The Fountain (95 minute Full Feature Film)

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“The Fountain“

Spiritual revelations relating to love,
life and living life for love, and as being love.

Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world. The story occurs in three different time lines; 16th Century Spain, present day America and in the far future in the unknown of deep space. In all three times there is the character played by Hugh Jackman and a parallel romantic figure played by Rachel Weisz.

Watch it on youtube or bibilibibili/tv, https://www.bilibili.tv/en/video/2000997600

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Tom (Hugh Jackman) experiences and re-experiences [meditatively] three simultaneous lifetimes; a quest for immortality and to save Isabella, his wife, the woman (Rachel Weisz) he deeply adores and loves.

As a 16th-century conquistador, Tomás searches for the legendary Fountain of Youth. As a present-day scientist, he desperately struggles to cure the cancer that is killing his wife. Finally, as a 26th-century astronaut in deep space, Tom discovers the inner experience of mysteries of life; love, dying, and the path to eternal joy.

In one sense, the stories all take place in the present and there is one “real” Hugh Jackman character, Tommy. The conquistador, named Tomás is the hero of the novel his wife Izzi (Rachel Weisz) is writing, and the spaceman named Tom Creo is the hero of that novel’s final chapter, a chapter that Tommy writes after his deathbed promise to his wife. Creo is Spanish for “I believe.” Spanish is a language the conquistador would speak, and from the stories inspirations, Tommy comes to believe that a cure will be found for death. The tree sharing the exospheric space bubble with Creo is the Tree of Life that Tomás sought in the early chapters. The spacecraft is en route to a nebula that Tommy and Izzy saw which was believed by the Mayans to be the place for the origins of life.

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Darren Aronofsky’s “The Fountain” (2006)
With cinematography by Matthew Libatique;
following the graphic novel storyline.
Youtube video link: “The Fountain” recut/remix .

The Fountain is a drama and a romance story. It’s an intricately designed and conceived work of science fiction. In my opinion it is a story of a meditation on existence. The story is of a spirituality awakening guiding subtle senses day by day on life’s quest. 

In narrative terms each time is a journey in itself. However, the story is best understood as that all three ‘livetimes’ effectively occur at once with the beginning and the end of the stories in the quest being the joining to the central lifetimes.

As parts of the whole: The first lifetime is in Spain beginning the quest to find the tree of life, the second in modern times is central as a professional and personal race against time to find a cure for cancer and to stave off death by love, and in the third part an ambiguous and minimal narrative is experiential of the journey of an exospheric space craft containing the Jackman character and the tree of life as it is passing through a nebula toward the great re-birthing of a new cycle of now greater possibilities and expansion of the three livetimes.

All three times intersect with each other throughout the film. Although there is a clear and purposeful flow, it may seem disorientating, especially in the beginning. Get used to the rhythm and the pace and the time shifts and clarity emerges.

The film was in the making for about seven years. Aronofsky said that science fiction has been hijacked by over use of technology and he strongly wanted a film with psychedelic sci-fi when it came to The Fountain. Filming of future Tom and his exospheric space craft took more than four years for Aronofsky to perfect and he was quite proud of it finally. To avoid CGI effects, they photographed chemical reactions through a microscope for the elements that surround Tom’s ship. Linking the past, present, and future, many shots were re-rehearsed and shots were added and edited. This too was time consuming work of perfection. One element that is often missed is that the three times represent three spiritual revelations relating to love, life and living life for love, and as being love.

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Isabella/Izzi/Isabel

In her past life, Isabella is the Queen of Spain. There, she is relying on Tomás, the conquistador, to find the Tree of Life. She believes that with it, she can stop the struggle for the throne between herself and a cleric who is attempting to take it from her. Isabella promises to wed Tomás when they return to Spain but Tomás never makes it back. .|

Tomás /Thomas-Tommy/Tom

Tomás is the past life version of Tommy, and a conquistador commissioned by Queen Isabella of Spain, the past life version of Izzi, to travel to the New World in search of the Tree of Life. Tomás fights hordes of Mayans until he gets to a temple. The priest protecting the temple stabs him, then realizes that he is carrying a ceremonial dagger that was given to him before. Tomás then passes and carries on to what he believes is the tree of life. He uses the sap to heal his wound, then drinks it. But, like the Mayan myth about the First Father told by Izzi, he gives birth to new life as vegetation sprouts from his body, killing him.

In 2500, future Tom is always with the Tree. It sustains him and keeps him alive. The bubble is his exospheric space craft for he and the tree, a means of transportation to get to the nebula, Xibalba, as the Mayans called it. He is going there to see Izzi’s life restored. But, moments before he arrives at Xibalba, the tree dies and Izzi appears to him. He finally realizes that they will be together again and accepts his death as the dying star explodes. The tree then blooms and Izzi picks fruit from it and gives it to Tommy, who plants it on Izzi’s grave in 2005; which is where the tree cycles about from in the film. This particular tree then is the symbol of enduring love throughout the linked lives and circumstances of these particular manifestations of Thomas and Isabel.

Also noteworthy, another interpretation is different. In it, Izzy is writing the story of the Spanish quest and she is unable to finish the story. Thomas picks up where she left of and evolves the links to the future, using his conversations with Izzy as inspirations for the story..

The Tree

In Tommy’s lifetime, after Izzi dies, he plants a seed on her grave in reference to a story she told him about how a Mayan’s dead father lived on in a tree nourished by his dead body buried beneath it. I believe that this is Izzi’s tree that Tom won’t leave, he continues to attempt to find a cure for death so that he and Izzi can be together again. As they make their way to the nebula that Izzi pointed out in 2005, the tree dies. Realizing that there is no way around dying, Tom finally accepts his death and realizes that he will see Izzi again.

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Provided here (so far) also:

The Fountain Analysis

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Darren Aronofsky Director’s Commentary 

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Image: An exospheric space craft vision with the tree of life is passing through a nebula:

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Image: The tree of life is found:

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Image: The exospheric space craft is a vision to carry the tree of life in preserving love in our memories:

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Image: Queen Isabella commissions Tomás on his quest:

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Image: Conquistador Tomás is receiving the commission for his quest

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Image: Mortally wounded, Tomás is passed on as his future life enters to dispel the wound and receive the knowledge of eternal love.

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ALSO featured … Music by Clint Mansell
The Road To Awe, time=6:30

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Sleeping Sun, time=3:00

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Stay With Me, time=6:23

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Together We Will Live Forever, time=5:10

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Image: “Don’t worry. We’re almost there.”
Video screen shot:

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Image: Tomás discovers The Tree of Life:

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Praying and cherishing God’s Holy Love, 
I am thankful for your visit today.
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 Eric 

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All of the images and copyright content are provided as promotion for the film. Please consider purchasing The Fountain for your home library.

