i am posting selected excerpts from miller’s book:
“in a near-death experience, the person is truly alive, with a fully functioning mind in a nonmaterial, spiritual world outside the body.”
“by far the typical experience reported by those undergoing anesthesia or experiencing cardiac arrest is no memory of anything. in such circumstances, the brain is unable to either maintain consciousness or form memories. yet, during this time, nde’rs consistently report, not vague, confused consciousness, but vivid, ‘realer than real’ consciousness. it’s like their brains are on hyper drive, some reliving their entire lives within a brief span of time. and their memories, as we have seen, far from being cloudy and fleeting (as we’d expect from a compromised brain) are retained so efficiently that decades later they report remembering each detail as if it happened yesterday.”
“who would expect the typical experience of communicating directly mind-to-mind rather than using the medium of language? [i remind the reader of the interaction between the immaterial mind and the material synaptic networks of the brain in which linguistic neural codes are transmitted through synchronous pathways] who expects to encounter a dimension where both time and space seem to vanish, where they can see both up close and far away with equal clarity, and view an entire lifetime in an instant? a bright light might be expected by some, but who expects the common experience of not having to squint while looking at the extreme brightness?”
my posts will continue, featuring how the deaf hear, how the blind see, and how a personal loving god is experienced.