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Originally posted by GafferUK1981
reply to post by SpaceMonkeys
Heaven is a religious concept.
Originally posted by SaturnFX
From the article:
His forthcoming book
Book? so he has actual proof of an afterlife, and instead of sharing this freely on the net, and altering the entire worlds view...
he wants to cash in.
Guess heaven has gotten lax in its messaging.
Anyhow, in a dream, you can live a week in a few minutes before waking up.
Mom had a NDE...and she didn't see streaming transparent people..she seen solid people, and she wasn't in fluffy cloudville..she was on a beach. So..ya.
But by all means, read the book.
Originally posted by GafferUK1981
reply to post by SpaceMonkeys
It sounds to me like he had a wonderful dream. I've had them before but a dream is exactly what they are. Not heaven.
If you are referring to heaven as a place you really enjoy, for example floating on a pool with a beer in your hand. I agree but I think he actually believes he died and went to religious heaven which we know is non existant.
Originally posted by DarthFazer
Originally posted by openyourmind1262
My take. He's a neurosurgeon. he fell into a coma, he woke up from said coma and described somthing extrordinary to say the lest. Nerosurgeon + coma+ extrordinary story about he's been to heaven+ wrote a book about it all === A whole lot of money from book sales. Not to mention the speaking circuit and the book tour, means big dollars and all the while he's making that money, he sure is'nt putting that malpractice insurance to use.
When i come to ATS and someone is making a out of this world claim seems 9 times out of 10 there is a book involved when someone experiences a UFO or a ghost or in this case a NDE. They have to write a book. Because when something unexplained happens people are transformed in to an author or writer died came back to help humanity ...must write a book... must make money
Now i am leaning toward huckster, go figureedit on 9-10-2012 by DarthFazer because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Soylent Green Is People
Originally posted by zeeon
Originally posted by kurthall
reply to post by zeeon
I don't care how smart the guy is....A dream Is a dream! 5 min of dreaming can seem like forever!
Except the part of the brain that provides "Dreams" (The cortex) was completely inactive.
How do you explain that?
After his coma and before he completely woke up, his brain was working more normally. It is that time that the brain could have constructed a dream.
Or maybe that part of his brain was "completely inactive" only in the sense that our science can understand/detect.
edit on 10/9/2012 by Soylent Green Is People because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Vanitas
reply to post by zeeon
They are also conveniently forgetting that he was probably making far more as a neurosurgeon than he will ever make with this book.
Or that writing about such things might curtail his professional career, thereby reducing his potential earnings.
Besides, he's already told the gist of his experience, free of charge.
And you can always go and borrow the book, instead of buying it.
Also the points above that you mentioned - alot of his colleagues are going to look at him and sneer now..."your one of those people". Who LIKES to attract that sort of attention to themselves? I know I don't.
I'm intrigued by the guys experience. I had an OOB experience once. It was pretty amazing. It wasn't a NDE but I believe these sorts of things happen. I also think that Heaven is what you want it to be. Why would God force you to a "Heaven" that isn't custom tailed to YOUR LIKING. Does that make much sense? If God is a personal God, then it stands to logically reason that Heaven would also be personal (and not template like...a mall for instance (unless your perfect heaven is a mall)) As somewhat of an agnostic I find this mans experience pretty amazing. It makes me stop and think for a second what if this heaven and hell thing is real?
Originally posted by Agit8dChop
He's a neurosurgeon, which means he studies extensively the mind and its affects and coma's and so forth.
Id say he's studied it so much it was the first thing his brain thought of when it went into default!
Heaven?... its a mental thing. His mind just went to its own interpretation of heaven!