Stop Worrying! There Probably Is an Afterlife

“you, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behaviour of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules”.

It may well be, it seems to me, that each individual consciousness ought to be compared to a brain-cell in a universal mind.

The curious fact that human consciousness seems to be a way for the universe to observe itself ties in closely to developments in science over the past century, most notably in the field of quantum physics – the field of science concerned with phenomena at the microscopic scale (atoms and sub-atomic elements). The enigma that emerges at the quantum

Just as Davies, Dyson and Nagel have argued, a number of scientists now suggest, based on the theory of the quantum world, that consciousness may in fact be a fundamental property of the cosmos – far from the ‘accidental by-product’ of a biological brain.

appears to me that the tendency of mind to infiltrate and control matter is a law of nature.9 [my emphasis]

“When I first submitted an article to an International Palliative Care Journal some 15 years ago on death-bed visions, their reply was ‘this is not for us’ – code for ‘it’s too fringy’.”

What was it about Moody’s book that made it such a hit with the general public? No doubt the diminishing role of organized religion in many peoples’ lives during the 20th century had left a spiritual hole that the NDE filled quite adequately. But it was perhaps something more than this as well. A century previous, before ‘near-death experience’ bec

The implications of a deterministic Universe for human beings were humbling, almost demeaning. Astrophysicist Bernard Haisch explains:

To avoid having their brain annihilated, many people have unfortunately fled from a sense of proportion by rejecting science outright, retreating into fundamentalist religiosity, or at the very least enveloping themselves in a blissful (to them) shroud of ignorance.