now accepting that part of my purpose for coming back is to help other people awaken to the simple truth: WE ARE LOVE, we are part of God, and WE CANNOT EVER BE SEPARATED FROM GOD. The knowing that we are all inter-connected makes it easy for me to accept people, just as they are."
Again, no "hell" and no reward....
NDE - STEVE L.: "I soon realized I did not have my body, and that I was surrounded by consciousness. EVERYTHING IS JUST TOTAL LOVE. There was consciousness that came to me in the form of people I recognized. THERE IS NO heaven or HELL. THERE IS NO "REWARD" FOR A "GOOD LIFE". Our careers, mistakes, money, etc., mean nothing. We join the pure consciousness at the time of leaving our body, and we are all one."
Notice again, he clearly understood....
NDE - DOUG F.: "IT WAS CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD THAT THERE IS NO heaven or HELL. Every part of the universe was part of me, and every part of me was part of the universe. THERE WAS COMPLETE INCLUSION AND ACCEPTANCE. This was so far beyond any expectation. Another realization came to me. Everything is known, and there is nothing to learn. Life on earth is not a school, there is nothing to learn. LIFE ON EARTH IS JUST AN EXPERIENCE. NOTHING MORE. As I was guided back, first into the 4th dimension, I could feel the expanded awareness shutting down. THIS LIFE IS ABOUT EXPERIENCE THAT IS THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT WE TRULY ARE."
Yes, Out of body experiences are real
It happened to me in a car accident while I was in the car & visited by an angel. Very calming
& no fear of death
the Soul is the living presence of the created ...
A World Renaissance is occurring!
I'm a Ex-Christian of some 40 years now. (early 20's & never regrated that decision.) Everything about this religion was just wrong from the start. 20 years later, Pam Reynold gave her experience...I knew right away there was truth being told with her. My faith in The Source of everything/The Divine is being reinforced in these NDE's! These NDE's are a glimpse into a world that has always been a part of humanity from the very beginning and 'Religion' can NO LONGER suppress this reality!
Religion (Christianity) is co-oping NDE's. Christianity use to claim these are from Satan and the Devil. Now, they are from God/Jesus. No getting around NDE's. They are happening and will continue to happen. Why? Regardless of what YOU believe in, you will continue to live on while being loved by an incredible source of that LOVE. Deny it, Don't believe it, Believe it, Embrace it. NDE's are NOT going away and neither are YOU!
What is your take on hellish NDEs ? I am trying to get a better understanding
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Hi Anna. I can't believe there's not more hellish NDE's to be honest. Goes to show, Love conquers all. I believe it's the fear that is bestowed onto people through religion. Fear is so powerful in Islam and Christianity. One is brought up in it. 'Believe or ELSE' an everlasting, eternal hell of.... Satan, Demons & Devils keep the faithful honest and committed. That's why, if this was true and real, we should be seeing this a lot! We don't. Instead, we see in NDE's an overall theme of extraordinary, overabundance of love & free will. Being that our spiritual cords have not yet been cut, one brings that fear of hell and negativity to the other side, till they are shown, they have free will to choose. Is this the life YOU created in that fear, or do you want to choose something that you we're destined for? If the number of NDE's is true. 100's of millions/billions worldwide, it's pretty safe to assume, we all will pass with similar experiences of love and free will. Why I had to leave Christianity. They are constantly pushing/expressing the fear element of their faith. NOT FOR ME! 'I am' all about 'Love Without Fear!' Hope that helps.
Purgatory? Anyway, what kind of a Monstrous God would condemn someone to an eternity of hell, because they didn't stay in a Christian church? Please don't think that all ex-Christians are sadistic perverts or are wickedly bad to everyone else.
@@SunfloweraugustHere's the truth. Read these short NDEs. Notice...
NDE - LINDA S.: "The wrathful, vengeful God, as taught by my religion, instilled in me a deep fear of God, death, and the afterlife. The NDE transformed me, showing that God is only a loving God, WHO DOES NOT JUDGE AND PUNISH. THERE IS NO HELL or evil. I knew I was in the arms of a being who cherished me with PERFECT LOVE and carried me from the dark void into a new reality. There was no place that God did not exist and I was within God. I am an inseparable part of the light. THE TRUTH OF WHO I AM, INDEED, WHO WE ALL ARE, IS PERFECT LOVE as a creation of God. I had spent a lifetime of fear of judgment and now, standing with God, I HAD BEEN KNOWN COMPLETELY AND FOUND FAULTLESS. I KNEW GOD REGARDED ME AS PERFECT. Finally it all made sense. God could only love me because God is only love, nothing other than love. All is as it is supposed to be. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE IS OUR TRUE NATURE."
Another Christian...and notice, again....
NDE - ROBYN C.: "I KNOW THERE IS NO JUDGEMENT OR HELL. I just know whatever form God takes, he loves us and welcomes us. I felt an overwhelming sense of complete bliss and contentment. I could see the light ahead of me and felt drawn to it, but I was moving slowly and enjoying the wondrous sensations I felt. Since my experience, I have been certain there is a God, but this is different to what I had believed as a Christian."
Again, no "hell" and
no judgement....
NDE - JASON H.: "I now know that there is a life after death. I NOW KNOW THAT THERE IS NO HELL. In that overwhelming radiating loving light, I met a glowingly beautiful, very loving being. His loving presence completely surrounded me, and together we went through my life and all that I had experienced, IN A LOVING WAY, NOT ANY JUDGING WAY."
Yet again, no "hell" and can't be separated....
NDE - GORDON S.: "THERE IS NO 'heaven' and no 'HELL'. I am just now accepting that part of my purpose for coming back is to help other people awaken to the simple truth: WE ARE LOVE, we are part of God, and WE CANNOT EVER BE SEPARATED FROM GOD. The knowing that we are all inter-connected makes it easy for me to accept people, just as they are."
Again, no "hell" and no reward....
NDE - STEVE L.: "I soon realized I did not have my body, and that I was surrounded by consciousness. EVERYTHING IS JUST TOTAL LOVE. There was consciousness that came to me in the form of people I recognized. THERE IS NO heaven or HELL. THERE IS NO "REWARD" FOR A "GOOD LIFE". Our careers, mistakes, money, etc., mean nothing. We join the pure consciousness at the time of leaving our body, and we are all one."
Notice again, he clearly understood....
NDE - DOUG F.: "IT WAS CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD THAT THERE IS NO heaven or HELL. Every part of the universe was part of me, and every part of me was part of the universe. THERE WAS COMPLETE INCLUSION AND ACCEPTANCE. This was so far beyond any expectation. Another realization came to me. Everything is known, and there is nothing to learn. Life on earth is not a school, there is nothing to learn. LIFE ON EARTH IS JUST AN EXPERIENCE. NOTHING MORE. As I was guided back, first into the 4th dimension, I could feel the expanded awareness shutting down. THIS LIFE IS ABOUT EXPERIENCE THAT IS THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT WE TRULY ARE."
Facts, not philosophy. Here......
Note that NEGATIVE EXPERIENCES ARE RANDOM. The 800 pound gorilla in the room is a simple question: Why do seemingly good people sometimes experience terrifying NDEs, and MAFIA-LEVEL PEOPLE GET BATHED IN UNCONDITIONAL LOVE? This has been researched and is known. Some even happen to small kids, some were 6 year olds. How many 6 year olds is your afterlife torturing? Don't try to categorize them into "good people" and "bad people" categories, it's not true. See here:
NANCY BUSH (IANDS) - "Negative experiences further complicate matters, because THEY HAVE NO DISCERNABLE RELATION TO WHAT KIND OF LIFE a person has lived. In other words, being a good person is no guarantee that you won’t get into a terrible car accident and suddenly find yourself experiencing what feels, in a very real sense, "hellish.”" As Bush has seen, “What we think people deserve has nothing to do with whether they have a glorious experience or a terrible one. Saints have reported extremely disturbing NDEs, while felons have encountered bliss. Although people have sometimes wondered whether good people have pleasurable experiences and bad people have distressing ones, RESEARCH HAS SHOWN NO SUCH RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN APPARENT LIFE DEEDS AND TYPE OF NDE. In spite of the findings of these prior studies, this erroneous stereotype persists.”
"In addition, AMONG PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD MULTIPLE NDEs, SOME HAVE HAD A PLEASURABLE EXPERIENCE ONE TIME, AND A DISTRESSING EXPERIENCE ANOTHER, IN NO DEFINITE ORDER. NO EVIDENCE supports the conventional assumption that “good” people get pleasant NDEs and “bad” people have distressing ones. THERE IS NO HARD EVIDENCE THAT CHARACTER TRAITS “CAUSE” ANY TYPE OF NDE. The list of character traits that people assume help to create a distressing NDE include: being hostile, cold, repressed, suppressed, unloving, controlling, rigid, sinful, guilt-ridden, non-God-loving, fearful, mean. Although authors, even some researchers, have said those traits are connected to distressing NDEs, no testable evidence has been produced in support; THE LIST IS BASED ON GUESSWORK, ASSUMPTIONS, AND EXPERIENCERS’ SELF ASSESSMENTS (“I think I was unloving”), NOT ON FACTUAL EVIDENCE."
"By contrast, THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS WITH A PERFECT FIT TO THOSE DESCRIPTIONS WHO HAVE HAD PLEASANT, EVEN BLISSFUL NDEs. Some describe themselves as having been unloving, even hostile, before the NDE. On the other hand, some kindly, friendly, peaceful, religious, loving people have had a really difficult experience. The observable characteristics of a person simply do not match up to the type of NDE. The weakness I find is twofold: first, that people are so often crippled by their fear and guilt about a literal meaning of the NDE as they understand it (punishment, unworthiness, blame) that THEIR LIFE BECOMES DEFORMED."
NANCY BUSH (IANDS): "Now...into all this comes Marilyn Mendoza, a Louisiana woman with a PhD in counseling and a curiosity about what it is like to die in prison. She also wondered if the deathbed visions of dying felons might be especially difficult. So far as anyone knows, deathbed visions differ from near-death experiences only in the fact that their experiencers don’t come back afterwards. Otherwise, the descriptions are virtually identical. Mendoza’s findings are therefore applicable to the study of near-death experiences and are reported in the latest issue of the IANDS newsletter. Her study population is housed at Angola, one of the most notorious of U.S. prisons. In her words: “Angola is a maximum security prison that has been called the bloodiest prison in America. It houses 5,000+ men whose crimes range from mu*der, ra*e, and armed robbery to drug offenses. The majority of men who come to Angola die there."
“As is common with most people, THE EXPERIENCES THE CARETAKERS DESCRIBED WERE PLEASANT. The most frequently seen visions were of family members. Caretakers reported that the dying saw mothers, grandmothers, sons, fathers, and other family members. The dying spoke of people waiting for them and calling them to come home. The dying also spoke of angels, beautiful gardens, gates and the Light. The men stared at corners of the room, at the wall and the ceiling. They reached for and called out to the deceased they saw. In other words, the dying prisoners saw and experienced the same things as the general population."
"There is NOT A SHRED OF EVIDENCE that 'good people' get good experiences and 'bad people' get bad experiences. The conviction that types of NDEs and deathbed visions are tied to moral qualities and behaviors simply DOES NOT HOLD UP."
