ROBERT MONROE; RONALD RUSSELL; JOSEPH CAMPBELL; UN COEUR SIMPLE; NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE

Recently I have been thinking about 'out of body' experiences.

Yesterday morning I was sitting on a bench in the empty park, overlooking the local loch.

Along came an elderly lady, out for a walk, and she started talking to me.

It turned out that the lovely lady and her late husband were close friends of Robert Monroe, an expert on 'out of body experiences'.

The lady's late husband, Ronald Russell, has written the main biography of Robert Monroe.

Robert Monroe.

Monroe once said:

Robert Monroe Interview

"I discovered, through my great astonishment, that I–the non-physical me-am composed of literally hundreds of previous life personalities and experiences.

"If we call it reincarnation that implies a law that forces you to do it. What “forces” one to come back into another life is addiction!

"It’s our choice. I don’t look upon it as karma. That law of karma is really you.

"For example, if there were something I didn’t get a chance to do in this life, I would get to do it in another life.

"My mother said that when she died, her sister and brother would be waiting for her.

"Interestingly enough, the following Tuesday, as I was heading for the office, I felt her presence about 8:15 in the morning. Just to prove her point, she reached over and squeezed my knee. 

"I couldn’t see her or anything, but I could feel here pressure. She was saying good-by.

"Five years later, we found out, that one year after her death, she was a one-year-old in a village in Italy. 

"We got her name, address, in a non-physical investigation. 

"We did find out that in that village there was a one-year-old girl that fit the name we had discovered in our non-physical investigation. 

"Five years later we discovered that she was amazing, and attracted a lot of attention as a child violinist."

"So, she went back to do the thing she was unable to do in this life."

Robert Monroe Interview

Felicité is a servant girl.

As Felicité is dying, she thinks that she meets the Holy Spirit.

The skeptic would say that she is deceived.

The non-skeptic would say that she may well have encountered the Holy Spirit.

Felicité is a fictional character in Gustave Flaubert's short story entitled A Simple Heart, or Le Perroquet.

"Felicité is very loyal, and easily lends her affections to the two children of her mistress, Mme Aubain.

"She gives entirely to others; although many take advantage of her, she is unaffected.

"She has no husband, no children, and no property, and is reliant on her mistress to keep her; she is uneducated, which bars her visits to the Church; her death is virtually unnoticed.

"Despite her life being seemingly pointless, she has within her the power to love, which she does even when she does not receive it in return."

Félicité has a beloved parrot called Loulou whom she has 'stuffed' when it dies.

"As she finally passed from this world to the next, Félicité thought she saw a gigantic parrot hovering in the opening heavens above her."

Flaubert

Flaubert was unlike Félicité.

"Flaubert was very open about his sexual activities with (male and female) prostitutes...

"He engaged in intercourse with male prostitutes in Beirut and Egypt; in one of his letters, he describes a "pockmarked young rascal wearing a white turban".[7][8]

flauberts-parrot / Gustave Flaubert on Wikipedia / "Three Tales" by Gustave Flaubert on Wikipedia

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Anonymous writes:

Félicité's name is no accident.

The author of course knew it's derived from the Latin word for happiness.

Yes, the happiest people are those who care for others in humble simplicity.

The most miserable people are the envious, the pretentious, who seek adulation, to be better than those around them. Those who chase their vain desires to the detriment of others. Never satisfied with what they have. In futility, trying to fill a bottomless void with more of the same selfishness.

The diametric opposite of Félicité is Madame Bovary, having little loyalty to or appreciation of those who love her. In a vain and never-ending quest for more - for herself. Dying in misery and pain. And leaving behind those who need her.

A parable in two stories.

The kingdom of heaven and the depths of hell are within us.

Which we choose is up to us.

nhneneardeath.ning.com.

What about 'real-life' Near-Death Experiences?

The skeptics will call into question the evidence.

In 1977, at a hospital in Seattle, a migrant worker called 'Maria' had an Near Death Experience during a cardiac arrest.

"She later told her social worker that while doctors were resuscitating her, she found herself floating outside the hospital building and saw a tennis shoe on a third-floor window ledge, which she described in some detail.

"The social worker went to the window Maria had indicated, and not only found the shoe but said that the way it was placed meant there was no way Maria could have seen all the details she described from inside her hospital room."

