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Quote from: Lorenzo on September 15, 2011, 12:49:22 PM
Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth. Pleni sunt caeli et terra, gloria Tua. Hosanna in excelsis.

Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomine Domini. Hosanna in excelsis.

Translation:



Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hosts. Heaven and Earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest.

Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.

Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth. Pleni sunt caeli et terra, gloria Tua. Hosanna in excelsis.

Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomine Domini. Hosanna in excelsis.

Sanctus Gregorian Chant: The Definitive Collection

Gregorian Chant Kyrie Eleison

Quote from: vrglguapo on September 01, 2011, 02:51:07 PM
Dili man mi kasabut ug latin

Virgil, it means, "LORD, have mercy."

Kyrie Eleison is not Latin, but, rather, is Greek. The Septuagint was written in Greek and the original Roman Catholic Church Fathers always ended prayer with the saying, "Kyrie Eleison" (LORD, Have Mercy).

Ube Kalamay Latik

angay ka ani?

bwahahaha! tekret!

Quote from: bol-anon nga cebuano on June 08, 2011, 06:21:13 AM
hopefully she is.

Hopefully pod, Ray. Mommy Wella , prior to being appointed as the DILG PROVINCIAL DIRECTOR of Bohol, was the Head of the Commercial development of Mandaue City, Cebu. Her successful tenure in Regional Government was seen in Cebu's efficient DILG. She worked very closely with DILG 7 Regional Director. I know this because I visited the DILG Regional Office in Cebu back in Summer 2010.  I know that she and the staff under her will bring positive results for Bohol's Local Government.

Quote from: Lorenzo on September 15, 2011, 12:11:31 PM


NEW DILG-BOHOL PD. Governor Edgar Chatto formally introduces DILG-Bohol Provincial Director Louella Lucino  and Vice Provincial Director Rustica Mascarinas to the Bohol media. In last Friday’s “Kita ug ang Gobernador” radio program, DILG Provincial Director Lucino briefly outlined the mechanics of the government subsidy to the country’s transport sector. (foto by SDDiputado).

http://www.boholtimesonline.com/2011-new-dilg-bohol-pd.html

Hehehehe, Congratulations again, Mommy Wella....

NEW DILG-BOHOL PROVINCIAL DIRECTOR. Governor Edgar Chatto formally introduces DILG-Bohol Provincial Director Louella Lucino  and Vice Provincial Director Rustica Mascarinas to the Bohol media. In last Friday’s “Kita ug ang Gobernador” radio program, DILG Provincial Director Lucino briefly outlined the mechanics of the government subsidy to the country’s transport sector. (foto by SDDiputado).

http://www.boholtimesonline.com/2011-new-dilg-bohol-pd.html

duwa duwa pod si manong oh...

Beach view sa Valencia, Bohol.

Quote from: chicogon on September 15, 2011, 05:20:26 AM
May lain pa kinsa.... ang duha gihapon ka maru sa TB 

lol, kinsa man ning duha diay, Fr. Roel?

Sakit bitaw mo basa aning stories, Raquel. Lisod bitaw maka save og kwarta para sa anak. Mao na, we should always be very thankful and grateful to our parents who supported us along the way.

Brandon Heath - "The Light In Me" Official Music Video [HD]

Feeling this right now...thanks be to God ! Thanks for all the challenges and painful struggles, Lord...



Consider it pure joy, my brothers,
whenever you face trials of many kinds,
because you know that the testing of your
faith develops perseverance.

Proverbs 14:29

Father God,


I am so very tired this week, i feel very overwhelmed with all that I have to do -- tanan ahong responsibilidad diri. I am also very ashamed, Lord, ashamed ko kai in all of the blessings and all of my triumphs that you have given me, still I despair from time to time. Please, Lord, cleanse me from all of this feeling.

I trust in you, Jesus. Strengthen me, Lord, please. I am weak and need your strength.


I beg this in the name of Jesus Christ.

