{"id":5,"date":"2007-01-21T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T09:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/life\/near_death_experiences.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T05:00:00","slug":"near_death_experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2007\/01\/21\/near_death_experiences","title":{"rendered":"Near-Death Experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via the Frontal Cortex<\/a> (my favorite recently and accidentally discovered blog1<\/sup><\/a>), on the cultural relativity of near-death experiences<\/a>: <\/p>\n

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Many Africans interpret near-death experiences as somewhat evil, a bad omen or a sign that they were somehow “bewitched.” <\/p>\n

Among 400 Japanese NDErs that participated in a study, many reported seeing long, dark rivers and beautiful flowers, two common symbols that frequently appear as images in Japanese art. <\/p>\n

East Indians sometimes see Heaven as a giant bureaucracy, and frequently report being sent back because of clerical errors. <\/p>\n

Americans and Brits often say they are sent back for love or in order to perform a job or task. <\/p>\n

Natives of Micronesia often visualize Heaven as a large, brightly lit American city with loud, noisy cars and tall buildings. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’m not sure what’s worse — returning from death to rectify the inadvertent omission of a certificate of service on a motion for leave to file a reply brief in excess of the ten-page limit (maybe I should have picked a different profession) or getting additional time on Earth because the powers-that-be failed to complete a 27B\/6<\/a>. I really prefer the beautiful flowers, but it’s probably too late for that. <\/p>\n

1<\/sup><\/a>Is there a term of art for such blogs? E.g., a blog discovered from an unrelated Google search that turns out to be worth adding to the blogroll. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via the Frontal Cortex (my favorite recently and accidentally discovered blog1), on the cultural relativity of near-death experiences: Many Africans interpret near-death experiences as somewhat evil, a bad omen or a sign that they were somehow “bewitched.” Among 400 Japanese NDErs that participated in a study, many reported seeing long, dark rivers and beautiful flowers, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}