Theos-Talk Archives (January 2004 Message tt00373)

I recall that some who claim to have NDE seeing light. Could the 
explanation of HPB may be one of the explanations of this phenomenon?

mkr



At 11:11 AM 01/23/04 -0800, quoting from Dallas msg:
>We know a number of mystically-inclined people who see such "lights" as
>that described above as soon as they concentrate their thoughts.
>Spiritualists attribute them to the agency of their departed friends;
>Buddhists (who have no personal God) to a pre-nirvânic state; Pantheists
>and Vedântins to Mâyâ—or the illusion of the senses; and Christians—to a
>foresight of the glories of Paradise.
>
>The modern Occultists say that, when not directly due to cerebral
>action, the normal functions of which are certainly impeded by such an
>artificial mode of deep concentration—these lights are glimpses of the
>Astral Light, or, to use a more "scientific" expression, of the "
>Universal Ether," firmly believed in by more than one man of science, as
>proved by Stewart and Tait’s Unseen Universe.
>
>Like the pure blue sky closely shrouded by thick vapours on a misty day,
>so is the Astral Light concealed from our physical senses during the
>hours of our normal daily life. But when, concentrating all our
>spiritual faculties we succeed, for the time being, in paralyzing their
>enemy (the physical senses), and the inner man becomes, so to say,
>distinct from the man of matter—then the action of the ever-living
>spirit, like a breeze that clears the sky from its obstructing clouds,
>sweeps away the mist which lies between our normal vision and the Astral
>Light, and we obtain glimpses into, and of, that Light.
>
>The days of "smoking furnaces" and "burning lamps" which form part of
>the biblical visions are long gone by—to return no more. But whoever,
>refusing natural explanations, prefers supernatural ones, is, of course,
>at liberty to imagine that an "Almighty God" amuses us with visions of
>flowers, and sends burning lights before making "covenants" with his
>worshippers.
>[Ed.]


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