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In the quiet village of Hanmutou Gou, nestled in Damao Township, Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province, about 40 households thrived, mostly bearing the surname Li. Among them was Li Cheng, the respected head of a household whose family’s fortunes rose through the transportation of cloth and grains from Inner Mongolia to Chifeng. Their journey from being ...
Is there life after death? What happens after death? Eighty-one people brought back from the brink of death during the Tangshan earthquake talk about their experiences, many of which are eerily similar. We will explore the five-stage model of near-death experiences and the orchestrated objective reduction theory. The central idea is that the human consciousness ...
A near-death experience can leave a lasting impact on a person’s life. But, even if you’ve never experienced a close brush with death, you’ve probably seen or read about it in popular media. In movies, we usually see a scene where the star is bleeding out or lost at sea or in a desert. Then ...
The afterlife is an existence in which an individual’s stream of consciousness continues to live after the death of their physical body. Physiological proposals for the origin of a belief in an afterlife include cognitive disposition, cultural learning, and religious ideas. The AWARE study AWARE (Awareness during Resuscitation) was a study conducted in 2008 by ...
The concept of reincarnation is an open-ended topic. While many in the East believe in reincarnation, it is not a widely accepted phenomenon in the West. Reincarnation challenges one’s knowledge based on science. If you limit knowledge to what “science” allows you to see, then you are restricting yourself to a single dimension of reality. ...
How are we to view reincarnation? Children have a wild imagination and can be very creative when telling stories to describe their perception of things or events in their worlds. But what if the stories they sometimes tell weren’t made up? What if some children could somehow access their soul’s memory and remember scenes from ...