{"id":64356,"date":"2018-08-29T11:26:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T17:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=64356"},"modified":"2018-09-05T09:52:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T15:52:43","slug":"calm-seriousness-profound-acceptance-mental-quickening-and-sense-of-surety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2018\/08\/calm-seriousness-profound-acceptance-mental-quickening-and-sense-of-surety.html","title":{"rendered":"“Calm seriousness, profound acceptance, . . . mental quickening and sense of surety”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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I\u2019m adding these two passages to my notebook, from\u00a0Pim van Lommel,\u00a0Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience<\/em>\u00a0(New York: HarperCollins, 2010):<\/p>\n

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The first systematic study of near-death experience was written in 1892 by the Swiss geologist Albert von Sankt Gallen Heim. \u00a0In the Yearbook of the Swiss Alpine Club<\/em>, under the heading \u201cThe Experience of Dying from Falls,\u201d Heim described a total of thirty cases that were told to him in person; among them are the stories of Alpine mountaineers who survived near-fatal falls, including his own experience. \u00a0He also included accounts of soldiers who sustained life-threatening injuries during war, of workers who fell off scaffolding, and of people who nearly drowned or died in accidents. \u00a0He was the first to describe the experiences of people, such as soldiers, who actually nearly died of their serious injuries, and of those who merely expected to die, such as mountaineers. \u00a0He concluded that people close to death or who were considered to be dead reported that \u201cno grief was felt, nor was there paralyzing fright of the sort that can happen in instances of lesser danger. . . . \u00a0There was no anxiety, no trace of despair, nor pain; but rather calm seriousness, profound acceptance, and a dominant mental quickening and sense of surety.\u201d \u00a0(106)<\/span><\/p>\n

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People from all walks of life from all over the world have NDEs. \u00a0The various studies found no link between the experience of an NDE and the following markers: social class, race, gender, standard of education, profession, hometown, or marital status. \u00a0Prior knowledge of the existence and content of an NDE made no difference either. \u00a0Researchers found no link between religion and the experience of an NDE. \u00a0It did not matter whether people were Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist<\/a>, agnostic, or atheist. \u00a0Neither did it matter whether or not people actually practiced their religion through regular church attendance. \u00a0But because individual, cultural, and religious factors do play a role in coming to terms with the experience, adherents of the different religions describe and interpret the NDE differently.<\/span><\/p>\n

Few intercultural NDE studies have been published. \u00a0Brief mention should therefore be made of a \u00a0prospective study from Japan, which looked at people who had been in a deep coma as a result of a cardiac arrest, an apnea, a brain hemorrhage, or a serious traffic accident. \u00a0Upon waking from their coma, 37 percent of patients in this study reported an NDE with all the typical elements we know from Western studies. \u00a0Further analysis found that in Japan too there were no differences between people with and without an NDE in terms of gender, profession, religion, or standard of education. \u00a0(110)<\/span><\/p>\n

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An interesting piece from the German theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe End of Theoretical Physics As We Know It: Computer simulations and custom-built quantum analogues are changing what it means to search for the laws of nature.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Posted from Seaside, Oregon<\/p>\n

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