Facing Conflict with Near-Death Experiences

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The subject of near-death experiences (NDEs) is highly controversial, but has been fascinating people for many years. One reason scientists have difficulty examining them is because they are extremely subjective. Also, there is a variety of experiences.

Some people see light and a voice they attribute to God or an angel that tells them it is not yet time, go back. Others experienced terror. Many lives have been changed, but not always for the better and they need counseling. Those who went to a happy place resent coming back; their infirmities still exist.

Spirit, light, and clouds, Pixabay / Gerd Altmann (geralt)
Medically, some NDEs can be dismissed as hallucinations because the brain goes into special functions. There are times when people in the midst of an NDE returned and described people, conversations, and more that they could not have known about.

The idea of giving counseling to NDE experiencers (especially to those who have challenges to their worldviews) involves materialistic counselors. Of course, secularists do not suggest biblical counseling. It is absurd to have someone who presupposes naturalism, evolution, no soul, no God, atheism...to "counsel" theists — especially Christians. There is a Creator, he made us as beings that have souls.
Doctors and scientists have no doubt that people with near-death experiences (NDEs), who recover from times when they are “clinically dead” in the hospital, saw something. A few common reports have been tabulated by statistics: feelings of peace and love and joy, feeling outside of the body, and (in not a few cases), feelings of distress and fear.

What’s a scientist accustomed to materialism and scientism supposed to do with reports like these? One common reaction is to send them to secular psychologists for therapy. Psychologists at the University of Virginia decided to study if the “coping strategies” prescribed by therapists are helpful to those who had profound worldview changes after going through a NDE.

It is in your best interests to finish reading "Eternity in Their Near-Death Experiences." You may also like "Near-Death Experiences, Materialists, and Christians."