Life After Death

we've had to talk about death a lot in the past few years whether as referring to the number of casualties in a war or as the number of victims of a virus although we primarily discuss it within the context of our society we understandably still keep death at arms length this is a coping mechanism to keep us going if we dwell on the thoughts of our morality too much it can consume us and prevent us from going about our daily lives what is the point of life if it all just simply ends when we sit

with the prospect of our own end it often fills us with anxiety it overwhelms us with questions about the prospect of finality what happens when your brain shuts down will it be a Heavenly release or will it feel more like torture is it nothingness and if it is what does that even feel like we don't have any experience of this potential nothing to draw on most of us wish deep down that we could just go on we hope that there's some kind of experience after death we want our Consciousness to continue in the same way

we don't want to be separated from loved ones for eternity but is there any connection between our intense desire to go on and some spiritual truth is there life after death in recent decades how we think about Consciousness and dying from a scientific perspective has changed significantly new research on what happens when you die has challenged many assumptions about our notion of death when your life ends your heart stops beeding and your lungs stop working your brain is no longer receiving oxygen and normal brain activity stops you are technically dead but people have survived past

this point according to several studies one in 10 people claim to have had a conscious experience while they were non-responsive we call them near-death experiences because we believe that what is truly dead will remain dead in reality at least according to all our current definitions of the concept it would be more accurate to describe these as back from death experiences semantics aside these are remarkably similar among those who recall them after resuscitation they often involve visions of traveling through a tunnel some claim to have had an outof body experience or see their whole life flash

Before Their Eyes they meet Spirits or familiar persons that speak with them many report a strong sense of peacefulness and ease which should bring Comfort to those of us who are particularly anxious about death but what exactly is going on in that dying brain If a person flatlined they shouldn't be aware of anything at all is it possible they experiencing Consciousness without a functioning brain If you struggle with your own moral to the point where it's getting in the way of your living then I highly recommend you consider seeing a therapist therapy can help you

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brains of women who were just taken off life support what she discovered is changing how we all think about the dead her findings death shouldn't be considered at a point in time but rather a process the organs don't immediately fail the heart can be restarted and full brain function can return the dying process is sometimes reversible hours after someone has been pronounced clinically dead they can in rare circumstances be recessive ated these instances are not a Divine Miracle just a result of death being a much slower process than we think in one Infamous 2008 case

59-year-old belma Thomas was clinically dead for 17 hours 10 minutes after being taken off a ventilator with her body being prepped for organ removal for transplantation she woke up she was alert and immediately asked for her son the claim up until recently has been that there's no brain activity between cardiac arrest and resuscitation or the period after someone flatlines for near-death experiences to take place they have to happen in this period there has to be a conscious experience when Boren looked at the dying brain she saw that it was surging with high frequency electrical signals

known as gamma waves the areas in the brain associated with Consciousness were incredibly Lively when oxygen was cut off the brain wave synchronized in a way usually associated with heightened attention and memory areas of the brain that are active when more conscious and awake were communicating with areas connected to memory form one hypothesis is that the system that filters different brain functions goes offline when a person is dying giving them access to their entire Consciousness all at once this would explain why people often see their lives Flash before their eyes and remember things that happened

when they had no active memory do you remember everything from your toddler years that's what we're talking about here so what does this say about the brain and Consciousness does this new insight suggest that the physical brain isn't necessary for a conscious experience or that the brain is just very resilient when it comes to oxygen deprivation it could just be the body's attempt to keep itself going for as long as possible in case the heart and lungs resume functioning again there's a lot more to be discovered about Consciousness in the dying brain as the scientific

Horizons of its functionality continue to evolve for now there's one thing we should start doing differently for those who are pronounced dead it's something you might be compelled to do anyway in a state of grief when we sit with the dead we should speak to them them we know that there's brain activity after cardiac rest and that the Mind potentially has some awareness of the space around it patients who have been resuscitated sometimes describe outof body experiences and are able to detail things around them they wouldn't have had access to while in a conscious State

they hear what those around them have been saying in one instance a woman described a shoe placed on a nearby window ledge that she wouldn't have been able to see from her hospital room if we speak to the dead they may be able to hear us I think there's something comforting about the idea of sending a last message to your loved one even if they're unable to respond in kind it's not always possible to be in the room when someone important to us dies you could consider it an opportunity to say something important you never