See this:
Dr. J. LONG: "To help understand frightening experiences, it is crucial to know that the experiences with hellish content THAT HAVE BEEN SHARED PUBLICLY ARE NOT NDEs. My physician background helps me distinguish NDE from non-NDE experiences that occur during a health crisis. In general, EXPERIENCES WITH UNEXPECTED ALTERATIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS THAT ARE NOT NDEs, ARE MUCH MORE LIKELY TO BE FRIGHTENING THAN ACTUAL NDEs. These experiences may include (but not limited to) intensive-care unit (ICU) DELIRIUM, DRUG EXPERIENCES, and so on. In addition, PSYCHOTIC EPISODES, or the AFTERMATH OF DRUG ABUSE may be misclassified as “hellish” NDEs. Many individuals who had a frightening experience are very reassured when they understand that WHAT THEY EXPERIENCED WAS AN UNREAL PRODUCT OF ALTERED BRAIN FUNCTION, and not a NDE. Prior studies of frightening NDEs have established that IT IS WRONG TO ASSUME THAT "GOOD PEOPLE" HAVE PLEASANT NDEs AND "BAD PEOPLE" HAVE "HELLISH" NDEs. In spite of the findings of these prior studies, this erroneous stereotype persists. Thus, these should not be considered a threat in any way to everyone that reads this."
And this:
Dr. Bruce Greyson finds NO CORRELATION AT ALL between “good” people having pleasant experiences and “bad” people having unpleasant experiences. Greyson says that PEOPLE IN PRISON SERVING LONG SENTENCES FOR HORRIBLE CRIMES ARE MORE LIKELY TO HAVE PLEASANT EXPERIENCES, JUST LIKE MOST OTHER PEOPLE. Some people who lead seemingly exemplary lives, on the other hand, have frightening experiences. Only A VERY SMALL PERCENTAGE of those negative experiences are described like the prototypical view of "hell". Greyson observes that THOSE PROTOTYPICAL EXPERIENCES ARE USUALLY DESCRIBED BY PEOPLE RAISED IN A CULTURE THAT MIGHT EXPECT THEM, but not from anyone else. A larger percentage of the negative experiences are described as a "black void". A terrifying experience to some people, BUT SOME HINDUS AND BUDDHISTS EXPERIENCE THE SAME THING AND CONSIDER IT A BLISSFUL EXPERIENCE.
I'm not scared of dying in me sleep, or without knowing, it's knowing I'm going to die that is so distressing.
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Notice what this catholic woman found out in her NDE....
NDE - DIANE S.: "I walked away from the catholic church because I realized everything I was raised with was not true. It's a religion based in fear. And ON THE OTHER SIDE I REALIZED THAT THERE'S NOTHING TO BE AFRAID OF BECAUSE THERE'S NO JUDGEMENT, THERE IS NO HELL. Its only unconditional love. It grew more, and I got closer to it, and all of a sudden the light was all around me and I could be at peace. This unconditional love just surrounded me. We are a direct connection from God. Everything we experience, God experiences, and GOD WANTS TO KNOW IT'S GOD-SELF IN ALL WAYS, AND WE PROVIDE THAT."
I hope Fr. Spritzer does a video about people in soul form have a Life Review in which they are not judged by Jesus, but they judge their own words whether unkind or kind. Does this go against Church teaching that God judges all?
Yes, the Bible clearly states, Jesus came the first time as a Savior, sacrificial Lamb. He will return as Judge of the World. Every knee will bow.
This is true in some aspect. We will learn the true value of each act/omission. We will know where we belong but Jesus will have the final say, either "get away from me, you evil doer" or "come my faithful servant."
Patti London- at death nobody JUDGES us NOBODY. We see our lives, all out actions and we can appreciate where we went wrong. There will be nothing but love and acceptance of you.
Some short NDEs below, all about judgement.
NDE - PAT S.: "I had a feeling of unconditional love, and it was as if all of a sudden I knew everything. AFTER PASSING ON IN THIS LIFE, THERE IS NO JUDGEMENT AGAINST YOU, NO MATTER WHAT YOU DID IN THIS LIFE."
Very consistent....
NDE - JUDIE S.: "I know that THE JUDGEMENT I WAS TAUGHT as a child, DOES NOT EXIST."
More consistency....
NDE - VERNON C.: "The NDE confirmed what I felt before, about religion. THERE IS NO HELL, OR A GOD THAT JUDGES."
NDE - LAURA Z.: "I felt in my heart that God is also all right with our fear, although it will not stop showing us love. God loves us regardless of everything and regardless of ourselves. EVERY CHOICE WE HAVE EVER MADE, OR EVER WILL MAKE, IS ALREADY ACCEPTED. FORGIVENESS IS NOT EVEN A THING. All of us is already LOVED and UNCONDITIONALLY, despite our ideas."
Right or wrong?....
NDE - VICTOR P.: "We discussed my life while I relived portions of it. We reviewed my life, proceeding from oldest to younger events. THERE WAS NO CONDEMNATION, AND NO RIGHT OR WRONG. There was COMPLETE ACCEPTANCE AND UNDERSTANDING."
Good or bad?....
NDE - SHARON D.: "I was shown that each event in my life was needed for me to be exactly as I am, and how it touched and altered others lives. Not a "life review", MORE OF AN EXPLANATION OF WHY ALL TRULY WAS WELL, and I was perfect for what I was needed for here. Unity so whole that nothing existed but truth. That is what it was like. THERE IS NO GOOD OR BAD, THERE JUST "IS". I felt so loved, so comfortable; there was no emotional pain, no rejection, no separation."
Again?....
NDE - RUTHIE C.: "My NDE showed me that earth is just a school TO LEARN FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS. THERE IS NO RIGHT OR WRONG, GOOD OR BAD. It's how we label, or perceive, our experiences here. We all just live to die, and what we do in between is our earthly experiences."
No condemnation at all....
NDE - TAMARA J.: "I then felt that I left this world and my body and was in the presence of God/Jesus. I BELIEVED THAT MY LIFE DEPENDED ON ME DOING THE RIGHT THING, AND TRYING TO BE A DIFFERENT PERSON. It was like every cell of my being was at peace and I had the joy of loving myself and being loved the way I always wanted to be. LOVE IS PERFECT, it is all encompassing, it is everything we have ever wanted, and IT IS WITHOUT JUDGEMENT. What I recall are a few messages. The message that THERE IS NO CONDEMNATION, that God loves us and we are all loved. I WAS TOLD THERE WAS NO CONDEMNATION AND NO JUDGEMENT during my NDE. We may choose to turn from God but God does not turn from us. I QUIT THINKING OF HELL THE WAY I USED TO AND NO LONGER CONDEMN ANYONE. Since my NDE I believe THERE IS NO CONDEMNATION."
Pay attention to this one....
NDE - RAY C.: "I understood that the light that I was looking at, was my own. Once I focused past the light, I understood everything. THERE IS NO hate or JUDGEMENT. There is no pain. Everyone we ever knew here on earth is there. WE ARE ALL EQUAL THERE. It is where we come from. It is almost like we are on a vacation from there. It is like WE ARE HERE TO UNDERSTAND ALL THE EMOTIONS THAT WE DON'T HAVE THERE, LIKE GREED, ENVY, HATE, LUST, DISGUST, OR PAIN. WE ARE HERE ON VACATION FROM THERE. WE ARE HERE TO EXPERIENCE EMOTIONS. None of that exists there because there is only intense love. Everyone is there all the time. There is no time there, so people are never really gone. WE ARE ALL 100 PERCENT EQUAL.There is an absolute understanding of everyone and everything. WE ARE ALL GOING TO GO TO THE SAME PLACE WHEN WE ARE DONE HERE. Yes, WHAT WE DO HERE HAS NO RELEVANCE THERE. Yes, WE ARE ALL LOVE. The love we can understand here at its maximum, is only a grain of sand compared to the love you have over there."
Despite faults?....
NDE - ERINN H.: "I was LOVED UNCONDITIONALLY DESPITE MY FAULTS and fears.”
Jesus again?
NDE - CARL G.: "I was standing before Christ. He showed me my whole life, the good and the bad and all the rest. HE SAID, "THAT IS ALRIGHT, LIFE IS A LEARNING EXPERIENCE."
More Jesus....
NDE - L. HERNANDEZ: "I've been an atheist all my life. I had an NDE and in a few minutes my life changed completely. Part of my experience was with the one people call Jesus. Religion is not from God, I asked and was told this. THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO JUDGEMENT IN OUR CREATOR because only love, he is. HELL IS MAN'S CREATION, SO IS SIN. Is all controlled by fear.
NDE - JENNEANE E.: "Powerful UNCONDITIONAL LOVE and it is a feeling of just knowing what it is. I felt like I was a sinner and I WAS AMAZED THAT HE WOULD SHOW ME LOVE LIKE THAT DESPITE MY MISTAKES IN LIFE THAT MAY HAVE HURT OTHERS OR MYSELF."
What about sins? No matter what?....NDE - DAN R.: "I had an NDE in 1965. It's the real reality. It is Love that is creating everything. I was brought up as a Roman Catholic, and I considered it wonderful that DESPITE MY MANY TERRIBLE SINS, LOVE LOVES ME. NO...MATTER...WHAT...It was ecstaticly joyful. One of the hardest things for any person to accept is that, in spite of everything, you are loved, unconditionally loved."
@@claritadeluna6609Please say the Creed, any one of them that the Church has given us, very slowly, and think about what we believe.
... "He will come to judge the living and the dead."
The living: alive in Christ.
The dead: no life in Christ.
What a genius
Read this article to find out.
Nintendo characters? Santa Clause? Yamatoots? Yamraj?
For those who want to know the full story..........
THE NDE STUDIES.....(LA Times excerpts)
Researchers estimate that around 17% of people have an NDE. That means about 80% don't.
Scratch beneath those alleged flat EKG lines and the stories are a veritable Twilight Zone of inconsistencies. Some near-death voyagers claim to have met God - BUT A FEW SAW ELVIS PRESLEY OR GROUCHO MARX, researchers say. Others get to heaven not through the famous "tunnel", but ABOARD GHOSTLY TAXI CABS, FERRIES THAT CROSS THE RIVER STYX, OR SPANGLED COWS.
Even some children - often touted as the best source of unbiased information - sometimes return from "death" CLAIMING THEY WERE GREETED IN THE OTHER WORLD by STILL LIVING TEACHERS, and NINTENDO CHARACTERS, and COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS.
If encounters with conscious plants, talking insects, roosters, and turtles, doesn’t give you pause about NDEs, perhaps NDEs THAT INCLUDE ENCOUNTERS WITH FICTIONAL CHARACTERS WILL. Melvin Morse reports that a 10-year-old boy had an NDE where he ENCOUNTERED A VIDEO-GAMING WIZARD who loved Nintendo. Karl Jansen similarly reports finding childhood NDEs THAT INCLUDE ENCOUNTERS WITH VIDEO GAME AND COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS.
In a collection of pediatric NDEs published in 1990, Serdahely even found a case where A GIRL ENCOUNTERED A FAVORITE TOY DURING HER NDE - AN OLD STUFFED ANIMAL.
They differ between people and cultures. Instead of a tunnel and angels, EAST INDIANS MAY DESCRIBE THE RIVER GANGES AND A PARTICULAR GURU. HINDUS WHO BELIEVE IN YAMRAJ, the Hindu god of death, EXPERIENCED MEETING HIM. A Hindu girl "died" AND WENT TO HEAVEN ON A COW. Would that mean western people will be riding cows to heaven? Jews who don't believe in Jesus or "hell", experienced meeting God as described in the Old Testament, while messianic Jews experienced God as Jesus. Any reports of Christians meeting Muhammad, or Muslims meeting the Virgin Mary, or Jews meeting Guru Nanak, if they exist, have not been publicized.
Dr. Richard Eby had an NDE and allegedly Jesus told him he had to back, and that he (Jesus) would be returning (2nd coming) before he died permanently. BUT DR. RICHARD EBY HAS NOW DIED AND JESUS HAS NOT RETURNED.
A few hospitals have placed signs in their cardiac units - with nonsensical messages visible only from above - BUT SO FAR NOBODY HAS RETURNED FROM DEATH CLAIMING TO HAVE FLOATED UP AND SEEN ONE.
