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Sun 03/05/23 11:59 PM
Near-death experiences with vision in the blind and supernormal vision
There have been a few case reports of near-death experiences in the blind. The largest study of this was by Dr. Kenneth Ring. This Investigation included 31 blind or substantially visually impaired individuals who had NDEs or out-of-body experiences. Of the 31 individuals in the study, 10 were not facing life-threatening events at the time of their experiences, and thus their experiences were not NDEs. There were 14 individuals who were blind from birth in this study, and nine of them described vision during their experiences. This investigation presented case reports of those born totally blind that described in NDEs that were highly visual with content consistent with typical NDEs.
The NDERF website has received additional case reports of near-death experiences among those legally blind. For illustration, the following NDE happened to Marta, a five-year-old blind girl who walked into a lake:
“I slowly breathed in the water and became unconscious. A beautiful lady dressed in bright white light pulled me out. The lady looked into my eyes asked me what I wanted. I was unable to think of anything until it occurred to me to travel around the lake. As I did so, I saw detail that I would not have seen in “real” life. I could go anywhere, even to the tops of trees, simply by my intending to go there. I was legally blind. For the first time I was able to see leaves on trees, bird’s feathers, bird’s eyes, details on telephone poles and what was in people’s back yards. I was seeing far better than 20/20 vision.

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Fri 03/03/23 11:00 PM
Two large retrospective studies investigated the accuracy of out-of-body observations during near-death experiences. The first was by Dr. Janice Holden. Dr. Holden reviewed NDEs with OBEs in all previously published scholarly articles and books, and found 89 case reports. Of the case reports reviewed, 92% were considered to be completely accurate with no inaccuracy whatsoever when the OBE observations were later investigated.
Another large retrospective investigation of near-death experiences that included out-of-body observations was recently published. This study was a review of 617 NDEs that were sequentially shared on the NDERF website. Of these NDEs, there were 287 NDEs that had OBEs with sufficient information to allow objective determination of the reality of their descriptions of their observations during the OBEs. Review of the 287 OBEs found that 280 (97.6%) of the OBE descriptions were entirely realistic and lacked any content that seemed unreal. In this group of 287 NDErs with OBEs, there were 65 (23%) who personally investigated the accuracy of their own OBE observations after recovering from their life-threatening event. Based on these later investigations, none of these 65 OBErs found any inaccuracy in their own OBE observations.

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Thu 03/02/23 03:58 AM
Human bodies can move on their own after death, study finds
Researchers studying the process of decomposition in a body after death from natural causes found that, without any external “assistance,” human remains can change their position. This discovery has important implications for forensic science
Often, forensic scientists will assume that the position in which they find a dead body is the one that the person was in at the time of death — unless, that is, there is evidence that external factors, such as scavengers or a perpetrator, may have altered it.
However, new research led by Alyson Wilson — from Central Queensland University in Rockhampton, Australia — now suggests that human bodies can actually be somewhat restless after death.
This discovery — which Wilson and colleagues have not yet reported in a paper they have published — is linked to a larger project, concerning the use of time-lapse imaging techniques to estimate the time since death. This latter project’s findings appear in Forensic Science International: Synergy.
For the research, the investigators had access to a donated human body — “a mature male who died of natural causes.”
The researchers recorded the body’s full decomposition within the premises of the Australian Facility for Taphonomic Experimental Research (AFTER), the only body farm in Australia.
Researchers use such facilities to investigate how human bodies decompose — or remain preserved — under different conditions.
The findings from research projects such as the current one often help forensic scientists develop more accurate ways of determining essential information — including time or place of death — at a crime scene.
Bodies keep on shifting as they decompose
In this research, the investigators were able to make sure that scavenging animals that might feed on decaying flesh could not reach the body, and thus alter its position.
The team took photos of the decomposition process of the body over more than 17 months and found that the remains appeared to move on their own.
For instance, while they initially placed the arms alongside the body, at one point, the researchers note, the arms shifted and were flung to one side.
“We think the movements relate to the process of decomposition, as the body mummifies and the ligaments dry out,” explains Wilson in an interview for the Agence France-Presse.
Wilson and colleagues believe that understanding when such shifts are likely to occur during the process of decomposition could help forensic scientists provide more accurate estimates of the time of death.
It could also, the researchers add, help reduce the possibility that forensic investigators will make incorrect deductions about crime scenes.
“They’ll map a crime scene, they’ll map the victim’s body position, they’ll map any physical evidence which is found, and they can understand the cause of death,” says Wilson.
The researcher believes this may well be the first time that someone has attempted to match natural alterations in a body’s position after death with different stages of the process of decomposition.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/326281

