--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@...> wrote: > > But what if you wish for something really really hard, then I think it could > come true, right? > > Like one time I wished on a star for ten days straight for something I > really, really wanted and on the eleventh day do you know what happened? > > A 12 inch pianist knocked on my door.
I don't get it. > > I figure God's wish spell check app sucks as badly as ours does, but I still > consider it a proof of concept even if it wasn't exactly what I was asking > for. > > > > > --- In [email protected], "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" <anartaxius@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], Emily Reyn <emilymae.reyn@> wrote: > > > > > > Read the book and get back to me...your research is perhaps not > > > comprehensive enough......"There are two ways to be fooled. Â One is to > > > believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true." > > > - Soren Kierkegaard > > > > > > > Only *two* ways to be fooled? You are overly optimistic. Delusion is a > > primary human characteristic. > > > > I have not read this book, probably have not the time. I read another one > > though - 'the Spiritual Doorway in the Brain' by Kevin Nelson, a > > neurologist who has been studying this phenomenon for some 30 years. He > > came to a different conclusion: > > > > Some comments on the Alexander book by others: > > > > http://www.salon.com/2012/11/26/dr_eben_alexanders_so_called_after_life/ > > > > http://www.realitysandwich.com/when_proof_not_enough_eben_alexander > > > > http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/science-on-the-brink-of-death > > > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1385027/Revealed-The-truth-near-death-experiences.html > > > > I tend to think life after death is an idiotic concept if one is attempting > > to be 'spiritual'. > > > > All experiences require consciousness. That is what the 'spirit' in > > 'spiritual' is. It is associated with every possible experience, and it > > does not matter if you can come up with a definition for it or not, we all > > have it. If it was not there, zero experience. No matter what experience, > > consciousness is there, pure existential value. Spiritually this what we > > are. This is our location. It does not matter what the experience is or > > where it seems to be, the consciousness is there as its container so to > > speak. Nothing outside of it can be an experience or knowable. Therefore it > > is meaningless to discuss other places one can be. One's life is just this > > sparkling whatever it is that makes experience possible. It is always where > > you are, because it is you. The other you, the 'me' is just a story inside > > this container that makes life knowable. Its a selective, quirky narrative > > about the relationships within the larger container of experience, and that > > narrative typically borders on insanity. > > > > The people who have NDEs are alive. People who are dead tell us nothing. > > That is the logical gap that makes evaluation of this situation impossible > > to resolve. > > > > Note that about 10% of NDE experiences recorded are hellish. > > > > Perhaps the attitude one has toward this issue is related to the answer to > > this question: 'Are you afraid to die?' My experience is that people who > > believe in an afterlife often seem very fearful of death. They believe they > > are going to a much better place, but seem to have a strong resistance to > > be in that better place. > > >