got a chance to tell them but what do you say exactly do we tell them we love them do we share memories do we show strength or weakness should we be philosophical or spiritual you may have heard of Bardo thodol otherwise known as the Tibetan Book of the Dead it's a popular text about the experience of dying from a Buddhist perspective specifically Tibetan Buddhism It's A Book Like No Other for one obvious reason it's intended to be read to those who have passed on it's also meant to be read in advance to prepare oneself for

death the myth surrounding the text is that it was written in the 8th Century by a Buddhist Mystic named ham sumova he didn't write anything down himself he dictated the book to a princess Yi so who is believed to be the first Tibetan to achieve enlightenment as The Story Goes hu Sova didn't believe beli that the book was right for his time so he hid the text in a cave in Tibet he prophesized that it would be discovered 500 years later and in 1341 a boy named Karma Linka found it by following instructions from a

dream he had the night before it was a dark time in history as the Black Death swept across Asia and Europe making the text highly relevant The tietan Book of the Dead promises that death isn't just the end of Consciousness but an opportunity During the period after death reciting the text is intended to give the deceased a more favorable rebirth this isn't a life filled with riches but one that's more conductive to ending the cycle of rebirth and achieving Nirvana In Tibetan Buddhism the cycle of birth suffering death and then rebirth is endless unless we

do something about it we need to become Buddha likee to liberate ourselves this involves ending the primary sources of suffering within us those being craving and clinging through living ethically and training the mind like the Buddha we can put an end to craving clinging in ultimately our suffering we become like the Buddha in the end cycle of rebirth and if we don't nail buddhahood in this life there's always the next one about 15 years ago 4-year-old Ryan Hammond would spend hours directing imaginary movies in his room he was a creative and imaginative boy around the

same period in time Ryan would get night terrors he'd wake up clutching his chest claiming that his heartb burst in a dream that took place in of all places Hollywood shortly after some of these night terrors Ryan claimed something extraordinary he told his mother that he used to be someone else he had a white house with a pool in Hollywood Ryan insisted that he had three sons but was very distressed when he couldn't remember their names his mother grabbed some books about Hollywood from the library filled with pictures from film Productions and flipping through the

pages the boy recognized a man immediately referring to him as George he was right about the name the man Ryan pointed to was an actor named George Raft a forgotten movie star from the 1930s Ryan also pointed to another man near George and with excitement Ryan insisted that he had found himself he found the man he used to be with the help of University of Virginia psychologist Jim Tucker the family identified the man in the photo as Martin Martin they were able to confirm that he did have three sons as well as a daughter the

daughter agreed to meet Tucker and Ryan where they were able to confirm numerous other details about his life such as his career dancing in New York and his work as a Hollywood agent there are thousands of documented stories of kids roughly between the ages of 2 and five claiming to remember their past lives on numerous occasions children and their parents have been able to confirm the identity of their supposed past life and many details of their memories pieces are stronger than others this phenomenon has been studied mostly by a small group of psychologists led by

Tucker's 20 years of experience in 25 200 cases while they have the evidence that this hints towards the validity of the claims they can't exactly prove reincarnation either Tucker made a rough hypothesis on how reincarnation could be explained using quantum physics workers suggest that the material world may be derived from Consciousness this would suggest that Consciousness doesn't require a world to exist or a living brain it could continue after death onto the brain of another mind the problem with this theory is that the observer effect doesn't require Consciousness to alter the observation making the leap

to suggest that the world could be dependent on Consciousness would need more evidence it's only fair to treat the notion of past lives with skepticism it seems unlikely that these are elaborate hoaxes as the adults involved don't really get anything out of it by coming forward most of the families are also reluctant to seek help to begin with and wish to remain anonymous it's impossible to say how far wishful thinking can drive things such as these the truth is we're drawn to the idea of Consciousness continuing because we fear its permanent end it's just so

hard for us to grasp a life without a perspective non-existence makes little sense to an existing being as exciting as the idea of rebirth is it still doesn't give relief to the heaviest burden of death separation even if there is some truth to the stories of past lives the burden of death is still heavy we ultimately have to say goodbye our cleaning to others inevitably leads to pain when the children who remember past lives get older they tend to move on from these memories they bring them up less and less and eventually they forget them

when Ryan met the daughter of Martin Martin he was struck with how her energy had had changed he became quite shy around her after their meeting Ryan was less interested in his past life in the Tibetan book of The Rebirth isn't intended to excite us with the prospect of more life but the possibility of escaping it regardless of what perspective you view Life Death is an opportunity think about the life you want to flash before your eyes in your final moments and live that life today hey if you like the video videos we make and

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