‘Is there life after death?’ is a question which continues to plague humanity. One man now believes he has the answer – but has dashed hopes of a glorious heaven full of clouds and loved ones. Instead, the afterlife is a void of complete nothingness where the darkness is visible for as far as the eye can see, according to one man’s experience.
A person named Liam temporarily died following a drug overdose which transported him to the hellish realm.
Liam wrote on the Near Death Experience Research Foundation that he floated in the void, where he was concerned he would spend eternity.
He said: “I found myself in a very dark, cosmic space. I was standing in an endless expanse in outer space. I was surrounded in absolute darkness.
“I could look infinitely far into the darkness, yet, I can’t described this in words.
“It wasn’t cold or warm. I had no feelings of temperature. I was without a body and wide awake.
“I had an absolute awareness of myself, which has nothing in common with my earthly perception. I never had been so aware of my existence.
“Questions arose, of where I was, and how I happened to come here. I understood that I could answer all the questions in the world.
“I had a universal knowledge and awareness. My mind had never been as crystal clear. There are no words on earth to explain having this absolute knowledge.
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Neuroscientist Christof Koch, president and chief scientist of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, believes near death experience visions are typically signs the brain is running out of oxygen or scanning itself for survival techniques.
Dr Koch wrote in an article for Scientific American: “I accept the reality of these intensely felt experiences. They are as authentic as any other subjective feeling or perception.
“As a scientist, however, I operate under the hypothesis that all our thoughts, memories, precepts and experiences are an ineluctable consequence of the natural causal powers of our brain rather than of any supernatural ones.
“That premise has served science and its handmaiden, technology, extremely well over the past few centuries.
“Unless there is extraordinary, compelling, objective evidence to the contrary, I see no reason to abandon this assumption.
“Modern death requires irreversible loss of brain function. When the brain is starved of blood flow (ischemia) and oxygen (anoxia), the patient faints in a fraction of a minute and his or her electroencephalogram, or EEG, becomes isoelectric—in other words, flat.
“This implies that large-scale, spatially distributed electrical activity within the cortex, the outermost layer of the brain, has broken down.”
