Life after Life by Raymond A
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- New views of death
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Effects on lives
The effect of the experiences seemed to be that their lives had been broadened and deepened by the experience. They became more reflective and more concerned with ultimate philosophical issues. They realized that there was more to life than Friday night movies and football matches. They started acting after due reflection and not in selfish terms as they used to before. Life became much more precious for them. They started concentrating on the present rather than brooding on the past. They now gave less importance to the body and more to the mind. Some of them developed certain intuitive faculties bordering on the paychic.They had a calming effect on others. They were more in tune with people. They could read faces and guess that some people needed help. They could pick up people’s thoughts. Most of them learnt some lessons, especially about the importance of cultivating unselfish love and seeking knowledge. They decided not to stop learning, as learning was a process that went on till eternity. Their vision left them with new goals, new moral principles and a renewed determination to try to live in accordance with them, but with no feelings of instantaneous salvation or of moral infallibility. New views of death The experience has a profound impact on the way people perceive physical death. They are no longer afraid of it. They do not actively seek death or wish to commit suicide, but they are firmly convinced that death does not represent the end. There is life after death. Even if a gun is pulled on them, they are not afraid. They know that they will live somewhere. They do not feel bad at funerals, but kind of rejoice at them. To people who have been mortally afraid of death all their lives, it is as if God has sent this experience to them because of the way they felt about death. Their parents could at best comfort them, whereas the Lord showed them. 6 Persons who have died no longer use sleeping and forgetting as models of death. They choose analogies which portray death as a transition from one state to another, or as an entry into a higher state of consciousness. They compare death to a homecoming, awakening, graduating and to an escape from a jail. Death is for them now a graduation from one thing to another, like from grammar school to high school to college. Not one person has painted the mythological picture of what lies hereafter. No one has described the heaven of pearly gates, golden streets and winged, harp-playing angels, nor a hell of flames and demons with pitchforks. The reward-and-punishment model is abandoned. The subjects find to their amazement that when their most apparently awful and sinful deeds are made manifest, the being of light responds not with rage and anger, but with understanding and even with humour. The new model of the world beyond does not feature unilateral judgement, but rather cooperative development towards the ultimate end of self-realization. Development of the soul, especially in the spiritual faculties of love and knowledge, does not stop at death. It continues on the other side, perhaps eternally. Corroboration The evidence from other sources corroborates much of what the subjects experienced. The attending doctors are baffled as to how their patients could have watched events or heard conversations while they were “dead”. So are their near relatives. But these corroborations do not constitute proof. Download 124.48 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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