{"id":746,"date":"2022-10-09T04:21:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=746"},"modified":"2025-09-29T02:30:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:30:45","slug":"interesting-article-on-near-death-experiences-the-afterlife-is-in-our-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=746","title":{"rendered":"Interesting: Article on near death experiences &#8211; &#8220;The Afterlife is in Our Heads&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202a308e2d721200c-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Near death image 1\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e202a308e2d721200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202a308e2d721200c-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Near death image 1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Proves nothing, one way or the other but worth a read if you are interested in the topic. The author is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kristencfrench.com\/\">science writer living in Brooklyn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nautil.us\/the-afterlife-is-in-our-heads-240441\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=pocket_hits&amp;utm_campaign=POCKET_HITS-EN-DAILY-RECS-2022_10_08&amp;sponsored=0&amp;position=4&amp;scheduled_corpus_item_id=97a2f484-b2c1-4adc-a53f-7d5a3c143f02?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=pocket_hits&amp;utm_campaign=POCKET_HITS-EN-DAILY-RECS-2022_10_08&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=POCKET_HITS-EN-DAILY-RECS-2022_10_08\">Prior belief in god or an afterlife does not, perhaps surprisingly, seem to influence one\u2019s propensity to have an NDE, according to the research, but there is a strong association between the \u201cdepth\u201d of the NDE a person experiences\u2014as measured by the Greyson NDE Scale4\u2014and the likelihood that they will experience a religious or spiritual transformation afterward, including reduced fear of death, greater empathy, and decreased interest in material possessions.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proves nothing, one way or the other but worth a read if you are interested in the topic. The author is a science writer living in Brooklyn. Prior belief in god or an afterlife does not, perhaps surprisingly, seem to influence one\u2019s propensity to have an NDE, according to the research, but there is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7330,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions\/7330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}