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Dead for 45 minutes; an interesting near-death experience
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RE: Dead for 45 minutes; an interesting near-death experience
(July 31, 2013 at 10:44 am)enrico Wrote: Not only that but if you were following Christianity you will see Christ, if you were following Buddha you will see Buddha, if you were following Shiva you will see Shiva if you were into spirituality you may perceive God as a bright light, if you never believe in religion or spirituality but you were ok then you may perceive God in different manner.

It's almost as if the mind is simply creating an experience from things it already experienced and/or believed. Imagine that.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
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RE: Dead for 45 minutes; an interesting near-death experience - by Tonus - July 31, 2013 at 5:43 pm

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