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It seems when people die they may be playing back their film editor....the one that will/could be played back at their Judgment.
"When Gregg Nome was 24 years
old, he slipped into the churn beneath a waterfall and began to drown,
his body pummelled against the sandy riverbed. What he saw there
surprised him.
--Suddenly, his vision filled with crystal-clear scenes
from his childhood, events he had mostly forgotten, and then moments
from early adulthood.
--The memories, if that’s what they were, were vivid
and crisp.
--They came at high speed,
almost all at once, in a wave.
--And yet he could process each one
individually.
--In fact, he was able to perceive everything around him:
the rush of the water, the sandy bed, all of it brilliantly distinct. He
could “hear and see as never before,” he recalled later.
And, despite
being trapped underwater, he felt calm and at ease. --He remembered
thinking that prior to this moment his senses must have been dulled
somehow, because only now could he fully understand the world, perhaps
even the true meaning of the universe. --Eventually, the imagery faded.
Next, “There was only darkness,” he said, “and a feeling of a short
pause, like something was about to happen.”
Nome recounted this story at a support group in
Connecticut, in 1985, four years after the experience. He had survived,
but now he hoped to understand why, during a moment of extreme mortal
crisis, his mind had behaved the way it did.
In the 1975 best seller Life After Life, the psychiatrist
Raymond Moody labelled these episodes
“near-death experiences”, or NDEs, a term that stuck.
A frustrated experiencer once....explained it would be difficult
to describe her experience because we live in three dimensions, and what
she saw on the border between living and dying seemed bigger somehow.
Q: Are feelgood chemicals, like endorphins, released into the body at the
point of peril, creating euphoria?
Q: Does the brain become starved of
oxygen, prompting real-seeming fantasies?
Q: Do various areas of the brain
suddenly begin to work in concert to create strange, altered states?
A: Nobody knows.
Daniel Kondziella, a neurologist affiliated with the department of
neurology at Copenhagen University Hospital, told me that if “people are
able to describe and report their experiences, even many years later”,
then surely “they have been processed by the brain and stored in its
memory centers.”
“It seems most likely to me that the mind is somehow separate to the
brain,” he says, “and, if that’s true, maybe it can function when the
brain dies.” Then he adds, “But if the mind is not there in the brain,
where is it? And what is it?”
In 2020, my four-year-old son and I watched Soul,
the Disney film, which introduces the near-death experience to a new
audience, very young people, and examines consciousness, the afterlife,
and the imperceptible stuff that makes us us. (My son is convinced now
that when we die we ride an ethereal, very cool-looking travelator
toward a blinding light in the sky.) Often in these screen-based times,
we are encouraged to celebrate narratives that promote living the
“right” way, which tends to involve appreciating and accepting every
moment for what it is, and mindfully placing experiences and
relationships above the pursuit of power or prestige or material goods.
(Broadly speaking, this is the plot of Soul.) Most of us do not live like that, not entirely, and yet we feel like we should,
lest we waste our precious time on this planet. Which is why near-death
narratives fascinate us, and why they persist as events of interest in
the culture.
They ask: “What would you do with your life, if you had
another chance?” Alex Moshakis / Observer Magazine
LESSON:
....for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ....Behold, now is the accepted time; behold,
now is the day of salvation....Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. Q: For what is your life?
A: It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Today is the only day we have, to be saved..... May this be part of your flashing scenes at the close of your life when your Film Editor Plays...