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Wed 03/01/23 12:40 AM
The first prospective study of the accuracy of out-of-body observations during near-death experiences was by Dr. Michael Sabom. This study investigated a group of patients who had cardiac arrests with NDEs that included OBEs, and compared them with a control group of patients who experienced cardiac crises but did not have NDEs. Both groups of patients were asked to describe their own resuscitation as best they could. Sabom found that the group of NDE patients were much more accurate than the control group in describing their own resuscitations.
Another prospective study of out-of-body observations during near-death experiences with similar methodology to Sabom’s study was published by Dr. Penny Sartori. This study also found that near-death experiencers were often remarkably accurate in describing details of their own resuscitations. The control group that did not have NDEs was highly inaccurate and often could only guess at what occurred during their resuscitations.

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Mon 02/27/23 11:17 PM

The view of earthly religions (non-heavenly) about death;
In the Pharaonic civilization, they believed in resurrection after death, and that mummification was essential for safe passage from the world of the living to the afterlife.
The Hindu holy book (200-500 B.C.), makes death in the grip of the god “Shiva,” the god of solution and annihilation. They cremate the dead and his family takes the ashes of his body and scatters it in the holy river. Sikhs do the same in that ritual.
In the Zoroastrian religion (444 B.C.), death is the work of Satan, so they leave the dead naked on the roof of a tower. The birds of prey eat it and bones remain, in a hole that the sun purifies them from the defilement of sin, so that bliss enters.
The Greeks and Romans cremated their dead. Lucretius, the first BC Roman philosopher, said in the poem “The Nature of the Universe” that “death is not annihilation, but rather the severing of connections and linking them into new groups.” This view was expressed by the Roman philosopher, Lucius (4 BC), when he said: “A person may lose his life at any time, but not existence.”
In the Buddhist religion, they leave the corpses on top of a mountain. A specialized man cuts them to be eaten by animals and birds, leaving the bones. Then the man beats them with a hammer and mixes them with flour, butter, milk and sugar, and leaves them for the vultures to eat. They believe in reincarnation, which means that the soul of the dead person is transferred to the body of another human being, animal or plant.
Denying death or fleeing from it
Hedonists deny death. They see it as not a natural part of the life cycle, but rather an external enemy, which must be fought by satisfying the desires of the soul, whatever the consequences.
The ancient alchemists in Europe went through a long experiment to discover the “elixir of immortality”. When Ponce discovered Florida in 1513, he had been searching for more than three years for a "fountain of youth" that would "rejuvenate all who drink from it."
The Spanish Saint Teresa said 500 years ago: “Remember that you have one soul, one death, one life… When you realize that, you will know that you have neglected many things in your life.”

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Mon 02/27/23 10:55 PM
A 2020 study that investigated hearing in palliative care patients who were close to death provides evidence that some people may still be able to hear while in an unresponsive state. Electroencephalography (EEG) was used to measure the dying brain's response to sound. The findings suggest that telling a person you love them in their final moments may register with them.

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Mon 02/27/23 01:01 AM
“The fury of nature seemed to cause the institutions on which our society is based – those of government, commerce, and civil society – to crumble. First responders appeared overwhelmed as accounts of widespread looting, vandalism, theft, assault, and murder headlined newspapers and as the images of our fellow citizens literally swimming for their lives appeared on television and computer screens. The slow and seemingly inept responses of government at all levels both in preparation for and recovery from the storm infuriated Americans.” (Chamlee-Wright & Rothschild,)
The fury of nature followed by the fury of citizens railing at government ineptitude – in this case, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina – is a disturbingly familiar scenario. The frequency of public dissatisfaction with government response to major disasters raises two important questions for the well-being of our republic: “Is public fury justified?” and, perhaps more importantly, “Is railing at government the best approach to ensuring effective action in the next disaster?” This lesson examines contemporary expectations of government in the wake of disaster and the prevailing assumption that only government is big enough to deal with major disasters by first looking at those tasks that government does well. Then, we will turn our attention to when and why government is unlikely to meet our expectations.

