The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.
The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.
Mortality is very brief but immeasurably important.
I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.
Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life to make discoveries.
In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.
We actually have the tools in the life sciences to achieve anything that you have the audacity to envision. I just hope to live long enough not to die.
The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.