Mod+ 232. Greg Taylor Tells Readers, Don’t Worry There Probably is an Afterlife

A pleasant interview, Greg seemed calm, reasonable and grounded in reality. Additionally, some interesting statistics to uncover about death-bed visions and how often the carers of the dying are aware of them happening. And I agree about your theories about why death-bed visions get a lot more ignored than NDEs.

The only thing in the interview that felt a little "uhh.. okay?" was when he mentioned how the data which falsified the supposed study that is used to refute free will gets completely ignored, but at the same time said that people jump on everything Rupert Sheldrake says. Well, those are essentially the exact same things. The only difference, I suppose, is that when they attack Sheldrake (and those like him), they are not attacking his science and his arguments, but his character and conclusions. When other scientists get the same results, I guess ignorance simply works best.

With that said, I haven't investigated anything about these particular experiments.
 
Enjoyed the interview very much. I'll check out the book, I am planning to get the Kindle version and go through it during the xmas vacation.

I liked his stance about the spiritual implications: I'll give you the data, then you can think about it, digest it and see which new connections they open up in your mind. If all goes well many religious folks will have some new interesting questions to ask their local priests, rabbis, imams etc... :)

cheers
 
Alex's question at the end of the podcast:

What do you make of the substantial evidence for deathbed visions from end-of-life care givers? What does it tell us about the consistency between deathbed visions and NDEs/other examples of extended consciousness?
 
What do you make of the substantial evidence for deathbed visions from end-of-life care givers? What does it tell us about the consistency between deathbed visions and NDEs/other examples of extended consciousness?

I must admit, I haven't investigated deathbed visions before, and this is an opportunity to do so. I've done a bit of Googling and come up with:

http://www.victorzammit.com/evidence/endoflife.htm (a number of videos on this page)
http://www.near-death.com/deathbed.html
http://michaelprescott.typepad.com/michael_prescotts_blog/deathbed_visions/
 
What do you make of the substantial evidence for deathbed visions from end-of-life care givers? What does it tell us about the consistency between deathbed visions and NDEs/other examples of extended consciousness?

I must admit, I haven't investigated deathbed visions before, and this is an opportunity to do so. I've done a bit of Googling and come up with:

http://www.victorzammit.com/evidence/endoflife.htm (a number of videos on this page)
http://www.near-death.com/deathbed.html
http://michaelprescott.typepad.com/michael_prescotts_blog/deathbed_visions/

If I may add a link to your list:

 
Fenwick's 2008 book The Art of Dying: A Journey to Elsewhere (maybe because of its title, which doesn't give away too much) I feel hasn't received the attention it warrants. It fleshes out the study Greg Taylor mentions and you get a lot of rich accounts, as well as after-death communications (including shared ADCs) and shared NDE experiences (the lines get blurry between these categories).

Other titles include Parting Visions (Melvin Morse, 1994), Elizabeth Kübler-Ross co-author David Kessler's Visions, Trips and Crowded Rooms: Who and What You See Before You Die (2010), the classic At the Hour of Death (Osis & Haraldsson, 1977), the even older classic Deathbed Visions by William Barrett (1926).

Another interesting category in the "dying" (can we stop using this word?! ;)) process is "NDA": "Near Death Awareness": people who "know" and give indication as to when they'll "die" (sometimes related to receiving a vision). This gets covered in the book Final Gifts (1992) by the hospice workers Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley.

p.s. I don't know how to answer Alex's question. To me, it's a no-brainer. It's consistent! Spirits depart, move on, change dimensions.
 
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There was an interesting thread on the old forum that linked to another forum that was populated by nurses who worked in long term care. They maintain a thread there where they add stories of shared death experiences, which they see on a regular basis. There are thousands of anecdotes on that thread that relate evidence for survival. I'm way too lazy to look it up. But it is out there for those who require more evidence.
 
There was an interesting thread on the old forum that linked to another forum that was populated by nurses who worked in long term care. They maintain a thread there where they add stories of shared death experiences, which they see on a regular basis. There are thousands of anecdotes on that thread that relate evidence for survival. I'm way too lazy to look it up. But it is out there for those who require more evidence.
I think this is what you were referring to:
http://allnurses.com/general-nursing-discussion/death-bed-visions-301825.html

What struck me, was the matter of fact way these are reported - I mean the nurses seemed to be simply describing a fairly normal part of their work.

David
 
I think this is what you were referring to:
http://allnurses.com/general-nursing-discussion/death-bed-visions-301825.html

What struck me, was the matter of fact way these are reported - I mean the nurses seemed to be simply describing a fairly normal part of their work.

