A Thread about the afterlife

[Roby]

I just watched this talk by Jill Bolte and if you have a few spare minutes I suggest you watch it.

http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.htm l

What struck me as really interesting is that she is a neural analyst, so her input should be the most appropriate concerning what we perceive, and the fact that she is describing nirvana in her experience is awe inspiring.

Comments? concerns? what are your thoughts?

(PS yes this is what I do at 4 in the morning.)

[Ness]

Are you saying nirvana was not awe inspiring o.0

[Roby]

I haven't experienced Nirvana, but to think that it exists seemed more interesting than Nirvana itself considering that it seemed like myth and legend to me before this video.

but yes Nirvana itself still is pretty amazing if it does truly exist. :p

[Lord Justin]

What struck me as really interesting is that she is a neural analyst, so her input should be the most appropriate concerning what we perceive

I strongly disagree. All kinds of people have biases, even scientists. You see what you want to see. If a scientist believes in nirvana or the afterlife, that is how they will describe a near-death experience or a strange experience that gives them a different perspective on their inner mind.

A scientist who doesn't believe in nirvana or the afterlife would describe the experience as euphoric and fascinating but they wouldn't call it spiritual.

I saw this talk awhile ago and it didn't affect me except that I couldn't even finish the video because of all the arms-waving "and I saw into the true spirit of life" grandioseness. I went into it expecting more science and less spirituality.

[Roby]

I suppose you're correct in many ways concerning biases, but I still think it's interesting.

[Sgt So and So]

Nirvana's a pretty good band.

Shame Kurt Cobain had that close encounter of the shotgun kind, though.

[smith1215]

Death -> Nirvana?

I want to follow the trend, I don't like Nirvana for some reason. In 9th grade I did a project on Buddhism...

[Garret Rowe]

For the stupid people out there, like me, what is Nirvana? :)

[napalmi]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana

[metsapeikko]

For the stupid people out there, like me, what is Nirvana? :)

For a self-proclaimed researcher you don't seem to be so initiative

I'm not going to say that much about afterlife since we don't really have any solid-facts about it.

[Specht]

Ok, let's get on with it, in my own experience, when there's less blood flow on some regions of the brain, somehow it makes you feel good, I tell you that from my meditation and chemical substance experiences, that's the explanation I would give to people who tell experiences of like that when nearly dying. I don't believe in afterlife, neither do I believe in any religion in the world, there is no god, no jesus, no allah, no zeus, nobody, noone, no nirvana, nothing. You'll die, and you won't notice you died, you won't think, your mind won't exist, you won't have to worry about anything, as you're dead.

I wanted to live forever, to see the changes, the advances in technology, the wars, how humans would develop, how earth would develop, how the universe would develop...

Too bad I'm gonna die someday.

[Roby]

Yea you're probably right specht, but I can always hope that there's something better after this life.