Archbishop Viganò on the anti-pope's death
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Exactly. How could they have these experiences? If brain function has ceased how could this be?
It’s actually a super interesting phenomena which I’ve enjoyed researching. Many people have reported seeing things occurring around their dying body as they ascend, that would be impossible for them to know.
One dr got some kind of brain infection that scientifically should have rendered it completely impossible to have any sort of dream/hallucination or similar experience as he lay in a coma with less than 2% chance of survival and he had a vivid experience.
You really need to listen to some to understand. It’s quite compelling
It’s become more common in recent decades as our ability to bring people back from near death has improved greatly
I think a lot of the problem with researching that is that we are trusting the brain to explain something the brain did in a moment of complete panic and losing function.
Its a problem with all Psychology, is that we cannot read minds. So the person has to explain what they saw, filtered through dozens of hoops that is their own brain and its perspectives, beliefs, and limitations. Both as they experienced it and in the recounting.
Its all super interesting stuff, but I think the lot of it is a bird staring at a computer screen. Something we are nowhere near able to comprehend on a level that isn't limited to mostly guesswork by our own brain.
I think it's going to be a really fascinating field of study, just as soon as we gain some humility for how little we actually know, and we can approach the problems without insisting that we definitely already know how it all works, as modern science does.
Its already quite fascinating, because we can glean things from it regardless.
But we need to always keep that limitation in mind before we make strong statements on things like God or Heaven, because, like you said, we need to keep humility.