Quote from: jorgeanna on September 14, 2011, 05:49:07 PM
true man ni nga issue kay daghan naman gud gusto mu-apas sa unsa na ang uso karon bisag pobre.. looy lang ginikanan nga uneducated kay sayon-sayonon ra og ilad tawn .. naa gyud koy na-meet nga ing-ani nga pagkatao mao makakita gani ko, musurop gyud akong dugo!

kuan diay ni noh, 'keeping up with the jones'' but with a filipino tint:  kuan diay ni sila , "keeping up with the romeros."

luoy lagi og i-ilad ra ta sa mga tawo. it hurts when the ones doing this are loved ones or trusted friends.

unsay ngan ani? frat o crog ?

Bwahahahaha. hmmm, si hubag ang driver, si bugsay na si gonzo, si isles ang manok, and kermit is...why who else? jim henson!

guwapang mestiza!

Guapa lagi..

fwew! i can tell you're not too fond of defensor , eh , isles?

kini si manong kabao. murag taga de-meow ni siya....bwahahahaha



"hinay hinay basta kanunay...."

Quote from: islander on September 14, 2011, 03:56:54 PM
arang bataa pod ning kabawa uy.  mora pa man nig ikaw.  

gutum lagi ni si kabao jr. bahala ug tigulang ang grass, kanon na lang. sayang!! bwahahaha

Having thought about the life in Chicago, I have realized that I would be open to finishing residency in this city, but I don't want to permanently live here.  The state of Illinois is a democratic state, and like most democratic states, is a welfare state. The taxes here are ridiculously high. In the city of Chicago, we have to pay 10% sales tax on everything (this is not including the 25% that is subtracted from our salaries!).

And where does it go to? Social programs...at the expense of the hard working middle class!

Why is it that medical education has to cost us $350,000 ? Is it fair that as a medical resident one's salary is only $45,000 ? Who ever created the concept of "interest rates" should be shot!

Money, money, money and more money. It seems to me that everyone (well most) seems to be interested only in the monetary aspect nowadays. I'm getting really annoyed at all the expenses one has to pay to do rotations, not only that, what one is expected to pay later on (thank you so much medical school loans).

It must be nice being a wandering poet. Who does not have to worry about paying things off.   

I found out that one of my patients coded when I was not on call today. This was very unexpected...i thought she was recovering.

I shaved my beard off today. I feel so very different not having a beard. It's hard to believe that I've had a beard for a whole year without shaving.

si lolo pa to, mo ingon na pod to og, " no money no honey..." bwahahahaha!

Quote from: bugsay on September 14, 2011, 03:30:29 PM
kabaw ni sa imong Lolo Ciano, bai Lorenz?

ha, ha, ha! liwat lagi ang batan-on  kabao sa tigulang nga kabao eh, bai bugsay? kusug man mo kaon og grass....

bwahahaha!

imagine a : Marcos-Pacman Duo....

Quote from: statesville on September 14, 2011, 12:05:35 PM
Si Ms Ukraine gyud akong pagtoo modaug pero, didto man sa lain... 

guwapa bitaw to si ms. ukraine....

Quote from: islander on September 14, 2011, 03:15:33 PM
ug pagarparong bakia (lorenzo, miss poblacion).  

hahaha. koreksyon ha. poblacion occidental dili poblacion oriental. taga sawang man tawn ko...

Quote from: islander on September 14, 2011, 03:15:33 PM
hahaha!  puro beauties man ni imong giklaro... bogolbogolong iroa (bugsay, miss canduao), hingawrasong iringa (islander, miss canmanico), ug pagarparong bakia (lorenzo, miss poblacion).  no one can beat this triumvirate!

p.s. okay pod 3 mosquiteros ning tulo, unya si hubag si d'artagnan ug si fr chic si cardinal richelieu.

bwahahaha ay kuyawa , taga canmanico diay imong mama , isles? morag kahibalo ko unsay apelido ni bugsay. duol diay ka, isles ,sa mga palaca og palac clan eh? daghan jamo mga palaca dinha sa canmanico.

kini si hubag bohol, ku an ni siya d'artagnan taga baranggay cabunga-an sa de-meow. wa ko kaibao asa gikan ni si cardinal richelieu (somewhere in the distant fields of catigbian sogoro...) bwahahaha!

