What about out of body experiences (OBE) without the person dying.
Not familiar of such claims.
I am not sure they actually go to heaven or hell. Often they experience their own bodies below them or seeing relatives. Seeing a bright light but never going in. Or they may have a life reflection or visit a loved one in real life.
I would say, a soul departing it’s body, would momentarily see it’s body and Surrounding, as it was ascending or descending.
Another thing they mention is feeling the heaviness of themselves entering back into their bodies. As though their light spirit felt the weight of the world as they entered back in.
Felt a heaviness, to me, is a physical person trying to describe a spiritual event to the best of their ability. Nothing alarming to me.
But i am interested in how these experiences relate to the visions and dreams people have such as prophesy or spiritual visions. Is this entering the same realm where people experience near death or out of body visions.
I would say…
An (Out of body experience), of the Soul Departing a dead Body and then Returning to the Body, and the Body resume Living…
Is NOTHING NEW.
As well … Dreams and Visions are NOTHING NEW.
Considering World Population 5-6 thousand years ago…( a few Ancient documented cases / Visions, Dreams, Departed Soul Experience…
Today, Billions of people, and some claiming same such experiences.
(some may be true, some may be fake…
* Interesting part…Anciently in Scriptural records…
*Visions and Dreams…Yes… broadcasted.
* Departed souls, returned to Body, (I don’t find Ancient records of Such “resumed living person”) “their word” describing “their experience”??
Most famous case…Lazarus’ … he speaks nothing of “his soul departure experience”.
Today “modern”… some claims are made, regarding a persons departed soul experience.
Then you have normal dreams. Where do they fit. These are more psychological. Or at least regarded so. As a way to sort and store memories and sort through complicated thoughts and feelings.
I would first say…an individual would have to “have” some understanding of the Difference between “his Body and his Soul” and the intent, purpose and role / for each.
I think…”regular” (as you indicate) dreams, lean more on the CARNAL MINDFUL sub-Conscious thoughts your AWAKE Mind / had a fleeting thought, experienced, and dismissed at the (awake) moment, and forgot about.
Yet, every thought, experience your Carnal Mind has thought, (imo), still exists IN the Mind….
Recalled, in Dreams (while sleeping, ie sub-conscious??) possibly…
Off-hand, I would say no.
Why?
Because Carnal Minded “thoughts, visions, while awake or sleeping”…are Fleshly / Natural…
Opposed to:
Supernatural Visions, “do Not come from what you naturally See, Hear, Imagine.”
Supernatural Visions and Dreams ARE from God Who IS Spirit.. TO that part of a man that it’s Life is spiritual … ie the Soul (which it’s life IS…Gods Breath).
** and noting… Scripture “reveals”…in LAST DAYS… is When “Visions and Dreams”… on a Massive Basis;
Shall be given From God.
Why should a person have dreams or visions. According to atheistic science having dreams and visions is like a computer having dreams and visions.
All fields of “Science” is discovery and experiments and best guess conclusions.
A 3 pound lump of tissue is not suppose to have visions and dreams.
You under estimate (by a weight measurement) the phenomenal ability of Gods creation and making of a man’s Brain.
If you have ever seen or held a man’s brain (I have)… it looks like old grey stuffing, rolled into something that looks like A dredlock and fixed into two equal domed forms side by side (of sorts)… strange and dull, unassuming and unimpressive.
This is obviously all associated with consciousness. Is consciousness the vehicle for which all this happens. Is what God uses to give people dreams and visions.
Sure.
With consideration…
The difference between the NATURAL capabilities…
And
The SPIRITUAL Capabilities… God HAS Anciently Given “A Few”… and The Prophecy, not yet come to pass… “END DayS”…MASSES receiving Visions and Dreams…From The Spirit of God.
Thanks for the conversation.
God bless you.
Glory to God,
Taken