- Near-death experience (NDE)
- Dr. Raymond Moody wrote Life After Life: A Groundbreaking Exploration of Near-Death Experiences and the Transformative Insights into the Afterlife, Backed by Scientific Study and Personal Testimonies
- Dr. Ian Stevenson
- Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: stages of human death
- Dr. Helen Wambach does early science in Reliving Past Lives: The Evidence Under Hypnosis
- If there is no permanent "self," what is there then?
- Saṃsāra is not Nirvana, but is to say so helpful?
- What is Liberation (Moksha) but Awakening to the Truth that this was all a Dream (Maya)?
- Death (marana) is death because it is immediately followed by rebirth; there is no space in between, as the Bardo is misunderstood to be, because it will not be another human rebirth next
- At the instant of death, in that submoment, what was a human life is lost, the impersonal process of consciousness relinks and rearises according to karma in a new form. It is neither a new existence nor the same as the one before, and this is confusing. Identity clings. But just as it was impersonal before, it is impersonal still, and the process (patisandhi in samsara) rolls on. Samsara is the "continued wandering on" and its detailed process the Buddha made known in the Abhidhamma, how cittas (mind moments) and impuslions (javanas) produce their results (vipaka and phala), and a "being" (which is really always a becoming) is unaware and just carried on...
Monday, May 25, 2026
If there's no self, whose NDE is it?
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