|
eulogy1211
Zero Zilch Nada



Registered: 10/28/09
Posts: 150
Loc: Midwest
Last seen: 11 years, 5 months
|
Scientists attempt to explain heaven...use of Ketamine involved!
#12328246 - 04/04/10 10:35 AM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
Blurb from Slashdot
""Lisa Miller writes in Newsweek about the thesis that heaven is not a real place, or even a process or a supernatural event, but rather something that happens in your brain as you die. The thesis is based, in part, on a growing body of research around near-death experience. According to a 2000 article by Bruce Greyson in The Lancet, between 9 and 18 percent of people who have been demonstrably near death report having had an NDE. Surveys of NDE accounts show great similarities in the details, describing: a tunnel, a light, a gate or a door, a sense of being out of the body, meeting people they know or have heard about, finding themselves in the presence of God, and then returning, changed. Scientists have theorized that NDEs occur as a kind of physiological self-defense mechanism when, in order to guard against damage during trauma, the brain releases protective chemicals that also happen to trigger intense hallucinations. This theory has gained traction after scientists realized that virtually all the features of an NDE can be reproduced with a stiff dose of ketamine, a short-acting, hallucinogenic, dissociative anesthetic. 'I came out into a golden Light. I rose into the Light and found myself having an unspoken interchange with the Light, which I believed to be God,' wrote one user of his experience under ketamine. 'Dante said it better,' writes Miller, 'but the vision is astonishingly the same.'"
http://www.mindspring.com/~scottr/nde/jansen1.html
Check out the read. Pretty interesting stuff
--------------------
|
nismo2491
i will teach you real kung fu



Registered: 03/11/10
Posts: 2,735
Loc: On The Beach, FL
Last seen: 2 years, 4 months
|
Re: Scientists attempt to explain heaven...use of Ketamine involved! [Re: eulogy1211]
#12328275 - 04/04/10 10:45 AM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
wish that had a date on it.
-------------------- Semi-Official Shroomery Fantasy Hockey 2010 League "I just solved world peace! Everybody just needs to take a piss!" Ythan said: nismo2491 won the ban lotto for the week of May 09, 2010 Shroomery - #1 Distraction from Studying
|
shakedown
Dry Smasher


Registered: 12/13/09
Posts: 586
Loc: LOCHNESS
Last seen: 7 years, 6 months
|
Re: Scientists attempt to explain heaven...use of Ketamine involved! [Re: nismo2491]
#12328278 - 04/04/10 10:46 AM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
i always knew hheaven was a giant khole
|
Ryan07
TurnItUpnMakeTheSpeakersBleed

Registered: 07/15/08
Posts: 1,197
Last seen: 9 years, 10 days
|
Re: Scientists attempt to explain heaven...use of Ketamine involved! [Re: nismo2491]
#12328282 - 04/04/10 10:47 AM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
Sounds like just good ol' hallucinations to me
--------------------
|
AsAboveSoBelow
The matrix has you


Registered: 02/06/08
Posts: 2,515
Last seen: 12 years, 4 months
|
Re: Scientists attempt to explain heaven...use of Ketamine involved! [Re: Ryan07]
#12328350 - 04/04/10 11:01 AM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
someone give me some K
--------------------
You're gonna get hurt real bad They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind
|
bigboi86
Overclocker



Registered: 06/16/09
Posts: 1,267
Loc: South East
Last seen: 11 years, 7 months
|
Re: Scientists attempt to explain heaven...use of Ketamine involved! [Re: Ryan07]
#12328375 - 04/04/10 11:06 AM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
Man, when I tried Ketamine it wasn't THAT powerful, maybe I didn't take enough lol.
--------------------
Anybody want to buy my shirt?
|
bchunter
Strangler




Registered: 10/11/08
Posts: 1,374
Loc: Right Behind You
Last seen: 3 years, 1 day
|
Re: Scientists attempt to explain heaven...use of Ketamine involved! [Re: AsAboveSoBelow]
#12328386 - 04/04/10 11:09 AM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
I always thought the white light was due to the pupils dilating and letting in a bunch of light which would appear like your going somewhere very bright
|
danlennon3
LivingIsEasyWithEyesClosed.....



Registered: 10/29/02
Posts: 19,246
Loc: usa
Last seen: 1 year, 1 month
|
Re: Scientists attempt to explain heaven...use of Ketamine involved! [Re: bigboi86]
#12328467 - 04/04/10 11:22 AM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
Coming from personal experience, it is almost exactly how people explain NDE. At one point I thought I had died. It was by far the SCARIEST moment of my life... But also the most powerful experience of my life too. What it made me realize is that I was taking my life for granted and it could be taken from me at any moment. I remember thinking "If I make it back alive, I am going to make some drastic changes"
-------------------- "Psychedelics should be used not to escape reality, but to embrace it"
|
bchunter
Strangler




Registered: 10/11/08
Posts: 1,374
Loc: Right Behind You
Last seen: 3 years, 1 day
|
Re: Scientists attempt to explain heaven...use of Ketamine involved! [Re: danlennon3]
#12328484 - 04/04/10 11:25 AM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
danlennon3 said: Coming from personal experience, it is almost exactly how people explain NDE. At one point I thought I had died. It was by far the SCARIEST moment of my life... But also the most powerful experience of my life too. What it made me realize is that I was taking my life for granted and it could be taken from me at any moment. I remember thinking "If I make it back alive, I am going to make some drastic changes"
Sounds like after a bad trip
|
laserpig
Weedmaster_P

Registered: 04/28/09
Posts: 7,468
Last seen: 11 years, 9 months
|
Re: Scientists attempt to explain heaven...use of Ketamine involved! [Re: danlennon3]
#12328489 - 04/04/10 11:25 AM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
danlennon3 said: I remember thinking "If I make it back alive, I am going to make some drastic changes"
did you?
|
danlennon3
LivingIsEasyWithEyesClosed.....



Registered: 10/29/02
Posts: 19,246
Loc: usa
Last seen: 1 year, 1 month
|
Re: Scientists attempt to explain heaven...use of Ketamine involved! [Re: laserpig]
#12328523 - 04/04/10 11:31 AM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
bchunter said:
Quote:
danlennon3 said: Coming from personal experience, it is almost exactly how people explain NDE. At one point I thought I had died. It was by far the SCARIEST moment of my life... But also the most powerful experience of my life too. What it made me realize is that I was taking my life for granted and it could be taken from me at any moment. I remember thinking "If I make it back alive, I am going to make some drastic changes"
Sounds like after a bad trip
It was the best trip of my life... I wouldnt consider anything from the experience as bad. Scary? yes. Bad? no!
Quote:
laserpig said:
Quote:
danlennon3 said: I remember thinking "If I make it back alive, I am going to make some drastic changes"
did you?
yes I did for a while.. but like every learning experience, that feeling doesnt last forever, but for about a year it gave me such a powerful outlook on my life.
-------------------- "Psychedelics should be used not to escape reality, but to embrace it"
|
|