^^^ Well said!!
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Near death experiences prove nothing. I have taken many hallucinogens when I was younger. They were fun thats all. I guess the news must have missed the scientific announcemnet that proved reincarnation. They must have been closed.
Just to come back to you on these points.
Of course NDE's prove something - how do you explain the consistencies of accounts, from people of all walks of life and regardless of religious belief? What about patients being able to describe hospital scenes from angles they couldn't possibly have seen from their position in their beds, nor from the journey on the way in? All this despite being unconscious (and) or flatlining.
You could take some hallucinogens/entheogens now that you are older and wiser, and evidently have more questions about the nature of life/reality. I don't advocate taking drugs that have been chemically altered by man. Natural drugs in my opinion are gifts of the Earth for us to experience higher levels of consciousness.
The rigid constructs of the scientific model mean we are making proveable discoveries all the time. Nothing wrong with that, except it cannot possibly keep up. Our scientific understanding of these things is a least a few thousand years behind ancient Shamens/knowledge. We are getting there, just very ......slowly.
It is also highly politicised and research needs to be backed by funding and accepted by the community itself. In this sense, mainstream science is extremely limiting. Reincarnation is easily proveable by the data that has been gathered thus far, by many
'scientific' researchers. The research has not been looked at seriously by the scientific community. For what reason, only time will tell - politics, deliberate suppression, who knows. Read this post I did a while ago on
reincarnation and other paranormal activity, (it's rather long, though).