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signs of the Soul (reblog)

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bispectral index, Deepak Chopra, disruption of cytoskeletal microtubules, end-of-life brain activity, entangled fluctuations in quantum spacetime geometry, excess extracellular potassium, Gamma Frequency Synchrony, generalized neuronal depolarization, ketamine experience, NDE. Death, Near-death experience, OBE, Out of Body Experience, Palliative Medicine, Soul, Stuart Hameroff, The Afterlife Investigation, upert Sheldrake

By Stuart Hameroff, MD and Deepak Chopra, MD

The idea that conscious awareness can exist after death, generally referred to as the ‘soul’, has been inherent in Eastern and Western religions for thousands of years. In addition to spiritual accounts, innumerable subjective reports of conscious awareness seemingly separated from the subject’s brain and physical body occur in conjunction with so-called near death experiences (NDEs) in patients resuscitated after cardiac arrest (1,2). Such patients describe remarkably consistent phenomenology including a white light, being in a tunnel, serenity, deceased loved ones, life review and, in some cases, floating out of the body (out-of-body experiences – OBEs). Comparable experiences have been reported in various types of meditative and altered states, traumatic psychological events, or seemingly without cause. A Gallup poll estimated some 10 million Americans have reported NDEs/OBEs (3). The drug ketamine, used as a ‘dissociative’ anesthetic, can produce subjective reports of conscious awareness outside the body (4), as can various other psychoactive drugs.

Modern science is unable to explain NDEs/OBEs, and ignores and derides such reports as unscientific folly or hallucination. But modern science can’t explain normal, in-the-brain consciousness. Despite detailed understanding of neuronal firings and synaptic transmissions mediating non-conscious cognitive functions, there is no accounting for conscious awareness, free will or ‘qualia’- the essence of experienced perceptions, like the redness, texture and fragrance of a rose. Philosopher David Chalmers refers to this as the ‘hard problem’ – explaining qualia and the subjective nature of feelings, awareness, and phenomenal experience – our ‘inner life’. Unable to explain consciousness in the brain, it is easy to see why conventional science ignores out-of-body, or after-death consciousness, rejecting even the possibility of their occurrence.

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Science can measure brain electrical activity known to correlate with consciousness, for example high frequency synchronized electroencephalography (EEG) in the gamma range (‘gamma synchrony’). Monitors able to measure and process EEG and detect gamma synchrony and other correlates of consciousness have been developed for use during anesthesia to provide an indicator of depth of anesthesia and prevent intra-operative awareness, i.e. to avoid patients being conscious when they are supposed to be anesthetized and unconscious. The ‘BIS’ monitor (Aspect Medical Systems, Newton MA) records and processes frontal electroencephalography (EEG) to produce a digital ‘bispectral index’, or BIS number on a scale of 0 to 100. A BIS number of 0 equals EEG silence, and 100 is the expected value in a fully awake, conscious adult. Between 40 and 60 is recommended by the manufacturer for a level of general anesthesia. The ‘SEDline’ monitor (Hospira, Lake Forest, IL) also records frontal EEG and produces a comparable 0 to 100 index.

In recent years these monitors have been applied outside of anesthesiology, e.g. to dying patients at or near the moment of death, revealing startling end-of-life brain activity.

In a study reported in the Journal of Palliative Medicine, Chawla et al. (5) reported on 7 critically ill patients from whom life support (medications, machine ventilation) was being withdrawn, allowing them to die peacefully. As per protocol, they were monitored with a BIS or SEDline brain monitor. While on life support the patients were neurologically intact but heavily sedated, with BIS or SEDline numbers near 40 or higher. Following withdrawal, the BIS/SEDline generally decreased below 20 after several minutes, at about the time cardiac death occurred. This was marked by lack of measurable arterial blood pressure or functional heartbeat. Then, in all 7 patients’ post-cardiac death, there was a burst of activity as indicated by abrupt rise of the BIS or SEDline to between 60 and (in most cases) 80 or higher. After a period of such activity ranging from one minute to 20 minutes, the activity dropped abruptly to near zero.

In one patient, analysis of raw SEDline data revealed the burst of post-cardiac death brain activity to be apparent gamma synchrony, an indicator of conscious awareness. Chawla et al. raise the possibility that the measured post-cardiac death brain activity might correlate with NDEs/OBEs. Of course the patients died, so we have no confirmation that such experiences occurred.

In another study published in the journal Anesthesia and Analgesia, Auyong et al. (6) describe three brain-injured patients from whom medical and ventilatory support were withdrawn prior to ‘post-cardiac death’ organ donation. These patients were hopelessly brain-damaged, but technically not brain dead. Their families consented to withdrawal of support and organ donation. Such patients are allowed to die ‘naturally’ after withdrawal of support, then quickly taken to surgery for organ donation.

The three patients in the Auyong et al. study prior to withdrawal of support had BIS numbers of 40 or lower, with one near zero. Soon after withdrawal, near the time of cardiac death, the BIS number spiked to approximately 80 in all three cases, and remained there for 30 to 90 seconds. The number then abruptly returned to near zero, followed thereafter by declaration of death and organ donation. Various sources of artifact for the end-of-life brain activity were considered and excluded.

Auyong et al. did not consider the possibility of NDEs correlating with the observed end-of-life brain activity, nor did an extensive editorial accompanying their article (7).

Obviously we can’t say whether end-of-life brain activity is indeed related to NDEs/OBEs, or even possibly the soul leaving the body. Nor do we know how commonly it occurs (10 out of 10 in the two studies cited). Those issues aside, the mystery remains as to how end-of-life activity occurs in brain tissue which is metabolically dead, receiving no blood flow nor oxygen. The BIS and SEDline numbers, indicators of level of awareness, are near zero. Then, a burst of synchronized, coherent bi-frontal brain activity occurs, seemingly gamma synchrony EEG (an indicator of consciousness). As marked by BIS and SEDline numbers near 80, the activity persists for a minute or more. Then it abruptly ceases.

There are proposed explanations for the end-of-life brain activity as non-functional, generalized neuronal depolarization. Chawla et al. suggested excess extracellular potassium causes last gasp neuronal spasms throughout the brain. But that couldn’t account for the global coherence – synchronized, organized. Another suggested cause is calcium-induced neuronal death which could implicate disruption of cytoskeletal microtubules inside neurons as the precipitating factor. But again, how and why the bifrontal coherent synchrony?

