Have You Got Questions?
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Do you contemplate suicide. Death seem like a good alternative to life? Are you afraid of what will happen to you if you successfully commit suicide? I've been dead and I can answer those questions.Ever wonder about whether there is life after death? Ever wonder if God is dead, or maybe just ignoring us? Ever wonder about why we, as a race called the human race are here, on this planet, alive in this universe and are there others, or are we the only ones?
These, and all kinds of other questions have intrigued mankind down through the ages. People of Christian 'religion' claim that the bible is the truth and that Jesus Christ is the only way to get to heaven. The Qur'an and Islam on the other hand tell it's followers to kill 'infidels' if they will not convert to Islam. The point I am trying to make with these two choices is this, besides being two of the largest religions on this planet, they both claim to be right. Since there is only one truth, especially in this case, there can only be one right answer. But what if they both are wrong?! What if all the religions on this planet have got the relationship between the other side and our individual souls wrong? What if the truth were even stranger than fiction?
Because millions, if not billions of people believe something to be right when it is a lie, it does not make it the truth. We all wonder what is after death? Is there even life after death? Where do we come from at birth? When does the soul join the body?
The questions that confound some throughout their lives. Others in life are blissfully unaware, either by choice or by their inability to fully comprehend the world and the interrelationship of all the things that happen to put this planet in the position that it now finds itself in.
The other side, or heaven or whatever you want to call it. Does it exist? Where is it if it does exist, and who is right about what it is like? Do you get 72 virgins like the Qur'an states or do you walk around with wings and a harp like the Christians say? Do different races of people end up in different places when they die, or do they all end up in the same place? Where does the human soul come from before birth, or ever before conception?
Who is God, or Allah? Where did he come from? What are we, when the Bible states that mankind is made in God's image? Does that mean that God is a man? Or at least looks like a man? And us, our eternal souls as they are called. How long do we live? In fact, the real question is is there really a soul or is it just a bunch of made up hooey?
Most people fear death because it is an unknown. The people that have had what is called a "near death experience" or N.D.E. as they are 'scientifically' referred to sometimes speak of seeing a light and talking to voices. Some people are told to go back, that it is not their time, while others are accepted to the other side. So do we believe these people who have had verifiable N.D.E.'s or do we still wonder? If your anything like me you just need to find out for yourself, you just don't quite believe people or you have some kind of drive inside you that you just want that experience for yourself. Personally, I just want the experience for itself. I want to know exactly what it is, how it feels and what the repercussions are.
All of the questions I have listed above are things that I have thought about over time. After all, I'm 56 as of the writing of this and it is 2012. I've been on the disabled list, and unable to work for over 8 years so I've had some time to think.
When I was a young man of 24, I attempted suicide. The reasons are not of importance, but the experience is. During that attempt to take my own life I had one of those N.D.E.'s, or at least for years I wasn't sure exactly what had happened since N.D.E.'s as a subject were not exactly parlor talk back in the 1970's. My experience at that time was as follows. During my attempt to take my life I had ingested 30 secobarbital capsules. Latter, I was to find out that this was more than enough to kill two people. As I was being rushed to the hospital my heart stopped beating for about 3 minutes in the back of the ambulance and I was kept alive by artificial respiration. My heart was restarted by the doctors at the hospital. During that time I saw the same light like everyone else describes, but I was stopped from going into the light and told that it was not my time and that I had to go back. I asked why I couldn't continue and I was told that there was a need for me, but that I had to be patient. I was also told that if I attempted suicide again I would not be successful because of this need for me in the future. That was 1979. I waited for years. I used to think it was just some weird hallucination from lack of oxygen or something, but just to play it safe I never attempted suicide since then. I've had a couple of situations where doctors called it a miracle that I survived. Like the car accident I was in. I had 4 of 5 lung sac's collapse during that accident. I was left in the emergency room with virtually no treatment and NO oxygen until I was begging for it hours after admittance.
