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alt.consciousness.near-death-exp
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Introduction to alt.consciousness.near-death-expA source-critical introduction to the Good Works Library shelf for the Usenet newsgroup alt.consciousness.near-death-exp: lay afterlife philosophy, near-death testimony, out-of-body narrative, source decay, and the ethics of preserving ordinary internet speech about death.OBE Kenobi — An Account of Out-of-Body ExperienceA first-person account of an out-of-body experience while fully awake — walls of transparent energy, a moment of understanding energy's nature and purpose, luminescent beings, the conscious choice to return to the body — followed by a philosophical meditation on levels of awareness and what it means to change fundamentally.Our Philosophical Confusion — On Language and the Near-Death ExperienceCyrus Kirkpatrick argues that human language is fundamentally incapable of conveying NDE reality, that the common interpretation of 'Oneness' as dissolution of self is a mistranslation, and that what the NDE actually conveys is that love — in its full cosmic dimensionality — is what survives death.The Afterlife Possibilities — Four Models of What Comes After DeathCyrus Kirkpatrick's philosophical taxonomy of four models of the afterlife — Nonexistence, Quantum Immortality, Quantum Rebirth, and Quantum Order — with argument for Quantum Order as the most coherent, supported by NDE evidence and the testimony of mediums.The Art of Dying — A Dream Within a DreamA first-person account of a coma near-death experience: false awakenings, nested dreams reflecting the actual hospital room, a barefoot guide encountered in the dark outside the hospital who instructs the narrator to go back inside and wait until someone notices him. He does — and wakes up.