https://www.fte.org/teachers/teacher-resources/lesson-plans/disasterslessons/lesson-3-when-disaster-strikes-what-can-government-do/

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Sat 02/25/23 04:48 AM
Religion serves several functions for society. These include (a) giving meaning and purpose to life, (b) reinforcing social unity and stability, (c) serving as an agent of social control of behavior, (d) promoting physical and psychological well-being, and (e) motivating people to work for positive social change.

https://open.lib.umn.edu/sociology/chapter/17-3-sociological-perspectives-on-religion/#:~:text=Religion%20serves%20several%20functions%20for,work%20for%20positive%20social%20change.

Contemporary examples of theocracies include Afghanistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Mauritania, a small country in the western North Africa, is an Islamic republic with a theocratic government and Vatican City. All other countries are with non-religion governments.

The top Total Wealth Countries in 2021 were; America, China, Japan, Germany, United Kingdom, France, India, Canada, Italy, Australia etc. All of them are non-religions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_wealth


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Thu 02/23/23 10:51 PM
In 1998, a website called the Near Death Experience Research Foundation (NDERF, nderf.org) was established to conduct NDE research and to be a public service.
Portions of the NDERF website, including the NDE questionnaire, have been posted in over 20 different languages.
This prominence of the NDERF website provided a unique opportunity to conduct a large-scale study of NDEs, including NDEs from around the world. At the current time there are over 3,700 NDEs posted on the NDERF website, which is by far the largest collection of publicly accessible NDE accounts in the world.

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Thu 02/23/23 06:07 AM
Why does God allow natural disasters to occur?
This question has preoccupied many philosophers, thinkers, and clerics throughout the ages. Some clerics consider it a divine punishment for humans, if they disobey God or violate His orders or reject the prophets and messengers to them.
In the middle of the eighteenth century, earthquakes occurred in Peru, Chile, and Lisbon. The Lisbon earthquake was the most influential. It happened on All Saints' Day, when most of the population was in churches celebrating and singing religious hymns. The earthquake completely destroyed the city, including churches. The number of victims of this earthquake alone reached about 70,000, and it led to high waves from the sea that stormed the coasts of Portugal, Spain and France.
The questions asked at that time were: If this earthquake was an act of God, then how does it happen on the day, while the believers were gathered reciting religious songs and chanting supplications? Or are these disasters only natural phenomena?
The Scottish Thomas Gordon (1692-1750) said that natural disasters are phenomena whose causes are completely natural, and that they cannot be a divine punishment; ecause it does not distinguish between believers and non-believers.
As for the Catholic clergy, especially in South America, they viewed the earthquakes as a divine punishment for the corruption of people's morals, and for not following the teachings of the (Catholic) religion.
Voltaire (1694-1778); adopted Deism, which according to him means that God created laws for the world, and man must know them and conduct his affairs according to them. So natural disasters are part of nature alone. This is what Rousseau (1712-1778) concluded, as well as others.
Is it impossible for man to control the laws of nature?
Natural disasters continue. Each year there are thousands of earthquakes, large and small, and dozens of storms, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, and other violent phenomena.
No geologist claims that the earth's movements associated with earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis become more violent than before. It is scientifically certain that such incidents are repeated.
The authorities have recognized that human activities have made our environment more vulnerable to natural disasters and more vulnerable to them as well. In some developing countries, the increased need for food has led to deforestation. This leads to serious soil erosion. Another example is the drought in the African coast. It leads to starvation, and death. But is the famine in that region solely the result of a lack of water? The ongoing desertification of the coast is largely a human-caused phenomenon. . .
Studies have shown that deaths from natural disasters are much higher in the poorer nations than in the richer nations of the world. For example, from 1960 to 1981, there were 43 earthquakes and other disasters in Japan that killed 2,700 people, with an average of 63 fatalities for each disaster. In the same period, 31 disasters occurred in Peru resulting in 91,000 deaths, or 2,900 per disaster. Why the difference? Answer: Human social, economic, and political activity should take responsibility for the huge difference in the loss of life and the destruction of property.
Another example; it is well known that the coastal delta of Bangladesh is constantly threatened by floods and tsunamis. Nevertheless, millions of Bangladeshis continue to live there. The result is repeated disasters and hundreds of thousands of deaths.
Did God command the Bangladeshis not to work to avoid danger or not to move away from it?
In return, the Japanese learned how to make earthquakes pass with minimal losses. In 2022, Japan experienced eight earthquakes of magnitude five or greater. One of them was of 7.3 degree, cutting electric power of two million homes but killing only two people.