Quote from: Mike Ortega Ligalig on September 14, 2011, 08:31:18 AM
by Philippine News Agency

Outspoken retired Archbishop Oscar Cruz has strongly criticized the first ever Miss Casino Filipino held recently for supposedly “exploiting” women.

Cruz, who is a staunch critic of gambling, said the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor) put the women in bad light just to promote gambling in the country.

"This Miss Casino is a slap to Filipino decency. It is exploiting the girls… exploiting their ignorance and enthusiasm and this is to propagate the vice of gambling,” he said.

Cruz said popular beauty pageants such as Ms. Universe and Ms. World stand up for "something dignified, something humanitarian".

He said Pagcor held the beauty pageant to cover up “the evil it disseminates”.

“To me it’s a shame to a Miss Casino. I don’t know if there are parents or elders who will be proud to say that their daughter is Miss Casino,” said Cruz.

Miss Casino Filipino? What's next? Miss Filipino Disgrasyada? Miss Filipino Aborsyon? Na buing na ba ni sila?

Way to Go Your Eminence! More power to Archbishop Cruz! Speak the Truth...

on a serious note tho (joking aside), luoy pood ning storyha kai i-prenda man diay ang basakan.... talk about sacrifice!

Quote from: islander on September 14, 2011, 02:49:26 PM
wa pa man tingaliy mobile phone ug computer atong panahona... duda hinoon ko nga nangayo siya niadto ug ipalit ug tablets sa ten commandments.

bwahaha!!

Quote from: hubag bohol on September 12, 2011, 08:34:35 PM
Bwahaha! Yutang natawhan sa mga binuangon! Sama sa bogolbogolong iroa, hingawrasong iringa, ug pagarparong bakia! Biba Balingsya!

Hehehe of course , but who could forget the tigulang nga iring gikan sa de-meow. bugolbugolon gayod ning tiguwang iring.

Quote from: bugsay on September 12, 2011, 07:28:55 PM

tsk tsk tsk.....lisoda balibaran ani uy......tibugsok na jud ko's tadjaw ani.

pwede'g dili nalang maam isles? .........ahh, sige, bahala na ni..

Ms Valencia - yuta sa mga gwapo ug gwapa, ginamos ginapiko ug ginapala, Hacienda perting lunhawa,
                   major, major corn tree perting daghan, oh lalala Balingsha!.

nyahahaha....

hahaha @ ginamos ginapiko ginapala. na unsa man ni...na mora. iloilo na diay ta ron?

Experiencers are convinced the NDE is an afterlife experience



In 1977, Dr. Kenneth Ring was a brilliant young professor of psychology at the University of Connecticut who read Dr. Raymond Moody's book, Life After Life, and was inspired by it. However, he felt that a more scientifically structured study would strengthen Moody's findings. He sought out 102 near-death survivors for his research. He concluded:


"Regardless of their prior attitudes - whether skeptical or deeply religious - and regardless of the many variations in religious beliefs and degrees of skepticism from tolerant disbelief to outspoken atheism - most of these people were convinced that they had been in the presence of some supreme and loving power and had a glimpse of a life yet to come." (Dr. Kenneth Ring)


For the multitude of near-death experiencers who know they have left their bodies and received a glimpse of life after death, there is no amount of clinical explanation that will ever convince them otherwise.


http://www.near-death.com/evidence.html#a1

Quote from: Lorenzo on September 14, 2011, 04:26:10 AM
People born blind can see during an NDE



Dr. Kenneth Ring and Sharon Cooper completed a two-year study into the NDEs of the blind. They published their findings in a book entitled "Mindsight" in which they documented the solid evidence of 31 cases in which blind people report visually accurate information obtained during an NDE. Perhaps the best example in his study is that of a forty-five year old blind woman by the name of Vicki Umipeg. Vicki was born blind, her optic nerve having been completely destroyed at birth because of an excess of oxygen she received in the incubator. Yet, she appears to have been able to see during her NDE. Her story is a particularly clear instance of how NDEs of the congenitally blind can unfold in precisely the same way as do those of sighted persons.

http://www.near-death.com/evidence.html#a1

Exceptionally amazing. Apparently the patient, Vicki, was able to recount the face of the physician who was resuscitating her, the color of his eyes, the color of his hair, and the color of the scrubs he was wearing, the shape of his face etc.

