Near death experience
Near death experience is an experience that has been written a lot about. The interpretation of the experience is what is in question. Just because you experience floating over your body does not mean that you are floating over your body. Just because you experience anything does not means that it is true. When you put a pencil in a clear glass water you see the pencil is bent. But when you pull the pencil out of the water it is straight with no evidence that it was ever bent. We know now that it just appears that the pencil was bent because of the light being refracted or bent by the difference of density of the substances between the pencil an your eyes.
Many people want to believe that near death experiences shows proof that there is an afterlife or life after death. Although near death happen to many people it only shows that there are many different kinds of experiences the brain can produce as it is beginning to die. But the brain does not die in cases of near death because if it was dead it could not tell of the near death experience. Awaretheory uses the scientific concept that it is the functioning of the brain that produces consciousness. If the brain does not change in the right ways it will not produce consciousness. The brain may well stop producing consciousness but still change in such a way that when it produces consciousness again the difference in the structure of the brain makes the functioning different than it would have been. This change in functioning can create memories and beliefs different than the brain would have produced without the change in structure do to the brain's unconscious producing changes or functioning while under the stress of near death.
We do not need near death experiences to be proof of life after death to have proof of actual or potential life after death. Awaretheory gives many reasons to believe in life after death based on a scientific framework of materialism.
