What Causes Near Death Experiences? | Answers With Joe

This video is supported by Squarespace dr. eben Alexander was a neurosurgeon who contracted a very aggressive bacterial infection that put him in a coma for seven days. When he awoke, he described traveling to another plane of existence and being guided by a spinning globe of light through a valley filled with waterfalls as he described the meaning of life in existence which he documented in his 2012 book Proof of the heaven and the neurologist's journey through the afterlife available on Amazon in 12:9 format in February 2006 and even where Johnny's organs began to fail due to the end stage of Hodgkin's disease. lymphoma, she described traveling outside of her body and listening to a conversation her husband was having with a doctor down the hall before being taken to another dimension where she experienced true love and pure peace and goodness around her as they described the meaning of life miraculously. recovered and sank a book about the experience called dying to be me available on Amazon tonight Don Piper, a California reverend was hit by an 18-wheeler in 1989, was pronounced dead at the scene, but 90 minutes later recovered pulse and He described his journey to a shining door surrounded by dead relatives he had not seen in years, including his late grandfather.

She describes his conversation with those dead old men in her New York Times bestseller, 90 Minutes in Heaven, available on Amazon for $9.99 or watch. film version starring a mustachioed Anakin Skywalker in 2003, three-year-old Colton Burpo underwent emergency surgery for a ruptured appendix. He woke up describing a conversation he had with his late great-grandfather whom he had never met and described riding a rainbow-colored horse with The Book of Jesus Movie, an entire ministry, yes, some people have made a lot of money from close

experiences

to

death

, which makes it very easy to roll your eyes at the whole phenomenon, but today I'm going to try to do the hard thing and take it seriously. because not everyone who has this experience tries to monetize it and a lot of people have had this experience, 48% of the population according to some studies, that's up to 14 million people in the US alone and as medical science advances and More and more people being rescued from the brink of

death

seem to be happening more than ever, so let's take a look at this phenomenon and examine some of the explanations for why this happens, including one you've probably never heard before. -Death

experiences

just sound crazy and automatically rule out anyone who claims to have had one, but we all have crazy dreams all the time.

Dreams are a very real phenomenon. You can't say that dreams don't exist just because they sound crazy and that's it. Everything I'm trying to say here, you know, yes, there are people who try to make money and push their agenda using near-death experiences and they sound a little crazy, but they happen frequently, so for this video, let's take it. to the letter and examine

what

this could be now. I know this is dipping into some metaphysical territory and some of you aren't very comfortable with that, so for those of you who aren't here, now is your alarm, one thing that separates you from dreams tend to be. all over the place, while near-death experiences tend to be strikingly similar.

Some of the basic elements that tend to occur in India include an out-of-body experience traveling through a tunnel and seeing a bright sky. light that interacts with spirits or deceased loved ones a life review where you are presented with feelings of peace and love and the experience of explaining the meaning of life and the fundamental reality of existence, but according to a Belgian study in the journal However, at the frontiers of science, these characteristics may prevail in near-death experiences, but they are not always in that order. The order seems to be a little more random. Now it must be said that not everyone who walks away from the brink of death experiences a similar experience. in fact, only about 15% of near-death experiences, according to a Gallup poll, and then there are the unfortunate outliers whose experiences are anything but peaceful and serene and about 1% of near-death experiences in actually describe going to hell, from bonfires to black voids to demons that eat your flesh and, of course, speakers blaring Nickelback, for now let's stick with the classic near-death experience and examine

what

could be causing this phenomenon.

Let's start from the most woowoo, the least blue, the blue and then take a couple steps back from wumu the first on our list is your soul goes to heaven Occam's razor states that, all things being equal, the simplest answer is usually the correct one, so it is the simplest answer to the experience of someone going to heaven, simply that people go to heaven. I will argue no because not all things are equal in this case some of the other explanations on this list actually have some sort of scientific basis behind them, while the idea of ​​going to heaven is just anecdotal in nature.

I'm not saying I completely rule out anecdotal evidence, but when given the choice between experimental and anecdotal evidence, I will always choose experimental, having said that there are many things in science that we only have indirect evidence for, but we still believe are obscure. . Matter, dark energy, for example, we have indirect evidence of it, but we have never observed it directly. Many people will also argue that belief in an afterlife has been a part of religions, cultures and civilizations from the beginning. of time, so perhaps we shouldn't be too quick to dismiss that the answer to that would be that the struggle with our own mortality has, of course, led us to believe in the afterlife because it serves as a salve to take away that existential angst, as As I mentioned in previous videos, we are exceptionally good at lying to ourselves, so obviously this can go back and forth forever.

