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Still discussing, with a questionnaire about distressing NDEs

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This post is a quick look back over the shoulder to last week’s post, “Why keep discussing distressing NDEs.” Today’s consists of two brief bullet points, either of which could lead you to hours of thought.

  • The comments on last week’s post have been exceptionally rich and thought-provoking—small essays from a half-dozen or so readers reminding us why this blog and the book Dancing Past the Dark exist. If you have not yet seen the comments, please do not pass Go before you go back and read them. I am unendingly grateful for the depth and thoughtfulness of these sharings. You’ll find them here.
  • On a related theme, faithful reader Dave Woods posted his belief that a valuable thread would be responses from experiencers about what they have taken away from a distressing NDE. I agree completely. So, here are five questions, his original two and three I’ve added:
  1. Do you believe you learned anything from your dNDE? Yes/No/Not sure
  2. If Yes, what did you learn from it?
  3. If you are not able to say you learned something from your distressing NDE, please say something about its effects on your life and thinking.
  4. After having a dNDE, some experiencers are confused and haunted by it for the rest of their lives, and others are not.  If you are not still troubled by the experience, why not?
  5. If you are still deeply troubled by the NDE, what is it that continues to confuse and haunt you?

If you have had a distressing NDE, I hope you will add your voice to the responses.  You may post in the comments below or send me an email at nanbush12 (at) gmail.com.

Remember to look at last week’s comments!

Distressing—even hellish—NDEs coming into their own?

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There’s an amazing, dam-busting conversation going on in the forums at the near-death.com site: http://ow.ly/8vfXj

Titled “The case for distressing/hellish NDE study,” the thread has grown to 104 posts in a week’s time. And they’re substantive, interesting (sometimes downright fascinating), mostly respectful posts. I called the thread “dam-busting” because of both its size and the richness of its content.

All sorts of sub-topics are emerging: questions of what constitutes “reality,” the nature of being, whether distressing NDEs are morally contingent, the role of personality and behavioral history. In short, it’s the kind of conversation we haven’t heard in the past three decades.

Even if you want simply to lurk, it’s worth sitting in. Read through the comments and see the range of discussion. It’s just great! Huge thanks go to RabbitDawg (yes, our own RabbitDawg) for opening the conversation. He really started something! And as always, thanks to Kevin Williams for the near-death.com site and its wealth of forums. See you there!

In local news, Bruce Greyson has returned from presenting an invited paper at a conference with the Dalai Lama at his compound in Dharmasala, India, and has sent the foreword for Dancing Past the Dark. The book’s index is almost finished, and it and the cover are expected by week’s end. Its appearance for Nooks, Kindles, and other e-readers is definitely coming closer! And because of that, I am awash in the major task of today’s authors, preparation for marketing the book. (If you Tweet, look for me at @nancyevansbush, or from your browser, type http://twitter.com/nancyevansbush ). It’s a whole new world out there!  There is no end to learning curves.