Boy shares stories from his journey to heaven
Boy shares stories from his journey to heaven | Fox News Video
Boy shares stories from his journey to heaven | Fox News Video
I have a friend who killed himself (yes, he was dead for 5+ minutes and sustained damage as a result), and swears he went to heaven. And I have to tell you, it's pretty hard if you sit and listen to his discussion about the days he spent in limbo, talking to god, while he waited to find out his fate, to not have a chill run up your spine.
He was never religious, in fact counted himself atheist, and still is not religious. But he will tell you there is most definitely more to the story than we're aware of.
I have a friend who killed himself (yes, he was dead for 5+ minutes and sustained damage as a result), and swears he went to heaven. And I have to tell you, it's pretty hard if you sit and listen to his discussion about the days he spent in limbo, talking to god, while he waited to find out his fate, to not have a chill run up your spine.
He was never religious, in fact counted himself atheist, and still is not religious. But he will tell you there is most definitely more to the story than we're aware of.
We are more than the sum of our parts. What the real sum total is, nobody can know for sure.
Very true. Life itself can be mysterious. This is just the biggest one of all.
Regardless of what a person's belief is (or lack thereof) there has to be something beyond our mortal coil. Heaven? Hell? Purgatory? Reincarnation? Something else? After all, we have a sort of energy in us (soul?) that just doesn't pop out of existence once our heart stops beating. We'll never truly know where our journey will take us next until we have passed ourselves.
We are more than the sum of our parts. What the real sum total is, nobody can know for sure.
If you're referring to my friend.... he most certainly was dead for upwards of five minutes. The EMTs got him back on the way to the hospital. He went through massive rehab to regain function from the brain damage that resulted. It's not something you say willy nilly.
I believe the person who thought he was dead, wasn't really dead at all, obviously his brain was still
trying to do its thing. He was dreaming, imagining, wondering, as his brain was functioning in a
manner that definitely was very very confusing, there was still some brain activity, however slight.
That makes sense to me. I don't, 'not understand' other stories, I just don't believe such things.
I believe the person related all of the things he/she thought he saw, just like we can relate many
vivid dreams, that seemed so real, that when we awake, it takes a bit of time to 'settle down'.
Thought doesn't originate in the brain. The brain is a computer; it stores and retrieves data. Dreams, thoughts and even near death experiences originate somewhere else. Some say the soul, some say the heart, some say the astral body. Who knows. Really, it doesn't matter to some. What matters is what they experience and what they do with that knowledge. A person's life is what they believe it is and is limited to those beliefs. I prefer not to believe anything. That leaves my live wide open to experiences that most people would not accept as possible. In fact, I cannot count the times that people have told me that what I have experience could not have happened: I must have been on drugs or experienced food poisoning or that there must have still been some brain function when I flat lined to have had that conversation where I was offered to continue down that road or to return to my physical body.
Life isn't a mystery to me. I just don't need to know how it works. I just accept my experiences as they unfold. I wake up every day with no expectation, just a curiosity where it might lead.
Life is not a mystery to me either, ever. I accept my life completely as is, and I'm enjoying it
thoroughly with an open mind, and no belief in a heaven, but we don't agree concerning
the brain at all.
I don't believe in a soul, and I don't wonder about such things.
I do believe the brain is a marvelous organ that we know little about, and has trillions more possibilites
than we can't conceive now, and thru time our brains have astonished us by its ability to learn and create,
and that will continue on as our brains improve and do more and more.
Explained in pure layman's terms, I don't have the scientific terms to explain, but I know someone
who has, maybe he will check in.
Thought doesn't originate in the brain. The brain is a computer; it stores and retrieves data. Dreams, thoughts and even near death experiences originate somewhere else. Some say the soul, some say the heart, some say the astral body. Who knows. Really, it doesn't matter to some. What matters is what they experience and what they do with that knowledge.
A person's life is what they believe it is and is limited to those beliefs. I prefer not to believe anything. That leaves my life wide open to experiences that most people would not accept as possible. In fact, I cannot count the times that people have told me that what I have experience could not have happened: I must have been on drugs or experienced food poisoning or that there must have still been some brain function when I flat lined to have had that conversation where I was offered to continue down that road or to return to my physical body.
Life isn't a mystery to me. I just don't need to know how it works. I just accept my experiences as they unfold. I wake up every day with no expectation, just a curiosity where it might lead.
I don't think all people have a soul but most do. That's the difference between Clifford Olson, Paul Bernardo and the rest of us. They are just empty shells, no empathy, no conscience, no appreciation for others' feelings. We know in these cases the part that is missing is not the brain and it's not the heart, so until some better explanation comes up it has to be the soul (or whatever name you wish to call it)
.
what is a soul jlm, explain it to me, is it something inside the body, or just a way of thinking,
and if it is the latter, then we just have different words to describe someone like olsen.