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Mon 02/20/23 01:11 AM
Father Seraphim provides personal testimony:
‘’It is from the illness of my spiritual father, Archbishop Kallinikos, Archbishop of Edessa. After he underwent surgery to remove a brain tumor he fell into a deep coma. Doctors said that he was on the verge between life and death. When he regained consciousness a few days later, he spoke with heavy tears. He saw his soul outside his body, and he was seeing all of us preparing for the funeral. He pointed to a specific nurse who used to write down his measurements to buy him the shroud. He said that at that hour he was reciting the prayer of separating the dead to himself.’’
Orthodox point of view
‘’We do not have the right to dismiss all experiences just because they are beyond our assumptions. Nor should we act like atheists who think that the soul is a simple energy for the body and perishes with it.
In Evergitinos there are examples that clearly indicate a state after death. Including about Boutros the monk who “got sick and died.” Then he saw all the torments of hell and places of fire. Then his soul was returned to his body. He declared everything he saw and lived in repentance.’’

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Sun 02/19/23 11:50 PM
Edited by LUNG1954 on Sun 02/19/23 11:53 PM
The scientists have noticed that some people, at the moment of death or when they came back to life after death, saw very special and strange events that could not be explained by the science of traditional medicine.
In America the psychiatrist Moody has collected the experiences of fifty people after death.
Demons approach a person during his life, but he gets the help of angels, when his soul separates from his body.
Father Seraphim Rose focuses his attention on some of the points that Moody notes. First, “out-of-body experiences.” They are experiences that everyone felt as a state in which the soul leaves the body, yet it does not continue in its consciousness. The soul feels commendable warmth and ease, and it sees the people surrounding the dead body but cannot communicate with them.
Secondly, “meeting with others.” That is, as Modi says, the soul feels lonely for only a short time, and then it feels like it meets others where it suddenly sees, relatives and friends who have died.
The common feature of these post-death experiences is the “entity of light” or the “enlightening entity.” All those who have had such experiences describe the appearance of a light rapidly increasing in brightness. And they all recognized him as a certain personality filled with warmth and love, to whom the recently deceased was attracted by a kind of magnetic attraction. Some of them insisted that this figure is Jesus , and others insisted that he is an angel.
My note:
The dying person sees the angel of death and knows him, so he knows that he will die


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Sun 02/19/23 12:55 AM

A study evaluated the VMAT2 gene expression in 1000 religious persons compared to 1000 non-religious.
It found that the more genes to be expressed, as well as the talented people being religious and belief in God and the hereafter will be even more. But the important thing is that, living environment and ecosystem of life and lifestyle affect the expression of this gene. In other words, with the performance and activity of the gene VMAT2, being religious in human beings is remarkable, but the lifestyle and living ecosystem can also increase or decrease the speed performance of these genes and play an important role.



THE BIOLOGY OF RELATIONSHIPS: WHAT BEHAVIORAL GENETICS TELLS US ABOUT INTERACTIONS AMONG FAMILY MEMBERS
Laura A. Baker, Associate Professor
Human behavior is subject to genetic variations. The ways in which individuals differ in their intellectual abilities, personalities, and mental health are, to a large extent, functions of their inherited genetic predispositions. Decades of research on twins, adoptees, and families have led to the inescapable conclusion that most reliably measured psychological characteristics are influenced to some degree by genes. Behavior also shows signs of genetic influence; the way one experiences stressful life events, for example, shows some genetic influence. Even personal aspects of individuals, such as spirituality and political ideology, are affected to an extent by genes.1 It should come as no surprise, then, that genes influence the ways in which families function and how family members relate to one another.2 Familial relationships of all kinds—parent-child, sibling, and spousal—can be shown to be at least partially the product of genetic factors.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4685725/#:~:text=Human%20behavior%20is%20subject%20to,of%20their%20inherited%20genetic%20predispositions.