Perhaps the end-of-life brain activity IS related to conscious NDEs or even OBEs, but without the ‘Near’, i.e. the patients have the experience and are not revived. White light, tunnel, serenity, deceased loved ones, floating life review. What would that imply?

Some see NDEs/OBEs as metaphysical or spiritual events, manifestations of consciousness, or the soul, leaving the body (8). Skeptics suggest NDEs/OBEs are hallucinations or illusions, manifestations of an ischemic/hypoxic brain (9). But hypoxic/ischemic patients, if conscious, are confused, agitated and don’t form memory.

If end-of-life brain activity does correlate with conscious NDE/OBE phenomenology, we still face the question of how/why conscious activity of any sort is occurring in the nearly dead brain. But here we at least have some logical possibilities based on disparities between energy requirements for consciousness and other brain functions. Neuronal hypoxia and acidosis would disable sodium-potassium ATPase pumps, preventing axonal action potentials, but temporarily sparing lower energy dendritic activity which may correlate more directly with consciousness (10), Another possibility is that consciousness is a low energy quantum process (11), in which case reduced molecular dynamics may limit thermal decoherence, providing a temporal window for enhanced quantum coherent states and a burst of enhanced consciousness. A quantum basis for consciousness also raises the scientific possibility of an afterlife, of an actual soul leaving the body and persisting as entangled fluctuations in quantum spacetime geometry (12).

We can’t as yet say for sure, but end-of-life brain activity could very well represent NDEs/OBEs phenomenology which is remarkably consistent among subjects, generally pleasant and often described as life-changing and helpful. Even skeptics of NDEs as metaphysical, soul-related events contend they convey beneficial effects to survivors (9). They should be valued.

Anesthesiologists or other physicians taking care of such patients face several ethical dilemmas. Following withdrawal of support such patients may exhibit the ‘appearance of suffering’: labored breathing, sweating, grimacing. Whether the patient is actually suffering depends on whether they have any conscious awareness. Given that the BIS and SEDline numbers are low, they probably are not conscious. But we don’t know for sure. Physicians would normally treat such signs with sedative and/or pain-killing drugs. However without ventilatory or medical support, such intervention could be seen as ‘hastening demise’, pushing the patient toward death. The American Society of Anesthesiologists prohibits such interventions, as do hospital protocols for post-cardiac death organ donation. We do not actively push patients toward death.

Now, end-of-life brain activity and the possibility of NDE/OBE phenomenology present another dilemma – how to avoid actions which could conceivably prevent end-of-life brain activity, as that could be seen as also preventing NDEs/OBEs, and perhaps even the soul from leaving the body.

We think the optimal management in end-of-life patients with apparent suffering is to give ketamine which alleviates suffering without hastening demise (ketamine does not generally depress breathing nor cardiovascular function). Moreover ketamine by itself has been suggested to induce NDE-like phenomenology (4), elevate BIS numbers during anesthesia(13), and could preserve or possibly enhance end-of-life brain activity, whatever it actually is.

Based on the possibility that end-of-life brain activity could correspond with NDE/OBE phenomenology, or even the soul leaving the body, end-of-life patients deserve to have it. We want it. Patients and their families should be aware of this when making agonizing decisions about withdrawal of support and organ donation.

End-of-life brain activity just may be a sign of the soul.

References:
1. Parnia S, Spearpoint K, Fenwick PB. Near death experiences, cognitive function and psychological outcomes of surviving cardiac arrest. Resuscitation 2007;74(2):215-21
2. van Lommel P, van Wees R, Meyers V, Elfferich I. Near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest: a prospective study in the Netherlands. Lancet 2001;358(9298):2039-45
3. Chopra D. 2006 Life After Death – The Burden of Proof. New York, NY: Three Rivers Press
4. Jansen KL. A review of the nonmedical use of ketamine: use, users and consequences. J Psychoactive Drugs 2000;32(4):419-33
5. Chawla LS, Akst S, Junker C, Jacobes B, Seneff MG. Surges of electroencephalogram activity at the time of death: A case study. J Palliative Med 2009;12(12):1095-1100
6. Auyong DB, Klein SM, Gan TJ, Roche, AM, Olson DW, Habib AS. Processed electroencephalogram during donation after cardiac death. Anesth Analg 2010;110(5):1428-32
7. Csete M. Donation after cardiac death and the anesthesiologist. Anesth Analg 2010;(5):1253-54
8. Greyson B. Varieties of near-death experience. Psychiatry 1993;56(4):390-399
9. Blackmore S. Dying to Live: Near-Death Experiences. London: Grafton, 1993
10. Hameroff S. The “conscious pilot”- dendritic synchrony moves through the brain to mediate consciousness. J Biol Physics 2010;36(1):71-93
11. Hameroff S, Quantum computation in brain microtubules – The Penrose-Hameroff “Orch OR” model of consciousness. Phil Trans Royal Society London (A) 1998;356:1869-96
12. Hameroff S, Chopra D (2010) Can science explain the soul? http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-08-09/news/22212482_1_quantum-physics-consciousness-science
13. Hans P, Dewandre PY, Brichant JF, Bonhomme V. Comparative effects of ketamine on Bispectral Index and spectral entropy of the electroencephalogram under sevoflurane anaesthesia. Br J Anaesth 2005;94(3):336-40

Stuart Hameroff, MD
Diplomate, American Board of Anesthesiology
Professor, Anesthesiology and Psychology
Director, Center for Consciousness Studies
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
quantumconsciousness.org

Deepak Chopra, MD
Endocrinologist
Co-Director of Chopra Center for Well Being
Carlsbad, CA
Author of over 56 books
deepakchopra.com

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source article: End-of-Life Brain Activity – A Sign of the Soul?

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What If Heaven Is Here And Now?

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Anita Moorjani, Dying to Be Me, evolutionarymystic, Heaven, NDE, Near-death experience, Paranormal

When you learn to love and value yourself, you can experience a piece of heaven! In this video clip, Anita Moorjani, (author of Dying to Be Me) talks about her near-death experience with lymphoma and how it helped her to understand what our illnesses can teach us and what really matters most in our lives.

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Ancient roots – Pyramid Code

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ancient builders, ancient knowledge, archaeology, astrophysics, B4Peace, biological engineering, Carmen Boulter, Egyptians, Egyptology, eology, Golden Age, hieroglyphics, magnetic field theory, matriarchal consciousness, Physics, pyramid, Pyramid Code

The ancients, mysteries of Egypt, pyramids, temples, hieroglyphics, secrets… it’s all here.

