A Neurosurgeon's Afterlife Experience

[Tampa_Dave]

I read the entire story. Wow!

 

[Luigi_Daniele]

I read the entire story. Wow!

Wow, the story or Wow, because you read it all?

 

[Tampa_Dave]

Wow, the story or Wow, because you read it all?

Wow for the content and wow for how long it took to read. His descriptions of the shimmering flying figures and the merging of senses was quite interesting. And the story of the young woman who ‘spoke’ with him was also fascinating. The story gives oine hope for the afterlife.

 

[Jacqueline1966]

How come everyone goes to Heaven in these NDE’s?

 

[InJesusItrust]

Some go to hell in NDEs.

 

[JRKH]

His experience sounds much like Steve Jobs’ last words of: “Wow, oh Wow, oh Wow!”

Have you ever considered, for just one moment, that God and heaven may be a* little *different than what you yourself have in mind?

Just like this doctor, hundreds of others who’ve had NDEs describe this same all-accepting, all-loving, all-inclusive, non-religion-specific, beautiful experience.

Gotta say, sounds like heaven to me!

I have no doubt that heaven is different than any of us expect.
Eye has not seen, Ear has not heard, what God has prepared for those who Love Him. (1 Cor 2:9).

that said, God has revealed to us that which we are able to understand in ways that we can grasp (if we are wise yet simple) in the fervent hope that we will turn toward Him and reside with him in a place that is, in any human way, indescribable.

Peace
James

 

[JimG]

He’s lucky they didn’t declare him brain-dead and harvest his organs. He managed to open his eyes just in time. Hopefully he will re-evaluate that diagnosis for others in the future and pass on his experience to his colleagues.

Yes. He says that his entire cerebral cortex was shut down. Later on he says this: “The plain fact is that the materialist picture of the body and brain as the producers, rather than the vehicles, of human consciousness is doomed.”

One would think that, as a neurosurgeon, this experience would give him reason to re-evaluate the whole idea of “brain death.” Because he was brain dead.

 

[Holly3278]

Leave it to the comments on this page for all the atheists to come out of the wood work to try and disprove what this doctor experienced. I, personally, have my reservations to the article to begin with. At least from the picture where (presumably) God tells him he can “do no wrong”. That doesn’t sound like God to me? Nothing in his experience “taught” him anything. About coming to Christ’s One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. About living a holy life (as best as he could). Nothing about doing what Christ wants for us. Sounds like a bunch of poppycock to me lol

I thought that when I read it as well that it must have been false since we most certainly can do wrong and we often do do wrong.

I took it to mean that you can do no wrong there.

This is the conclusion that I came to. It can’t mean that during our life on earth we don’t do any wrong because we do wrong all the time. We are always sinning. Therefore it must mean that we can’t do any wrong in Heaven.

I wonder if the woman talking to him was the Blessed Virgin Mary?

 

[masondoggy]

How come everyone goes to Heaven in these NDE’s?

But we don’t really know that what anybody experiences in a NDE is Heaven. It could just be a place outside Heaven where a soul goes, even momentarily, for Judgement. In fact, I seriously doubt anybody in a NDE really see’s actual Heaven because one has to experience the Judgement before they can enter it. It may be very possible that every soul that dies goes to that “place” and that is where the Judgement happens. Just my guess.

Yes. He says that his entire cerebral cortex was shut down. Later on he says this: “The plain fact is that the materialist picture of the body and brain as the producers, rather than the vehicles, of human consciousness is doomed.”

One would think that, as a neurosurgeon, this experience would give him reason to re-evaluate the whole idea of “brain death.” Because he was brain dead.

Well he wasn’t technically brain dead because his brain stem was alive and well. But I think this should be enough proof for those in the medical community who want to redefine brain death that it may not be a good idea to do so…it’s very clear from this guy’s experience (whether it was a NDE or just some natural process) that there is A LOT we don’t know about the human brain. We should proceed with caution.