RELI 2732 Study Guide - Brain Death, Spirit Possession, Nematode
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Reli 2732 - lecture 2 - course intro + primal. Harvard criteria for irreversible coma (*see culearn) - criteria of brain death. Death truly is a metaphysical thought - it is out of our realm. Nematode worms emit blue light in death process (*see culearn) Death is not a moment, it is a process. What is the state of death like? experience of nothingness silence relaxing it is an inconceivable state/notion oblivion darkness unconsciousness. Death can be described as desirable if it is the end of something negative (ie. sickness, suffering) Many secularists believe that a belief in the afterlife is wishful thinking - help ease our minds on the thought and concept of death. Indigenous, primal religious systems have three major characteristics: duality of the universe. Two aspects: the visible (our ordinary life) and the invisible (the place of vast spirit powers, where the dead go) The invisible can sometimes break out into our visible world.