In one study carried out, the experiences of 16 Asian Indians were compared with those of Americans, and IT WAS FOUND THAT THE INDIANS HAD ENCOUNTERED YAMRAJ, the Hindu god of the dead, WHILE THE AMERICANS HAD NOT.
You would expect that if any one particular religious account of the afterlife was true, NDEs would be pretty much the same. BUT THESE ACCOUNTS ARE SO VARIED AND ARE ARE ALL BASED ON CULTURAL EXPOSURE. IN INDIA, PEOPLE SEE HINDU GODS; IN SAUDI ARABIA ITS ALLAH, MOHAMED, AND A BUNCH OF VIRGINS. The kid from the book/movie Heaven Is For Real, saw a Jesus with sea-green blue eyes ON A RAINBOW COLORED HORSE, GOD WITH HUGE WINGS, YELLOW HAIR AND BLUE EYES; and ONE LITTLE GIRL WENT TO HEAVEN AND WAS GREETED BY A PORTLY MAN WITH A WHITE BEARD AND RED CAP, aka SANTA CLAUSE.
The Mapuche people of South America and residents of Hawaii are more likely to SEE LANDSCAPES AND VOLCANOES, whereas NDEs in Thailand rarely involve landmarks, tunnels, or light. For Tibetans, light features more heavily AS DO ILLUSIONS OF REINCARNATION. Europeans and North Americans often visualize beautiful gardens; intriguingly the Kalai of Melanesia are more inclined to SEE AN INDUSTRIALIZED WORLD OF FACTORIES. An NDEr's subjective recollections can be attributed to many factors: THE NDEr's PSYCHOLOGY, PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, BACKGROUND, ETC., NOT JUST CULTURE.
The terrain of Heaven also varies wildly - from gardens, forests, and CATTLE FILLED PASTURES in some accounts, to clouds, COMPUTER ROOMS OR CASTLES, in others. A TEXAN SAW BARBED WIRE FENCES IN THE AFTERLIFE. Micronesians describe LARGE NOISY CITIES WITH CARS AND SKYSCRAPERS.
Drug addicts, alcoholics, felons (murder), suicides, hedonists, abusers, mean people, and gay people, have all claimed to encounter heaven. Strangely, people have claimed to enter some "hell" FOR THE SAME REASONS. EVEN THE INFAMOUS ADOLF HITLER HAS BEEN SPOTTED IN HEAVEN. Again, strangely, he's also been seen in some "hell". Contradictions abound.
There are reports of bad NDE trips involving TORTURES BY ELVES, GIANTS, MONSTERS, etc. Some parapsychologists take these as evidence of the mythical places of various religions. But, IF SO, THEN WHAT IS ONE TO CONCLUDE FROM THE FACT THAT OVER 80% OF PEOPLE NEAR DEATH DO NOT EXPERIENCE ANYTHING, neither the heavenly or the diabolical?
This is a wonder. Is the hereafter actually mining and refining raw materials needed to build castles, cars, barbed wire fences, computers, and skyscrapers? From where do they get this material and the tools? Not to mention the raw materials and tools needed to construct an ever increasing number of those cages and cubes in the Christian hell, as a few claim. Who builds those cages? And which of the variety of "hells" do you actually go to? Christian? Buddhist? Spiritualist? Hindu? Muslim? Some other one? The answer seems to be whichever one the experiencer has been exposed to, as Thai NDErs regularly claim to encounter LORD YAMA AND YAMATOOTS, COMPLETE WITH TALKING DECEASED ROOSTERS, and being sentenced to Buddhist "hell" for butchering and eating chicken, then reincarnated as birds. DOES THAT MEAN WESTERNERS WILL UNKNOWINGLY BE HEADING TO BUDDHIST "HELL" FOR EATING CHICKEN? Thai accounts state that butchers become lumps of meat in Buddhist "hell", so what then awaits Western slaughterhouse workers?
Even in her rather homogeneous Western European clientele, Kubler-Ross could see the effects of early enculturation: " I NEVER ENCOUNTERED A PROTESTANT CHILD WHO SAW THE VIRGIN MARY IN HIS LAST MINUTES, YET SHE WAS PERCEIVED BY MANY CATHOLIC CHILDREN."
But there also are some hard-to-explain differences, Melvin Morse says. Whereas American near-death survivors are typically sent back by God because “it’s not your time yet,” INDIA'S AFTERLIFE VISITORS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE TOLD THERE WAS A “CLERICAL ERROR.”
Even more curious: SOMETIMES THE BEING OF LIGHT IS ELVIS PRESLEY. Moody has chronicled at least two such sightings.
A PERSON MAY APPEAR DEAD TO OUR SENSES OR OUR SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT, BUT STILL BE PERCEIVING. In fact, we now have evidence that patients who appear brain dead, may in fact be capable of conscious thought. In 2006, scientists in the UK and Belgium did an fMRI on a woman in a vegetative state and FOUND THAT PARTS OF HER BRAIN SHOWED ACTIVITY WHEN SHE WAS SPOKEN TO, AND ASKED TO THINK ABOUT THINGS LIKE PLAYING TENNIS.
Yet the evidence for near-death paranormal powers remains shaky at best. TWO STUDIES HAVE FOUND THAT PATIENTS’ “OUT OF BODY” ACCOUNTS OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THE OPERATING ROOM WERE WRONG. So were the 1988 Armageddon forecasts hyped by Ring and others.
Michael Sabom, however, offers a compromise stance: He rejects the idea that they provide glimpses of a heaven or hell. "I’m not saying these people didn’t experience something odd. But I am saying that we should take it with a grain of salt, because IF ANECDOTES MEET YOUR STANDARD FOR WHAT QUALIFIES AS EVIDENCE, then you should probably start buying tin foil and food buckets, because THERE ARE JUST AS MANY PEOPLE WHO REPORT SEEING REPTILIANS AND WHO HAVE BEEN ABDUCTED BY ALIENS."
But what about veridical NDEs - near-death experiences in which the person supposedly sees something they couldn’t otherwise have known while ‘flat-lining’ and others are able to verify that what they saw is indeed correct. The most notorious example of this is Maria’s shoe. A lady named Maria reportedly left her body, floated around and saw a shoe on a ledge outside her hospital window, that she ‘couldn’t have possibly seen.’ Her critical care provider, Kimberly Clark, looked outside and saw the shoe, just as described. BUT WHEN RESEARCHERS TRIED TO TRACK DOWN MARIA TO CONFIRM CLARK'S STORY, THEY WEREN'T ABLE TO FIND ANY SUCH PERSON OR ANYONE ELSE TO CORROBORATE THE ACCOUNT. And when they placed a shoe on the ledge, it was clearly visible from the hospital room, PROVING CLARK HAD EXAGGERATED AT LEAST PART OF THE STORY. Here’s the topper. There is no record of Maria being in that hospital.
Sixty years ago, Dr. Wilder Penfield, a neurosurgeon, poked around the right temporal lobe of some epileptic patients and discovered that they would hear heavenly music, relive their pasts in 3D, and have out-of-body visions. Similar experiments continue.
There is Dr. Melvin Morse's discovery of "a portal" in the brain that when stimulated, triggers a NDE. He writes that some are threatened by this, as the discovery makes the experience seem unreal.
There’s growing evidence that the temporal lobe plays a huge role in creating NDEs. When patients had their brains scanned after an NDE, it was discovered that they had increased levels of temporal lobe activity compared with those in a control group. THAT COULD EXPLAIN WHY ONLY A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE HAVE NDEs. When Dr. Olaf Blanke implanted electrodes into the brains of patients, HE WAS ABLE TO TRIGGER SUPERNATURAL AND OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCES BY STIMULATING THE TEMPORAL PARIETAL JUNCTION.
I must add in my comment an experience which has to do with my deceased mother. When my father was critically I’ll in the hospital and stayed with him for a while but when my other siblings came I decided to leave to take a nap at home. I have just barely sleeping for ten minutes when the voice of my mother (she died a year earlier) telling me to go back to my father’s bed. She told me to have a procession for St. Roque on behalf of my father. It awakens me. Later on I told my siblings of mother’s instruction. My sister told me that father donated a statue of the said saint to a chapel where the people couldn’t afford a big statue.Yrs. later I understood that if a procession(at that period procession as a practiced have been removed from the church)was done it could benefit my father’s soul from the prayers of the people devoted to the said patron. Indeed the dead gives instruction to the living when permitted by God.I never knew the my father donated a statue. 1:02:24
The body decays and dies. But the soul which God has given us and created is eternal and no one and nothing can destroy it, it is everlasting. It has the essence and quality of God which is eternal as HE is ETERNAL.
Many non believers report pure love and acceptance from the divine living light. It's a non sectarian experience.
I'd also caution that Satan can come as an angel of light. And even if it is God,the ones I have heard also said that they judge themselves. And that detail would be consistent with teaching.
Some short NDEs below, all about judgement.
NDE - PAT S.: "I had a feeling of unconditional love, and it was as if all of a sudden I knew everything. AFTER PASSING ON IN THIS LIFE, THERE IS NO JUDGEMENT AGAINST YOU, NO MATTER WHAT YOU DID IN THIS LIFE."
Very consistent....
NDE - JUDIE S.: "I know that THE JUDGEMENT I WAS TAUGHT as a child, DOES NOT EXIST."
More consistency....
NDE - VERNON C.: "The NDE confirmed what I felt before, about religion. THERE IS NO HELL, OR A GOD THAT JUDGES."
NDE - LAURA Z.: "I felt in my heart that God is also all right with our fear, although it will not stop showing us love. God loves us regardless of everything and regardless of ourselves. EVERY CHOICE WE HAVE EVER MADE, OR EVER WILL MAKE, IS ALREADY ACCEPTED. FORGIVENESS IS NOT EVEN A THING. All of us is already LOVED and UNCONDITIONALLY, despite our ideas."
Right or wrong?....
NDE - VICTOR P.: "We discussed my life while I relived portions of it. We reviewed my life, proceeding from oldest to younger events. THERE WAS NO CONDEMNATION, AND NO RIGHT OR WRONG. There was COMPLETE ACCEPTANCE AND UNDERSTANDING."
Good or bad?....
NDE - SHARON D.: "I was shown that each event in my life was needed for me to be exactly as I am, and how it touched and altered others lives. Not a "life review", MORE OF AN EXPLANATION OF WHY ALL TRULY WAS WELL, and I was perfect for what I was needed for here. Unity so whole that nothing existed but truth. That is what it was like. THERE IS NO GOOD OR BAD, THERE JUST "IS". I felt so loved, so comfortable; there was no emotional pain, no rejection, no separation."
Again?....
NDE - RUTHIE C.: "My NDE showed me that earth is just a school TO LEARN FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS. THERE IS NO RIGHT OR WRONG, GOOD OR BAD. It's how we label, or perceive, our experiences here. We all just live to die, and what we do in between is our earthly experiences."
No condemnation at all....
NDE - TAMARA J.: "I then felt that I left this world and my body and was in the presence of God/Jesus. I BELIEVED THAT MY LIFE DEPENDED ON ME DOING THE RIGHT THING, AND TRYING TO BE A DIFFERENT PERSON. It was like every cell of my being was at peace and I had the joy of loving myself and being loved the way I always wanted to be. LOVE IS PERFECT, it is all encompassing, it is everything we have ever wanted, and IT IS WITHOUT JUDGEMENT. What I recall are a few messages. The message that THERE IS NO CONDEMNATION, that God loves us and we are all loved. I WAS TOLD THERE WAS NO CONDEMNATION AND NO JUDGEMENT during my NDE. We may choose to turn from God but God does not turn from us. I QUIT THINKING OF HELL THE WAY I USED TO AND NO LONGER CONDEMN ANYONE. Since my NDE I believe THERE IS NO CONDEMNATION."