How can a blind woman, who was born blind (congenital optic necrosis), see things and describe things so accurately during her NDE?

People born blind can see during an NDE



Dr. Kenneth Ring and Sharon Cooper completed a two-year study into the NDEs of the blind. They published their findings in a book entitled "Mindsight" in which they documented the solid evidence of 31 cases in which blind people report visually accurate information obtained during an NDE. Perhaps the best example in his study is that of a forty-five year old blind woman by the name of Vicki Umipeg. Vicki was born blind, her optic nerve having been completely destroyed at birth because of an excess of oxygen she received in the incubator. Yet, she appears to have been able to see during her NDE. Her story is a particularly clear instance of how NDEs of the congenitally blind can unfold in precisely the same way as do those of sighted persons.

http://www.near-death.com/evidence.html#a1

Quote from: Lorenzo on September 14, 2011, 04:21:38 AM
NDEs occur while patients are brain dead

Cardiologist Michael Sabom described a near-death experience that occurred while its experiencer - a woman who was having an unusual surgical procedure for the safe excision and repair of a large basilar artery aneurysm - met all of the accepted criteria for brain death. The unusual medical procedure involved the induction of hypothermic cardiac arrest, in order to insure that the aneurysm at the base of the brain would not rupture during the operation. The patient's body temperature was lowered to 60 degrees Fahrenheit, her heartbeat and breathing ceased, her brain waves flattened, and the blood was completely drained from her head. Her electroencephalogram was totally flat (indicating no cerebral electrical activity) and auditory evoked potentials (normally elicited by clicks presented through molded earplugs that had been inserted into her ears) ceased (indicating cessation of brainstem functioning). Ordinarily - at regular body temperature - the brain cannot function without its oxygen supply for more than a few minutes. Lowering the body and brain temperature to 60 degrees F. - by chilling the blood in a bypass machine before returning it to the body and brain - however, can reduce cellular metabolism so that the brain can tolerate complete cerebral blood flow for the 45 minutes or so required for the brain operation. The patient later reported that, apparently while under these “brain death” conditions, she had a near-death experience (NDE) in which she was able to observe and hear details of objects and happenings in the operating room with accuracy. She also experienced classic components of the NDE, including a tunnel vortex, a bright light, and different figures in the light (many deceased family members, including a distant cousin of whose death she had been unaware).

http://www.near-death.com/evidence.html#a1

Interesting. How is it possible that this patient who was brain dead (no electrical activity in the brain) was able to experience a near death experience ? How could she remember such things when she was (then) clinically brain dead?

Very interesting. Was she seeing things through the eyes of the soul?

NDEs occur while patients are brain dead

Cardiologist Michael Sabom described a near-death experience that occurred while its experiencer - a woman who was having an unusual surgical procedure for the safe excision and repair of a large basilar artery aneurysm - met all of the accepted criteria for brain death. The unusual medical procedure involved the induction of hypothermic cardiac arrest, in order to insure that the aneurysm at the base of the brain would not rupture during the operation. The patient's body temperature was lowered to 60 degrees Fahrenheit, her heartbeat and breathing ceased, her brain waves flattened, and the blood was completely drained from her head. Her electroencephalogram was totally flat (indicating no cerebral electrical activity) and auditory evoked potentials (normally elicited by clicks presented through molded earplugs that had been inserted into her ears) ceased (indicating cessation of brainstem functioning). Ordinarily - at regular body temperature - the brain cannot function without its oxygen supply for more than a few minutes. Lowering the body and brain temperature to 60 degrees F. - by chilling the blood in a bypass machine before returning it to the body and brain - however, can reduce cellular metabolism so that the brain can tolerate complete cerebral blood flow for the 45 minutes or so required for the brain operation. The patient later reported that, apparently while under these “brain death” conditions, she had a near-death experience (NDE) in which she was able to observe and hear details of objects and happenings in the operating room with accuracy. She also experienced classic components of the NDE, including a tunnel vortex, a bright light, and different figures in the light (many deceased family members, including a distant cousin of whose death she had been unaware).