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The Pyramid Code is a documentary series of 5 episodes that explores the pyramid fields and ancient temples in Egypt as well as ancient megalithic sites around the world looking for clues to matriarchal consciousness, ancient knowledge and sophisticated technology in a Golden Age.

The series is based on the extensive research done in 23 trips to Egypt and 50 other countries around the world by Dr. Carmen Boulter in the Graduate Division of Educational Research at the University of Calgary.

The Pyramid Code features interviews with prominent scholars and authors in multidisciplinary fields: geology, physics, astrophysics, archaeology, biological engineering, magnetic field theory, hieroglyphics, and Egyptology.

The series explores penetrating questions: Who were the ancients and what did they know? Could the pyramids be much older than traditional Egyptology would have us believe? Could it be that the ancients were more technologically advanced than we are today? Why do we have so little understanding of the ancient Egyptians?

Are there still secrets hidden in plain sight? Do new discoveries force the issue of establishing a new chronology? Are there little known sites that provide clues to a new understanding of our distant past? Are we really the most advanced civilization to ever live on Earth?

Episode 1: The Band of Peace
This episode raises questions about the purpose of the pyramids challenging the story traditional Egyptology tells. See rare footage of 6 distinct pyramid sites near the Great Pyramid with evidence of superior technology and sophisticated knowledge of science and the cosmos.

Episode 2: High Level Technology
In this episode, evidence that the ancient Egyptians used high level technology to construct pyramids and temples is shown. Scientists discuss the source of this power and its applications in the ancient world. Our science is just beginning to grasp what the ancients clearly understood long ago.

Episode 3: Sacred Cosmology
Deciphering the meaning of strange symbols in Egyptian art gives insight into the ancient’s knowledge of sacred cosmology. A new way of interpreting hieroglyphics is presented indication the ancients had sophisticated understanding of physics, biology, and celestial mechanics. A team goes on an expedition into the open desert in search of a remote site of extreme antiquity called Nabta Playa. Here, neolithic stone circles were found marking the motion of the same stars as were tracked in pharonic civilization. The possible connection is discussed.

Episode 4: The Empowered Human
This episode proposes that the pyramid builders were living in a Golden Age, they had more refined senses, experienced higher levels of consciousness which gave them superior abilities than we have today. The sacred feminine was honored and existed in balance with the sacred masculine.

Episode 5: A New Chronology
After examining the evidence presented in the series, it seems clear that the dates given by traditional Egyptology do not fit. Carefully considering cycles of time through the Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Iron Ages of Plato’s Great Year, a new chronology is emerging that illumines ancient Egypt.

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Young ‘n artful Akiane Kramarik

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Akiane Kramarik, art prodigy, child prodigy, God, Jesus, music prodigy, Prince Of Peace, prodigy, Shroud of Turin

While I was researching consciousness / studies, I came upon the story of Akiane Kramarik. I read quite a few articles and I watched a couple of interviews. I posted a summary, and a few yars later I saved that at my WordPress (Young ‘n artful Akiane Kramarik, after relocating at WordPress.

I was in the midst of inspirations related to my consciousness studies when one day it dawned on me to look closely at the works and lives of living child prodigies. . . a hugely rewarding experience that was / is.

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Akiane Kramarik

a child prodigy

Painter, Poet and Pianist 

has encounters with Jesus since she was four. 

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Akiane is so far as is known, according to my research, one of very few visual art child prodigies to master realism. Realism is, according to the experts, the most difficult form of art to master. She’s created a few hundred paintings as she’s seen her visions. Some are awe-inspiring of Heaven, which Akiane says she has seen, through revelations.

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1. Child prodigy meets Jesus

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“I cannot believe this, you were only 8 years old
when you painted this [Prince Of Peace]…”
Katie Couric NBC, Katie Couric Show.

2. Akiane Kramarik Documentary (10 years old)

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“I cannot believe this, you were only 8 years old
when you painted this [Prince Of Peace]…”
Katie Couric NBC, Katie Couric Show.

3. Akiane Kramarik Documentary (22 years old)

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Here is a short video clip that overlays her Prince of Peace
painting onto the Shroud of Turin image.

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Here then is the story of another young person that is able to connect into the consciousness (unknown) for inspiration to bring forth incredible talents. I’ve featured just a few now. I’ve looked into dozens more. Personally, I am of the belief that these young people are inspired from within but that their connections within links strongly to an eternal source that most of the world suspects may not exist.  I have a few more and some stunning remarks to make in the near future… stay tuned.

Update 2018
Since this post I moved my center of operations to Facebook where I manage several consciousness related groups, from here: https://www.facebook.com/Cellular.Eric.

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A Moment in Heaven

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Full Of Roses Inspirationals, Global Consciousness, God, Grace, Heaven, Heaven Is for Real, Isaiah 65:17, poem

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A MOMENT IN HEAVEN 

from
Full Of Roses Inspirationals:
Christian inspirational photography and poetry

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I awoke this morning to the birds singing

I went outside, there was a sense of well being
The air was so fresh, a calm breeze blew across my face

It was so quiet, as if everyone was sleeping

I found peace and joy in my heart
As if the world had stopped just for a moment

The longing in my heart to draw near to You
I closed my eyes and pictured You in my head

The flowers in the garden began to bloom

The trees filled with the shiniest fruit
The grass grew seven shades greener

The grape vines that never produce were full

A rainbow had criss-crossed another rainbow across the sky
It was most beautiful

A stream came rushing through my feet
Fish with wings jumping over me

The sky a shade of blue I had never seen before

A Man in white came walking towards me with a gleam in his eye
I have never seen Your face, but I knew it was You

Lord please don’t make me leave this place

He spoke to my heart with a smile on His face
I realized there was still more to be saved
With a tear in my eye, I smiled

He knew my love for Him
Keeping all in my heart of that day
I will seek all that You lead me to

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Isaiah 65:17

See, I will create new heavens and a new earth.
The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.

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We are to practice seeing this.

I think that Heaven dawns as consciousness joins God, a place where He is all at once all that is… in a moment that is forever… a place that is like no-place; a truly God place; a place where we love wonderfully satisfyingly, deliciously; and where finally all knowing is all known by all beings in God. I believe, God is Heaven. I do.

