05-15-2024, 02:00 PM
I suppose these kinds of discussion all follow patters of flow which appear again and again...
I, and or others, share personal accounts of NDEs; then those disinclined to accept them as valid experiences of reality refute them as 'personal' in nature.
Some will cite ideological supports, religions, myths, other will attribute the ultimate weakness of scientific inability to relate to the events... lack of hard measurable data.
Both will extrapolate end-points based upon that position by which they are most comforted.
It seems pertinent to acknowledge that these experience are among those commonly reported in human history, over and over... they appear in art, in many different ways, from elaborate tales like the adventure of Ebenezer Scrooge, to Colonel Kurts' devastating "The horror, the horror" in Apocalypse Now, and finally to Dr. Weyland's "There's nothing, there's nothing!" lament to his android David in Alien Covenant.
Perhaps it is a matter of dream interpretation, perhaps it is an 'edge of understanding' and a mind's straining to interpret that which has no form, and no depth.
I find this fascinating! Great topic!
I, and or others, share personal accounts of NDEs; then those disinclined to accept them as valid experiences of reality refute them as 'personal' in nature.
Some will cite ideological supports, religions, myths, other will attribute the ultimate weakness of scientific inability to relate to the events... lack of hard measurable data.
Both will extrapolate end-points based upon that position by which they are most comforted.
It seems pertinent to acknowledge that these experience are among those commonly reported in human history, over and over... they appear in art, in many different ways, from elaborate tales like the adventure of Ebenezer Scrooge, to Colonel Kurts' devastating "The horror, the horror" in Apocalypse Now, and finally to Dr. Weyland's "There's nothing, there's nothing!" lament to his android David in Alien Covenant.
Perhaps it is a matter of dream interpretation, perhaps it is an 'edge of understanding' and a mind's straining to interpret that which has no form, and no depth.
I find this fascinating! Great topic!
