Originally Posted by
bmcer
It's a bit OT, but when I mention what happened to me,I do get that question a lot. It's very,very hard to respond with a simple answer.Let's just say the experience changed me permanently. This much I can tell you for sure. There's a whole lot more to human consciousness than can be accounted by for sum total of the electro-chemical activity in that 3 pound organ between your ears.. Don't mean to be obtuse, but what I experience doesn't seem to fit the classical near-death stories I've heard. But the simple fact that I did experience something tells me Shakespeare got it right "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Hamlet (1.5.167-8)
You are a thoughtful man. There is a paradigm shift on the notion of consciousness within he medical community which in many ways is still in the stone age. The changing view is consciousness is not the personal domain of a given person..nor is the voice in a person's head any sort of definition of consciousness. A better explanation is...consciousness is a collective of infinite intelligence and each of our brain's are a reducing valve. This also better fits the concept of genius, idiot savant syndrome and of course precocity like Mozart composing complex music by the age of 3 when a human being can't possibly have the experience to formulate such creativity. This is why when we pass and the brain's restriction dies, we realign with this infinite intelligence...as often written about in NDE's.
Glad you came back to us to ride some more.