Thursday, November 6, 2008

Near Death Experience: Fact or Fiction


At the wee hours of the morning, I was having a brush reading on Dr. Melvin Morse’s “The Powerful Effect of Near Death Experiences on People’s Lives.” and was entirely awed by the verbal accounts of person who nearly died or who encounter NDE’s. They have various forms of experience but Dr. Morse cited nine essential traits that more often than not agreed by experts to be commonly entered. One of which was the “Life Review” in which I dredge up a family friend telling us her near death experience after battling a relentless risk of surgery.

“I was moving in at the light’ a light I have never seen before. It was so white like the sun yet my both eyes are wide open and can visibly see it. Then out of nowhere, it showed me my life from my childhood both pleasant and unpleasant for you to evaluate. It felt good as I exactly remember how those things really happened. Then at a halt, I was back and found myself in the recovery room.”

That was the story I remembered she told us and my sister happen to experience the “Out of Body” phenomenon which is also one of the nine traits of NDE’s. I recall she said that she was looking at her own body lying in her bed with still all those bedraggled study books around. It can never be vindicated how all of this can be facts or based on reality unless we experienced it personally.

There are notions that it’s the subconscious mind that crafted and permeated the unconscious mind to transmit it in a form of dreams as Freud would tell. I myself is also apprehensive on things I can never explain and can never find out any answers to it at all; but as I always dream of this purplish-lavender petalled forget-me-nots on a mound of hills overlooking a genial flicker of sunlight on the shoreline where I lolled serenely on a grassy prairie, I too is taken aback how the unknown is slowly finding a place for itself in this world.