David
Thanks, I enjoyed reading the reports. Very interesting
Funny how the skeptics are so cliché, there's no way to escape the usual litany about "extraordinary evidence..." and the "spaghetti monster"... gee I thought critical thinking was something more than parrotting slogans.
 
I think this is what you were referring to:
http://allnurses.com/general-nursing-discussion/death-bed-visions-301825.html

What struck me, was the matter of fact way these are reported - I mean the nurses seemed to be simply describing a fairly normal part of their work.

David
"I also had creepy experiences that I cannot forget.But I don't want to scare anyone so i'll just keep it to myself."
We wonder what these are. Like the Balfour story?
Is it really 'scary'?
 

So the article states:
But it wasn't David's brain that woke him up to say goodbye that Friday. His brain had already been destroyed. Tumor metastases don't simply occupy space and press on things, leaving a whole brain. The metastases actually replace tissue. Where that gray stuff grows, the brain is just not there.
What woke my patient that Friday was simply his mind, forcing its way through a broken brain, a father's final act to comfort his family. The mind is a uniquely personal domain of thought, dreams and countless other things, like the will, faith and hope. These fine things are as real as rocks and water but, like the mind, weightless and invisible, maybe even timeless. Material science shies from these things, calling them epiphenomena, programs running on a computer, tunes on a piano. This understanding can't be ignored; not too much seems to get done on earth without a physical brain. But I know this understanding is not complete, either.
I see the mind have its way all the time when physical realities challenge it. In a patient stubbornly working to rehab after surgery, in a child practicing an instrument or struggling to create, a mind or will, clearly separate, hovers under the machinery, forcing it toward a goal. It's wonderful to see, such tangible evidence of that fine thing's power over the mere clumps of particles that, however pretty, will eventually clump differently and vanish.

But the editors have to tack on the headline -
The Brain: The Power of Hope
 
My husband died at home. I was his end of life caregiver (he had brain metastases and cancer elsewhere in his body). A few days before he left, he woke up in the AM and asked me where he was and who were "those people over there". I told him his body was dying and those people were probably there to help him. He died a few days later.....but refused to go until I left him alone. The hospice nurse told me about one patient who was talking to her mother on the ceiling and explaining that she couldn't leave quite yet because her family (who was gathered around her) still needed her.
 
Fenwick's 2008 book The Art of Dying: A Journey to Elsewhere (maybe because of its title, which doesn't give away too much) I feel hasn't received the attention it warrants. It fleshes out the study Greg Taylor mentions and you get a lot of rich accounts, as well as after-death communications (including shared ADCs) and shared NDE experiences (the lines get blurry between these categories). Other titles include Parting Visions (Melvin Morse, 1994), Elizabeth Kübler-Ross co-author David Kessler's Visions, Trips and Crowded Rooms: Who and What You See Before You Die (2010), the classic At the Hour of Death (Osis & Haraldsson, 1977), the even older classic Deathbed Visions by William Barrett (1926).

A book along the lines of 'Don't Worry ...' but twice as long is David Fontana's Is There An Afterlife?: A Comprehensive Overview of the Evidence. Another book on shared death experiences I thought was well done is Glimpses of Eternity by Raymond Moody with Paul Perry.
 
My husband died at home. I was his end of life caregiver (he had brain metastases and cancer elsewhere in his body). A few days before he left, he woke up in the AM and asked me where he was and who were "those people over there". I told him his body was dying and those people were probably there to help him. He died a few days later.....but refused to go until I left him alone.

I could have sworn I read this account before but a quick Google brought forward nothing. Maybe it was in Moody's book, I dunno, but it appears that you have a deeper understanding of where he is now. Not saying that means that you are not bereaved or upset or even angry but perhaps less so than others.

The hospice nurse told me about one patient who was talking to her mother on the ceiling and explaining that she couldn't leave quite yet because her family (who was gathered around her) still needed her.

There's another one, are you channeling Raymond Moody? lol
 
Another interesting category in the "dying" (can we stop using this word?! ;)
I used to be adverse to the word and tried to dance around it with "passing" or " transitioned" or whatever and got tired of it all. Dead is dead. Physical things die. Die, die, die. Dead, deader than a doornail, dead.

Try it, it's liberating.
 
I could have sworn I read this account before but a quick Google brought forward nothing. Maybe it was in Moody's book, I dunno, but it appears that you have a deeper understanding of where he is now. Not saying that means that you are not bereaved or upset or even angry but perhaps less so than others.



There's another one, are you channeling Raymond Moody? lol

Nope. These are my own experiences and I've only related them to a few friends and family members (except here).
 
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