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What I do spiritually: Meditation - it's proven to have health benefits, even in purely non-spiritual setting. Besides that: trying to be good in general, etc.
by kozikow 5y ago
What I do spiritually: Meditation - it's proven to have health benefits, even in purely non-spiritual setting. Besides that: trying to be good in general, etc. Experience love and gratefulness.
What I think it's there: My main point of inspiration are "near death experiences". There is solid evidence they are not just hallucinations of dying brain. The primary argument that they are not hallucinations is obtaining independently verifiable information observed during "leaving the body" during near death experiences. Ed Kelly (professor at UVA DOPS) said that he collected over 100 cases, when the person leaving the body during the NDE observed information that couldn't be physically observed, known prior to NDE, guessed or hallucinated using known information and credibility of verifying professional wasn't questioned. Many of the reports included information obtained minutes after the cardiac arrest. Many of the reports included reports from different locations (e.g. Wife traveling to meet dying husband with 4 people, earlier than planned). People blind from birth describing independently verified visual information.
Some examples and links to investigate (copy doi to scihub if you don't have access):
0. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6172100/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6172100/
1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140673601071008 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01406...
2. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2190/KNTM-6R07-LTVT-MC6K https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2190/KNTM-6R07-LTVT-...
3. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.456.3200&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.456...
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL1oDuvQR08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL1oDuvQR08
5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-91QXXsyEc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-91QXXsyEc
6. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6172100/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6172100/
Besides NDEs, check research at UVA DOPS https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/ https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/ . Check irreducible mind book - there is surprisingly vast amount of scientific evidence that something spiritual is real, just that majority of scientific community refuses to even consider it.