This is good overview article on negative/distressing experiences: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... As with anything parapsychological, read with discernment, & don’t believe unquestioningly you read about the theories people have as to why & how things happen- - ThreadSky

elizabethmi.bsky.social • 23 days ago

This is good overview article on negative/distressing experiences: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6173534/ As with anything parapsychological, read with discernment, & don’t believe unquestioningly you read about the theories people have as to why & how things happen-

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elizabethmi.bsky.social•23 days ago

we are no where near a complete understanding of consciousness. NDE research is interesting & compelling & accessible however & I recommend exploring it if you’re so inclined. ‘The truth in the light’ and ‘Erasing death’ are both interesting books on the research.

elizabethmi.bsky.social•23 days ago

The first is a little better on explaining what we can interpret from these experiences and the second a little better at understanding the research that has been done &, from memory it also addresses the skeptical explanations for NDEs & why they don’t fully explain the phenomenon.

elizabethmi.bsky.social•23 days ago

Ah no it wasn’t Erasing Death that was the best book on explanations. Dr Sartori’s ‘The wisdom of near death experiences’ was far better & approachably written. If you read one book on NDEs, make it this one.

elizabethmi.bsky.social•23 days ago

I haven’t finished ‘Near death: After-Death Dreams, Spirits, Souls, Astral Projection, Quantum Physics, Evolution, Neuroscience, Spirituality and God Experiences’ but it’s more meaty but also more speculative. That’s all my recommendations I think.

elizabethmi.bsky.social•23 days ago

Just going to drop this link here to Dr Mayim Bialik’s podcast with Prof Jeffrey Kripal on a whole host of differnt parapsychological topics including NDEs that I’m listening to just now. https://youtu.be/s7owF9FTgDg?si=17W1R7CsF7D_Kag3

elizabethmi.bsky.social•23 days ago

Kripal making some great points- on NDE being near not actual death experiences, on people being *drawn into* these altered states of consciousness, not making the state up in some consciously manufactured way- it’s an experience they are reporting on, phenomenologically.

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