Question about Near Death Experiences and Islam?

[arda101]

[vorlon13]

If you're only having a near death experience at the hands of an Islamite, then they aren't doing it right.

[Jesster]

I have heard Muslims report their own religious version of NDEs. I just don't hear it as often because I am in a Christian-dominated country.

I believe in NDEs. No, I don't believe NDEs are what religious people say they are.

[Astreja]

Regarding a Muslim not seeing Muhammad, I think that may actually be related to the lack of pictures of Muhammad. It's hard to have a recognizable hallucination of someone if you don't know what they're supposed to look like.

In the Western world, however, pictures of Jesus are everywhere and even people who aren't Christian have seen them.

[arda101]

Regarding a Muslim not seeing Muhammad, I think that may actually be related to the lack of pictures of Muhammad.  It's hard to have a recognizable hallucination of someone if you don't know what they're supposed to look like.

In the Western world, however, pictures of Jesus are everywhere and even people who aren't Christian have seen them.

So, do you think it is unreasonable to take NDEs as any proof of an afterlife?

[vorlon13]

Indeed.

Yes indubitably.

[Astreja]

So, do you think it is unreasonable to take NDEs as any proof of an afterlife?

Yes, I think that it's profoundly unreasonable.  I do not think that our awareness, whether one calls it the self, the soul or something else, is capable of existing independent of a functioning, conscious brain.  In fact, our awareness seems to completely disappear when we're under anesthesia or in the non-dreaming phases of sleep.  I don't think it has any chance at all of surviving actual death.

[Angrboda]

[ignoramus]

OP, all the evidence points to there not being a consciousness independent of the brain which harbors it.
I know and understand why Christians would dearly love for that to be the case though.

Even so, I still don't understand why this would mean anything unnatural unless one is of the binary disposition where anything/everything woo related is divine in nature?

People clinging to hope ...that's about the only naturally occurring thing here.

[brewer]

If there were more pictures in circulation of Muhammad then there would be more hallucinations/testimony that include a Muhammad image. 

I believe that people report NDE's. Are NDE's proof of afterlife (a consciousness after death), NO!