Near-death experience and nothingness

Recently an acquaintance forwarded me an email message about a particularly amazing near-death experience. All near-death experiences are amazing, of course, because death is such: amazing, the mother of all mysteries. I've always been interesed in NDE's since I have a bit of a personal interest, as do we all, in what happens after we take our last breath. Death has a way of capturing your attention, thats for sure. But most NDE's bear a distressingly close resemblance to the nature of the person having the experience. Christians tend to see Jesus, New Agers a soul guide, and so on. Also, I've never heard of a NDE where the almost-dead person came back with truly convincing information that could only have come from the Other Side.

This NDE in question shares some of these same skepticism-inducing characteristics. I get the impression that the author of the tale experienced things that he had thought a lot about before his NDE. I also am sorry that when he was given the chance to ask questions of the being on the Other Side, he didn't ask some presently unanswered scientific question, such as whether superstring theory is true, that could have been tested to assess its validity. Still, its quite a story, and I offer it for your entertainment and consideration. Having just finished a rewrite of my first book, "God's Whisper, Creation's Thunder," I was particularly interested in his comments about the nothingness that preceded the Big Bang. Here's a few pages from my book about the mysteries of the quantum vacuum that covers some of the same ground as the author of the NDE does in his description of higher realities.

Comments

[ashley]

i'm terrified that my afterlife will consist of a tourcherous realm of eternal aloneness and nothingness,i did mushrooms only once in my life and i had this experience,i'm afraid that it shows where im destined to go (i know this sounds nuts)
iv heard of nde's that are like this.this fear truly disturbs my mind and now im trapped in this obsessive thinking and trapped in my own thoughts kind of life.

[jezz]

i too have this "fear" and know exactly what ur talking about.it comes n goes but when it comes i try my best to go towards faith. go to church a different chruch. talk to a priest many ppl have this fear but r too scared to talk about it. i dont tell neone bc i dont want anyone else to have this "fear" too.but stay strong.easier said than done i knoe. but u kant let this run ur life or ur just wasting it..good luk god bless

[Harry]

Hey, I have that problem too... it's not a common phobia however... What scares me more is thinking about the past... about how the world was created and if there is God who created him. Your mind keeps going back and back in the past that it gets blocked one time and you can't think anymore, you get anxious and scared. Now fear of non existence is something different, you know that death is something tha happens to everyone and till now no one has avoided it. If you are a religious person then you should think about what your religion says about after death. You should rely on your God. The best way to get over this phobia is to think about future... not so far as when you'll die but... think that scientists may have found how can you be immortal until you'll "go off" (not from a car crash or things like that but from aging) think that you still have many years to live and that you don't know what might happen tomorrow. Do your best to find out about it.. but don't waste your whole life about what will happen when you'll die, It's very depressing and I know how it feels