Pay attention to this one....
NDE - RAY C.: "I understood that the light that I was looking at, was my own. Once I focused past the light, I understood everything. THERE IS NO hate or JUDGEMENT. There is no pain. Everyone we ever knew here on earth is there. WE ARE ALL EQUAL THERE. It is where we come from. It is almost like we are on a vacation from there. It is like WE ARE HERE TO UNDERSTAND ALL THE EMOTIONS THAT WE DON'T HAVE THERE, LIKE GREED, ENVY, HATE, LUST, DISGUST, OR PAIN. WE ARE HERE ON VACATION FROM THERE. WE ARE HERE TO EXPERIENCE EMOTIONS. None of that exists there because there is only intense love. Everyone is there all the time. There is no time there, so people are never really gone. WE ARE ALL 100 PERCENT EQUAL.There is an absolute understanding of everyone and everything. WE ARE ALL GOING TO GO TO THE SAME PLACE WHEN WE ARE DONE HERE. Yes, WHAT WE DO HERE HAS NO RELEVANCE THERE. Yes, WE ARE ALL LOVE. The love we can understand here at its maximum, is only a grain of sand compared to the love you have over there."
Despite faults?....
NDE - ERINN H.: "I was LOVED UNCONDITIONALLY DESPITE MY FAULTS and fears.”
Jesus again?
NDE - CARL G.: "I was standing before Christ. He showed me my whole life, the good and the bad and all the rest. HE SAID, "THAT IS ALRIGHT, LIFE IS A LEARNING EXPERIENCE."
More Jesus....
NDE - L. HERNANDEZ: "I've been an atheist all my life. I had an NDE and in a few minutes my life changed completely. Part of my experience was with the one people call Jesus. Religion is not from God, I asked and was told this. THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO JUDGEMENT IN OUR CREATOR because only love, he is. HELL IS MAN'S CREATION, SO IS SIN. Is all controlled by fear.
NDE - JENNEANE E.: "Powerful UNCONDITIONAL LOVE and it is a feeling of just knowing what it is. I felt like I was a sinner and I WAS AMAZED THAT HE WOULD SHOW ME LOVE LIKE THAT DESPITE MY MISTAKES IN LIFE THAT MAY HAVE HURT OTHERS OR MYSELF."
What about sins? No matter what?....NDE - DAN R.: "I had an NDE in 1965. It's the real reality. It is Love that is creating everything. I was brought up as a Roman Catholic, and I considered it wonderful that DESPITE MY MANY TERRIBLE SINS, LOVE LOVES ME. NO...MATTER...WHAT...It was ecstaticly joyful. One of the hardest things for any person to accept is that, in spite of everything, you are loved, unconditionally loved."
Loved the discussion on NDE from a Catholic perspective.
Related to his comment that Catholics can believe in evolution if they like, it was not always this way. Why? Evolution is not consistent with Catholic theology or doctrine. It doesn’t necessarily negate the existence of God, but it does negate the need for God. It also negates the story of Adam and Eve, original sin, Mary’s place as the new Eve and more.
If the Bible begins with a lie as the premise for all that follows, none of it really makes sense. Is the story of creation any more incredible than any other story in the Bible? How is the story of Jesus any more or less believable? Are we to believe that creation is too hard for God but the rest isn’t?
I have moving objects type of phenomena. Sometimes God gives us evidence.
I do believe in near death experiences, but if the blind boy never saw a train, how did he know that it was a train he was watching? Also, can anyone tell me how doctors can tell the exact moment that NDEs occur? I imagine an NDE can happen just before brain death, during brain death or afterwards when the brain comes back on line. So for the exception of some cases like the boy seeing the train which would most likely pin point a time where a doctor might claim with accuracy that a brain or heart has stopped working, how is the timing known for sure in other NDEs?
The reports from NDE experiencers are full of such veridical data - overhearing other-room conversations that happened during brain-death, seeing exact detailed behaviours of relatives or hospital staff during brain-death, all of which are verified by others, etc.
@@cord11ful oh, you're right about that! I never considered that. Thanks for offering your thoughts.
Read this informative article on it.
Nintendo characters? Santa Clause? Yamatoots? Yamraj?
For those who want to know the full story..........
THE NDE STUDIES.....(LA Times excerpts)
Researchers estimate that around 17% of people have an NDE. That means about 80% don't.
Scratch beneath those alleged flat EKG lines and the stories are a veritable Twilight Zone of inconsistencies. Some near-death voyagers claim to have met God - BUT A FEW SAW ELVIS PRESLEY OR GROUCHO MARX, researchers say. Others get to heaven not through the famous "tunnel", but ABOARD GHOSTLY TAXI CABS, FERRIES THAT CROSS THE RIVER STYX, OR SPANGLED COWS.
Even some children - often touted as the best source of unbiased information - sometimes return from "death" CLAIMING THEY WERE GREETED IN THE OTHER WORLD by STILL LIVING TEACHERS, and NINTENDO CHARACTERS, and COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS.
If encounters with conscious plants, talking insects, roosters, and turtles, doesn’t give you pause about NDEs, perhaps NDEs THAT INCLUDE ENCOUNTERS WITH FICTIONAL CHARACTERS WILL. Melvin Morse reports that a 10-year-old boy had an NDE where he ENCOUNTERED A VIDEO-GAMING WIZARD who loved Nintendo. Karl Jansen similarly reports finding childhood NDEs THAT INCLUDE ENCOUNTERS WITH VIDEO GAME AND COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS.
In a collection of pediatric NDEs published in 1990, Serdahely even found a case where A GIRL ENCOUNTERED A FAVORITE TOY DURING HER NDE - AN OLD STUFFED ANIMAL.
They differ between people and cultures. Instead of a tunnel and angels, EAST INDIANS MAY DESCRIBE THE RIVER GANGES AND A PARTICULAR GURU. HINDUS WHO BELIEVE IN YAMRAJ, the Hindu god of death, EXPERIENCED MEETING HIM. A Hindu girl "died" AND WENT TO HEAVEN ON A COW. Would that mean western people will be riding cows to heaven? Jews who don't believe in Jesus or "hell", experienced meeting God as described in the Old Testament, while messianic Jews experienced God as Jesus. Any reports of Christians meeting Muhammad, or Muslims meeting the Virgin Mary, or Jews meeting Guru Nanak, if they exist, have not been publicized.
Dr. Richard Eby had an NDE and allegedly Jesus told him he had to back, and that he (Jesus) would be returning (2nd coming) before he died permanently. BUT DR. RICHARD EBY HAS NOW DIED AND JESUS HAS NOT RETURNED.
A few hospitals have placed signs in their cardiac units - with nonsensical messages visible only from above - BUT SO FAR NOBODY HAS RETURNED FROM DEATH CLAIMING TO HAVE FLOATED UP AND SEEN ONE.
In one study carried out, the experiences of 16 Asian Indians were compared with those of Americans, and IT WAS FOUND THAT THE INDIANS HAD ENCOUNTERED YAMRAJ, the Hindu god of the dead, WHILE THE AMERICANS HAD NOT.
You would expect that if any one particular religious account of the afterlife was true, NDEs would be pretty much the same. BUT THESE ACCOUNTS ARE SO VARIED AND ARE ARE ALL BASED ON CULTURAL EXPOSURE. IN INDIA, PEOPLE SEE HINDU GODS; IN SAUDI ARABIA ITS ALLAH, MOHAMED, AND A BUNCH OF VIRGINS. The kid from the book/movie Heaven Is For Real, saw a Jesus with sea-green blue eyes ON A RAINBOW COLORED HORSE, GOD WITH HUGE WINGS, YELLOW HAIR AND BLUE EYES; and ONE LITTLE GIRL WENT TO HEAVEN AND WAS GREETED BY A PORTLY MAN WITH A WHITE BEARD AND RED CAP, aka SANTA CLAUSE.
The Mapuche people of South America and residents of Hawaii are more likely to SEE LANDSCAPES AND VOLCANOES, whereas NDEs in Thailand rarely involve landmarks, tunnels, or light. For Tibetans, light features more heavily AS DO ILLUSIONS OF REINCARNATION. Europeans and North Americans often visualize beautiful gardens; intriguingly the Kalai of Melanesia are more inclined to SEE AN INDUSTRIALIZED WORLD OF FACTORIES. An NDEr's subjective recollections can be attributed to many factors: THE NDEr's PSYCHOLOGY, PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, BACKGROUND, ETC., NOT JUST CULTURE.
The terrain of Heaven also varies wildly - from gardens, forests, and CATTLE FILLED PASTURES in some accounts, to clouds, COMPUTER ROOMS OR CASTLES, in others. A TEXAN SAW BARBED WIRE FENCES IN THE AFTERLIFE. Micronesians describe LARGE NOISY CITIES WITH CARS AND SKYSCRAPERS.
Drug addicts, alcoholics, felons (murder), suicides, hedonists, abusers, mean people, and gay people, have all claimed to encounter heaven. Strangely, people have claimed to enter some "hell" FOR THE SAME REASONS. EVEN THE INFAMOUS ADOLF HITLER HAS BEEN SPOTTED IN HEAVEN. Again, strangely, he's also been seen in some "hell". Contradictions abound.
There are reports of bad NDE trips involving TORTURES BY ELVES, GIANTS, MONSTERS, etc. Some parapsychologists take these as evidence of the mythical places of various religions. But, IF SO, THEN WHAT IS ONE TO CONCLUDE FROM THE FACT THAT OVER 80% OF PEOPLE NEAR DEATH DO NOT EXPERIENCE ANYTHING, neither the heavenly or the diabolical?
This is a wonder. Is the hereafter actually mining and refining raw materials needed to build castles, cars, barbed wire fences, computers, and skyscrapers? From where do they get this material and the tools? Not to mention the raw materials and tools needed to construct an ever increasing number of those cages and cubes in the Christian hell, as a few claim. Who builds those cages? And which of the variety of "hells" do you actually go to? Christian? Buddhist? Spiritualist? Hindu? Muslim? Some other one? The answer seems to be whichever one the experiencer has been exposed to, as Thai NDErs regularly claim to encounter LORD YAMA AND YAMATOOTS, COMPLETE WITH TALKING DECEASED ROOSTERS, and being sentenced to Buddhist "hell" for butchering and eating chicken, then reincarnated as birds. DOES THAT MEAN WESTERNERS WILL UNKNOWINGLY BE HEADING TO BUDDHIST "HELL" FOR EATING CHICKEN? Thai accounts state that butchers become lumps of meat in Buddhist "hell", so what then awaits Western slaughterhouse workers?
Even in her rather homogeneous Western European clientele, Kubler-Ross could see the effects of early enculturation: " I NEVER ENCOUNTERED A PROTESTANT CHILD WHO SAW THE VIRGIN MARY IN HIS LAST MINUTES, YET SHE WAS PERCEIVED BY MANY CATHOLIC CHILDREN."
But there also are some hard-to-explain differences, Melvin Morse says. Whereas American near-death survivors are typically sent back by God because “it’s not your time yet,” INDIA'S AFTERLIFE VISITORS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE TOLD THERE WAS A “CLERICAL ERROR.”
Even more curious: SOMETIMES THE BEING OF LIGHT IS ELVIS PRESLEY. Moody has chronicled at least two such sightings.
A PERSON MAY APPEAR DEAD TO OUR SENSES OR OUR SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT, BUT STILL BE PERCEIVING. In fact, we now have evidence that patients who appear brain dead, may in fact be capable of conscious thought. In 2006, scientists in the UK and Belgium did an fMRI on a woman in a vegetative state and FOUND THAT PARTS OF HER BRAIN SHOWED ACTIVITY WHEN SHE WAS SPOKEN TO, AND ASKED TO THINK ABOUT THINGS LIKE PLAYING TENNIS.