There were two thoracic (chest) doctors working on me during my stay in the hospital. The stay was 10 days in total. When I saw these two doctors the day I was discharged the younger doctor asked me if I was going to sue the emergency department doctor that attended me. I asked why he would ask such a question and he stated that this doctor had almost killed me. It was their opinion that neither one of them could explain how I lived. The one doctor said that he has never heard of a patient having collapsed lungs, but only one small sac remaining operational. I should explain, the human lungs are actually made up of 5 separate compartments, two on the left and three on the right. The sac that remained inflated was the sac in the center on the right hand lung. They were especially amazed that I had survived for over 3 hours before finally being administered oxygen.
So I've been through experiences that no other human should have to endure, yet I endure. Times that I should have died and I didn't. The point is that during the second experience that I had I found out many things about why this place is the way that it is. I understand that without a doubt in my mind I know that there is a place after this. A place that we all go to, no matter what our religion, no matter if we believe or not, no matter what color we are, no matter what intelligence
These, and all kinds of other questions have intrigued mankind down through the ages. People of Christian 'religion' claim that the bible is the truth and that Jesus Christ is the only way to get to heaven. The Qur'an and Islam on the other hand tell it's followers to kill 'infidels' if they will not convert to Islam. The point I am trying to make with these two choices is this, besides being two of the largest religions on this planet, they both claim to be right. Since there is only one truth, especially in this case, there can only be one right answer. But what if they both are wrong?! What if all the religions on this planet have got the relationship between the other side and our individual souls wrong? What if the truth were even stranger than fiction?
Because millions, if not billions of people believe something to be right when it is a lie, it does not make it the truth. We all wonder what is after death? Is there even life after death? Where do we come from at birth? When does the soul join the body?
The questions that confound some throughout their lives. Others in life are blissfully unaware, either by choice or by their inability to fully comprehend the world and the interrelationship of all the things that happen to put this planet in the position that it now finds itself in.
The other side, or heaven or whatever you want to call it. Does it exist? Where is it if it does exist, and who is right about what it is like? Do you get 72 virgins like the Qur'an states or do you walk around with wings and a harp like the Christians say? Do different races of people end up in different places when they die, or do they all end up in the same place? Where does the human soul come from before birth, or ever before conception?
Who is God, or Allah? Where did he come from? What are we, when the Bible states that mankind is made in God's image? Does that mean that God is a man? Or at least looks like a man? And us, our eternal souls as they are called. How long do we live? In fact, the real question is is there really a soul or is it just a bunch of made up hooey?
Most people fear death because it is an unknown. The people that have had what is called a "near death experience" or N.D.E. as they are 'scientifically' referred to sometimes speak of seeing a light and talking to voices. Some people are told to go back, that it is not their time, while others are accepted to the other side. So do we believe these people who have had verifiable N.D.E.'s or do we still wonder? If your anything like me you just need to find out for yourself, you just don't quite believe people or you have some kind of drive inside you that you just want that experience for yourself. Personally, I just want the experience for itself. I want to know exactly what it is, how it feels and what the repercussions are.
All of the questions I have listed above are things that I have thought about over time. After all, I'm 56 as of the writing of this and it is 2012. I've been on the disabled list, and unable to work for over 8 years so I've had some time to think.
When I was a young man of 24, I attempted suicide. The reasons are not of importance, but the experience is. During that attempt to take my own life I had one of those N.D.E.'s, or at least for years I wasn't sure exactly what had happened since N.D.E.'s as a subject were not exactly parlor talk back in the 1970's. My experience at that time was as follows. During my attempt to take my life I had ingested 30 secobarbital capsules. Latter, I was to find out that this was more than enough to kill two people. As I was being rushed to the hospital my heart stopped beating for about 3 minutes in the back of the ambulance and I was kept alive by artificial respiration. My heart was restarted by the doctors at the hospital. During that time I saw the same light like everyone else describes, but I was stopped from going into the light and told that it was not my time and that I had to go back. I asked why I couldn't continue and I was told that there was a need for me, but that I had to be patient. I was also told that if I attempted suicide again I would not be successful because of this need for me in the future. That was 1979. I waited for years. I used to think it was just some weird hallucination from lack of oxygen or something, but just to play it safe I never attempted suicide since then. I've had a couple of situations where doctors called it a miracle that I survived. Like the car accident I was in. I had 4 of 5 lung sac's collapse during that accident. I was left in the emergency room with virtually no treatment and NO oxygen until I was begging for it hours after admittance.
