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steve benson
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Date: August 13, 2013 12:53PM
. . . be viewed from above has not resulted in people claiming to have experienced so-called OBEs reporting back that they actually saw the signs. Hmmmmm. Temporary blindness of their floating spirit bodies, one presumes?
"One attempt to gather objective evidence of this sort, rather than the usual anecdotal, after-the-fact accounts, has been initiated by the British psychiatrist, Peter Fenwick . . . . . He has had messages placed on ledges, above eye level, in the operating theaters of the hospital where he works.
"If a surgical patient should have an NDE/OBE, then his or her free-floating mind should be able to read the otherwise inaccessible message and recall it upon re-awakening.
"As yet, no one has been able to provide this kind of objective evidence, which would admittedly create serious problems for the materialist view of mind. In the absence of such strong proof, the spiritually-inclined must fall back on the next best thing: those cases where it seems highly unlikely that the revived person could have known certain things unless his or her fully-conscious spiritual self had been observing from outside the body."
(Hayden Ebbern, Sean Mulligan and Barry L. Beverstein "Maria's Near-Death Experience: Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop," pp. 1-4, 12; reprinted in "Skeptical Inquirer," Vol. 20, No. 4, July/August 1996, at:
http://records.viu.ca/www/ipp/pdf/NDE.pdf)
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 08/13/2013 12:58PM by steve benson.