Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Saturday, September 18, 2010

An Understanding Of 'Out Of Body'

By Michael Evans

It has not yet been established completely whether out of body experiences are for real or not. This is due to the fact there is still no solid proof for the same. An out of body experience or OBE is s feeling of floating outside of the body. G.N.M Tyrrell in his book called Apparitions introduced this term in the year 1943. Subjective awareness from a vantage point outside of one's physical body is described in this book.

Many a times there is linkage of these wiith hypnagogic or hypnopompic dreams, mystical trances, near death experiences, etc. OBE can be contrasted with both astral projection and dreaming.

In an OBE there is a feeling of floating outside of the body however this is not the case with astral projection. When there is dream be it lucid or otherwise, a strong perception of being awake and conscious is there which is in contrast to OBE's.

Same aspects differ with every OBE. It is also possible that there are quite a few diverse types of OBE having dissimilar cause and meaning.

In many OBE cases the person reported either being asleep, or been asleep shortly before or on the verge of sleep. Many of these cases refer to circumstances where this sleep is not mainly deep. This could be due to various factors like illness, emotional stress, noises in other rooms, exhaustion from overworking, etc.

There are other situations as well associated with OBE's; one in which the sensation of being outside the body is rather that is suddenly realized after the fact and almost by accident they see their bodies. Second, they either find themselves being pulled from their bodies or will themselves out of their bodies. These experiences of OBE's are not usually long, may be for a minute or so.

Then there are some OBE's reported which get completed with an unexpected sensation of popping or snapping back into their bodies. Then there are some experiences who have reported to go through religious epiphanies; there are some who experience a universal feeling of peacefulness and love and some who experience nervousness and apprehension. Then there are some experiences reported where there is no directly any kind of spiritual experience.

There are mixed opinions concerning the objective reality of OBEs. A lot of people consider the occurrence is precisely what it feels like and that the soul is departing the body and discovering. Positive OBE accounts have been experienced by many and many claim that the experience was a dream and often quote the experience as having a spiritual effect.

Some experiences of positive OBE accounts have been reported and some maintain that the experience was just like a dream and frequently quote the incidence with a spiritual effect.

We cannot disapprove OBE's; however a solid evidence for these experiences is yet awaited. The study of the observations given by the people who have experienced OBE's has not been done to the satisfaction of the scientific community. Messages are received from out of body experiences or generally they may or may not be recognized at first either in the form of archetype or symbols. A solid proof is yet awaited for these experiences.

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