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Sun 02/19/23 12:33 AM
Human brain may stay active for hours after death
The team of scientists from New York’s Stony Brook University of Medicine, looked at patients with cardiac arrests in Europe and the US. They noted that those of the patients who were successfully resuscitated after their heart had stopped beating could recall the conversations around them between the healthcare personnel and were aware of their surroundings.
Study leader Dr. Sam Parnia said that the patients could describe in details what happened around them. He explained that the time death is declared is the one when the heart stops beating. As the heart stops beating, it stops pumping blood to the brain and slowly the brain begins to shut down, he explains. He added that this process of the brain shutting down slowly may take hours and the person may be dead during this time but aware of their surroundings.

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Sun 02/19/23 12:16 AM
THE LIMITLESS POWER OF GOD
October 7th, 2020 by Enrique Brooks

https://thryve.church/blog/2020/10/07/the-limitless-power-of-god#:~:text=God's%20power%20is%20limitless.,but%20God's%20power%20is%20limitless.

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Sun 02/19/23 12:11 AM
In Ephesians 1:18-19, Paul prayed for the Ephesians to comprehend how great God’s power was in their lives. In fact, he says the power is “incomparably great,” meaning that there is no power like it (v. 19). There is no power greater—not the atomic bomb, not love, not hate, nor anything else.

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Sun 02/19/23 12:05 AM
The Bible said:
“God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?”
The Quran said:
“[God is] Creator of the heavens and the earth. He has made for you from yourselves, mates, and among the cattle, mates; He multiplies you thereby. There is nothing like unto Him, and He is the Hearing, the Seeing.’’

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Sat 02/18/23 05:00 AM
Angela Morrow, RN, BSN, CHPN, is a certified hospice and palliative care nurse. She wrote;
When a person knows they are dying, they have the opportunity to do five important things:
1. Apologize for past mistakes
2. Forgive others for their mistakes
3. Thank those people who matter most
4. Say "I love you" to those they love
5. Say goodbye
Without the opportunity to do these valuable things, your loved one could die with unfinished business.

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Sat 02/18/23 04:56 AM
A study evaluated the VMAT2 gene expression in 1000 religious persons compared to 1000 non-religious.
It found that the more genes to be expressed, as well as the talented people being religious and belief in God and the hereafter will be even more. But the important thing is that, living environment and ecosystem of life and lifestyle affect the expression of this gene. In other words, with the performance and activity of the gene VMAT2, being religious in human beings is remarkable, but the lifestyle and living ecosystem can also increase or decrease the speed performance of these genes and play an important role.

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Mon 02/13/23 11:54 PM
World War I began after the assassination of Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand by South Slav nationalist Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914.
The assassination set off a chain of events that led to war in early August 1914. The Serbian extremist group wanted to increase Serbian power in the Balkans by breaking up the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

World War II began in Europe on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. Great Britain and France responded by declaring war on Germany on September 3. The war between the U.S.S.R. and Germany began on June 22, 1941, with Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union. The war in the Pacific began on December 7/8, 1941, when Japan attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor and other American, Dutch, and British military installations throughout Asia.
The Allied landings at Normandy on June 6, 1944, opened a second front in Europe, and Germany's abortive offensive at the Ardennes in the winter of 1944–45 marked the Third Reich's final push in the west. The Red Army advanced from the east and effectively claimed all the territory under its control for the Soviet sphere. The Allied armies converged on Berlin. Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945, and the war in Europe ended on May 8.
The American “island hopping” campaign had destroyed key Japanese installations throughout the Pacific. Hundreds of thousands were killed in firebombings of Japanese cities, and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 knocked Japan out of the war.
It's estimated roughly 70,000 to 135,000 people died in Hiroshima and 60,000 to 80,000 people died in Nagasaki, both from acute exposure to the blasts and from long-term side effects of radiation.