Thank you for writing this Tao. I love everything you wrote. I’m reflecting on some NDE experiences I learned about in the documentary “After Death”—which I have some doubts about due to it’s Christian overtones—in which people who seemed to commit really horrific things in life or died in a place of extreme darkness, end up experiencing a kind of prolonged fall, sometimes arriving into an underworld populated with demon like creatures, only to receive a sort of salvation by the angel/light being/god through crying out for help to god/proclaiming their love to god. All of the people in the doc eventually went on to experience the usual NDE events, only after this experience of the terrifying fall.
I actually wonder if not all deaths result in the ultimate-loving-freeing of the embodied soul, even if it’s a small minority who don’t, or don’t right away. I wonder if some souls cannot accept the light, and end up in a sort of limbo, but perhaps not the dogmatically bleak and oversimplified version of “limbo” popularized by so much human myth and religion.
I am curious to see you research and write about things like ghosts, demon beings, tormented souls… because these things appear to be very real. They are at least part of the story of the afterlife. Though perhaps these things aren’t ensouled beings but energy imprints of suffering during life. Who knows! We shall see.
Great piece. I became obsessed with NDE's after my father had a random heart attack. Was 22 at the time, first encounter with real death, couldn't explain it, but there were these profound moments of peace that washed over me in between the hurt. I like to think I'll see them again some day
I think the bit about family members pushing the newly dead back into the bodily world is very important. We have to be here to do or understand "something." An overconfidence in material and an overindulgence in the spiritual are a two opposing sides of a spectrum that have to be avoided while we are here. We need to sit and cherish the imperfections of communication/idea-translation. There's a reason true descriptions of the spirit realm are ineffable
wow. the moth story is mind and world expanding. sry, not sure how to say that but thank you.
Thank you for writing this Tao. I love everything you wrote. I’m reflecting on some NDE experiences I learned about in the documentary “After Death”—which I have some doubts about due to it’s Christian overtones—in which people who seemed to commit really horrific things in life or died in a place of extreme darkness, end up experiencing a kind of prolonged fall, sometimes arriving into an underworld populated with demon like creatures, only to receive a sort of salvation by the angel/light being/god through crying out for help to god/proclaiming their love to god. All of the people in the doc eventually went on to experience the usual NDE events, only after this experience of the terrifying fall.
I actually wonder if not all deaths result in the ultimate-loving-freeing of the embodied soul, even if it’s a small minority who don’t, or don’t right away. I wonder if some souls cannot accept the light, and end up in a sort of limbo, but perhaps not the dogmatically bleak and oversimplified version of “limbo” popularized by so much human myth and religion.
I am curious to see you research and write about things like ghosts, demon beings, tormented souls… because these things appear to be very real. They are at least part of the story of the afterlife. Though perhaps these things aren’t ensouled beings but energy imprints of suffering during life. Who knows! We shall see.
One of the most interesting and moving things i’ve read in a long time
Great piece. I became obsessed with NDE's after my father had a random heart attack. Was 22 at the time, first encounter with real death, couldn't explain it, but there were these profound moments of peace that washed over me in between the hurt. I like to think I'll see them again some day
I think the bit about family members pushing the newly dead back into the bodily world is very important. We have to be here to do or understand "something." An overconfidence in material and an overindulgence in the spiritual are a two opposing sides of a spectrum that have to be avoided while we are here. We need to sit and cherish the imperfections of communication/idea-translation. There's a reason true descriptions of the spirit realm are ineffable
I finished reading this important and compelling eassay without stopping.
I read it without stopping, so compelling and important!