Hi Gretta

So glad you have looked into NDEs previously, although the probing and research has moved forward a great deal such that you might like to take a fresh look — for example, at the scientific AWARE study that published in August 2016 following statistically significant results THAT CONSCIOUSNESS DEFINITELY SURVIVES DEATH. This is a big finding, known by millions from their own experiences of course, but one that will slowly change the face in time of religion, health, education and our general approach to life itself. It takes us back to what that great scientist Max Planck[i], a father of modern Quantum Physics, perceived when he wrote:

“In the whole of the Universe, there is no force that is either intelligent or eternal, and we must therefore assume that behind this force there is a conscious, intelligent Mind or Spirit. This is the very origin of all matter.”

He perceived that an awesome, personal, conscious, artistic and scientific intellect is ever so obviously involved in our Creation and far beyond, termed “God” in many religions. It becomes logical that God’s consciousness must have predated our universe and most likely was that first cause of the Creation!

Why did I choose to respond to you on the level of NDEs? Simply because you said you were an atheist, and I wanted to point out to you that atheism is not really in modern times a defensible position. That is the reason I mentioned many atheists had died and returned to become dedicated and effective Christian ministers. Which likewise seemed to fit your interests. The prominent cardiologist Mathew Rawlings, himself an erstwhile atheist, after investigating for himself the NDEs of atheists said “I know of no atheist who has remained so after a prolonged NDE during which he met with God.” Here are the names of a few atheists turned effective Christian ministers from my book, but that you can search up on the internet if you are interested: Professor Howard Storm, Ian McCormack “the box jellyfish man”, Neuropathologist George Rodonaia, musician BJ McKelvie, previously Hindu then doubter Mahesh Chavda, Dr Diane Komp, Howard Pittman, Tim LaFond etc.

But forgetting prominent Christians for a moment, I should tell you that my 40 years of interest and research into NDEs began long before I was a Christian, when my father (non-churchgoer) had an NDE and gathered us all around his bed and told us about it. I have come across this same wonder at what happened to them in many many many people. Recently my wife and I spent a weekend at a mountain resort in Australia, Mt Tamborine, and at dinner a man we had not met previously loudly told us about his NDE and that he had become a Christian as a consequence. A woman nearby listened intently, then came over and said she had also met with Jesus in the afterlife and become a Christian as a consequence.

And please never allow science to substitute for God: it is too fickle and keeps changing its explanations. Thankfully, basically locked into our universe, it admits its inability to probe successfully things beyond and in other dimensions.

It may shock us, but science does not actually know the answer to man’s superiority, nor to the essence of Time, Consciousness, Energy or Love, vital though these are to our existence. Check them out on the internet “what is Energy really?” and so on. Taking Energy as an example — we know a huge amount how one form converts into another, and how to measure it, how it travels and so forth, but what it really is eludes us. The same is true for Consciousness and Time. We experience and value Love without being able to know what it really is. Our Universe runs with elegant Physics laws, but we are ignorant of their origin and derivation. We are babes in the woods of existence, whatever existence is.

Conceptually, humanity is in trouble. Can these mysteries be solved in time for us to face some of the great challenges that are looming ahead?

[i] Kurt Eggenstein (1984), Materialistic Science on the Wrong Track.