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NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES (N.D.E.)

Our research into the next life started when our son Alexander passed away when he was 11 years old. We hope that this website can help parents who experienced a similar tragedy.

The slides (on left side) give an extraordinary insight into how children, who had Near Death Experiences (N.D.E.) tried to explain their experience both in words "I saw the sun and it had a happy face" and in drawings. {To slow down the slideshow, place your mouse cursor over a slide, black arrows (next,back) will appear and you can manually navigate through the slideshow}

It is almost impossible to put into words what the NDE survivor experiences so to explain the abstract with a concrete example is given by a person who had an NDE.  She said: “Imagine there is a huge warehouse, which is dark, and you live in this warehouse with one flashlight. Everything you know about this warehouse is seen through the light of this one small flashlight. Whenever you want to look for something, you may or may not find it, but it does not mean the thing does not exist. It is there, but you just haven't flashed your light on it. You can only see what your light is focused on. Then one day, someone flicks on a light switch, and for the first time, you can see the whole warehouse. The vastness of it is almost overwhelming, you can't see all the way to the end, and you know there is more than what you can see. But you do see how all the products are lined up on all the shelves, and you notice just how many different things there are in the warehouse which you never noticed. Then, even when the light switch goes back off, nothing can take away the understanding and clarity of your experience”.

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Marc and Helen Vloeberghs
Author's name: Maxwell Alexander
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The journey of the soul is a process of endless growth and infinite possibilities

From the Bahá'í view, then, the journey of the soul is a process of endless growth and infinite possibilities.In this respect the Bahá'í belief about the afterlife differs significantly from some other views, particularly those which assert that the afterlife is but a reflection of this life, a final judgment--we spend eternity in paradise if we have done well or in hell if we have not.In contrast, the Bahá'í writings tell us that our lives are never static, never finished or completed.Even in the next world we will continue changing and developing.The encouraging part of Bahá'í belief in the eternal progress of the soul is the promise of endless growth and change.The intimidating part of this belief is that we are given only one soul to work with for the rest of eternity.Whether we like ourselves or not, we are stuck with ourselves forever.This belief alone should prompt us to pay careful attention to our progress in this physical life.

What happens after we die?

The Bahá'í writings also describe some important features of the transition to the next stage of our existence.Bahá'u'lláh says that at the point of death, when the soul ceases to associate with the body, we will evaluate our lives: "It is clear and evident that all men shall, after their physical death, estimate the worth of their deeds, and realize all that their hands have wrought."

Bahá'u'lláh exhorts us to evaluate our lives on a daily basis, to bring ourselves "to account each day" before we are "summoned to a reckoning; for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou shalt be called to give account for thy deeds."

After death, when our souls have ceased to associate with our physical bodies, we will experience emotions appropriate to the progress we have made in our spiritual development.Bahá'u'lláh tells us that "the followers of the one true God shall, the moment they depart out of this life, experience such joy and gladness as would be impossible to describe, while they that live in error shall be seized with such fear and trembling, and shall be filled with such consternation, as nothing can exceed."

But what will happen after our initial experience in the afterlife?

The Bahá'í writings hint that, among other things, we will meet other souls, continue to learn, and generally participate in the work of the divine worldHe also says that "the world beyond "is as different from this world as this world is different from that of a child while still in the womb of its mother."

We can understand certain properties of the soul, as well as certain laws governing its progress.What is more, acquiring such knowledge can have a dramatic effect on how we think about ourselves and how we conduct our lives.For example, the Bahá'í writings observe that the human soul is an emanation from God, an essence which assumes its beginning and identity at conception when the soul begins its association with the body.Once begun, the soul is eternal.It is not dependent on the existence of the body.

Neither is the soul's progress impaired by infirmities of mind or body.Bahá'u'lláh says, "Know thou that the soul of man is exalted above, and is independent of all infirmities of body or mind."These impairments do not hinder the soul's progress because the soul is not in the body.The soul associates with the body in much the same way as a light becomes apparent in a mirror or a television signal becomes perceptible through a receiver.If a mirror becomes dirty or obscure, it loses the capacity to reflect light clearly, but the light is still resplendent.Likewise, if a television receiver is in disrepair, we may not be able to see a program, but we know that the signal from the station has not been adversely affected by the malfunctioning receiver.

The reason progress can take place in the afterlife is simple.All the powers that distinguish us as human beings - reason, memory, abstract thought, inventiveness, willpower--are properties of the soul, not the body.Some scientists theorize that the essential capacities of the human reality are nothing more than the powers of a highly evolved brain.The Bahá'í writings assert that all distinctive human powers are functions and faculties of the soul.The brain may channel the soul's will into specific acts, but memory, thought, decisions, willpower, identity itself all derive from the soul.

N.D.E. AND BAHA'I WRITINGS

  • EVIDENCE OF AN AFTERLIFE

    More and more scientists have come to the conclusion that after the brain dies consciousness survives.

    This conclusion is paradigm smashing for NDE skeptics who believe that limited brain functioning is only the final gasps of a dying brain, that hallucinates or creates a dream-like state. Many doctors who studied hundreds of NDE cases have refuted this argument explaining that an NDE experience cannot be fragments of dying brain as their observations are highly-organized, highly-lucid after they have been pronounced clinically dead. They are not dream-like or hallucinations. In fact these observations often include things that would be impossible for them to know. For example, they can see the tops of buildings. They can see far away. They described the surgical instruments that doctors used as well as the conversations.

    BLIND PEOPLE

    Perhaps the most compelling cases that prove an afterlife involves blind people describing highly visual events during their NDE. (see video 1)

    CHILDREN

    Doctors were astonished to hear the stories of children who died and were resuscitated. (Video 2) .Their experiences were in many aspects similar to what adults experienced.

    NEUROSURGEON

    We also included a video of a renowned neurosurgeon (Harvard university) who didn't believe in afterlife but after his own N.D.E. changed completely. Now he is totally convinced that he was wrong and that indeed consciousness does continue after the brain has died.

    My wife Helen and I are members of the Baha'i Faith. We found consolation in the Writings of Baha'u'llah which has an amazing amount of information to impart about the reality that awaits us after death.It is a vision that offers consolation, as well as a power to invigorate our lives here and now because it explains the relevance of our performance in this life to what we will experience in the continuation of our lives beyond physical reality.

    This world is the womb world of the life to come

    For example, the Bahá'í Writings assert that the principal importance of this life is that it prepares us for that next stage of our existence.In the same way that our gestation in the womb prepares us for participation in this life, so this life prepares us for entrance into the spiritual realm.You could say that this world is the womb world of the life to come.Therefore, our experience in the physical world is not an end in itself.It is a period of preparation for our further growth and development beyond this life.

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CELEBRATION OF A LIFE

 Alex Newspaper

This website is dedicated to our youngest son Alexander who passed away on 4th November, 1996 at 11 years and 11 month old. He has abandoned this mortal life and has flown to the spiritual world.... Alexander and my wife Helen are gifted poets and we included their poems on this website (see menu: poems)