• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • The Books
  • About
  • About Distressing NDEs
  • About the Author
  • Resources
  • Articles
  • Contact

Dancing Past the Dark ~ distressing near-death experiences

  • Home
  • The Books
  • About
  • About Distressing NDEs
  • About the Author
  • Resources
  • Articles
  • Contact
You are here: Home / Archives for emptiness

emptiness

Reconciliation #1: What the Void is not

April 17, 2015 By Nan Bush 35 Comments

There it sat, the source of my latest existential crisis (yet again! yet again!)—a web page read no doubt by far more people than this blog and my book, linked to a website which should know better. The “it” was a lengthy rhetorical piece on the Void, At least, the piece said it was about the Void, though it was not, at least not in any sense in which people who actually know the Void use the term.  [Read more…] about Reconciliation #1: What the Void is not

Tagged With: Alice Ouzounian, David Richo, emptiness, hell, nothingness, Outer Darkness, Paul Brunton, Void

Follow-up on the Near-Death Experience Void and Space

November 30, 2011 By Nan Bush 6 Comments

In the previous post, I waved a flag for Brian Greene’s book and PBS series, The Fabric of the Cosmos, especially the segment on space. I’m still waving. However, responding to some of your comments, here’s what may be a clarification.

(What follows is quoted from the book Dancing Past the Dark: Distressing Near-Death Experiences, which should be available online early in 2012.)

Suppose, says Greene in the video, suppose we took away everything in the physical universe—the buildings, people, objects, the planets and stars, down to the smallest atoms of gas and dust; what would be left? We would say “Nothing.” If we took its picture, it would be empty. And as Greene agrees, we would be right; but we would also be wrong. He asks, “How do you make sense of something that looks like nothing?” At this point, experiencers of the Void sit up and take notice.

“As it turns out,” he tells us, “empty space is not nothing; it’s something.”

 (Buddhists are nodding and smiling.)

“Empty space is not nothing; it’s something with hidden characteristics as real as all the stuff in our everyday lives. In fact, space is so real it can bend; it can twist; and it can ripple—so real that empty space itself helped shape everything in the world around us and forms the very fabric of the cosmos.”

In the book he summarizes (p. 32), “Space is unavoidably suffused with what are called quantum fields and possibly a diffuse uniform energy called a cosmological constant—modern echoes of the old and discredited notion of a space-filling aether.” There’s a lot going on, beyond our ability to see it with our own eyes.

I am not suggesting that Nirvana is outer space, nor that it is located in outer space, nor that an experience of the Void is an actual trip into outer space any more than a blissful NDE is a voyage to a physical heaven. However, there is this curious resemblance among space, the Void, the Godhead, and Nirvana, that what seems so empty may be full of everything there is, that it may be, in fact, the fabric of the cosmos.

In the play Our Town, the young people are fascinated to discover that a letter can be sent to them at an address beginning with their house number and ending with the Mind of God. I wonder if this conception of space doesn’t have a good deal in common with that idea.

There are no answers here, but intimations of likenesses suggesting that there may be more to this whole business of spirituality than confirmed skeptics admit.

Tagged With: Brian Greene, cosmological constant, emptiness, Fabric of the Cosmos, fullness, Godhead, meaning, Nirvana, potential, space, Void

Primary Sidebar

Recent Posts

  • ICU, Memory, NDE
  • UFO Religious Movements
  • UFO Narrative Belief System Shifts
  • More NDE Reckoning Than Expected
  • Bruce Greyson, MD’s long-awaited book on his NDE research

Dancing Past the Dark—The Book!

Dancing Past the Dark: Distressing Near-Death Experiences by Nancy Evans Bush

"Absolutely enthralling—literary, adventurous, incisive, informative and smart.…I think it's one of the strongest, most thought-provoking books on the paranormal I've ever seen.”
Steve Volk, journalist and author.

Learn more about ALL THREE books!

GET BLOG UPDATES VIA EMAIL

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Success! Check your inbox (or spam folder) to click on the link to confirm your subscription.

Talkback

  • Distressing Near-Death Experiences: The Basics | NIH – Late.Shift on About
  • Nan Bush on ICU, Memory, NDE
  • Jennifer on ICU, Memory, NDE
  • Nan Bush on ICU, Memory, NDE
  • Nan Bush on UFO Religious Movements

Footer

Search the Site

Visitors from…

“Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible.”
~ Carl Jung

Copyright © 2025 · Genesis for Nan On Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in