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.......In my own NDE (can be read here Peter N -- NDE) I did have experience of 'merging' with other minds and that didn't in any way compromise my sense of identity, in the sense that I was losing something. Far from it, my sense of identity grew exponentially in ways that isn't easy to describe, but it really was very, very beautiful (I would much rather be that than be what I am now). So here there is an example of merging with other minds and not losing individuality, but also becoming more than your individual sense of self in ordinary human life. See, what counts as 'individuality' is quite malleable in the spirit realms -- so you can't really look at the issue from a restricted human mind viewpoint, trying to approach it that way just doesn't work.
There was a point in my experience when I completely merged with the 'light'. At that point I just disappeared. What humans would regard as 'me' just wasn't there any more. This was a very brief phase of the experience but wasn't in any way frightening, quite the reverse it was beyond belief astonishingly beautiful to just be that 'light'. (I wouldn't object to being that even if the cost was my human identity.)
Dr. Ron Scolastico left a large body of channeled material from his Guides relating to this subject. Here is one directly relevant quote, from https://www.ronscolastico.com/a-thumbnail-sketch-of-life-and-death.html. It seems to corroborate your NDE experience at least to a small extent.
"Question: Please elaborate on the relationship between a soul and its human self. You have said that we do not need to worry about dying because we are eternal souls. But, I think you have also said that the human personality self, the personality matrix, is self aware for a short time after death, and then merges back into the soul. So, really it would seem that the human personality self does end. Would you please clarify this?"
Answer by the Guides through Ron Scolastico: If you can truly understand the following, then all fear of death will vanish: Your human personality self can be likened to your left thumb as you are sitting in a cathedral where there is beautiful architecture, colored glass, and holy sounds being sung by a choir. If you turned your attention only to your thumb, you would not notice any of that beauty. You would only notice your thumb.
As a soul, you are sitting in a cathedral of eternal love, perfection, creativity, beauty, and goodness. Only a certain part of your soul attention is focused on your thumb—your human self. In other words, what you experience as you-as-a-human is a small portion of the awareness of you-as-an-eternal-soul. The rest of your soul awareness is blocked out from your human awareness.
When your body dies, that ‘sliver’ of soul consciousness that has been focusing on its thumb — your experience of your human self — is turned back to the full soul attention in the eternal cathedral. What you experience as you simply stops being small, and it becomes large. Your human self does not vanish. It simply wakes up to its existence as an eternal soul."
For me, to the extent that this can be humanly understood, it still amounts to a great loss of human individuality, that is, loss of the human sense of self as the unique human personality identifying with the unique memories of physical life from early childhood, and identifying with the unique physical body. This is replaced by a vastly expanded form of consciousness with an entirely different basic "personality" (if you could call it that), manifoldly different memories, and with basically different likes, dislikes, emotions, etc. etc. The former human self becomes merely a sort of set of static "meta-memories" tucked into some cranny of the total soul being, which appears to be alien to the former human self.
This picture may very well be the truth, but it is not surprising that few human beings would welcome this. From the strictly human standpoint it certainly doesn't look like "survival" in any meaningful form.
It's interesting that some spiritual traditions claim that the human individuality is never lost. The Bahai Faith is one. Of course, there are other difficulties here: for instance their teachings also deny that there is any form of reincarnation, despite the overwhelming evidence from childrens' past life memories.
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