There were two thoracic (chest) doctors working on me during my stay in the hospital. The stay was 10 days in total. When I saw these two doctors the day I was discharged the younger doctor asked me if I was going to sue the emergency department doctor that attended me. I asked why he would ask such a question and he stated that this doctor had almost killed me. It was their opinion that neither one of them could explain how I lived. The one doctor said that he has never heard of a patient having collapsed lungs, but only one small sac remaining operational. I should explain, the human lungs are actually made up of 5 separate compartments, two on the left and three on the right. The sac that remained inflated was the sac in the center on the right hand lung. They were especially amazed that I had survived for over 3 hours before finally being administered oxygen.
So I've been through experiences that no other human should have to endure, yet I endure. Times that I should have died and I didn't. The point is that during the second experience that I had I found out many things about why this place is the way that it is. I understand that without a doubt in my mind I know that there is a place after this. A place that we all go to, no matter what our religion, no matter if we believe or not, no matter what color we are, no matter what intelligence
What is death? Some people are terrified of it. Others can't wait to feel it's embrace. Others still, want to bring it upon themselves and hasten the process along. It's called suicide. Now the big question is how does life relate to death? Do we keep going, and if we do, whats it like? Do we come back again, or is this really the only time we will be here? So many questions surround death. Death is supposed to be a permanent thing, an irreversible situation. No one can go to the other side and stay for more than a few minutes, or so it seems.
Modern medical science, as it's called, seems to be able to do wondrous things. One of the best things that has come out of medical science is open heart surgery. When I was a kid, if you got a heart condition, then you had to live with it. There was no miracle surgery. Eventually the condition would claim your life. But now in the future (at least the future to my history) modern medical science can fix that problem. It's called open heart surgery. Although it is a wonderful medical procedure that saves many lives globally, it is a process that is ill thought out.
Most medical and for that matter scientific people seem to have a penchant for disbelief in the afterlife. Some have a problem believing in a higher power, whatever you want to call it. That is why operations like this one can be performed on people without a single thought to what the psychological effects will be from your body being dead for over two hours. The symptom of what doctors call 'pump head' is well documented. It is the physical and psychological impairment that people suffer when their bodies are 'put into a state of extended suspended animation'. That is to say that their heart is stopped. Their lung functions are stopped. The body is then cooled to around 90 degrees F and the blood is artificially oxygenated and pumped throughout the body to maintain tissue viability during the operation which, as I said can last for over 2 hours in that state and as long as 10-12 hours overall.
So if your body is dead, then what happens to this thing called the soul during all this? Does it just hang around in this 'dead' body waiting to be re-animated? Does it go for a walk around the hospital trying to kill time so to speak, or does it transition the life/death barrier and wait on the other side until it's determined whether you live from the operation or you die? This I can't give you the answer to. But what I can tell you about is my experience.
Modern medical science, as it's called, seems to be able to do wondrous things. One of the best things that has come out of medical science is open heart surgery. When I was a kid, if you got a heart condition, then you had to live with it. There was no miracle surgery. Eventually the condition would claim your life. But now in the future (at least the future to my history) modern medical science can fix that problem. It's called open heart surgery. Although it is a wonderful medical procedure that saves many lives globally, it is a process that is ill thought out.
Most medical and for that matter scientific people seem to have a penchant for disbelief in the afterlife. Some have a problem believing in a higher power, whatever you want to call it. That is why operations like this one can be performed on people without a single thought to what the psychological effects will be from your body being dead for over two hours. The symptom of what doctors call 'pump head' is well documented. It is the physical and psychological impairment that people suffer when their bodies are 'put into a state of extended suspended animation'. That is to say that their heart is stopped. Their lung functions are stopped. The body is then cooled to around 90 degrees F and the blood is artificially oxygenated and pumped throughout the body to maintain tissue viability during the operation which, as I said can last for over 2 hours in that state and as long as 10-12 hours overall.