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Hawking: ‘Heaven is a place for people afraid to die’

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belief, God, Physics, spirit, Stephen Hawking, Steven Hawking

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I love science. However, I do believe that science is meant to partner with (hold hands with) faith and the two ought, in my opinion, be like dear friends. Science once was working in harmony with the faithful — however, we know that the Church many times suppressed scientific findings and there were and continue to be numerous conflicts between religious and scientists. Its wrongful use of authority in the churches to suppress real science.

I think its wrong for religion and science to be popping off against one or the other. What I have to say isn’t to violate science.

Real science is good work making our lives more healthy and making our world a better and safer place to live. We need more responsible science… not less.

I want to take exception with marketing practices of scientism (not science).

Famed theoretical physicist and cosmologist, Stephen Hawking, was trending after he dismissed the idea of Heaven as “a fairy story.” In an interview with The Guardian, Hawking said, “There is no heaven or afterlife … that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.”

He has been under fire from religious circles before, most recently after his book, The Grand Design argued that god did not create the universe and that The Big Bang was a natural event that created everything from nothing. That didn’t irk me. It made no real difference to me. Most Christians and religious ignored that it can’t be correct. We’ve heard this sort of thing before… its no biggie.

The thing that irks me is his blatant brashness is getting him in the news. His brash ‘fairy story’ statements are being run as news from a scientist; as if we ought therefore fall away from our beliefs.

see also:
Scientist debunks
Hawking’s
‘no God needed’
theory

He made this up and its making it into science news pages! Wow!

The other thing I didn’t find is that his motive isn’t just to sell his books and gain publicity for his shows and for lasting fame. I found all that. What I didn’t find is that this is an effort to put an end to scientific investigating, by real scientists, of the actual rightful scientific origin of our universe and of our own human lives. Hawking is doing what before his brashness was called using pseudo-science. His recent announcements of theories are not science.

This is what he’s up too… misuse of his power and position… and if I am the first to say so, I surely won’t be the last.

Hawking is misusing his position to misrepresent a few scientific findings with a mix of non-scientific mumbo-jumbo and its to promote his atheist books and papers and his influence with youthful scientist. He’s hiding a mountain size lack of evidence with his scant science and he’s proclaiming there isn’t a creator — saying exactly what science cannot prove as though it were proven.

Since Hawking reduces science to scientism (reductionist materialism), it isn’t a surprise that he began stating his findings with brash unscientific statements.

He is now more famous for criticism of religious beliefs than for his early work as an excellent scientist. He’s reducing himself as a charlatan (impostor, fake, pretender, or swindler); lowering himself like a snake oil remedy salesman proclaims he has the cure for every ailment.

Hawking is practicing scientism,
as much as science. Its wrongful..

Here is the blog story (from my buddy Shaun):

 Originally posted on
Looking for reasoning to a complicated world:

Smartest man on Earth. Worth a read this.

Stephen Hawking: ‘There is no heaven; it’s a fairy story’

“A belief that heaven or an afterlife awaits us is a “fairy story” for people afraid of death,” Stephen Hawking has said.

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Scientist debunks Hawking’s
‘no God needed’
theory

I want to put the focus where I believe that it belongs, on science that is bringing great benefit to mankind. For example, here are two of the articles that I’ve posted.

Related articles (hunt4truth.wordpress.com)
– developing better brains
– meditation changes brains

My previous articles discuss how we can change our own brains (as God intends) to improve our brain function and for being compassionate loving men and women.

I myself fix my sights on being loving right here; but I am sure there is a place called Heaven for those that believe.

Here are a couple of guys that say there is an afterlife and heaven is real:

• afterlife — part one: Colton Burpo
• afterlife — part two: Dr. Eben Alexander
  for them it is real…

Stephen Hawking, eminent physicist says: no god; nor is there fate; no heaven. He is stating an opinion for effect – for press time. He is misusing his position to stir up controversy.

Here is an article based on real facts of science that proves that science cannot support even one of Hawking’s claims… here is why…

How the Universe Works (in 25 minutes) 

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Interactive Universe
Take a journey through the universe and explore planets, nebulas, black holes, comets and more.

When it comes right down to it, science can’t so far even prove that you and I are “real” in some sense of the definition. There are many competing theories that explore what is real. However, if a person really wants to grow in happiness, it makes good sense to follow high moral and ethical standards and to invest plenty of time in developing of higher awareness (spiritual growth), intuitively knowing that this is best.

Give Our Lord the benefit of believing

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Need help or want to collaborate with me? Just e-mail me at thehunt4truth@yahoo.com

Thanks for visiting.

 Eric

Scientist debunks Hawking’s ‘no God needed’ theory
How the Universe Works (in 25 minutes)
Neuro-bots, AI and Transhumanism
C. S. Lewis: The Magician’s Twin
 developing better brains
Sacred Technology?

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This man died and came back to life. Here’s his incredible account of life on the other side.

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life after death, NDE

This is a powerful message! Thanks. ~ Eric

Related articles

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• afterlife – part two: Dr. Eben Alexander
• is Heaven for real? Yes says an 11 year old
• a place called Heaven

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John 14:1-4 (Jesus is speaking)
“Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.” 

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Thanks for visiting.

 Eric

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  • what is done for us
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  • our Father
  • commandments
  • heart coherence? and awake my soul 

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let’s say hello in a new place

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Christian, Christianity, God, meditation, Religion & Spirituality

The material world is awesome it seems. Science proves it is imperfect and that in fact even the universe, huge and awesome albeit, is temporary. Yet, we may live forever in the peace and serenity of a permanent and perfect place.

Spiritual topics in a secular world…
Thanks for your visit.

  Eric

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afterlife — part two: Dr. Eben Alexander

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Afterlife, Colton Burpo, Eben Alexander, Edwin Hubble, God, Heaven Is for Real, John 3:16, NDE, Near-death experience, Scientific method

Is There A Resting Place For Souls?

Since I began my documentation of consciousness beyond the body with children, I wondered about how children connect with an afterlife:

Visions of Future Children in Near-Death Experience
Brent Hinze, PhD and Sarah Hinze, BSc

Afterlife?
This is a second article that explores afterlife (Near Death Experience). My list of related articles (below) includes other points of view and examples; and recall, I welcome comments (and ping-backs).

It seems by hundreds of thousands of reports from NDE survivors that the afterlife is there… for any or all of us. So, I’m open to experiential reports about the afterlife. In fact, I’ve enjoyed reading dozens of them including some that are oddly opposite to the ones that I’m choosing to feature. I think these are important contributions and yet I like simple facts most of all. However, until the simple facts determine the truth, its necessary to examine possibilities.