http://www.near-death.com/evidence.html#a1

Basic ECG Lecture

Quote from: Lorenzo on September 14, 2011, 02:28:15 AM
Pulmonary Shunt:

A pulmonary shunt is also known as a right-to-left shunt. By definition, systemic venous blood is delivered to the left side of the heart w/o exchanging  oxygen and carbon dioxide with the alveoli. A good example is blood passing through a region of atelectasis.

When a significant pulmonary shunt exists, breathing pure O2 will elevate systemic arterial PO2 a small amount , but it will never produce enough full saturation of the hemoglobin.

Failure to obtain a significant increase in arterial PO2 following administration of supplemental oxygen in hypoxemias strong evidence of the presence of a pulmonary shunt.

There is increase in A-a oxygen gradient

Supplemental O2 ineffective at returning arterial PO2 to normal

End-tidal air does not reflect the arterial values

Pulmonary Shunt:

A pulmonary shunt is also known as a right-to-left shunt. By definition, systemic venous blood is delivered to the left side of the heart w/o exchanging  oxygen and carbon dioxide with the alveoli. A good example is blood passing through a region of atelectasis.

When a significant pulmonary shunt exists, breathing pure O2 will elevate systemic arterial PO2 a small amount , but it will never produce enough full saturation of the hemoglobin.

Failure to obtain a significant increase in arterial PO2 following administration of supplemental oxygen in hypoxemias strong evidence of the presence of a pulmonary shunt.

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Turnover of PCARRD Infokit:
(From left to right)
Dr. Virgie Lacuesta, representative from Negros Oriental State University, Dumaguete City;
Ms. Concepcion Villamayor and Ms. Audrey Lapitan , PCARRD staff members;
Hon. Mayor Henrietta Lim Gan (third from right) of Valencia, Bohol;
Mr. Silvano Dajan, Municipal Agriculture Officer and Manager of FITS-Valencia;
Dr. Jose Quitazol, Provincial Agriculture Officer of Tagbilaran City during the ceremonialturnover of the PCARRD kit and other information, education and communication materials

The Techno Gabay Program (TGP) extends more of its information and technology services capabilities nationwide as it welcomed 19 more Farmers’ Information and Technology Services (FITS) or Techno Pinoy centers from the heart of the Visayas--- ““Republic of Bohol” last October 4-5.

The Techno Gabay Program (TGP) extends more of its information and technology services capabilities nationwide as it welcomed 19 more Farmers’ Information and Technology Services (FITS) or Techno Pinoy centers from the heart of the Visayas--- ““Republic of Bohol” last October 4-5.

The Office of the Provincial Agriculturist of Bohol headed by Ms. Liza Quirog, Central Visayas State College of Agriculture, Forestry and Technology staff, Central Visayas Consortium for Integrated Regional Research and Development (CV-CIRRD), and PCARRD representatives spearheaded the launching of the new FITS Centers. FITS managers, FITS staff, local government officials, municipal agriculturists, barangay captains, and farmers were also present during the launch and signing of the memorandum of agreement (MOA) among partner agencies.

The program started with a heart-warming welcome from the Boholanos. Dr. Arturo S. Argañosa and Ms. Audrey O. Lapitan from Technology Outreach and Promotion Division of PCARRD represented PCARRD Executive Director Patricio S. Faylon. They shared that PCARRD appreciates the efforts of the local government units to establish FITS centers in the province. Their messages highlighted the strong commitment of PCARRD to help improve farmers’ quality of life through provision of information and technologies. They also emphasized the importance of meeting the minimum resource requirements of a FITS center to ensure that the centers would serve their purpose as part of the TGP.

