Sort of a follow up to my topic asking why NDE Research wasn’t taken seriously. Which btw I got great replies to.
I was expecting the usual “Oh near death isn’t REALLY death.” And “Because its bullshit.” Strawman non answers
But instead I got people interfacing with the data and pointing out that an afterlife was no the direction the data headed outside of spirituality circles that did not interpret the data correctly to begin with.
So looking at how everything to do with conciousness leads to the brain and how we have discovered that a sense of self separate from the body is illusionary.
I have to ask
Is it an open secret that the afterlife is debunked?
I can find tons of arguments and information against it and the only thing supporting basically going “Well the brain is your conciousness but no one knows for sure.”
So a “I’m not saying no, but I sure as hell am not saying yes.” Being the strongest yes isn’t exactly reassuring. It makes me think the “I don’t know” is actually a “no” trying to be polite
https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/our-research/children-who-report-memories-of-previous-lives/
Dr. Jim Tucker was Child Psychiatrist and a Bonner -Lawry professor of Child Psychiatry and Neurobehavioural science . He has been researching children who make claims of past lives since 2002, and before that he worked with Ian Stevenson who pioneered this research.
Look up some of his presentations on you tube where he presents his findings.
Something is going on.
Indeed there is. Children love making up stories, and people love seeing patterns where there are none.
I will confess reincarnation makes the most sense.
I always found it weird have in a universe where nothing is truly ever created or destroyed, but instead changing from one form to another, that consciousness would be the one exception; created at birth, destroyed at death.
But is this something taken seriously or is this like when Deepak Chopra tells me I can opt out of aging by believing I can and saying “Quantum” enough times?