fnxtr
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| Quote (Seversky @ Feb. 13 2011,21:01) | | Quote (fnxtr @ Feb. 13 2011,21:38) | | Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ Feb. 13 2011,17:26) | | Actually, in the stuff that passes as literature in the fundamentalist community, I've seen at least a couple of reports of NDEs where the victim claims to have briefly been in hell. These are used to counter the New Age kinds of claims of generic sweetness and light in the hereafter. |
There was an explanation either here or on PT a while back about seeing light when you're dying, to the effect that optic nerve responses are wired backwards, i.e., no signal (default) is interpreted as light, and signal means "It's dark!" |
So what they're actually seeing in an NDE is a sort of photographic negative effect? Instead of traveling along a tunnel towards the light, they're really plunging into a black hole? Kewl! |
Nope. They see light because their eyes have shut off the "It's dark!" signal.
eta Oh. Never mind.
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