So if your body is dead, then what happens to this thing called the soul during all this? Does it just hang around in this 'dead' body waiting to be re-animated? Does it go for a walk around the hospital trying to kill time so to speak, or does it transition the life/death barrier and wait on the other side until it's determined whether you live from the operation or you die? This I can't give you the answer to. But what I can tell you about is my experience.
I've died twice in my life. The first time I was told that it was not my time and that I had to go back. I asked why and was told there was a need for me but that I had to be patient. Twenty eight years later I was made clinically dead for two hours so surgeons could work on my heart to save my life. I spent over two hours on the other side and underwent a profound change. A change that I have to live with for the rest of my life, because I was given the choice to either stay on the other side or to come back, unlike my first experience. When I chose to come back I was told that I had 20-25 years left. What will happen to mankind in that time is what I'm supposed to watch during this time. If what I was shown was true, then we are in for a real bad time in the next 30 years. Not only will there be wars over resources, but man is so short sighted that we can not think much past our own life times as to how our decisions will affect the world in 50, 100 or 300 years from now. This is assuming we get through the net 300 years and survive as a species.
From what I was shown on the other side that likelihood is slim to say the least. Human beings by their very nature are violent creatures. All we have to do is look at the past 100 years in human history to see that this is reality. Add to this the fact that we don't really understand our true relationship to this planet or life at all in the context of the big picture and you can begin to understand our disadvantage.
Since my visit to the other side I have learned to view the world for the reality that it is. A very violent and precarious place that tests the limits of our souls on a daily basis. Kinda sounds like hell doesn't it? The only problem is that hell doesn't exist. It's just an imaginary place that some people long ago thought up so as to help to keep people in line out of fear. The devil, as we call him does exist, only again we are fed disinformation to confuse and scare us. You can call me what ever you like, but he does exist and he does walk among us, it's just not the type of relationship that the bible teaches us about. What I found in my sojourn is that the bible is a book of half truths. People who take it in a literal sense are well intended but misguided. The bible is exactly what mankind wants it to be. And if it isn't, then they just change it to suite their needs. This book was not written by the other side. It's been written through history by a bunch of very confused, illiterate humans trying to make sense from a world that doesn't seem to make sense. I believe that many writings in the bible were brought about by people who had had near death experiences and didn't know how to explain what they had seen and heard during that experience. Near death experiences date back to as long as mankind has been on this planet. It's not some new kind of phenomena. We just hear more about it because of modern medicine and the fact that they can bring you back from the brink much more successfully.
From what I was shown on the other side that likelihood is slim to say the least. Human beings by their very nature are violent creatures. All we have to do is look at the past 100 years in human history to see that this is reality. Add to this the fact that we don't really understand our true relationship to this planet or life at all in the context of the big picture and you can begin to understand our disadvantage.
Since my visit to the other side I have learned to view the world for the reality that it is. A very violent and precarious place that tests the limits of our souls on a daily basis. Kinda sounds like hell doesn't it? The only problem is that hell doesn't exist. It's just an imaginary place that some people long ago thought up so as to help to keep people in line out of fear. The devil, as we call him does exist, only again we are fed disinformation to confuse and scare us. You can call me what ever you like, but he does exist and he does walk among us, it's just not the type of relationship that the bible teaches us about. What I found in my sojourn is that the bible is a book of half truths. People who take it in a literal sense are well intended but misguided. The bible is exactly what mankind wants it to be. And if it isn't, then they just change it to suite their needs. This book was not written by the other side. It's been written through history by a bunch of very confused, illiterate humans trying to make sense from a world that doesn't seem to make sense. I believe that many writings in the bible were brought about by people who had had near death experiences and didn't know how to explain what they had seen and heard during that experience. Near death experiences date back to as long as mankind has been on this planet. It's not some new kind of phenomena. We just hear more about it because of modern medicine and the fact that they can bring you back from the brink much more successfully.