Yet the evidence for near-death paranormal powers remains shaky at best. TWO STUDIES HAVE FOUND THAT PATIENTS’ “OUT OF BODY” ACCOUNTS OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THE OPERATING ROOM WERE WRONG. So were the 1988 Armageddon forecasts hyped by Ring and others.
Michael Sabom, however, offers a compromise stance: He rejects the idea that they provide glimpses of a heaven or hell. "I’m not saying these people didn’t experience something odd. But I am saying that we should take it with a grain of salt, because IF ANECDOTES MEET YOUR STANDARD FOR WHAT QUALIFIES AS EVIDENCE, then you should probably start buying tin foil and food buckets, because THERE ARE JUST AS MANY PEOPLE WHO REPORT SEEING REPTILIANS AND WHO HAVE BEEN ABDUCTED BY ALIENS."
But what about veridical NDEs - near-death experiences in which the person supposedly sees something they couldn’t otherwise have known while ‘flat-lining’ and others are able to verify that what they saw is indeed correct. The most notorious example of this is Maria’s shoe. A lady named Maria reportedly left her body, floated around and saw a shoe on a ledge outside her hospital window, that she ‘couldn’t have possibly seen.’ Her critical care provider, Kimberly Clark, looked outside and saw the shoe, just as described. BUT WHEN RESEARCHERS TRIED TO TRACK DOWN MARIA TO CONFIRM CLARK'S STORY, THEY WEREN'T ABLE TO FIND ANY SUCH PERSON OR ANYONE ELSE TO CORROBORATE THE ACCOUNT. And when they placed a shoe on the ledge, it was clearly visible from the hospital room, PROVING CLARK HAD EXAGGERATED AT LEAST PART OF THE STORY. Here’s the topper. There is no record of Maria being in that hospital.
Sixty years ago, Dr. Wilder Penfield, a neurosurgeon, poked around the right temporal lobe of some epileptic patients and discovered that they would hear heavenly music, relive their pasts in 3D, and have out-of-body visions. Similar experiments continue.
There is Dr. Melvin Morse's discovery of "a portal" in the brain that when stimulated, triggers a NDE. He writes that some are threatened by this, as the discovery makes the experience seem unreal.
There’s growing evidence that the temporal lobe plays a huge role in creating NDEs. When patients had their brains scanned after an NDE, it was discovered that they had increased levels of temporal lobe activity compared with those in a control group. THAT COULD EXPLAIN WHY ONLY A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE HAVE NDEs. When Dr. Olaf Blanke implanted electrodes into the brains of patients, HE WAS ABLE TO TRIGGER SUPERNATURAL AND OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCES BY STIMULATING THE TEMPORAL PARIETAL JUNCTION.
It would be interesting to hear Father Spitzer's take on Panpsychism and Idealism. These are gaining increasing traction against philosophical materialism, as a more parsimonious explanation of reality. Panpsychism holds that all things are conscious (though it may be a different form of consciousness to our own), while Idealism suggests there is only consciousness, and what we perceive as a material world is merely a persistent form of conscious awareness. Both to different extents have precedents in Christian belief - one thinks of St Francis and John the Divine.
Credible Catholic is now called Magis Institute for Teachers and Catechists.
Fr. Spritzer is legally blind thus the sunglasses!!!
When the person is revived and speaks of things the soul learned while out of the body, the person's brain is of course engaged in the person's relating of the event. So the question arises, how could the brain have received from the soul the information gained by the soul when it was separated from the brain? Hitherto (to our understanding) the brain has always only received information, which it then communicates to the soul, through the physical senses. How can it be otherwise now?
There is more going on here than we realize. Can it be that the communication between the brain and the soul is a two-way street, and that the soul is (at least sometimes) capable of receiving information from sources other than the brain and is capable of communicating that information to the brain?
I'd assume that that's how many religious experiences such as ecstacies work.
Everything is a product of mind/soul. Not the other way around.
Is it true that some people believe that there is no cure for experiencing a series of near death experiences? Like Jobs friends believed before god set them all straight including Job at the time about that set of assumption possible explanations for troubles that we humans often come up with too?
Well, let's see what Jesus says about some of this, in these few short NDEs below. Notice what they were told and shown.
A Jesus NDE - JIM S.: "I was hit by a car while riding my motorcycle. I died on the operating table. I went through the dark into the light - a soft bluish light. An entity (Jesus to me) was of the light, and the light was a doorway. I was not in this body, but I was as normal as my body here. We spoke without speaking. Joy was all over me. I was relieved to know it is real! Jesus said, "I know it hurts and I know it is bad. You have not done what you said you would do and must go back." I refused. Jesus said, "You will come here, just not now…not yet. I am sorry." Then I was on the operating table and heard someone say, "We got him” and then "Oh my God, he is awake.” I AM NOW AN ORDAINED MINISTER AND I PREACH. I WAS SHOWN THERE IS NO HELL. We all go home."
Another Jesus story, notice what she was told...
NDE - KARIN F.: "She took me and placed me in a crystal-like bed and told me to rest because there were beings who wanted to honor and welcome me. I saw beings cued up to greet me. I SPIED JESUS AMONG THEM and immediately felt as though something was wrong. I asked the being who brought me, how it was that Jesus wants to honor me. I told her that I was afraid that putting myself at the same level as Jesus would damn me to hell. SHE LAUGHED AND TOLD ME THERE IS NO HELL. WE ARE ALL EQUAL IN SPIRIT FORM. I believed all that nonsense. I KNOW NOW THERE IS NO HELL, and God is unconditional love. Yes we are all connected and NO ONE IS MORE OR LESS THAN ANYONE ELSE. That our souls are eternal and WE ARE HERE TO EXPERIENCE LIFE. Love is what we are, and will be again. I REALIZED THAT WE WERE ON EARTH AS A VACATION FROM ETERNITY AND BLISS. I have no fears. I have a knowing and I feel oneness with all things. Fear actually kills love."
Now look, Jesus gives her an instructive mission to go tell people...notice what it is....
NDE - BETTY E.: "I was out of my body. I turned to look down and could see myself laying there, and I came down for a closer look. My spirit went out and I arrived at my home. My husband was sitting in a chair reading, and the kids were running around all over the place. I came into a pitch blackness, but I had no fear, I was bathed in love. I saw a pinpoint of light, and when I came to the end of that light, I could tell it was a male figure. I KNEW THIS WAS JESUS, AND THAT I HAD ALWAYS KNOWN HIM. A council of men explained to me that I had not fulfilled the calling that God had for me, and it was given to me what my mission was...and that was to bring back all the information they had given me, and to share it. AND I SAID TO JESUS, HOW ON EARTH AM I GOING TO SHARE THIS? HOW AM I GOING TO TELL PEOPLE THAT THERE IS NO HELL? How am I going to tell them that? They believe it! HE SAID TELL THEM THIS: IF THEY AS A GOOD PARENT WOULDN'T CAST ANY ONE OF THEIR CHILDREN IN A LAKE OF FIRE, OR WOULDN'T THROW THEM INTO OUTER DARKNESS FOREVER, HOW MUCH GREATER IS GOD'S LOVE THAN YOURS? And I thought wow, that solves it. It's necessary that people learn that God loves everyone. Jesus died on the cross to save us from our sins, and he says in every way he can...look, you're mine and I PAID THE PRICE, so forget about that. Freedom from fear, so you can be the person that you mapped out...it's a blueprint...you made yourself to be. There are few, if any, coincidences in anyone's life."
Again, told directly from God....
NDE - BARBARA M.: "In my NDE, I WAS TOLD HELL DOES NOT EXIST. In the future, everyone is at final form already, and there is no holy war. TOLD DIRECTLY BY ANGELS AND EVEN GOD."
Jesus again....
NDE - L. HERNANDEZ: "I've been an atheist all my life. I had an NDE and in a few minutes my life changed completely. Part of my experience was with the one people call Jesus. THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO JUDGEMENT IN OUR CREATOR because only love, he is. HELL IS MAN'S CREATION, SO IS SIN. It's all controlled by fear. Religion is not from God, I asked and was told this."
Notice, he was told....
NDE - PATRICK F.: "I had an NDE in 1996 from a car accident. I've not been able to explain how I received the information I did, except to say it was 'downloaded'. I WAS TOLD THERE IS NO HELL, and that it was created by man to keep each other in check. I was raised rather religious, but I do not buy into the BS they spew."
Again, notice what she's told....
NDE - ANNA M.: "I 'popped' from my body and was met with a bright light. THIS GAVE ME UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, and explained I had to return as I had three children to raise. Without words, I was told many mysteries of the world. THERE IS NO HELL, THERE IS JUST EXPERIENCE. NO GOOD OR BAD EITHER! There is only one God! HE LOVES US ALL, NO MATTER WHAT! HE DOES NOT JUDGE. I had been taught wrong by religion!"
Yet again, he was told....
NDE - NICHOLAS P.: "The Light told me many things, which I choose not to talk of. I was told, 'you have chosen an experience, you wish to live, and it is far from over.' I WAS TOLD THERE IS NO HELL. The original sin is most people don't know they are a spirit having a human experience."
And this...
NDE - SALLY P.: "Many times since, I've wanted to return to that place of love and confirmation. I learned that every human's belief in a supreme being is real, and that EVERYONE goes to heaven, paradise, whatever. GOD'S FORGIVENESS TRULY DOES PASS ANY HUMAN UNDERSTANDING, and HELL DOES NOT EXIST. Since my NDE, I have shared with bereaved friends and strangers, and tried to confirm others' hopes of an afterlife."
Another one...
NDE - L. MASON: "I died. Time froze. Met God that appeared as a pure white light. Let me ask questions. Told me I had to return. EARTH IS A PLAY PEN. THERE'S NO HELL. WE ARE ALL FORGIVEN WHEN WE DIE. We all are connected when we die. In human bodies that link is very faint. That is the hole we try to fill with money/drugs/addiction."
Again, she was told....
NDE - R. MORENO: "I'm Native American and experienced an NDE. I WAS TOLD THERE IS no religion and NO HELL. I was shown many things. It has not been easy being here as I didn't want to come back."
And again....
NDE - JEWEL F.: "I had an NDE in a head-on car accident. God is 100% love. THERE WAS NO HELL. I'm also looking forward to go back when it's my turn."
No "hell", and religions
are abuse?....
NDE - GAIL A.: "I instantly realized that life goals are a waste of time and that RELIGION IS A FORM OF ABUSE TO CONTROL THE MASSES. THERE IS NO HELL. Hell and heaven are BS. I was aware that I could communicate without speaking and that I could know all that I wanted to know. There was a feeling of peace and calm, unlike anything I've experienced since. Then I was told that I had to go back, which didn't make me happy at all, as I knew that being alive would hurt."
Now, notice this one....
NDE - B. ELSWORTH: "But personally, through my own NDE, I remember coming back and as beautiful and shocking to my ego as the experience was, I remember driving in my car and laughing to myself thinking, 'Well I wish I could tell my younger self he's NOT GOING TO HELL, BECAUSE THERE IS NONE!' YOU CAN'T DO ANY WRONG...even (ra*e + mu*der) in God's perspective, but that's not a license to do crazy stuff, God is just that unconditionally loving. HE CAN'T EVEN FORGIVE YOU, BECAUSE YOU CAN DO NO WRONG. We truly are inseparable from boundless infinite love.”
See this one...
NDE - NORMA E.: "Two male medical people came along and they're interacting with these two females, and I can see this amazing light they're consuming. And the two young ladies began to discuss...they both attended the same church. The one who went to church is describing the sermon that was preached, and it had to do with hell. I want to scream at this woman, THAT'S NOT TRUE, THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS HELL, let me tell you about what it's like on the other side, but of course I can't speak."