I just felt it should be included here and the interest to be thorough so they move forward. By rejoining a universal consciousness, there are some who believe that at a fundamental level the universe is formed and created by consciousness itself. Now people use this to explain things like the double slit experiment and quantum entanglement, although experts would say this is more based. It is based on misunderstandings of those things that in real reality, but in this world view consciousness is not something created by the brain, it is something that flows through the brain, but the structure of our brain only constitutes our sense of one. itself and our experience of consciousness is filtered. through that self created by the brain, then in this case, when you die, the one who really dies is your self and your experience of consciousness continues through universal consciousness, of course, in the case of an experience close to death, the body revives and your brain.

Sort of boots back together with the self that had just vanished, now it is necessary to say that while this idea has its roots in a more real science that is in no way accepted by the scientific community, this is still something marginal, But here it is. how it all fits together now if we talked in the past about the global consciousness project and how changes in human emotions can actually affect patterns and random number generators, basically implying that our consciousness cannot affect the physical world, which by assumption would relate to the idea that all matter and energy are tied to this underlying field of consciousness, these underlying fields, which one could argue, sound a lot like quantum field theory, so there is that work.

Oh, our model put forward by Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose, which argues that the microtubules and neurons in our brains could serve as a kind of quantum qubits that could transmit information through quantum entanglement in and out of our brain. This could be the mechanism that allows our brains to communicate with that underlying universal consciousness. Now there are many questions for this. it works and it smells like we are plugging our holes in our understanding with things from quantum theory that we also don't fully understand, which is why this is not fully accepted by the scientific community, which is why it is supported by the general community.

For the scientific community, it is all a hallucination caused by an avalanche of hormones and chemicals at the time of death and at the time of death on the bus. Now, as I mentioned earlier, the classic near-death experience has several components and all of them can be described by different physical factors. things that occur in the brain at the time of death, for example, people who experience carbon dioxide poisoning can often experience tunnel vision or see a blinding light, obviously, when their heart starts pumping, the carbon dioxide Carbon is not being pumped out of your brain so it can build up.

Hence this effect, the review of one's entire life and the meeting with deceased relatives is often explained by the fact that the memory center is one of the last places in the brain to close at the time of death and now body experiences can be created by manipulating the temporoparietal junction in the brain it is actually a part of the brain that creates a feeling of connection to the body and then there is DMT, dimethyltryptamine is an endogenous psychedelic, meaning it is produced within the body and people who take DMT often experience feelings of love and connection with the entire universe creates an artificial near-death experience, in fact, it is called a spiritual molecule, for that reason if it imitates what they call ego death, it is That is, the self that we talked about before, in a way disappears, in fact it becomes It is a very powerful treatment for people with terminal illnesses that helps them face their own death, which is why many believe that at the moment of death the brain is flooded with DMT to create this experience, but why now some?

People suggest that DMT is actually a kind of chemical catalyst for spiritual detachment, that it is not just a hallucination, it is actually a kind of opening a window to another dimension, others say that it is simply a natural form of transition to death, something to take away. anxiety and help us let go, which is good, but again, why would nature care at all that we are having a smooth transition to death? Do you know why we would evolve to make evolution not work that way? Do you know the smoothest transition? in death there is absolutely nothing to advance our genes, it is useless in terms of evolution and then if we have this ability and it was not put there by evolution, then why is it there or who put it there?

Just this question alone becomes quite interesting. In itself now you could argue that DMT and all these other hormones are released for the same reason that our intestines are released when we die, things just get loose, but the point is that we don't know what that mechanism is or why it happens. . but this simply shows that even if you resort to the most reductionist physicalist explanation of NDEs, there are still many unanswered questions surrounding it. Now there's another explanation for NDEs that I thought was interesting, it was pointed out by me and a Patreon supporter. He'd never thought about this before, so I thought I'd include it here.

