A bit more from Pim van Lommel, Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience (New York: HarperCollins, 2010). In this case, two near-death experience accounts:
I was immersed in a feeling of total love. It was crystal clear to me why I’d had cancer. Why I had come into this world in the first place. What role each of my family members played in my life, where we all were within the grand scheme of things, and in general what life is all about. The clarity and insight I had in that state are simply indescribable. Words seem to diminish the experience — I was in a place where I understood that there’s so much more than we can fathom in our three-dimensional world. I realized that this was a great gift and that I was always surrounded by loving spiritual beings of light. (34)
That very same moment, in a split second, I gained access to a wealth of knowledge, a complete knowing and understanding. All knowledge. Universal knowledge. I understood the origins of the cosmos, how the universe works, and why people do what they do. Their positive actions, but also why they hurt one another, deliberately or not. Wars and natural disasters, everything has a purpose, a reason. It all makes sense. I understood the past, the present, and the future. I saw evolution. Everything and everyone evolves and develops together. I saw and understood — without any judgment — the connection, the coherence, the logical and sometimes major consequences of every single act. I mean at every level and down to the smallest detail. . . . The way all kinds of mechanical, electrical, and electronic equipment, gadgets, and engines work. Everything. I knew and understood all about mathematics, electronics, physics, DNA, atoms, quantum mechanics, and quantum physics. . . . I also saw where evolution is headed, what its ultimate goal is. I realized that this grand scheme not only includes me, but everything and everybody, every human being, every soul, every animal, every cell, the earth and every other planet, the universe, the cosmos, the Light. Everything is connected and everything is one. “I see!” I thought happily. “I get it. It’s all so simple. So obvious. It all makes sense. . . .” No, I wasn’t allowed to bring back the knowledge itself. Why, I don’t know. . . . Perhaps we’re not supposed to have such universal knowledge in the here and now, in our physical form? Perhaps we’re here to learn? Perhaps there’s another reason? (34-35)
It seems to me pretty obvious that the Latter-day Saint concept of the “veil of mortality” is relevant here — and that, once back in the world of spirits from which came, we would very likely know, which is to say remember, many things that we have forgotten (and therefore don’t know) here.
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Some stimulating science reading for you:
“This Is Why Most Scientists Think Planet Nine Doesn’t Exist”
And a bit of “sort of” science news:
“Remote solar observatory remains closed after mysterious evacuation”
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