Looking forward to the illumination of conscience where God will encounter all and show each soul the truth around the world. Catholic prophecy. The second Pentecost.
So why be Catholic if all different religions, atheists, and agnostics go to Heaven?
Dreams, aside from the mere wanderings of the mind while asleep are forbidden; including if it is "God" sending them; as the Baltimore Catechism makes quite abundantly clear in its writing, Father Spitzer.
He says EEG (brain) when he means ECG (heart). No one ever places an EEG monitor after a failed cardiac arrest resuscitation attempt. 16:25
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God is inviting you into a relationship with Him today!
The Salvation Prayer
Father, it is written in Your Word that if I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in my heart that You have raised Him from the dead, I shall be saved.
Therefore, Father, I confess that Jesus is my Lord. I make Him Lord of my life right now. I believe in my heart that You raised Jesus from the dead. I renounce my past life with Satan and close the door to any of his devices.
I thank You for forgiving me of all my sin. Jesus is my Lord, and I am a new creation. Old things have passed away; now all things become new in Jesus’ name. Amen.
REALIZE THE KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS WITHIN!
Realise the amazing God who made you and desires relationship with you. There is no greater joy or fulfilment than that relationship! 😉
So the souls seen going into darkness are they just we gay men and women Catholics that are rejected or are they some other groups, also. I am excommunicated from the Church I know because I could not keep myself pure as I was told year upon year when I tried to keep my Easter duty at least.. My Jesuit confessor at Gonzaga warned me of that fact in 1968, when I stopped trying and accepted my fate awaiting me at death. I fully am aware it will not be a pretty picture Catholics like me.
Go liberal protestant. At least you will feel accepted and relatively happy while on earth. Appreciate your Jesuit confessors honesty. It's to help you not harm you. All harm happening to you you are doing to yourself. Be responsible for your actions. Totally 100%. Do not blame others for your predicament. It's called Free Will.
You are loved completely ❤
God is mercy!
These NDEs below, prove that some people will be upset, and others will be relieved. Notice...
NDE - LINDA S.: "The wrathful, vengeful God, as taught by my religion, instilled in me a deep fear of God, death, and the afterlife. The NDE transformed me, showing that God is only a loving God, WHO DOES NOT JUDGE AND PUNISH. THERE IS NO HELL. I knew I was in the arms of a being who cherished me with PERFECT LOVE and carried me from the dark void into a new reality. There was no place that God did not exist and I was within God. I am an inseparable part of the light. THE TRUTH OF WHO I AM, INDEED, WHO WE ALL ARE, IS PERFECT LOVE as a creation of God. I had spent a lifetime of fear of judgment and now, standing with God, I HAD BEEN KNOWN COMPLETELY AND FOUND FAULTLESS. I KNEW GOD REGARDED ME AS PERFECT. Finally it all made sense. God could only love me because God is only love, nothing other than love. All is as it is supposed to be. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE IS OUR TRUE NATURE."
Another Christian...and notice, again....
NDE - ROBYN C.: "I KNOW THERE IS NO JUDGEMENT OR HELL. I just know whatever form God takes, he loves us and welcomes us. I felt an overwhelming sense of complete bliss and contentment. I could see the light ahead of me and felt drawn to it, but I was moving slowly and enjoying the wondrous sensations I felt. Since my experience, I have been certain there is a God, but this is different to what I had believed as a Christian."
Again, no "hell" and
no judgement....
NDE - JASON H.: "I now know that there is a life after death. I NOW KNOW THAT THERE IS NO HELL. In that overwhelming radiating loving light, I met a glowingly beautiful, very loving being. His loving presence completely surrounded me, and together we went through my life and all that I had experienced, IN A LOVING WAY, NOT ANY JUDGING WAY."
Yet again, no "hell" and can't be separated....
NDE - GORDON S.: "THERE IS NO 'heaven' and no 'HELL'. I am just now accepting that part of my purpose for coming back is to help other people awaken to the simple truth: WE ARE LOVE, we are part of God, and WE CANNOT EVER BE SEPARATED FROM GOD. The knowing that we are all inter-connected makes it easy for me to accept people, just as they are."
Again, no "hell" and no reward....
NDE - STEVE L.: "I soon realized I did not have my body, and that I was surrounded by consciousness. EVERYTHING IS JUST TOTAL LOVE. There was consciousness that came to me in the form of people I recognized. THERE IS NO heaven or HELL. THERE IS NO "REWARD" FOR A "GOOD LIFE". Our careers, mistakes, money, etc., mean nothing. We join the pure consciousness at the time of leaving our body, and we are all one."
Notice again, he clearly understood....
NDE - DOUG F.: "IT WAS CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD THAT THERE IS NO heaven or HELL. Every part of the universe was part of me, and every part of me was part of the universe. THERE WAS COMPLETE INCLUSION AND ACCEPTANCE. This was so far beyond any expectation. Another realization came to me. Everything is known, and there is nothing to learn. Life on earth is not a school, there is nothing to learn. LIFE ON EARTH IS JUST AN EXPERIENCE. NOTHING MORE. As I was guided back, first into the 4th dimension, I could feel the expanded awareness shutting down. THIS LIFE IS ABOUT EXPERIENCE THAT IS THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT WE TRULY ARE."
And let's see what Jesus says about it, in these few short NDEs below. Notice what they were told and shown.
A Jesus NDE - JIM S.: "I was hit by a car while riding my motorcycle. I died on the operating table. I went through the dark into the light - a soft bluish light. An entity (Jesus to me) was of the light, and the light was a doorway. I was not in this body, but I was as normal as my body here. We spoke without speaking. Joy was all over me. I was relieved to know it is real! Jesus said, "I know it hurts and I know it is bad. You have not done what you said you would do and must go back." I refused. Jesus said, "You will come here, just not now…not yet. I am sorry." Then I was on the operating table and heard someone say, "We got him” and then "Oh my God, he is awake.” I AM NOW AN ORDAINED MINISTER AND I PREACH. I WAS SHOWN THERE IS NO HELL. We all go home."
Another Jesus story, notice what she was told...
NDE - KARIN F.: "She took me and placed me in a crystal-like bed and told me to rest because there were beings who wanted to honor and welcome me. I saw beings cued up to greet me. I SPIED JESUS AMONG THEM and immediately felt as though something was wrong. I asked the being who brought me, how it was that Jesus wants to honor me. I told her that I was afraid that putting myself at the same level as Jesus would damn me to hell. SHE LAUGHED AND TOLD ME THERE IS NO HELL. WE ARE ALL EQUAL IN SPIRIT FORM. I believed all that nonsense. I KNOW NOW THERE IS NO HELL, and God is unconditional love. Yes we are all connected and NO ONE IS MORE OR LESS THAN ANYONE ELSE. That our souls are eternal and WE ARE HERE TO EXPERIENCE LIFE. Love is what we are, and will be again. I REALIZED THAT WE WERE ON EARTH AS A VACATION FROM ETERNITY AND BLISS. I have no fears. I have a knowing and I feel oneness with all things. Fear actually kills love."
Now look, Jesus gives her an instructive mission to go tell people...notice what it is....
NDE - BETTY E.: "I was out of my body. I turned to look down and could see myself laying there, and I came down for a closer look. My spirit went out and I arrived at my home. My husband was sitting in a chair reading, and the kids were running around all over the place. I came into a pitch blackness, but I had no fear, I was bathed in love. I saw a pinpoint of light, and when I came to the end of that light, I could tell it was a male figure. I KNEW THIS WAS JESUS, AND THAT I HAD ALWAYS KNOWN HIM. A council of men explained to me that I had not fulfilled the calling that God had for me, and it was given to me what my mission was...and that was to bring back all the information they had given me, and to share it. AND I SAID TO JESUS, HOW ON EARTH AM I GOING TO SHARE THIS? HOW AM I GOING TO TELL PEOPLE THAT THERE IS NO HELL? How am I going to tell them that? They believe it! HE SAID TELL THEM THIS: IF THEY AS A GOOD PARENT WOULDN'T CAST ANY ONE OF THEIR CHILDREN IN A LAKE OF FIRE, OR WOULDN'T THROW THEM INTO OUTER DARKNESS FOREVER, HOW MUCH GREATER IS GOD'S LOVE THAN YOURS? And I thought wow, that solves it. It's necessary that people learn that God loves everyone. Freedom from fear, so you can be the person that you mapped out...it's a blueprint...you made yourself to be. There are few, if any, coincidences in anyone's life."
Again, told directly from God....
NDE - BARBARA M.: "In my NDE, I WAS TOLD HELL DOES NOT EXIST. In the future, everyone is at final form already, and there is no holy war. TOLD DIRECTLY BY ANGELS AND EVEN GOD."
Jesus again....
NDE - L. HERNANDEZ: "I've been an atheist all my life. I had an NDE and in a few minutes my life changed completely. Part of my experience was with the one people call Jesus. THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO JUDGEMENT IN OUR CREATOR because only love, he is. HELL IS MAN'S CREATION, SO IS SIN. It's all controlled by fear. Religion is not from God, I asked and was told this."
Notice, he was told....
NDE - PATRICK F.: "I had an NDE in 1996 from a car accident. I've not been able to explain how I received the information I did, except to say it was 'downloaded'. I WAS TOLD THERE IS NO HELL, and that it was created by man to keep each other in check. I was raised rather religious, but I do not buy into the BS they spew."
Again, notice what she's told....
NDE - ANNA M.: "I 'popped' from my body and was met with a bright light. THIS GAVE ME UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, and explained I had to return as I had three children to raise. Without words, I was told many mysteries of the world. THERE IS NO HELL, THERE IS JUST EXPERIENCE. NO GOOD OR BAD EITHER! There is only one God! HE LOVES US ALL, NO MATTER WHAT! HE DOES NOT JUDGE. I had been taught wrong by religion!"
Yet again, he was told....
NDE - NICHOLAS P.: "The Light told me many things, which I choose not to talk of. I was told, 'you have chosen an experience, you wish to live, and it is far from over.' I WAS TOLD THERE IS NO HELL. The original sin is most people don't know they are a spirit having a human experience."
And this...
NDE - SALLY P.: "Many times since, I've wanted to return to that place of love and confirmation. I learned that every human's belief in a supreme being is real, and that EVERYONE goes to heaven, paradise, whatever. GOD'S FORGIVENESS TRULY DOES PASS ANY HUMAN UNDERSTANDING, and HELL DOES NOT EXIST. Since my NDE, I have shared with bereaved friends and strangers, and tried to confirm others' hopes of an afterlife."
Another one...
NDE - L. MASON: "I died. Time froze. Met God that appeared as a pure white light. Let me ask questions. Told me I had to return. EARTH IS A PLAY PEN. THERE'S NO HELL. WE ARE ALL FORGIVEN WHEN WE DIE. We all are connected when we die. In human bodies that link is very faint. That is the hole we try to fill with money/drugs/addiction."
Again, she was told....
NDE - R. MORENO: "I'm Native American and experienced an NDE. I WAS TOLD THERE IS no religion and NO HELL. I was shown many things. It has not been easy being here as I didn't want to come back."
And again....
NDE - JEWEL F.: "I had an NDE in a head-on car accident. God is 100% love. THERE WAS NO HELL. I'm also looking forward to go back when it's my turn."
No "hell", and religions
are abuse?....
NDE - GAIL A.: "I instantly realized that life goals are a waste of time and that RELIGION IS A FORM OF ABUSE TO CONTROL THE MASSES. THERE IS NO HELL. Hell and heaven are BS. I was aware that I could communicate without speaking and that I could know all that I wanted to know. There was a feeling of peace and calm, unlike anything I've experienced since. Then I was told that I had to go back, which didn't make me happy at all, as I knew that being alive would hurt."
Now, notice this one....
