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Loki:
Those familiar with the near-death phenomenon, particularly the tunnel with a bright light at the end of it and a usually benign figure who comforts the dying person, might find commonality with the UFO abductee tales and other flying saucer encounters over the years.

The near-death experience is mystical, and can be dealt with along theological lines, or with the help of William James’ The Varieties of Religious Experiences and more recent tomes such as Raymond Moody’s Life After Life….

There are related human events covered in the classic work, Cosmic Consciousness by Richard Maurice Bucke [1901] which pertain, but differ significantly from the “common” UFO abduction accounts, relating more to the infamous contactee stories of the 1950s.

The UFO abduction events can be reviewed in Dr. John Mack’s book, Abduction - Human Encounters with Aliens? 1994 and a few other books such as Budd Hopkins’ Missing Time [1981], Intruders [1987], and Witnessed [1996].

Our point here is to note that the tunnel of light might give a clue to what is going on in the dying episodes and the UFO kidnapping encounters, and this might involve offputting scenarios to some: time-travel or parallel universes.

The evanescent element in near-death and UFO abduction incidents relates to the relativity or contrived aspects of time. The tunnel in near-death episodes and the transport mechanism in many UFO abduction accounts (Travis Walton for instance) show either SciFi oriented (or originated) tales or something nearer to recent physics hypotheses about time, singularities, and string-theory.

Betty Andreasson, a noted UFO abductee (whose story has been recounted by Ray Fowler and others), co-joins near-death and her “abductions. Andreasson Luca (her full last name now) details this at a web-site which may be accessed at:

http://www.near-death.com/experiences/triggers19.html

There is a reality inside the UFO abductee stories many say. I agree, but it’s not that alien beings are abducting humans for experiments to save their race (or because they are just a curious lot).

And those near-death who think Jesus is coming to take them over to a heavenly existence may very well be accessing the theological proposal that life does exist after death, as Thomas Aquinas postulated and Bucke’s book (above) intuits.

But what if both phenomena are manifestations of a psychological malady which only intrudes on those with a physical or mental defect; defects so subtle or misunderstood (if understood at all), that they need a full study by the psychiatric community?

Or if the UFO abduction stories are true, and related to the near-death accounts in some as yet unknown fashion, then that has to be delineated by the scientific community, not just the psychological fraternity.

By all accounts, something strange is going on when a person nears death and sees a comforting being from the other side of this existence and when a person (or persons) think they are being pulled from their bed or car and lifted into a flying saucer or alien craft.

The possibilities [sic] are these: that beings are actually intruding on humans and escorting them to their vehicles for examinations or some other (nefarious?) reason; that Jesus or some other avatar is part of a welcoming committee for those ready to pass over to the other side; that Earth’s future generations are coming back through time to correct evolutionary flaws; or that aliens from other worlds or universes are using portals, not available to humans yet, to reach the Earth for whatever reason that can be imagined.

Or this: that both experiences are hogwash, and no one sees Jesus or anyone else when they approach death and no one gets taken out of their bodies, rooms, or cars to be hosted by aliens traversing the known universe(s) to inspect mediocre humans for purposes too abstruse to fathom.

Or it’s a combination of bizarre reality and mental/physical quirks which elude the medical and scientific community.

We remain skeptical of all the above…

Rich Reynolds/Christopher Jay

Shadowling:
:roll:  Of course, the unprovable 'life after death' theory.

ModernDayVampire:
unless they find a way to bring someone back to life but then again that would only reanimate the corpse would it in fact bring the memories back as well???

Shadowling:
Probably not, as memory requires a functioning brain, and when you are dead, your brain does not store memory.

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