Re: virus: Origin of religion theory
C.A. Cook (coreycook12@email.msn.com)
Sat, 18 Apr 1998 18:35:12 -0500
Corey wrote:
>and now for my second comment, let me dabble in the murky
>waters of evolutionary psychology. many NDEs feature a
>bright light, full of peace and love, which draws the
>near-dead-person towards it. the thing that baffles me is
>that one would think that the brain, which is essentially
>designed to facilitate the survival and reproduction of itself
>and its host, at almost any cost, would be fighting
>tooth-and-nail to keep that person alive. calm and soothing
>light? fuck that. it should be showing the most terrible,
>horrifying, repulsive sights in the mind's eye, coercing the
>individual back to life. one would think that an NDE would
>discourage death, as an extension of the instinctive fear of
>death. but reports seem to indicate it does not. if we accept
>the accounts of NDEs as true and accurate, then why is it that
>the brain seems to malfunction in those last moments of life?
Perhaps the calming effect helps relax the body, counteracting
some kind of tension that triggered the NDE.
CA Cook, LF
coreycook12@email.msn.com