Near-Death Experiences

Do they prove anything? The case of Richard Neuhaus.

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[Vito B. Caiati]

Bill,

This is a great little essay on NDES, which I have copied and saved. I have done much reading on the subject, and while, like you, I have do not take the testimonies, however vivid and astonishing, as proof of their objective truth, I agree that they cannot be just brushed aside. Again, as with all matters concerning the far side of life, we are left with questions rather than answers.

Vito

[Ingvar Odegaard]

Regarding Near Death Experiences (NDEs),

I strongly recommend Maurice S. Rawlings' (May 16, 1922 - Jan 5, 2010) book "Beyond the line of death – New clear evidence for the existence of Heaven and Hell" (1987).

Careful studies of near death experiences (NDE) totally miss a key aspect of the matter. But God revealed this key aspect to Rawlings ('sprung' it on Rawlings as it were so he couldn't miss it) hence this book.

Rawlings is indeed careful, and scholarly, yet he had to be placed on the correct path to get started on this NDE subject.

So 'careful', planned, studies of NDEs cannot illuminate for the reader what is going on, leaving the reader in darkness, benighted.

All the best good folks,
Mr. J. Ingvar Odegaard

[BV]

Vito,

My point could be put like this. NDEs, OTBs, and other paranormal experiences, including the ones cited in Gallagher's outstanding book, while they do not conclusively establish the existence of an afterlife, do provide sufficient evidence to make reasonable one's faith in an afterlife. One is not flouting any epistemic duties if one takes the evidence as rendering reasonable such faith and lives one's life in accordance with it.