About 22 or so months ago I acquired a rather strange habit. Every day at some time I would get on YouTube and do two things. I would read and watch items covering the apartheid Israeli “state” at its daily genocide of the Palestinians: their entire culture, their land, and their lives. What I learned as the days unfolded was that there was no limit to the depravity of the murderers. I would say to myself, going any lower than this is unimaginable—repeatedly, I was wrong. Brand new atrocities would inevitably be reported. The phenomenon is one of bottomless evil.
In contrast to the Zionist horror show, my second chosen habit during this time was to pay attention to stories of people who had near-death experiences (NDEs). I had read many books about this extraordinary experience in the past, but YouTube provides filmed stories told by the experiencers—in their words, voices, and expressive gestures. One thing struck me from all this watching and listening: these were real stories, not inventions. I was moved listening to the different ways each person tried to convey the awesome power of their experience. Few if any who have NDEs want to return to their embodied life. The world they say they entered during their NDE was more appealing (heavenly) than the prospect of life back in their bodies.
The NDE must surely be counted as the most extraordinary psychological phenomenon. We may, I believe, infer from NDEs three revolutionary ideas. First, the thousands if not millions of NDEs over the whole planet clearly point to the reality of another world, another psychospiritual dimension of experience. Humans from the beginning had intuitions of higher spiritual worlds. But now, thanks to new medical technologies, the evidence for this is hugely amplified. Second, each NDE seems tailor made to the unique person. And third, all experiencers seem to encounter some higher agent of guidance associated with a loving light, described as God or an angel.
But now to the point of connection between the two topics: the maniacal murder of children and the scientific research that points to life after death. Surely, most people should view the ND revelation to be good news. People whose lives were abruptly nipped in the bud by death would certainly be thankful. When I think about the many thousands of Palestinian children (and other innocent men and women) being slaughtered as I write, my heart goes out in hope that they will survive and enter another world, a new beginning, a rebirth day. This especially motivates me to explore the evidence for another, a higher and a different world—thank goodness!
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