I think that its good to explore facts and theories and to take sides based on what’s most likely; also its best to remain open and tolerant of different views in a healthy manner. Thus, I hope that this article awakens healthy interest and genuine investigative spirit.

By their awareness or beliefs, many think that its essential to accept spiritual preparations during our lives. I say accept since most agree that spiritual development comes into us more so than from us. However, spiritual growth by my definition is not necessarily religious. This story, I hope is an example of how spiritual preparedness may positively impact living a happy life. If there is one important fact that I want most to emphasize, its that the stories that I post are about spiritual progress, changed lives and happier people.

I want for myself to meet my maker in an already happy state of mind. I think preparation aids me along a happier life here in the meantime.

Since this article is about beliefs, I defer today to a verse that makes clear my belief that God’s instruction is easy to understand. All I have to do is to be willing and follow simple directions. I’ll leave all of the complications to Him — doing my best to follow directions.

John 3:16-21 (NIV)

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.

The verse is not a universal belief; yet, it’s spiritually the crux of a hope that is resoundingly healthy. Again, I want to emphasize that religious spirituality is not my message. Yet, I am Christian and this is an important foundation for my beliefs. The verse is widely appealing to spiritual people of all sorts, I think.

Hmm… “whoever lives by the truth comes into the light” — this revelation is easy enough to understand — I am to bring myself along with my transgressions into the light — I may be seen plainly there in the sight of God and those nasty transgressions are in me until then. I am to bring myself into the light, knowing that I am exposed as unworthy — there, the truth will set me free. That’s really pretty simple. It’s a simple process and I firmly believe in it. This transforms me into a happy man; compassionate and empathetic here in my present life and also prepares me via spiritual growth for an afterlife by God’s Will.

Research
The topic of afterlife is scientific as well as spiritual. Scientific inquiry explores facts — empirical evidence. However, science also must therefore explore interpretations of facts. Thus, often times, we must sort out the known from the unknown even to determine what to believe from scientific reports. Oh my, this is one of those times. 

Let’s look at the process against the universe of facts. 

Science looks into the possibility of an afterlife; perhaps mostly because knowing about an afterlife is compelling for some of us. Also, how our universe works is important for many areas of scientific inquiry. How does scientific research occur? Well, typically, scientific research begins with someone that has a theory… often, theories lead to finding of facts… new discoveries bring about new theories. It’s a process. Here is an example:

apparently, the Earth is about 4 billion years old — wow! Who knew?

In 1923, Edwin Hubble began to work out the discoveries that our Milky Way is one of probably more than 200 billion galaxies — and later, by 1929, he’d demonstrated that the universe is expanding. Recently, scientific exploration by observations from new telescopes and spacecraft find that the universe is about 14 billion years old… Wow!

Most accounts as taken from biblical references come up with far less than these scientific estimates… and there is not any direct biblical references to galaxies and for the expansion of the universe… Wow!

Obviously, the biblical account for creation is difficult to apply to scientific findings. In my experience, that is only a small part of the controversy that is involved surrounding debate about afterlife accounts. So, there is much to explore.

In my first NDE story, I wondered what about an NDE may be described and widely accepted as believable. I chose the story of Colton Burpo because of this. His whole family is believable. It seems from further investigation that I’m correct. His story is compelling for many. However, he was just a four-year-old child at the time of the NDE.

Colton’s story is profoundly moving and believable. Yet, can his descriptions of the hereafter hold up to adult inquiry by a scientist? I wondered: Are there scientists that believe that NDE experiences are evidence of an afterlife? Well, yes… it turns out there are thousands. I found one that is widely reported and I want to share about this man, a Harvard trained neurosurgeon that had a NDE.

Dr. Eben Alexander
Here is a highly educated man of science that dismissed accounts of NDE experiences. However, in 2008, Dr. Eben Alexander’s own NDE was so profound that he now adamantly believes consciousness continues after death.

What happened to Dr. Alexander?
Dr. Alexander awoke one morning with an extremely intense headache. All he could manage was “help…” and painful noise and screams. It turns out a ferocious E. coli meningitis infection had penetrated his cerebrospinal fluid and it was attacking his brain. By the time that he’d entered the emergency room that morning chances for survival in a vegetative state were already looming and his chances for any sort of recovery were quickly sinking. STAT! He was leaving us — sinking fast.

When doctors did what they could, Alexander’s survival was found improbable. Brain scans showed his entire cortex — the parts of the brain that transmit consciousness, thought, memory and understanding — not functioning.

Dr. Alexander was in near-death critical condition. By this time, no one expected him to recover even rudimentary human functions.

Alexander’s NDE occurred during the next seven days while he lay in a deep coma.

Shockingly… Eben Alexander awoke on the seventh day.

As weeks and months passed in recovery, Dr. Alexander began recalling and relating his experiences of that seven days; and he realized that he’d never again doubt that Heaven is real. He was powerfully moved upon miraculously reviving from a comatose state; and he was even more so convinced of his experience later, and especially later, when he realized that he’d met his deceased sister in the afterlife.

During the weeks of recovering, Alexander, who was adopted, had contact with his biological family. He was given a picture by his biological family of a sister he had never met nor seen before. As he stared at her picture, he recognized her from his NDE. “I know this is not a hallucination, not a dream, not what we call a confabulation,” Alexander said. “I know that it really occurred, and it occurred outside of my brain.”

Dr. Eben Alexander was featured in the October 15, 2012 edition of Newsweek. The cover story is an account of his near-death experience. The article summary reads: “When a neurosurgeon found himself in a coma, he experienced things he never thought possible—a journey to the afterlife.”

In my last article, Afterlife, Part One: Colton Burpo, a little boy from Nebraska says that he sat in the lap of Jesus. He saw streets of gold. He says that Angels sang to him. He says that he met his great grandfather that had died thirty years before Colton was born. He claims that he’d met a second sister “there” in what Colton refers to as Heaven. Afterlife evidence is mounting. Alexander also claims to have met a sister that he’d never known about. So, both make claims that they’d met people unknown to them — that had passed on — and of course their families were stunned.

What is meant by an afterlife?
The essential meaning of afterlife is that an individual lives on after death. If we apply only classic science and logic, its more like you live; you die; you’re done with no life afterward.

Religious and other spiritual practitioners tend to believe in an afterlife and most believe a soul continues on after physical death.

Either case may be true. Either case may be false. Speculation supports either case, that there may or may not be an afterlife. Making it complicated, various people’s actual experience may support either case as well.

