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Found 5 comments on Science and the Near-Death Experience: How Consciousness Survives Death:

u/Ikkath · 28 points r/atheism

You are going to have to be a little more careful with the word proof if you want to start suggesting that we can't substantiate the claim that experiences when you are unconscious are in fact hallucinatory in nature. There is no dogma here unless you already are so on the fence as to allow magic woo to effect with conscious perception.

We can't prove anything outside of mathematics.

Edit: The author you mentioned that taught you a lot is the same one who wrote this: http://www.amazon.com/Science-Near-Death-Experience-Consciousness-Survives/dp/1594773564/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1372783859&amp;sr=1-3 ?

I haven't read it, but on face value it seems to make claims long since disposed of in mainstream neuroscience. Dualism is dead. Just read the editorial reviews for this work. What a complete joke.

u/blackereded · 5 points r/conspiracy

u/thepastIdwell · 2 points r/askphilosophy

As someone who has a completely different approach to morality than most contemporary moral philosophers, I'll add my angle to matters like this. For context, my grander philosophical views are built upon this, therefore this, therefore things like this (in a nutshell).

>So I ask you, would you kill the man?

Probably not, no. Given the reality of an afterlife, it's not a bad thing if my child dies. In fact, it would be the best thing that could possibly happen to my child, albeit the fact that at the same time, the same thing is true for the one I would potentially murder.

>Is doing so justifiable?

Of course. We can do anything we want. The whole idea that we can do anything wrong stems from the centuries of religious indoctrination into the delusion of possible unworthiness, i.e. the idea that we can do anything, ever, to change how infinitely, eternally and unconditionally loved we all are.

The real distinction in morality should be between what's productive for a better and more peaceful society, and not dated ideas about concepts like right or wrong.

>Is it morally wrong, an irreversible sin of which no salvation can be brought to?

Of course not. Why would it possibly be? Even if we choose to nuke the entire planet into oblivion for no discernible reason whatsoever beyond a sudden desire to do so, I would still maintain that it's all cool from a meta-perspective on life, seeing it in its proper context. We are here to have a human experience, and that includes doing a lot of potentially crazy things that contemporary society on Earth in 2013 are in a moral panic about. But it needs to be understood that the moral understanding we'll have in 12013 (10000 years from now) will still be regarded as backwards and arbitrary by the afterlife realm.

This may all sound like gibberish to those who don't know where I'm coming from, and I respect that. But you asked for all kinds of responses :)

u/infinitespace36 · 2 points r/PS5

u/Floorclothes00981302 · 0 points r/askphilosophy

>is it possible for the concept of mysticism to be relevant to philosophy in some way? Is there any contemporary work on mysticism that is worth investigating?

Not only is it possible, but some would argue that it is inevitable and necessary. And yes, there is a lot of it, but these days it is regarded as going under the umbrella of survival research. Here is an article that elaborates on that point and on the current state of affairs regarding survival research, although it has begun to improve a bit since the writing of that article. Additionally, here are the best books written by a philosopher on these topics (1, 2, 3).

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