The social worker, Kimberly Clark Sharp, is still alive and available for interview.

But nobody knows the current whereabouts of Maria and so she is not available to confirm the story.

The Science of Near-Death Experiences - The Atlantic.

The skeptics will say that the story is not confirmed as being true.

First hint of 'life after death' in biggest ever scientific ...The Daily Telegraph‎ - Oct 2014.

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Might the Near Death Experience (NDE) have a purpose?

The NDE "is similar to the hero's journey, or quest narrative, the structure that the American writer and mythologist Joseph Campbell identified and named the monomyth in 1949.

"The quest underlies just about every form of storytelling, from religious myth to Greek epic to Hollywood blockbuster to personal memoir.

"In this structure, a protagonist is shaken out of his normal way of life by some disturbance and - often reluctantly at first, but at the urging of some kind of mentor or wise figure - strikes out on a journey to an unfamiliar realm.

"There he faces tests, battles enemies, questions the loyalty of friends and allies, withstands a climactic ordeal, teeters on the brink of failure or death, and ultimately returns to where he began, victorious but in some way transformed."

The Science of Near-Death Experiences - The Atlantic.

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Campbell: "Have you ever read Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt?"

Moyers: "Not in a long time."

Campbell: "Remember the last line? 'I have never done a thing that I wanted to do in all my life.' That is a man who never followed his bliss."^[20]

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What really happens when you Die

Peter Fenwick (born 25 May 1935) is a neuropsychiatrist and neurophysiologist who is known for his pioneering studies of end-of-life phenomena.

GARY WEBER

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Gary Weber was a senior vice president for research labs with 1000 people under him.

"Gary Weber was raised in a devout Methodist home and through early adolescence was involved in religious affairs, giving annual religious talks.

"From early adolescence until late twenties, he went through a secular life with marriage, two children, undergraduate school, military service, and then graduate school.

"Following a near-death experience in the military, he became intent on deeply exploring what was possible to bring understanding to life, to personally experience “enlightenment”, and to end the mental turmoil and suffering he experienced and saw in those around him.

"One day, reading what turned out to be a famous Zen poem that he had happened upon “by accident”, the normal world fell away and he was in a state never before experienced and beyond any context he knew.

"After some time the state passed, but he was left with a burning desire to return to whatever it was that he had experienced...

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"One day a complete shift in consciousness occurred in which self-referential thought fell away and all that happened, happened in stillness and presence.

"He realized that he was not this body, nor these thoughts, but the undying consciousness behind them. 

"He saw that everything was perfect as it was and that all was somehow within him, and that simultaneously everything was God...

"The events were created out of the control of any “I” and arose from nothingness and went into nothingness.

"Attaching any importance, ownership, or personal causation to these events is incorrect."

Gary Weber | Buddha at the Gas Pump

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"The 'I' blew out, irrevocably, thoughts stopped; stillness beyond imagination.

"I was not body, nor thoughts, but unchanging consciousness.

"Everything complete just as it was; all One.

"I resisted teaching; no teacher, no one to teach."

- Gary Weber



Gary Weber writes: "My own concept of 'god' has evolved to fit 'what I don't understand'.

"As my ongoing experiencing is 'All is One', seeing the 'world' as an apparent illusion and w/many apparently inexplicable serendipities and precognitions daily, and now w/some certainty of there being an 'all pervasive field', I have come to the Atman/Brahman concept.

"An all-pervasive field that is conscious and self-aware, and evolving through us, seems to fit and it apparently answers many phenomena in contemporary physics."

How God(s) Evolve...Evidence of God? 



Gary Weber refers to writer Robert Wright looks for evidence of the existence of "god" in how things have evolved.

How God(s) Evolve...Evidence of God? 

Wright sees a "moral direction in history" as evidence of a higher purpose.

 His "Nonzero", and widely-viewed TEDx talk "Progress is not a zero-sum game", show how "non-zero-sum" games/relationships in which "we both win (or lose) together", underlies our moral improvement over time.



"There is (the illusion of) a kind of 'false self' aka 'the ego' aka 'the I' that creates and inhabits a fundamentally problematic and deluded world.

"And on the other hand there is the real selfless world, and it is the goal of the practitioner to destroy, defeat, see-through, or otherwise out-manuever the 'false-self' in order to inhabit the world of oneness."