The two-day simultaneous FITS launching covered the following towns: Baclayon, Albuquerque, Valencia, Garcia-Hernandez, Jagna, Balilihan, Sagbayan, Dagohoy, Trinidad, Bien Unido, Bilar, Carmen, Pilar, Guindulman, Getafe, Buenavista, Inabanga, Clarin, and Calape. All newly launched FITS centers were each provided the PCARRD kit.

The launching of 19 FITS centers in Bohol set a record for CV-CIRRD as the consortium with the second biggest number of FITS Centers (39) next to CLARRDEC (41). To date, there are 262 FITS centers nationwide.

Fish Market sa Valencia:

Quote from: cujo on May 26, 2011, 07:37:28 PM
I remember a friend of mine has a friend who lives in a subdivision and she was cooking buwad.Before long a cop was knocking on her door because some neighbor called the cops about something stinks in the air.How embarrassing is that !

Your friend should have invited the cop in. Buwad tastes really good with fried eggs and dipped in vinegar. hehehe.

Now Thomas (also known as Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord!"

But he said to them, "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe."

A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!" Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe."

Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!"

Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."



â€" John 20:24-29

hehehe, smart bitaw ni si ondoy! keep it up!

Hapit na pod ...

bwahahaha. si kuan man diay ni...

Mo plano ba ni si Ma'am Defensor sa Presidency ?

si hubag bohol sigoro ni sa una nga ning eskwela pa siya sa seminaryo.

si hubag bohol (minus the beard) and his lady to be. bwahahaha!

Our Father, which art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come.
Thy will be done in earth,
As it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive them that trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,

The power, and the glory,

For ever and ever.

Amen.

Beautiful Song!

Mario Lanza - The Lords Prayer

Baba Yetu is The Lord's Prayer in the Swahili Language. Beautiful Song!

Baba Yetu - with words

Civilization IV - Baba Yetu (piano)

hahaha, lami bitaw ni...

Quote from: islander on September 12, 2011, 11:05:41 PM
and it is one's faith in the creator of time and space, that creator that makes "biocentrism" possible, that leads death's reboot to all potentialities, such as heaven or hell.

don't forget purgatory. let's not forget our brothers and sisters who are in purgatory waiting for the final judgment....

"OLD Carabao likes to eat young grass, but YOUNG Carabao devours the whole basak..."


bwahahahaha!

Quote from: david on September 13, 2011, 02:14:33 PM
tuo na ta lang bro para madali

bwahaha! ikaw, bro, hilig ka mo kaon og young grass?

Quote from: Lorenzo on September 13, 2011, 02:12:57 PM

Don Rico, my younger brother. He is the Grandson of Mr. Casiano Salise Salvo Sr. and Mrs. Fortunata Tan-Salvo:

Engineering (Pre-Medicine) track ni si Don Don. Following in the footsteps of his Kuya Bran and Ate Angel. 

Don Rico, my younger brother. He is the Grandson of Mr. Casiano Salise Salvo Sr. and Mrs. Fortunata Tan-Salvo of Valencia, Bohol:

luoy pod intawn si nanay ug si tatay...

iring: dali dinhi ba, pramis lagi ko di ko mo kaon nimo
baki: ay'w ko i labti , ay'w lagi . . .

iring:   

Ikaw, mo tuo ka anig phrase'a : "Old Carbao Likes To Eat Young Grass..."  ?

bwahahaha one person comes to mind.

a "pimped out" Tricycle. 

A tricycle from Mayon

Dying Brain Theory




This theory is one that has been popularized by Dr, Susan Blackmore in her book Dying To Live. One of the greatest strengths of the afterlife theory and the argument that NDEs are real is also one of its greatest weaknesses. The fact that all those who had NDEs follow the same path toward the light, going through similar stages on the way, makes a powerful case for the whole thing being a profound spiritual journey to an afterlife where everyone, from all ages and cultures, is welcome. But that same case, the "sameness" evidence, is also a fundamental part of the argument that NDEs are not real experiences, not spiritual voyages, but a function of the dying brain. All brains, regardless of where in the world they come from, die in the same way, say the skeptics. And that is why all NDEs have essential core elements which are the same. It is not because the dying person is traveling toward a beautiful afterlife, but because the neurotransmitters in the brain are shutting down and creating the same lovely illusions for all who are near-death.

