RELI 2732 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Declared Death In Absentia, Electroencephalography, Spirit Possession
21 Mar 2018
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Observing one"s own body from a distance: near death experiences relate to the function of the physical brain, and how perception works. White sheet; black shadowy people in a line; bright light. ), observing one"s own body from a distance, final return to the body and life points to an attempt to understand a world physically exterior to him. At this time, near death experiences had yet to be sensationalised. He"s confounded by the fact that he"s experiencing this as an alive individual while simultaneously witnessing his death. He"s thinking quite rationally about his experience in its incongruity with reality this isn"t a dream that has its own logic, he understands himself to be fully conscious here. There are both spiritual and scientific representations/observations of near-death experiences. Science: either take a biological or psychological approach. Creatures of body + creatures of thought nature of consciousness and its connection to bodies that physically live and die.
