What Happens When We Die?

This is a fascinating article in the sense that it misses much of what is obvious to religious people.

What Happens When We Die?
By Ashley Neglia

Is the mind an extension of the brain or its own entity?

The relationship of the mind to the body has been a debate that’s raged on for centuries. Dr. Sam Parnia, critical care doctor, director of the Human Consciousness Project and author of “What Happens When We Die,” seeks to settle this debate through AWARE (AWAreness during Resuscitation), a division of the Human Consciousness Project. Find out what Parnia had to say when AOL Health sat down with him for an interview.
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Scientist fail to see that the "mind" is not really what they think it is. The human brain is not capable of doing what science thinks it can. Just as we say that people "have a good heart" the heart is only an organ that pumps blood. It does not feel, it is not touched by love and does not cause acts of kindness. The mind is not what feels the treasured memories it holds. It does not form character. It miss-functions. It is taken off balance by chemical changes. It is hereditably/genetically damaged but the character comes from another place within each of us. Emotion is translated in the mind but it does not originate there. All of this begins and ends in Heaven.

Our soul, the soul that lives within each and every human comes from Heaven and will return to Heaven when these bodies are no longer alive. When the mind and heart shut down, the love, compassion, a beliefs live on within the soul.

We have proof of this in the Bible itself.
In Genesis we read "God breathed life" into Adam. The body was already formed but the life was the soul that God sent into the body of Adam.

Jeremiah 1
4 The word of the LORD came to me, saying,
5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."

The "you" is not the body but the soul. The soul formed in Heaven by God and sent to live within the body. The "life" that God breathed into Adam was the soul and Adam was already "alive" but without soul before that.


When scientist do not understand that we are not just what the see with their eyes and tests and machines, they will be more able to understand what makes us who/what we are.

Yesterday I had a very interesting conversation with a veteran. Clearly he was deeply troubled and PTSD was evident before he confirmed it. He said that he hated God. That God was evil because of what He refuses to do when men do evil things. When children suffer and starve all over the world and evil people seem to be rewarded. He said that there is no good in this world so in his mind, God is evil.

During our conversation I asked him what he thought God was doing when Christ surrendered His life on the cross, taking the world of sins upon Himself and being abandoned by His Father. He tried to change the subject but I could see he was thinking of this for the first time.

God couldn't have done what He did if there was any evil in God. The perception that God controls all is disproved when we read that God formed mankind the same way the angels were formed, with freewill. God did not want to force worship or obedience on anyone. Because of this, man is free to choose what they will or will not do. When people refuse to do good, God is blamed instead of Satin. Christ did not come to do evil upon this earth. Each act was done with love, compassion and mercy. Christ did this knowing that His life would end the way it did yet lived out His days filled with the glory of God's love for all of His children. If we believe that Christ did in fact come, did in fact do the acts reported in the Bible, did in fact suffer and die for our sake, then how could we ever think that God is evil?

The veteran began to think of what I was saying. I don't know how much of what I said got through to him but time will tell.

Veterans have a very difficult time dealing with their need to serve as being something good, yet having to do what they see as evil in order to do what they see as good. Serving the country, being willing to die for the sake of others, is the noblest calling, no matter if it is a veteran, a police officer or firefighter or anyone else willing to lay aside their own lives for the sake of others. They tend to look at all people the same way. There is the enemy they fight on one side and their counterparts on their side, but each has their own ability to be evil or good. Some say that those who serve are evil because they are willing to kill, but if you ask any veteran if they enjoyed killing it would take a sociopath to say they did. It is something they have to do because here is evil in this world.

God created a warrior before He created man and that was the Archangel Michael. God knew that freewill would have some turn away from Him just as some turned toward Him. There would have to be protectors for the faithful.

This does not mean that God created wars but created man with freewill to wage wars and blame God for all of them. Did God send men to wage wars? Some of them just as some of them were not what God wanted but what some men wanted claiming to have been God's will. This has never been more clear than the decision to invade Iraq when President Bush said during a presidential debate that " It's God's will that all men be free" but there has never been a case in the Bible when God said that all men shall be free but only that they have freewill. God and Christ addressed slaves and how to treat them. Even the Roman centurion had compassion for his servant when He went to Christ asking that he be healed.

When abolitionists sought to free the slaves in America, they did this with compassion seeing them as God's children living up to the ideals of the formation of this nation that all men are created equal. Yet again people went to war doing what they believed in. The southerners, who wanted to keep slaves did not see themselves as evil but the northerners did and visa versa. There were evil acts just as there were heroic acts on both sides. While their minds convinced them they were on the right side, it was not their minds that gave them the ability to be willing to lay down their lives for what they believe in. That came from their soul and what they believed God wanted of them. Still what this also involved for some was that God was supporting one side over another. Thinking God chooses sides when all of His children are involved because there were cases in the Bible when God did pick sides, wipes out the personal relationship with God. This is where we mess things up the most.

It is easy to hate and see someone as an enemy. It gives us the ability to no longer see them as another imperfect human trying to do the best they can with what they've been given. It's harder to try to understand them, find compassion for them, hold off judgment of them and see them as other people with the soul from God within them.

After studying veterans with PTSD there is a common factor within the majority of them. They are caring people, sensitive of others. This is one of the basic factors in compelling them to want to help, protect and serve. That willingness comes from deep within their foundation. When they think of risking their lives for others, this is foremost in their thoughts. They are not thinking of killing another human as the first thought. They see saving others as their first thought. What comes after is what wounds them.

When scientists finally understand that the mind is not the origin of this wound, they will begin to find the way to help them heal. If they continue to misunderstand what makes all of us human, ignoring the soul, they will prolong the suffering.

They need to all come together with the other researchers studying the connection between the soul of faith and the healing of the body to fully understand what connects all the parts of us together.

Senior Chaplain Kathie Costos
Namguardianangel@aol.com
www.Namguardianangel.org
www.Woundedtimes.blogspot.com
"The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive veterans of early wars were treated and appreciated by our nation." - George Washington