Following a near death experience, a man now believes he has the answers to whether there is life after death. After a car crash, a person named Scott believes he crossed over to the other side where he was in the presence of a “supreme being”. It gifted Scott with a higher state of consciousness where he has no worries or sadness.
Scott detailed his experience on the Near Death Experience Research Foundation.
He said: “I was in a different consciousness that was a more aware, higher state of being. I did not want to come back, even though I knew I had loved ones on earth including a child.
“Where I was, was so wonderful that it trumped all experiences on earth. In particular, there was the feeling of being loved without worry or sadness.
“I’ve been in and out of prisons and jail was my whole life since my youth. These punishments did nothing for my addictions but perhaps made them worse.
“I had a little time of being sober by going to meetings but the underlying urge was still there. I ultimately would wind up at the crack house again.
“This experience has taken the urge from me. Our time here is so short and I feel like I was sent back to tell others the TRUTH.
“We do not simply go into a grave after the body dies and that’s all. Rather, that is a beginning to really living.”
Scott now says he leads a better life, and researchers do believe that NDEs and a belief in the afterlife can lead to positive changes.
Suzanne Newcombe, lecturer in Religious Studies at The Open University, said: “Holding open these ideas the possibility of immortality can have positive effects on health.
“From a biomedical perspective, this hope might help the body fight illnesses, improve the chances of spontaneous remissions or allow the illness to run its course, it’s more equanimity for the person involved.
“But even if there is no biological change, a focus on the possibility of immortality can help some individuals disidentify from their bodily pain and develop a more peaceful relationship with their experience as their suffering.
“When this happens, improbable beliefs in an immortal body or soul can be seen as entirely rational and pragmatic even.
“However, when beliefs about immortality exclude attention to the biological physical body, it can have serious negative effects on health, and even cause untimely deaths.
“So, what we believe about death and our ideas of enteral life can really make a difference as to how we live, how we handle pain and suffering and experience being alive here and now.”