NDE - B. ELSWORTH: "But personally, through my own NDE, I remember coming back and as beautiful and shocking to my ego as the experience was, I remember driving in my car and laughing to myself thinking, 'Well I wish I could tell my younger self he's NOT GOING TO HELL, BECAUSE THERE IS NONE!' YOU CAN'T DO ANY WRONG...even (ra*e + mu*der) in God's perspective, but that's not a license to do crazy stuff, God is just that unconditionally loving. HE CAN'T EVEN FORGIVE YOU, BECAUSE YOU CAN DO NO WRONG. We truly are inseparable from boundless infinite love.”
See this one...
NDE - NORMA E.: "Two male medical people came along and they're interacting with these two females, and I can see this amazing light they're consuming. And the two young ladies began to discuss...they both attended the same church. The one who went to church is describing the sermon that was preached, and it had to do with hell. I want to scream at this woman, THAT'S NOT TRUE, THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS HELL, let me tell you about what it's like on the other side, but of course I can't speak."
Perhaps another way they could have known is if the devil revealed it to them.
The Lord is in other time zone.
He said 15 seconds....he meant 15 minutes.
6:00
Not to believe in Hell is a Protestant belief, false teaching guys 😊😊
People always wonder what happens after they die. They never wonder about where they were before being born... 😁
That's funny. But your right. Hopefully going back to the Father in Heaven. 😂❤ God Bless.
4:40 - record of near death experiences.....going back to 1978. Done by a Dr.
5:56 - 15 seconds aftr body death brain doesn't get oxygen. IE from auto accident, heart attack, drowning. Brain starts 2 shut down.
13:16 - but one Utube vid said this was made up because there was no record of this lady in the hospital. (The lady that saw the shoe on the ledge of the hospital roof. Also different vids say they were different people she told.....a nurse, friend social worker).
A NDE is not actually dead and rotting for a couple of days. No one has been shown to come back to life after they have been dead and rotting.
Except Lazarus, who of course was raised through Jesus, and Jesus himself. Apart from that your statement is true. However, your premise is still false in that science has shown that the brain is utterly incapable of any activity, so actually physically 'brain dead' at the time of the proven veridical experiences of the person claiming an NDE.
@@cord11ful A claim in a book is not defacto true just because a certain group of people label that book as inspired by a god.
There are lots of magical claims in lots of books but none of these magical claims have been "shown" to be true.
I said "dead and rotting" not a brain that was labelled inactive. You also seem to have conveniently forgotten that there is zero evidence that any NDE memory was actually formed during a period of brain inactivity.
I say again 37.2 trillion dead and rotting eucaryotic cells stay dead and rotting.
Remember Lazarus? He stank because his body was rotting
@@divinewillprayers What part of "shown" are you struggling to understand?
You are doing nothing more than presupposing that the story is true without a shred of evidence that it is.
You're a good reminder to me of why I'm no longer a Roman Catholic. You choose to believe worldly experience over God's word. God created man a "living soul," so there's nothing that can separate from us to go anywhere. When we die, we sleep in the dust of the earth until the resurrection; some to eternal glory, some to everlasting shame depending on whether we have believed God or not, especially what he inspired his prophets to write about his Son, Jesus Christ, that he died for our sins and rose again for our justification. Demons are what drove me out of the Catholic Church when I realized saying the rosary summoned them, as does any activity that causes a state of altered consciousness. Demons give unsaved people (like Catholics) NDE's in their minds to prevent them from learning the truth due to the proclivity of human beings to trust something they believe they experienced over the word of God.
Amen
@@christinaferrero9508 Thank you, sister!
Wrong
@@Angela-vy5ok And your reason is?
The demons do not want you to say the rosary because by it they are trampled upon by a woman...Our Blessed Mother, Mary. Come back to your Mother, she will protect you, the demons are powerless before her. The Queen of Heaven will hold your hands and lead you to her son, Jesus Christ- True God and True man...run to her and let her do this for you, please.
I don't have a horse in the race, but the Bible says nothing about NDE phenomena.
Of all the people who were brought back from death, none mentioned an NDE.
Therefore, how can Christianity claim NDE fit their teaching?
Duh Spitzer, Plato, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, E. Swedesboro,etc, etc. Thumbs down.
Does this guy believe evolution????? It’s completely unscientific to believe in evolution
It is true that there are real Christians in the Roman Catholic communion. Thousands in that church are serving God according to the best light they have. However, Romanism as a system is no more in harmony with the gospel of Christ now than at any former period in her history. The Protestant churches are in great darkness, or they would discern the signs of the times. The Roman Church is far-reaching in her plans and modes of operation. She is employing every device to extend her influence and increase her power in preparation for a fierce and determined conflict to regain control of the world, to re-establish persecution, and to undo all that Protestantism has done. Every cardinal, archbishop, and bishop in the Catholic Church takes an oath of allegiance to the pope, in which occur the following words: ‘Heretics, schismatics, and rebels to our said lord the pope, or his aforesaid successors, I will to my utmost persecute and oppose!'' The papal church will never relinquish her claim to infallibility. All that she has done in her persecution of those who reject her dogmas, she holds to be right; and would she not repeat the same acts, should the opportunity be presented? Let the restraints now imposed by secular governments be removed, and Rome be re-instated in her former power, and there would speedily be a revival of her tyranny and persecution.
You’re tripping, dear heart. Where did you get your kool aid? Absurd! You are doing your self a grave error in spewing such nonsense! I shall keep you in prayer for the Gifts of knowledge, wisdom and love. Study the Fathers of the Church and Church Mystics. Enlarge your pitiful perceptions. You are embarrassing yourself in this display of deep ignorance! Blessings+++
Why the sunglasses? Bizarre! Show us your eyes.
He has a degenerating eye condition & is going blind. Sorry if that offends you.
He's blind. Not bizarre.
What's up with the sunglasses?
As I understand, Fr. Spitzer is himself visually impaired, thus he wears the sunglasses out of necessity.
Fr Spitzer has an eye disease and is going blind.
Jesus came to me one morning--maybe because we are both Jews--and he told me that religion is dangerous because people come to believe things that are totally untrue. Thank you Jesus. I wanted to pass on his wisdom. He also said he was totally pissed of how much false information got into the Bible.
Dear Jewish friend Jesus is the messiah that over 300 Old Testament prophecies came to pass in Christ 1st coming. Please read Isaiah 53 about Jesus and the suffering servant ! Jesus is the only way to eternal life after leaving this body behind ! I encourage you to make that decision! Jesus is the only savior no salvation without Jesus ❤️
You are a fool. Fooled by a vision from Satan. What you Jews write about Jesus and Mary and Joseph in the Talmud is absolutely disgusting. Such unclean people you are.
: D Hilarious, dude, hilarious!
Everyone is really stoking the ol' *Sky Daddy* scam in this video-make sure you give lots of money to the church for God's work everyone.
Oh brother🙄 Trolls 🤨
If atheists did charity work we could donate to them.
That priest is lying about "ghost". He knows very well from NDE's that the souls have only 2 choices when they leave their body & they are: either go back into the body & resume their life on Earth or stay with Jesus/God/Heaven. They do NOT get the option to roam the earth as "ghosts." He very well knows that these "ghosts" are not human souls, but that they probably are other entities such as demons.
The phenomenon we call "ghosts" includes a range of manifestations. Some of these resemble demonic entities (poltergeists, for example), some are crisis apparition where a loved one appears before their death is officially known, others are more like recordings of people going about their usual business. Some are recognised as apparitions immediately, others only subsequently when their presence cannot be accounted for by ordinary means. Some interact with the living, most do not. It's unwise to bracket all apparitions as one thing, even the effect on the percipient varies.
As for soul choices, the NDE record appears to show different paths. The majority are drawn through a tunnel towards a divine light, but again, not all. Some enter a heavenly realm immediately. Others occupy the vicinity of the hospital for some time, reading the thoughts of medics and their visiting relatives. At least one case has an individual walking the streets of his city, recognising the living and the deceased before going to the distant places of his childhood. For a comprehensive NDE experienced by a medical professional, look at the account of Dr. Mary Neil.
@When I Was Born for the 7th Time Be specific.
@When I Was Born for the 7th Time Fr Spitzer wants to introduce evidence to metaphysics, and I applaud him for it. However evidence requires going where it leads, and in the case of ghosts it's fair to say it's more complicated than presented. Catholics often had blessings performed on houses they moved into, which suggests a belief in psychic residues rather than full possessions or vexation.
I suspect individual priests are more openminded about what those represent, and whether they are lingering spirits of the deceased unable to move on, some kind of historical recording a susceptible individual is picking up on, or the numerous other possibilities ghosts and apparitions represent. I always thought the demonic interpretation for all such phenomena was more of a protestant notion than Catholic.
Im glad to hear from another self righteous christian that knows everything about nde,s and ofcourse hijacks nde phenomona to smuggle in their best little friend Jesus and demons to boot !! If you had any clue what your talking about you would know that ndes are strongly colored by your religious beliefs and that all the majour researchers in this department like Bruce Greyson , Raymond Moody does not agree with you at all kk!!
First of all your little Friend Jesus is someone you just assume is him, and you are not judged by anyone but your self when you go through the life review so the Christian view that God is gonna judge us is false 😐 so unfortunately you wont get your wishes about us sinners are gonnna burn in hell!!
It just boogles ones mind how ya all religious folk , are so sure that you know the mystery about life and death and all from one single ancient 📜 you know it all !! You deny science unless you can use it to smuggle in your creepy doctrine 😒
And this catholic jackass is ofcourse spewing fourth his personal beliefs with no expertise on the subject 🙄
Be a little humble instead and admit no one knows if anthing happens to us at all when we die , it might just be a brain phenomenon or like what some scientist like Pim von lommel suggest that it might be non local consciousness!!!
@@k8cking You'll believe in hell when you get there!
I have been virtually *forced* into overt anti-theism and atheism *by* the wording of the Catechism of the Catholic Church where it rightly condemns the occult; *just simply* to avoid such a sin- the demise of the mere *idea* of God is vital, as is the extinction of the next world. In short, if you have to wipe out all of eternity just to make sure to eradicate Perdition, then that is a most acceptable sacrifice; especially proving that prayer has no benefit whatever to anyone- that'll do it alright. This is not to deny that science needs a deity to get the whole ball rolling; of that I am strongly convinced, but to avoid sins condemned by the wording of the Catechism it has proven necessary and right to wipe out all belief in a next life in the process.
There is a great deal of high-quality scientific research, including non-Christian research, that consistently show that prayer is effective in physical as well as psychological healing. Google Scholar--publicly available.
If prayer is effective in healing it is a testimony to God actions according Scripture: 'Ask and it will be given to you.' Mt. 7:7. For more scientific evidence of God, please watch this video where you commented--A LOT of scientific evidence.
Atheism is a spiritual vacuum; science says that vacuums are quickly filled. To be ethical and avoid slavery of the senses: pornography, anger and raging passions, etc., understand that evil is not neutral but spiritual. Doing evil is worship of it and bonds one to it leading to addictions and spiritual wounds.
In short, we are fodder for evil that easily leads us around by our noses when we reject our only defense: God who loves us; all good comes from Him; we cannot be good without Him. One might be able, with difficulty, to be ethical without God, but one cannot be holy without Him. He is the source of all good.
@@sjo9292 Good doesn't come out of authority at all, it comes out of defiance towards authority, as all authority, as a command function, is entirely evil and untrustworthy in its very nature.
Frankly, what you are saying sounds informed but very uncomfortable to see a man in sunglasses talking to you. Maybe transition lenses but VERY BAD cinemetography. Makes people immediately question what kind of person you might be for those who do not know you. If you make future videos, please take basics of video recording so you don't come across as so visually sketchy. In fact, stopping video now. Looks too odd.