It's called technological resurrection. There is a famous quote by Arthur C. Clarke that says that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. It is not called Clarke's third law, for example. I'm sure. If I went back 300 years with an iPhone and showed you that you have this rectangle that can capture people's image that lights up from the inside and if you press a combination of buttons you could literally talk to anyone in the entire world, you would probably get burned is at stake, similarly, we easily accept that people of the future or a super-intelligent AI will be able to do things that right now we cannot even conceive, things that we would consider magical, such as curing any disease, recreating entire bodies, and transferring consciousness. even time travel none of that is beyond the realm of possibilities what the idea of ​​technological resurrection does is basically bring all of that together the idea is that in the future we could transfer a person's consciousness out of their body in moments right before death and put it in a physical avatar or maybe a virtual world, that's an idea we've all heard many times before, but what if you could actually do that over time?

They can actually manipulate time and come back and do it with dead relatives, that is, the experience that you have at the moment of death is not into another realm, but you transport into the future some of these links with a philosophy of the end of the century XIX called Russian cosmos and that faces a kind of resurrection betweenSilicon Valley types. Osmanism was a mix of spirituality and technology focused on the idea of ​​one day reviving our ancestors and traveling the cosmos. The movement was started by the Russian philosopher Nikolai Fedorov, who was also known as the Socrates of Moscow and was also joined by Leo Tolstoy and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the father of Russian rocketry. now Fedorov and the Kosmas movement were the first precursors of the transhumanist movement that wants to merge humans and technology.

This idea of ​​immortality through technology is advocated by some of the most respected thinkers in the world today, including Ray Kurzweil and Peter Thiel. They think we are approaching a singularity where artificial intelligence becomes exponential and completely transforms the human experience. Some of these transformations include the same types of technology that would need to be created to make these types of things happen. Now you can grab a pair. hundred years, but given the current pace of technology, it's not completely out of the question. Now you might be wondering: 200 years from now, why would someone come back to resurrect me, wouldn't they have forgotten about me by then?

Yes, they may have, but it's easy to imagine someone wanting to resurrect their dead parents and those dead parents would come back and maybe want to resurrect their parents, who might want to resurrect their parents. parents and so on, obviously there are still a lot of ifs and maybes for this to be considered possible, but to begin with, we have to create the singularity and then we talk about the singularity. in terms of two utopias but also nightmares, so not only does the singularity have to happen but it has to happen the right way. You know, in many ways, this idea of ​​super-intelligent AI eventually making the impossible possible is a bit of a substitute. because what we have always considered God basically puts faith in the future instead of faith in the spiritual, it projects the whole problem of teleportation back in time, every time you talk about transferring consciousness, you know that they are particularly difficult problems to solve , but It's an interesting concept, so I thought I'd post it for you.

I'm putting a link in the description below to a book called technological resurrection, a thought experiment by Jonathan Jones and in it he discusses this whole idea he talks about. about all the little obstacles we'd have to overcome and all that, it's really interesting, he sent me a copy. I really liked it. I think you will like it too. By the way, this is not an affiliate link I am not making money from. I'm sharing this with you if you want to delve deeper into this idea, death is inevitable and it's a shame, so when you have a mysterious phenomenon that happens at the moment of death, it's easy to want to give it a lot of meaning. it's easy to make it bigger than it really could be it's something that gives us hope some refer to this it's the denial of death we cleanse ideas or beliefs that give us hope that there could be something after this that this isn't just you know everything there is, but it's important to remember that ultimately what you know to be true is that you have this one life and you have to make it count.

Kevin Smith of Silent Bob Fame actually faced this himself earlier this year when he had a massive heart attack and was told that the procedure they needed to do him only had a 20% chance of being successful. He recently spoke with Joe Rogan on his podcast about this whole experience and how you know what it was like to be in that moment and I realized that this could be it, you know that this was the life that he was given and how in that moment all his responsibilities were faded away and it gave him peace, you know, a calm that he wasn't expecting and I've heard this from other people who have been in a similar situation where they had to face their own mortality and the fact that their life could be over and then, a Once they get over it, they simply appreciate each day that so much more is given to them each day. waking up in the morning is a gift, I know it sounds like a cheesy feeling but I doubt there is anything cheesy for them, we all live on borrowed time and I think the trick is to keep that from being an anchor that weighs you down. depressed and it stops you from being happy, but instead, turn it into a sense of urgency that whatever you want to do, whatever you want to be, whatever you want to feel, do it now, it's literally the only chance you have. , but I'm curious how many of you have actually faced the end of your lives and live to tell the tale.

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