muaz mohammed

(1) My thoughts on the book: (Life after Life) by Raymond Moody • Out of body experiences seem fairly real to the persons experiencing them, I think they believe that the events which took place during their out of body experiences were indeed reality, and to some extend; the writer highly supports their psychological and well-minded state and he assures that they clearly differentiate reality from dreams, hallucinations, or any other probable explanation. • One of the interesting faculties of these stories is the high similarity level between the informants as to the events, the order in which they occur, the feelings that overcome the person, and their emotional and psychological state after the experience is over. Another thing is that sometimes it is reported that the person involved tells of events, dialogues, or locations that they have never seen or been during the experience whilst their body is being resuscitated and in no apparent way could those people know these things using their ‘’physical body’’, and they most of the time turn-out to be true things. Examples of this include reciting the dialogues of doctors and nurses that were spoken while in the out-of-body state, knowing (without any medical background) what the doctors gave or did to them, describing other rooms in the hospital that they have never been into, and telling others of what and where they were doing during the resuscitation attempts. • All of these stories have not talked about seeing heaven, hell, angels, or most of the standard religion-drawn images of the afterlife. Even in the ‘’review’’ stage as called by the author, when you’re presented with all your life events in rapid flashes, the ‘’being of light’’ does not blame or judge the bad/selfish acts of the person, but rather imply that they were learning during those times. While it applauds the good-loving deeds of the person when they appear. The ‘’being of light’’ was also reported to focus on two main things, love and knowledge. It continuously emphasized the importance of love for others, and constantly acquiring knowledge as a continuous process. • There are also interesting writings from two sources that represent remarkable similarities to the stories told in this book; the events described in The Tibetan Book of The Dead, and the stories that Emanuel Swedenborg has told of his personal near death experiences. • There is an interesting phenomenon that yet to be explained called (autoscopic) or something in that sense, when the person sees himself (mostly the upper half or from the neck up) in front of him in a clear way, while hearing his other voice, the ‘’other’’ him would do different things to what he’s doing, and speak different things. • Plato’s ideas on the afterlife or the beginning stages of the afterlife present striking similarities of what these people reported to have happened to them.