‘Afterlife’ feels ‘even more real than real,’ researcher says
In the following study, materialistic researchers who had a bias against Near Death Experiences (NDEs) being real, set out to prove that they were merely hallucinations by setting up a clever questionnaire that could differentiate which memories a person had were real and which memories a person had were merely imaginary.
They did not expect the results they got:
‘Afterlife’ feels ‘even more real than real,’ researcher says – Wed April 10, 2013
Excerpt: “If you use this questionnaire … if the memory is real, it’s richer, and if the memory is recent, it’s richer,” he said.
The coma scientists weren’t expecting what the tests revealed.
“To our surprise, NDEs were much richer than any imagined event or any real event of these coma survivors,” Laureys reported.
The memories of these experiences beat all other memories, hands down, for their vivid sense of reality. “The difference was so vast,” he said with a sense of astonishment.
Even if the patient had the experience a long time ago, its memory was as rich “as though it was yesterday,” Laureys said.
sciencedaily.com
Memories of Near Death Experiences (NDEs): More Real Than Reality? – Mar. 27, 2013
Excerpt: University of Liège
,,,researchers,, have looked into the memories of NDE with the hypothesis that if the memories of NDE were pure products of the imagination, their phenomenological characteristics (e.g., sensorial, self referential, emotional, etc. details) should be closer to those of imagined memories. Conversely, if the NDE are experienced in a way similar to that of reality, their characteristics would be closer to the memories of real events.
The researchers compared the responses provided by three groups of patients, each of which had survived (in a different manner) a coma, and a group of healthy volunteers. They studied the memories of NDE and the memories of real events and imagined events with the help of a questionnaire which evaluated the phenomenological characteristics of the memories. The results were surprising. From the perspective being studied, not only were the NDEs not similar to the memories of imagined events, but the phenomenological characteristics inherent to the memories of real events (e.g. memories of sensorial details) are even more numerous in the memories of NDE than in the memories of real events.
cnn.com
Whereas, because of their materialistic premises, the researchers were surprised that the memories of NDEs were ‘even more real than real’, to a Christian Theist this result is not surprising at all since we, as Christians, hold that the Mind of God created all of reality and therefore, on that presupposition, we hold that the closer one gets to God then the ‘more real’ our perceptions of what is ‘real’ will become.
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