Gary Weber Won't Answer Tough Questions?

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Hamish Miller: Near Death Experience

Kaivey writes:

Hamish Miller had started a furniture businesses as he was good with his hands and at design, but the business grew until he had about 500 staff and then he spent all his time worrying, trying to find enough work for his staff.

He thought nothing of it, just accepting this is how life is, until he saw a beautiful sunset one day where he felt he had no time to look at it, but then he thought, hang on a minute, of course he had time.

Moments like this kept occurring and he began to realize he wasn't happy doing what he was doing.

Soon after that he had his near death experience which profoundly changed his life.

He then got rid of his business and moved to a beautiful coast to became a blacksmith. He's now very happy.

I really liked this story.

The near-death experience of Peter Anthony

NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES - CLUES ABOUT LIFE

France.

Sam Parnia is a director of resuscitation research at Stony Brook University School of Medicine in New York.

He says: "people do have experience at the time that they're dead."

He says, how individuals choose to interpret those experiences depends entirely on their background and pre-existing beliefs.

Someone from India might return from the dead and say they saw Krishna, whereas someone from the Midwest of the US could experience the same thing but claim to have seen God.

BBC

 

West Java

Many Near Death Experiences "follow a sequence that just happens to track our most basic narrative structure of transformation and renewal."

The Science of Near-Death Experiences - The Atlantic.


Austria.

The following are Near Death Experiences:

As the angel took me up out of my room and up towards the upper atmosphere it was talking to me the whole time and telling me things about the reasons as to why we live and learn on Earth to help us to evolve our spirit. 

The Angel told me that it was 'all a learning experience.'


West Java.

Near Death Experiences:

I was also reminded that the reason we leave the celestial realm at all was for the excitement, variety, adventure, and entertainment that different incarnations offer.

Marrakech

Near Death Experiences:

One of the most important lessons that was transferred to me by the light is that love is all that matters.

France

All of the following are Near Death Experiences:

One example of my life review was when I was a little kid - I noticed a tree that was alone by itself in a dry patch of land. 

I took the effort to go out of my way to that tree and emptied some of the water at the tree base. 

I even waited there a few seconds to make sure the water is soaked in the soil and is absorbed. 

In my life review, I received such an applaud and joy for this simple act that it is unbelievable. 

It was like all the spirits in the Universe were filled with joy from this simple act and were telling me we are proud of you.


France

I realized that the real goal of the mind-created life game was to remove the veil of delusion and ignorance and reach the Ultimate Truth of one's reality in life itself. 

This Truth, this Self I was bathing in and which had encompassed my Being, was nothing but Love. 

Glasgow

Each is at its own time, in its own evolution, doing its own reality, living its own consciousness. 

Haiti

I saw an image of my life as it was flipping fast-forward, like pages flipping in a book.

I saw highlights of my life like the places I traveled to, such as hiking in the Grand Canyon, me on top of Mount Rainier, seeing the rice fields in the farm I used to run around in as a child, and me in Paris with my mom.

Santo Domingo 

I recall being on the stretcher in the emergency room.

I was looking down, as if from the ceiling, at the frantic scene going on around my body.

I felt very calm and peaceful.

I wanted to tell everyone that all was OK, there was no need to panic, and that I was just fine.

I felt quite blissful.

Haiti

Michael said that while his "real mom" was in labor, he asked God if I could be his mom because he knew that his "real mom" wouldn't survive very long, and he was afraid of being alone on Earth. 

Apparently he was told that he couldn't have me for his "real mom" but that everything would be OK and he would still get to be around me during his life. 


India

I heard a voice say, 'What you put out into the universe will come back to you'. 

As I stood there in the garden, I noticed once again, how beautiful and brilliant the colors of the flowers, the trees and the grass were. 

The air was sweetly fragrant. 

There were birds singing in the trees, and I saw a stream where the water glistened like diamonds in the sun as it flowed over the rocks. 

I heard music, which was more beautiful than anything I had ever heard before. It was then that I noticed everything had its own pitch or sound. 

The trees had a sound, the leaves on the trees had their own sound, the grass had a sound, the rocks had their own sound, the water had yet another sound, and so on...


India

I had shed the sense of my body very quickly. 

