One of the enduring mysteries of life is death. Even though we often push the idea away, we all know that death awaits us at some point in the future. Religious belief systems reassure us that there is a heavenly after life realm, and at the same time attempt to scare us into good behaviour with the idea of a hellish alternative if we are bad. Modern, secular, scientific thinking scorns the whole idea of life after death. If you believe, as materialistic science does, that consciousness is produced by and in the brain, then the death of the physical body means the end of your consciousness. There is nothing else to experience. To some degree, you do need to make yourself comfortable with the idea of the death of your loved ones, and of yourself. Of course, you always can delay having to face the idea until it happens.
On this podcast episode I am going to explore Near-Death-Experiences. These are accounts of what people experienced, whilst they were clinically dead. Not only does this subject gives us information about what could await all of us eventually, it also tells us more about how we should be living our physical lives on Earth too.
