"Participants reported that during the meditation-induced NDE, they visited non-worldly realms, experienced what happens during and after death, and experienced a state of existence known as 'emptiness'. Compared to regular forms of meditation, the meditation-induced NDE led to a five-fold increase in mystical experiences and a four-fold increase in feelings of non-attachment. Findings also demonstrated that the profundity of the meditation-induced NDE increased across the three-year study period, suggesting that the experience can be learned and perfected over time."
It seems that anything can be called a near death experience these days, someone performing a high risk 'activity', some volunteers experimenting with 'substances' or an important business that nearly goes into liquidation. What exactly were these mystical experiences reported ? And a four fold increase in non attachment (interest in worldly things) ? What's the big deal with that ? And anyway, some people that are actually dead are still very much interested in worldly things, relatives out in the hallway, shoes on window ledges, post it notes...
I believe (I might be wrong) that it's a cynical attempt to downgrade the importance and the unique nature of the real experience (because the implications are not welcome) which by and large is something of a vastly different magnitude to what is alluded to above. And that grade of experience usually only occurs when people have actually died (cardiac arrest).
It seems that anything can be called a near death experience these days, someone performing a high risk 'activity', some volunteers experimenting with 'substances' or an important business that nearly goes into liquidation. What exactly were these mystical experiences reported ? And a four fold increase in non attachment (interest in worldly things) ? What's the big deal with that ? And anyway, some people that are actually dead are still very much interested in worldly things, relatives out in the hallway, shoes on window ledges, post it notes...
I believe (I might be wrong) that it's a cynical attempt to downgrade the importance and the unique nature of the real experience (because the implications are not welcome) which by and large is something of a vastly different magnitude to what is alluded to above. And that grade of experience usually only occurs when people have actually died (cardiac arrest).
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