As for what is believed to live on beyond death, that too is complicated. In some circles, an essential part of an individual lives on while others believe that an entire soul of an individual lives on with its personal identity intact. Some believe that an essential aspect returns to the physical world in a new body. Some believe that once entering into an afterlife that there is no returning.

Is there an afterlife?
I believe that there is an afterlife. I accept that I cannot completely and indisputably prove it. I have a reason for my belief. To keep it simple, lets say, I believe in an afterlife because I believe that God created us to be eternal. Additionally, I believe that there will soon be scientific evidence that consciousness and perhaps evidence of a soul are passed on from our bodies at death.

Afterlife scientific theories are being investigated. Science works the same for anyone of us if we apply its disciplines to investigating the facts.

If we can’t find all of the necessary empirical evidence, science may often fall back on what’s reasonable. We may base reasonable on what is empirically known and add personal experiences to form a reasonable theory — this is exactly what scientist do.

It certainly is reasonable to believe that God is. Perhaps God created the universe. In fact, for me, it seems “more” reasonable to believe that the universe originates from something; even if the something is undiscoverable using physical laws and even if the something were found to be not God. 

It is also reasonable to assume that whatever the origin, the universe probably came about in such a way as that it operates by physical laws and so that anything not physical is closer to its source. 

I like science to make simple sense. So do scientists. Thus, many scientists believe in a higher power (God) and they tend to sometimes, as in the case of Dr. Eben Alexander, also support that there is a heaven and that there is an afterlife.

What opposing view is out there?
According to the Oxford dictionary, naturalism refers to the viewpoint that laws of nature operate in the universe, and that nothing exists beyond the natural universe or, if it does, it does not affect the natural universe. The supernatural is that which is not subject to the laws of nature, or more figuratively, that which is said to exist above and beyond nature. The afterlife is of the supernatural. According to naturalism, the supernatural isn’t real.

Stephen Hawking, eminent physicist says: no god; nor is there fate

What Is Real?
When it comes right down to it, science can’t so far even prove that you and I are “real” in some sense of the definition. There are many competing theories that explore what is real. However, if a person really wants to grow in happiness, it makes good sense to follow high moral and ethical standards and to invest plenty of time in developing of higher awareness (spiritual growth), intuitively knowing that this is best.

We are real in some sense and our consciousness is real as well. Herein lies the magic of physics — but I’ll have to come to that in a follow-up article. This post is already much longer than is good for the average reader… so, as to the emerging science of afterlife — look for that next time… and yet there is a bit more.

Dr. Alexander testifies 
“I’ve spent decades as a neurosurgeon at some of the most prestigious medical institutions in our country. I know that many of my peers hold—as I myself did—to the theory that the brain, and in particular the cortex, generates consciousness and that we live in a universe devoid of any kind of emotion, much less the unconditional love that I now know God and the universe have toward us.” 

Surgeons and other medical professionals tend to believe that consciousness is a function of the brain or of the brain-body. Its part of the intense training that they receive in Western Medicine. Most are compassionate and caring but tend to not believe reports from patients about anything that is supernatural or spiritual.

Dr. Alexander’s testimony continues “There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind—my conscious, inner self—was alive and well. While the neurons of my cortex were stunned to complete inactivity by the bacteria that had attacked them, my brain-free consciousness journeyed to another, larger dimension of the universe: a dimension I’d never dreamed existed and which the old, pre-coma me would have been more than happy to explain was a simple impossibility.”

There are scientific inquiries presently investigating consciousness. Many scientists tend to categorize the reports from these investigations as pseudoscientific. Yet, when it comes right down to any differences in scientific knowledge, the difference is really one of beliefs and not of scientific methods.

Dr. Alexander’s testimony continues “According to current medical understanding of the brain and mind, there is absolutely no way that I could have experienced even a dim and limited consciousness during my time in the coma, much less the hyper-vivid and completely coherent odyssey I underwent.”

Dr. Alexander’s testimony continues “Modern physics tells us that the universe is a unity—that it is undivided. Though we seem to live in a world of separation and difference, physics tells us that beneath the surface, every object and event in the universe is completely woven up with every other object and event. There is no true separation. The first time I entered a church after my coma, I saw everything with fresh eyes. Today many believe that the living spiritual truths of religion have lost their power, and that science, not faith, is the road to truth. Before my experience I strongly suspected that this was the case myself. But I now understand that such a view is far too simple. The plain fact is that the materialist picture of the body and brain as the producers, rather than the vehicles, of human consciousness is doomed.”

(quote from Newsweek:
proof-of-heaven-a-doctor-s-experience-with-the-afterlife.html)

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afterlife — part one: Colton Burpo

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Colton Burpo, God, Heaven Is for Real, Jesus, Near-death experience, Stephen Hawking

2 Corinthians 12:2-4 (Paul)
I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows. And I know that this man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows—was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell.

Colton Burpo‘s story is of a Near Death Experience (NDE).

Here is the video story of Colton’s and family claims that he had a near death experience of the afterlife. This is the first story that fascinated me about NDEs. I went on to do some research on NDEs and I’ll share some more about what I’ve found in future posts. Interestingly, science is also taken by this and other stories from NDE survivors and we can probably count on far more being revealed about how these experiences occur.

During his experience, Colton says that he remembers things that make his story more believable since as his family reports that he shouldn’t have known what he claims to have learned in Heaven.

video 1

During the course of surgery for a ruptured appendix, the little boy from Nebraska says that he sat in the lap of Jesus. He saw streets of gold. He says that Angels sang to him. He says that he met his great grandfather that had died thirty years before Colton was born. He claims that he’d met a second sister “there” in what Colton refers to as Heaven.

Colton was only four at the time of his sudden brush with death.” In this second video, the hospital scene is presented. There, the family discovers that Colton is perhaps going to die. Four months after recovery, Colton began to tell his parents about what he remembered from the hospital. His story was very different from theirs. Colton claims that Jesus and some Angels came to him and that they all flew up to Heaven. As he relates the story, Colton says that his visit to Heaven began in the Throne room. He says that he was upset and that God brought out his great grandfather to help him to get calm. Later, he claims that he also met his unborn sister. Colton says that she is waiting there for her parents to come to Heaven. Colton’s message to us: “I learned that heaven is for real and that you’re gonna like it…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdUGoFTfP7w

 

video 2

When people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didn’t exist before the big bang, so there is no time for god to make the universe in.” (Stephen Hawking)

In this video, Colton relates his story in contrast to Stephen Hawking’s declaration that Heaven is “a fairy story for people who are afraid of the dark.” Hawking will admit that it cannot be proved that God does not exist but rather than leave it alone at that, he claims that science makes God unnecessary. Hawking claims that “laws of physics can prove the existence of the universe without the need for a creation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8IdcsPnnDg

Stephen Hawking seemed to want to disprove God. He can not. Science is “supposed” to demonstrate facts. Scientists know this. Hawking disregards that he is speaking to the world as an eminent scientist when he made the declaration (as quoted) regarding Heaven. Whatever he believes, he cannot prove what he said. His position that intelligent life came about by chance is fine and so may he believe whatever he chooses about the supernatural and spirits and so on. His opinions on that are just his opinions.

