Dr. Mary Neal
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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What am I going to do with it?
Correct? That's right. That's right. Everyone uses whatever language they can think of, but they always say, it's not the Jesus I was taught about. It's much bigger than that. Yeah. They said, I can't give you words for it, but it's there.
Yes, it's very common. People differ how hard it is because some of them have a spiritual life to begin with and others don't. And we've done some studies recently looking at who people turn to for help. and what types of help and which ones don't.
And what seems to be most helpful is talking to other people who have had near-death experiences and who have been through this before and come up with their own ways of dealing with this. Also, if you can find a group of other experiencers who have gone through this, they may be the most helpful thing for you.
Yeah, it's common, but it's not universal by any means. Some people say that they were given a choice. Do you want to stay here or do you want to go back and finish something? And they make a decision to come back and finish something they have left undone, whether it's helping a deceased or dying person pass over or raising a child or writing a book about it.
But they have some reason they chose to come back. You know, this is a setback against my will.
Yeah. Well, a near-death event is only the most common way in our culture to have this type of experience. But it's a common spiritual experience that's been happening for people for centuries all around the globe for different reasons. Some get it through meditation or through prayer or just spontaneously. And the near-death experience is just one precipitate for that experience.
Well, the most obvious one was what happens after we die. And I speculated about that. You asked before, what would it take for scientists to show that this is true? Scientists don't deal with proof. They deal with the weight of the evidence. So they can say, the evidence points to the fact that we survive, but they can never say it's proven. Scientists don't do that.
And the scientist in me says, I can't say for sure.
But I believe it does. I believe the evidence points. I can't think of another explanation for these experiences. Okay.
What happens after the other is, what happens to people after they've had a near-death experience and come back to this world?
And how do they live their lives after the near-death experience?
Yes, and for most near-death experiences to say, that's the most important lesson of the NDE. How do you live your life knowing this? And the final reason for the book being called After is to make you think about what am I going to do differently after I've read this book? What do I do now with this knowledge? And there have been some studies now of how knowing about NDEs affects people's lives.
They've done studies with looking at college students who've taken a course in NDEs and looked at them before and after. And some of the same after effects you see with near-death experiences becoming more spiritual, more compassionate, less materialistic. We see those with people who are just exposed to NDEs.
And you often see this in family and friends of near-death experiencers, that they also become more spiritual, less driven to achieve in this world.
Oh, definitely. That's the most common thing people say after a near-death experience, no matter what the NDE was like. Whether it was blissful or not blissful, they say, I'm not afraid of dying anymore. And that's what makes the near-death experience different from other people who have come close to death. Most people who almost die come back valuing life more.
They want to be more alive, more vibrant than they were before. But they're also more afraid of dying, unless they've had a near-death experience. And then they're not afraid of dying either. They say, in fact, if you're not afraid of dying, then you're less afraid of living to the fullest.
I think you heard it from Jeremy and from Tom Sawyer as well, that you live your life knowing that what's important is how you treat other people. And that living the golden rule, not just giving lip service to it, but actually living it in your day-to-day life makes life much more meaningful, much more purposeful.
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