I suppose how persuasive this may be depends on how much you are persuaded by NDEs, are they what actually happens or the way a dying brain comforts it’s ‘self’.
I can say that I am relatively persuaded by the positive things highlighted in your post, but I leave room for other possibilities.
Oh my God, I hate all this.
I suppose my aim isn't to persuade anyone, especially not myself. What I do is gather snippets of ideas from here and there, and piece them together like the segments of an orange. I'm at the centre, drawing on various segments from time to time. But this way of piecing things together allows additional segments to be squeezed in, and some of the other parts may become narrower, reduced in significance or pushed out completely. Still included as part of my orange are the totally materialistic, chemical-based worldview. It coexists alongside all the other facets. Over a longer timescale these various ideas coexisting come to settle in some sort of temporary equilibrium, representing how I view the world today. But how I viewed the world yesterday, or how I will view it tomorrow may be different.
(This post was last modified: 2018-12-16, 11:58 AM by Typoz.)