Near Death Experiences and BUDDHISM (subtit.: En and Ital.)

The nature and significance of Near Death Experiences. Explanation and convergence of scientific, psychological and spiritual perspective. Contents of the video: (subtit.: En and Ital.) 00:00:04 Introduction 00:04:26 Presentation of the 3 existing ways of explanation (= hypotheses-believes): scientific, psychological, spiritual 00:11:04 Explanation of the relation between brain and mind 00:23:10 Example of an authentic Near Death Experience 00:31:31 Docking and undocking of mind to the brain 00:31:50 Dreams: partial undocking 00:34:19 Karma as understood in Buddhism 00:39:32 Influences from beyond 00:40:02 Brain as a pre-processor and a supplier of worldly data to the mind 00:40:40 Brain as shield, defender and blocker of spiritual content 00:44:46 The way the spiritual practices work (meditation) 00:46:44 Theories, argumentations and hypotheses from neuroscience 00:49:22 Spiritual experiences and the brain 00:53:06 A true story: Mind which docked to another body 00:56:46 'Human connectome project' - mapping the brain 01:02:40 Brain plasticity and the hydrocephalus 01:10:32 Two kinds of Out of Body Experiences (OBEs) 01:11:06 OBE of Dr. Susan Blackmore 01:13:17 Two central messages from Blackmore’s OBE 01:15:43 Veridical OBEs 01:27:35 NDE and Enlightenment 01:28:58 3 categories of Near Death Experiences: 01:29:22 1) Dying experiences 01:34:47 2) Near death experiences 01:38:45 3) Similar to NDE 01:44:53 Messages from the Tibetan book of the dead 01:51:53 Apparent development in the character of NDE throughout history and in different cultures 01:54:56 Rebirth in Buddhism; the decisive role of karma in rebirth 01:58:17 Plains of existence in Samsara, plains of appearances in ‘Omniverse’ 02:05:12 Hell NDE 02:05:55 Irregularities in cosmic justice 02:08:03 The nature of NDE 02:11:30 Encountering deeper layers of one’s own ‘beingness’ in death 02:14:14 Central paradox of the NDE-phenomena 02:14:50 Scientific ‘religion’ of the future 02:15:14 Image of rebirth 02:17:03 The task of all great spiritual systems: to connect with the Centre 02:18:03 The conclusion: disagreeing with everybody 02:20:36 Immaterial matter: Abhidhamma explanation of ‘materiality’ 02:22:52 ‘Materiality’ according to science 02:25:42 Handshake between theoretical physics and high level spiritual insight 02:26:43 The strange ‘reality’ of dreams, heaven and hell By clicking the blue number the player will jump directly to the spot in the video. In the 'CC' under the player you can activate the English subtiles. Sono disponibili i sottotitoli in italiano. Per attivarli vai in Impostazioni. “Are NDE real?” This is a serious, acute question, but to answer it ‘yes’ or ‘no’ is both equally inappropriate, unfitting, - missing the point: the human world is only relative, the NDE are relative too. The human world feels extremely real to us, the NDEs feel extremely real to those, who experience them. From the human perspective, the NDEs seem to be a kind of strangely vivid dreams and projections; from the perspective of NDExperiencers this world appears as an uneasy dream and projection. So, are the NDE real? You see? Discussion about the “realness” of this world is as old as the civilization. You certainly remember the famous Plato´s analogy with the shadows on the wall of the cave. From a spiritual standpoint, there are many degrees (or intensities) of realness - the human world is only a periphery of reality. In some way the NDEs are actually more real than the human world: they are nearer to the truth, less subjugated to the time-flow; but in another way of consideration they are less real: the trees and flowers there are not composed of cells, molecules and DNA, the rivers are not filled with H2O. The death is not an end but a beginning. A beginning of the next chapter. I am criticizing the mainstream science (particularly neuroscience) not for its materialistic stand, but for its unfair, biased, stubborn, unscientific dealing with indications, facts and evidence. Ashin Ottama P.S.: I noticed in the graph of "audience retention" that people tend to skip the "Hell NDE". Don't be a quitter, there is an important message exactly there! Převzato po domluvě a s poděkováním z kanálu dhammatube na YT    / dhammatube