I was simply nothing and everything all at once. 

I eventually left the cloud, still with no sense of a 'body.' 

I was me. 

I was pure energy, purely beautiful and whole. 

I was pure love and yet still 'me.' 


India

Looking at the body, what arose was the perfection of the life just lived.

This life could not be described as pleasant.

In fact, it was filled with suffering and hardship.

Yet it seemed so perfect as it was observed. 

Then other lives lived started to appear in a visual format.

The entire life from beginning to end, in an instant, with awareness of every moment of that life as if it was just lived from birth to death.

Each life was perfect.

Reincarnation is part of the human experience, but it is optional.

Once I was aware of the addictions pulling me back to another life, then I was ready for what came next.


West Java.

NDE at age 3 - I could feel my mother's hysteria and distraught, as if her emotions were my own.

I remember being overwhelmed with feelings of intense love for my mother and having memories of a past life that I had shared before involving both my mother and my sister.

I also experienced a knowing of my mother's future through two separate scenarios.

One if I decided to leave this life, and one if I decided to stay.

The knowing felt like a gift being given and even though I had a 3 year old mentality I was able to receive this information as if I was a mature person.

Indonesia

I noticed as I looked out the window that I was one with the blades of grass and the rocks in the road. I was enveloped in a love I could not put into words.

This divine love was in everything and in me.

At the core of my being, I was this love and so was everyone else. In this state of grace, there was no right or wrong, no good or bad, and no judgment whatsoever.

Fear was non-existent.

There was no death and I knew that we all live forever.

Everyone I met was love.

West Java

I was advancing towards a white light, at the end of this Passing into or through a tunnel, which was very bright.

My little brother Philippe, who died 12 years before, took me by the hand and was smiling to me while taking me in front of the light.

A strong, but not nasty voice, asked me why I wanted to die.

I answered that the absence of my little brother was too hard for me, and that my mother felt resentful towards me because of Philippe's death. (He died with leukemia at the age of 7 and I was not compatible as a marrow donor. I was his only sister.)

Near Death Experiences

West Java

aangirfan: NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES

In Belgium, Dr. Steven Laureys and his team have spent many years with patients who have had near-death experiences.


West Java 

aangirfan: NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS

The Wisdom Of Near-Death Experiences by Dr Penny Sartori, Watkins Publishing According to PENNY SARTORI: Researchers writing in the ...

Naples 

aangirfan: WISDOM FROM NEAR-DEATH

Taranto.

aangirfan: Consciousness Outside the Body?

aangirfan.blogspot.com/2008/12/consciousness-outside-body.html

The Lancet of 15th December 2001 published an extensive Near Death Experience (NDE) study by Pim van Lommel, MD, cardiologist at Rijnstate Hospital in ...

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Aangirfan: LIFE AFTER DEATH

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12 Jul 2017 - Rob told me that these experiences helped to make him more at ease with the .... NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS

Jakarta.

Aangirfan: NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE - UN COEUR SIMPLE ...

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3 Apr 2015 - NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE - UN COEUR SIMPLE - JOSEPH CAMPBELL. Felicité is a servant girl. As Felicité is dying, she thinks that she ...

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Aangirfan: Dean Radin Interviews Bruce Greyson about Near Death ...

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25 Sep 2015 - Now, Near Death Experiences are even farther than the odd-numbered electric connections in the brain* because NDE call out what the ...

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Jonathan, now aged ten.

Jonathan Bryan was born severely handicapped.

For the first seven years of his life, he could communicate with his family only by winking his eyes, a smile or an occasional arm movement.

EARLY LIFE

His mother has helped him to communicate through a spelling board.



Jonathan has started a blog called EYE CAN TALK | a silent soul emerging

He has entered a short story to a BBC competition.

He writes poems.

JONATHAN’S WRITING

He has an autobiography.

Life Adventures of Awesome Jonathan – An Autobiography

He is one of the top pupils in his class for maths.

He is 'the class joker'.


Jonathan, now aged ten.

He tells the Daily Mail: "I'm going back to Jesus's garden soon."

He has had several life-threatening episodes.

He has described a near-death experience in which he "visited Jesus's garden".

In Jesus's garden he could run fast, talk and climb trees

He said he didn't meet Jesus but is very much looking forward to doing that when he goes back.

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