As I understand, Fr. Spitzer is himself visually impaired, thus he wears the sunglasses out of necessity.
@@imtired6104 Thank you for sharing. I wanted to hear what he was saying but uncomfortable with presentation. I will go back and listen again. Thank you for sharing.
Yes, Fr Spitzer has a serious eye condition and the dark glasses are protective.
It is amazing how most people upon having an NDE or OBE jump to the conclusion that it was a God experience, or proof of some divine power. Yes and no. What it shows us is that our awareness and intelligence while in the body is greatly limited. The experiences out of the physical body, while transcendental, are still occurring within the natural universe, a universe we are woefully ignorant of. We should leave all the superstitions in our dark past and pursue a more rational and measured approach to these events.
Why were you watching a Catholic UA-cam show then?
what the hell is the difference, then? between something transcendent and that which we cannot see? you’re drawing lines in falling sand.
Read this informative article.
Nintendo characters? Santa Clause? Yamatoots? Yamraj?
For those who want to know the full story..........
THE NDE STUDIES.....(LA Times excerpts)
Researchers estimate that around 17% of people have an NDE. That means about 80% don't.
Scratch beneath those alleged flat EKG lines and the stories are a veritable Twilight Zone of inconsistencies. Some near-death voyagers claim to have met God - BUT A FEW SAW ELVIS PRESLEY OR GROUCHO MARX, researchers say. Others get to heaven not through the famous "tunnel", but ABOARD GHOSTLY TAXI CABS, FERRIES THAT CROSS THE RIVER STYX, OR SPANGLED COWS.
Even some children - often touted as the best source of unbiased information - sometimes return from "death" CLAIMING THEY WERE GREETED IN THE OTHER WORLD by STILL LIVING TEACHERS, and NINTENDO CHARACTERS, and COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS.
If encounters with conscious plants, talking insects, roosters, and turtles, doesn’t give you pause about NDEs, perhaps NDEs THAT INCLUDE ENCOUNTERS WITH FICTIONAL CHARACTERS WILL. Melvin Morse reports that a 10-year-old boy had an NDE where he ENCOUNTERED A VIDEO-GAMING WIZARD who loved Nintendo. Karl Jansen similarly reports finding childhood NDEs THAT INCLUDE ENCOUNTERS WITH VIDEO GAME AND COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS.
In a collection of pediatric NDEs published in 1990, Serdahely even found a case where A GIRL ENCOUNTERED A FAVORITE TOY DURING HER NDE - AN OLD STUFFED ANIMAL.
They differ between people and cultures. Instead of a tunnel and angels, EAST INDIANS MAY DESCRIBE THE RIVER GANGES AND A PARTICULAR GURU. HINDUS WHO BELIEVE IN YAMRAJ, the Hindu god of death, EXPERIENCED MEETING HIM. A Hindu girl "died" AND WENT TO HEAVEN ON A COW. Would that mean western people will be riding cows to heaven? Jews who don't believe in Jesus or "hell", experienced meeting God as described in the Old Testament, while messianic Jews experienced God as Jesus. Any reports of Christians meeting Muhammad, or Muslims meeting the Virgin Mary, or Jews meeting Guru Nanak, if they exist, have not been publicized.
Dr. Richard Eby had an NDE and allegedly Jesus told him he had to back, and that he (Jesus) would be returning (2nd coming) before he died permanently. BUT DR. RICHARD EBY HAS NOW DIED AND JESUS HAS NOT RETURNED.
A few hospitals have placed signs in their cardiac units - with nonsensical messages visible only from above - BUT SO FAR NOBODY HAS RETURNED FROM DEATH CLAIMING TO HAVE FLOATED UP AND SEEN ONE.
In one study carried out, the experiences of 16 Asian Indians were compared with those of Americans, and IT WAS FOUND THAT THE INDIANS HAD ENCOUNTERED YAMRAJ, the Hindu god of the dead, WHILE THE AMERICANS HAD NOT.
You would expect that if any one particular religious account of the afterlife was true, NDEs would be pretty much the same. BUT THESE ACCOUNTS ARE SO VARIED AND ARE ARE ALL BASED ON CULTURAL EXPOSURE. IN INDIA, PEOPLE SEE HINDU GODS; IN SAUDI ARABIA ITS ALLAH, MOHAMED, AND A BUNCH OF VIRGINS. The kid from the book/movie Heaven Is For Real, saw a Jesus with sea-green blue eyes ON A RAINBOW COLORED HORSE, GOD WITH HUGE WINGS, YELLOW HAIR AND BLUE EYES; and ONE LITTLE GIRL WENT TO HEAVEN AND WAS GREETED BY A PORTLY MAN WITH A WHITE BEARD AND RED CAP, aka SANTA CLAUSE.
The Mapuche people of South America and residents of Hawaii are more likely to SEE LANDSCAPES AND VOLCANOES, whereas NDEs in Thailand rarely involve landmarks, tunnels, or light. For Tibetans, light features more heavily AS DO ILLUSIONS OF REINCARNATION. Europeans and North Americans often visualize beautiful gardens; intriguingly the Kalai of Melanesia are more inclined to SEE AN INDUSTRIALIZED WORLD OF FACTORIES. An NDEr's subjective recollections can be attributed to many factors: THE NDEr's PSYCHOLOGY, PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, BACKGROUND, ETC., NOT JUST CULTURE.
The terrain of Heaven also varies wildly - from gardens, forests, and CATTLE FILLED PASTURES in some accounts, to clouds, COMPUTER ROOMS OR CASTLES, in others. A TEXAN SAW BARBED WIRE FENCES IN THE AFTERLIFE. Micronesians describe LARGE NOISY CITIES WITH CARS AND SKYSCRAPERS.
Drug addicts, alcoholics, felons (murder), suicides, hedonists, abusers, mean people, and gay people, have all claimed to encounter heaven. Strangely, people have claimed to enter some "hell" FOR THE SAME REASONS. EVEN THE INFAMOUS ADOLF HITLER HAS BEEN SPOTTED IN HEAVEN. Again, strangely, he's also been seen in some "hell". Contradictions abound.
There are reports of bad NDE trips involving TORTURES BY ELVES, GIANTS, MONSTERS, etc. Some parapsychologists take these as evidence of the mythical places of various religions. But, IF SO, THEN WHAT IS ONE TO CONCLUDE FROM THE FACT THAT OVER 80% OF PEOPLE NEAR DEATH DO NOT EXPERIENCE ANYTHING, neither the heavenly or the diabolical?
This is a wonder. Is the hereafter actually mining and refining raw materials needed to build castles, cars, barbed wire fences, computers, and skyscrapers? From where do they get this material and the tools? Not to mention the raw materials and tools needed to construct an ever increasing number of those cages and cubes in the Christian hell, as a few claim. Who builds those cages? And which of the variety of "hells" do you actually go to? Christian? Buddhist? Spiritualist? Hindu? Muslim? Some other one? The answer seems to be whichever one the experiencer has been exposed to, as Thai NDErs regularly claim to encounter LORD YAMA AND YAMATOOTS, COMPLETE WITH TALKING DECEASED ROOSTERS, and being sentenced to Buddhist "hell" for butchering and eating chicken, then reincarnated as birds. DOES THAT MEAN WESTERNERS WILL UNKNOWINGLY BE HEADING TO BUDDHIST "HELL" FOR EATING CHICKEN? Thai accounts state that butchers become lumps of meat in Buddhist "hell", so what then awaits Western slaughterhouse workers?
Even in her rather homogeneous Western European clientele, Kubler-Ross could see the effects of early enculturation: " I NEVER ENCOUNTERED A PROTESTANT CHILD WHO SAW THE VIRGIN MARY IN HIS LAST MINUTES, YET SHE WAS PERCEIVED BY MANY CATHOLIC CHILDREN."
But there also are some hard-to-explain differences, Melvin Morse says. Whereas American near-death survivors are typically sent back by God because “it’s not your time yet,” INDIA'S AFTERLIFE VISITORS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE TOLD THERE WAS A “CLERICAL ERROR.”
Even more curious: SOMETIMES THE BEING OF LIGHT IS ELVIS PRESLEY. Moody has chronicled at least two such sightings.
A PERSON MAY APPEAR DEAD TO OUR SENSES OR OUR SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT, BUT STILL BE PERCEIVING. In fact, we now have evidence that patients who appear brain dead, may in fact be capable of conscious thought. In 2006, scientists in the UK and Belgium did an fMRI on a woman in a vegetative state and FOUND THAT PARTS OF HER BRAIN SHOWED ACTIVITY WHEN SHE WAS SPOKEN TO, AND ASKED TO THINK ABOUT THINGS LIKE PLAYING TENNIS.
Yet the evidence for near-death paranormal powers remains shaky at best. TWO STUDIES HAVE FOUND THAT PATIENTS’ “OUT OF BODY” ACCOUNTS OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THE OPERATING ROOM WERE WRONG. So were the 1988 Armageddon forecasts hyped by Ring and others.
Michael Sabom, however, offers a compromise stance: He rejects the idea that they provide glimpses of a heaven or hell. "I’m not saying these people didn’t experience something odd. But I am saying that we should take it with a grain of salt, because IF ANECDOTES MEET YOUR STANDARD FOR WHAT QUALIFIES AS EVIDENCE, then you should probably start buying tin foil and food buckets, because THERE ARE JUST AS MANY PEOPLE WHO REPORT SEEING REPTILIANS AND WHO HAVE BEEN ABDUCTED BY ALIENS."
But what about veridical NDEs - near-death experiences in which the person supposedly sees something they couldn’t otherwise have known while ‘flat-lining’ and others are able to verify that what they saw is indeed correct. The most notorious example of this is Maria’s shoe. A lady named Maria reportedly left her body, floated around and saw a shoe on a ledge outside her hospital window, that she ‘couldn’t have possibly seen.’ Her critical care provider, Kimberly Clark, looked outside and saw the shoe, just as described. BUT WHEN RESEARCHERS TRIED TO TRACK DOWN MARIA TO CONFIRM CLARK'S STORY, THEY WEREN'T ABLE TO FIND ANY SUCH PERSON OR ANYONE ELSE TO CORROBORATE THE ACCOUNT. And when they placed a shoe on the ledge, it was clearly visible from the hospital room, PROVING CLARK HAD EXAGGERATED AT LEAST PART OF THE STORY. Here’s the topper. There is no record of Maria being in that hospital.
Sixty years ago, Dr. Wilder Penfield, a neurosurgeon, poked around the right temporal lobe of some epileptic patients and discovered that they would hear heavenly music, relive their pasts in 3D, and have out-of-body visions. Similar experiments continue.
There is Dr. Melvin Morse's discovery of "a portal" in the brain that when stimulated, triggers a NDE. He writes that some are threatened by this, as the discovery makes the experience seem unreal.
There’s growing evidence that the temporal lobe plays a huge role in creating NDEs. When patients had their brains scanned after an NDE, it was discovered that they had increased levels of temporal lobe activity compared with those in a control group. THAT COULD EXPLAIN WHY ONLY A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE HAVE NDEs. When Dr. Olaf Blanke implanted electrodes into the brains of patients, HE WAS ABLE TO TRIGGER SUPERNATURAL AND OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCES BY STIMULATING THE TEMPORAL PARIETAL JUNCTION.
Why the sunglasses, are you going Hollywood?
Father Spitzer is blind, or nearly blind. It's not a fashion quirk
A lot of blather, nothing of substance from this con-man. People die, nothing survives, only fond memories of the dead in the minds of those left behind.
clearly you are no rocket scientist.
@@barbaradimascio4623 You are correct dear. Not a rocket scientist, just an intelligent, rational human being who hasn't been brainwashed by dogmatic religious zealots. Nonetheless, thanks for your intended insight, although it was totally worthless and something I already was fully aware of.