Atheism the unscientific belief (part one, two, and three)

[Confused Ape]

There is enough evidence to prove that NDEs are real experiences.
When the brain is declared dead by a doctor and when the consciousness is alive and well
this is evidence that the consciousness can be active outside a dead brain.

I've been looking at articles on the Ananda Marga website so this reply will be somewhat long.  First, Brahma.

Spiritual Philosophy

The spiritual philosophy of Ananda Marga recognizes that God is one, and that the universe is the creation of His mental thought-waves. Thus it is said: “Brahma is the absolute truth, and the universe is also truth, but relative.” The diversities of this universe are the transitory transformations of part of His infinite cosmic “body” in a never-ending flow. This implies that life and the universe will never end, but that parts of it are continuously being created from Him and concurrently merging back into Him.

The universe exists as an ever-changing, constantly moving phenomenon. He has transformed a part of Himself into the drama of the world of which we are all a part. But He is also beyond all relativity and transitory existence. He is beyond time, space and mind. He is the Causal Entity. One cannot even begin to imagine Him, let alone speak about Him.

Everything on the Andanda Marga website is an attempt to describe what's going on as seen from the very limited human point of view.  In order to do this, Brahma has been divided up into different aspects and the aspects have been given labels.  

Cosmology

Because the individual mind comes out of the solid factor from a small part of the Cosmic Mind latent within that factor, it is said that “the microcosm is a miniature of the Macrocosm.” It can therefore be seen that mind comes from matter, and matter – via the Cosmic Mind – in turn comes from Consciousness.

The entities who currently think they are Little Rik and Confused Ape are minds.

Life, Death And Rebirth

There is one more element that we must examine before we can fully understand the process of life, death and rebirth. In every living being there is not only a physical body and not only a mind, but also an “Atman” or unit of witnessing consciousness. This witnessing consciousness is the ultimate witness of the mind and is the source of the “I feeling” in the statement “I know that I exist.” The “I” which verifies the existence of the three functional parts of the mind is known as the Atman. It is the imperishable unit of consciousness and is the key to unlocking the mystery of life, death and rebirth.

So what happens to us when we die?

When a person dies, the vital energy of the body (prana) enters a state of disequilibrium and leaves the body. With the loss of the vital energies, the physical body ceases to function. The formerly living person loses all sense of pleasure, pain and self-consciousness. Although the mind enters a “long sleep” at the time of death, it has not perished as the physical body has. The samskaras – reactive momenta of the mind – exist and are recorded in the causal mind. The Atman remains as the witness of this inactive mind.

This suggests that an NDE is exactly that - a near death experience.  People who have had an NDE report the thoughts and feelings they had while undergoing the experience which can only mean that the body/brain is still functioning enough on some level to support the mind which is temporarily inhabiting it.  A 100% death experience would be a blank because the mind can't experience anything without a physical form.

So what about the mysterious Atman?  It witnesses all the thoughts and feelings etc of the mind so when the mind is dormant there can't be any thoughts and feelings etc to witness.