Yada Yada / The Off Topic Arena

2 more weeks, and I am out of this POS place!

And I am NOT renewing my Filipino Drivers License, nor my 13a Permanent Resident Visa.

5 years living in Bacolod City and 7 months here in Dumaguete is enough for me.

 

If your going back to Florida I don't blame you. lovely place.

 

There is actually quite alot of "evidence" of afterlife/before life. Hypnotherapists regressing subjects { Delores cannon/Michael talbot ] report that over 7000 subjects ranging from all ages and cultures discuss prelife/after life in great detail with all details corresponding.

We have cases all over the world of subjects regressed who discuss other lives lived in great detail - names, places, mundane detail about cultures and societies they would not normally know.
We have almost every theology in the world [except christianity ] that discusses reincarnation as a matter of course. { However lot of the edited material out of the NT discusses reincarnation }. The Old Testament does not mention reincarnation but the Kabbala also discusses reincarnation in great detail. The Vedas, Buddhism etc all discuss consciousness after death

We have had numerous mystics report in great detail on the "afterlife" { refer Emanuel Swedenborg who wrote scores of books on the subject matter during the 18th c.

We have had numerous scientists and researchers such as Elizabeth Kubler Ross who write on consciousness after "death" { clinical death on the operating table where the brain has flatlined but the consciousness remains and is also non local { subject experiences consciousness from outside the body

On a philosophical side.. "complete nothingness" which you mentioned above cannot be found or can have no existence as a thing in itself. Consciousness is all there is.. Form is consciousness and consciosness is form as the Vedas state. Even Quantum physicists such as Heisenberg and Nils Bohr came around to finally understand this position. namaste

 

You may research firstly Dr Elizabeth Kubler Ross who spent her life studying NDEs. If the brain is shutting down how is it that the entities always report witnessing the event { operating theatre] from OUTSIDE the body??? What are they "seeing" with? { the eyes, the normal senses for seeing are 10ft below them inside a dead body - closed ]. Kubler Ross reported this many times as have other studies. One patient reported seeing a dime coin stuck inside the machine measuring his heart rate [ flatlined ] and Doctors on examination found a coin inside the machine. Kubler Ross had a blind subject [ blind from birth ] who described the operating theatre and doctors and nurses in detail. one patient floateed out of the building 6 floors up and reported a slip on , on a balcony [ which was verified when she came back from the dead ] etc etc

Scientific Evidence Supporting Near-Death Experiences and the Afterlife

Try and find an interview with hypnotherapist Delores Cannon on in between lives.

 

Buddhism is NOT a religion. It does not pose a deity, personal God or Gods.

 

If the entire Universe ceased to exist { leaving"complete nothingness" ] the potential for another Universe to come int o being is surely there right? { the Universe exists now, seemingly coming out of "nothing", therefore it could exist again, in the same way it came into being before right?] There fore the POTENTIAL for the Universe to come into being is ALWAYS there.. If there is potential there then there cannot be "absolute nothingness" as the potential itself must count for "something" -