According to the Oxford dictionary, naturalism refers to the viewpoint that laws of nature operate in the universe, and that nothing exists beyond the natural universe or, if it does, it does not affect the natural universe. The supernatural is that which is not subject to the laws of nature, or more figuratively, that which is said to exist above and beyond nature. The afterlife is of the supernatural.

Viewed as entertainment, fact, or fiction, this is an interesting story.

Thanks for reading.

 Eric

Here is a summary from the timeline published in the book “Heaven is For Real”

July 1976—Todd Burpo’s grandpa, whom he calls “Pop” (Lawrence Edelbert Barber), dies in a car accident between Ulysses and Liberal, Kansas.
1982—Todd as a thirteen-year-old hears and accepts Christ’s call into ministry as a preacher of the gospel.
December 29, 1990—Todd and Sonja Burpo are married.
August 16, 1996—Cassie Burpo, Colton’s older sister, is born.
July 1997—Pastor Todd and Sonja Burpo accept a call to the Crossroads Wesleyan Church in Imperial, Nebraska.
June 20, 1998—Sonja Burpo miscarries their second child. She is two months along.
May 19, 1999—Colton Burpo is born.
August 2002—Todd shatters his leg in a coed softball tournament game.
October 2002—Todd develops kidney stones.
November 2002—Todd feels a lump in his chest that is diagnosed as hyperplasia.
February 27, 2003—Colton complains of stomach pain and has a high fever that is misdiagnosed as stomach flu.
February 28, 2003—Colton’s fever breaks. His parents rejoice, thinking that Colton is well, when in fact this is a sign of the rupturing of his appendix.
March 1, 2003—The Burpo family visits the Denver Butterfly Pavilion to celebrate Todd’s recovery. That night Colton begins vomiting uncontrollably.
March 3, 2003—Colton is examined by a doctor in Imperial, Nebraska, who dismisses suggestions of appendicitis.
March 5, 2003—Todd and Sonja personally check Colton out of the Imperial, Nebraska, hospital and take their son by car to North Platte, Nebraska’s Great Plains Regional Medical Center. Dr. Timothy O’Holleran prepares for surgery.
March 5, 2003—Colton undergoes his first surgery, an appendectomy. He has both a ruptured appendix and an abscess.
March 13, 2003—Colton is discharged from the hospital. But as Todd and Sonja wheel him into the elevator, Dr. O’Holleran shouts down the hallway for them to return. Blood tests reveal Colton’s white blood cell count has spiked. A CT scan reveals two more abscesses in his abdomen.
March 13, 2003—Colton undergoes a second surgery—a celiotomy [incision]—to drain the abscess. During surgery a total of three abscesses are found.
March 17, 2003—Dr. O’Holleran advises Todd and Sonja that there is nothing more he can do for Colton. He recommends that Colton be transferred to the Denver Children’s Hospital. A blizzard blocks all exits with two feet of snow. Back home in Imperial, their congregation gathers for a prayer meeting.
March 18, 2003—The next morning, Colton shows amazing signs of recovery and is soon playing like a normal kid. He skips to his CT scan, which shows no more obstruction.
March 19, 2003—After seventeen harrowing days, Colton’s family returns to Imperial.
July 3, 2003—While en route to visit his cousin in South Dakota, Colton tells the first of many accounts of heaven while parked in an Arby’s parking lot in North Platte, Nebraska. Colton progressively tells more stories of his adventures in heaven.

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Is Heaven Real? Yes, says an 11 year old

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Afterlife, Christianity, Colton Burpo, Death, Jesus, Near-death experience, Religion and Spirituality

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What is meant by an afterlife? The essential belief that there is an afterlife is that an individual lives on after death. Otherwise, you live; you die; you’re done–fine, thanks for a home, jobs, kids, friends, the sex and some great meals and so on–that’s it; you’re done. Either experience may be true according to the empirical evidence. If SCIENCE FOLLOWS THE EVIDENCE: Either may be  true or may be false. Speculation added on to actual facts may support either case as well. Making it complicated, various people’s actual experience may support either case as well. As for what is meant by afterlife, that too is complicated. What is believed to live on beyond death? In some circles, an essential part of an individual lives on while others believe that an entire soul of an individual lives on with its personal identity. Some believe that an essential aspect returns to the physical world in a new body. Some believe that once entering into an afterlife that there is no returning.

Is there an afterlife? I believe that there is an afterlife. I believe that we are essentially spirits and that by life that makes spiritual progress, we may live on after death and perhaps make some new choices then about the how of living in ‘our’ personal afterlife. Our physical world is a realm that seems real enough and I believe that it is infused by energy that is real; but that’s as far as I go in beliefs as to how real this physical world is. I accept that I cannot prove that there is a spiritual source that is the actual source for a human being. However, I have a reason for my belief. To keep it simple, let’s say, I believe in an afterlife because I believe that God created it. I have a sense of the spirit source and that source is ever present in my heart. As I make my life more about doing what is best, I find that the Spirit source as a spiritual awareness is ever more strongly invigorating me.

I’ll add some information concerning this subject — I’m sure that there is life after death and I want to explore how others here think about this. How afterlife breaks down in this world is apparently something that we can learn from only few — as described by survivors of a near-death-experience and a few spiritual teachers. So, since this (reblog) is already on wordpress, I decided to Reblog this video as a start. I like to include others in my research… I hope you’ll click on related blogs (below).

 Eric

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• 10 Astonishing Near-Death Experiences (listverse.com)
• Near Death Experiences: Changing the World (ghosttalkblog.com)
• Near Death Experiences – a Glimpse of Eternity? (prayers4reparation.wordpress.com)
• Near-Death Experiences – What Do They Not Mean? (illustrationstoencourage.wordpress.com)
• Is There Truly An Afterlife? (glowville.wordpress.com)
• Dining with Ancestors – The Afterlife (maniinboots.wordpress.com)
• Creating heaven (soulembraces.com)

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