But why? Why should the dying brain do this, if it is just a highly sophisticated lump of tissue? That question is one of the most fundamental questions in the whole of human thinking. It boils down to asking, are we individuals with "personalities" and "souls" and "minds" that are exclusive to us? Or are we simply bodies controlled by very clever computers, or brains, each of which works a little differently from the rest, thus making each of us unique, just as an Apple computer is different from an IBM, although there are far more similarities between them than there are differences?

Scientists and researchers are divided. There are some who want to reduce NDEs to nothing more than a series of brain reactions. Others, who accept the realness and validity of NDEs, are nonetheless quite happy to see it put into a scientific context. In other words, they are not frightened of researching the experience rigorously, of finding out everything that we possibly can about it, perhaps even being able to explain aspects of it. But they can happily let that scientific aspect sit alongside the deeply personal, life-enhancing evidence of those who have actually been there.

There are very few people around, even among the skeptics, who would deny that people have NDEs, and that they are deeply affected by them because so many obviously sane and well-balanced people have now come forward and talked about what happened to them. What they do dispute is what causes a NDE and what it means. There are two main strands of research: one takes the psychological approach, which looks for reasons for human beings to behave the way they do, and to think and possibly to hallucinate the way they do. The other is the straightforward physiological approach, which is searching for that part of the brain which malfunctions and causes a NDE. Increasingly, as in all brain research, not just that connected with NDEs, the two approaches overlap.

The ruthless, depersonalized argument - that a NDE is just the result of the brain beginning to die - is not acceptable to the vast majority of people who had a NDE. To reduce what was a profound and transforming experience to nothing more than a set of neurotransmitters going on the blink is a bit like seeing Michelangelo's statue of David as nothing more than several tons of marble.

If there is no afterlife, and NDEs are just the last throw of a fevered and dying brain, why does it bother? If everything, including the soul and personality, is going to dust and ashes, why does the brain lay on this last wonderful floor show for people near-death, or facing actual death, who relax into peacefulness and describe their wonderful visions?

If NDEs are just a hallucination, why do a great many people report being told, "Your mission has not been completed," or, "The time for your death is not yet," during their NDE? If NDEs are just hallucinations, how can so many people be told the same thing in their hallucinations? Isn't it odd that so many people are being told the same thing? Are they all hallucinating identical responses? For many people, it is easier to believe that NDEs are a real afterlife experience and not mass hallucination.


http://www.near-death.com/experiences/experts01.html#theory1

It is rather interesting. If we study the phenomenon of death in an anatomical and neurophysiological view, only 10% of the human brain is used, it is debated that almost 90% of the human brain is untapped. There are many neurologists and neuropsychologists that will debate that at the onset of death, the paranormal becomes normal. The liberation of the concept of the 'soul' is released and all the feelings, energies that are trapped inside of the anatomical shell "body" is released.

If we refer to the Law of the Conservation of Energy, which states:

Quotethat the total amount of energy in a system remains constant over time (is said to be conserved over time). A consequence of this law is that energy can neither be created nor be destroyed: it can only be transformed from one state to another. The only thing that can happen to energy in a system is that it can change form: for instance chemical energy can become kinetic energy.

In terms of electrophysiology, the body is run by electrical energy that powers the neuromuscular system. The brain, the heart, and all muscles, tissues innervated by the nerves are governed by electrical energy. This electrical energy is what manifests into sensation by the brain.

When the human being dies, what happens to this energy? It cannot just dissipate , if we refer to the Absolute Law of Conservation of Energy.

The question holds: What happens to us after death? Where does our energy go ?

Science can only speculate, leaving one to refer to spiritual and religious sources for answer.

What happens when we die? Do we rot into the ground, or do we go to heaven (or hell, if we've been bad)? Experiments suggest the answer is simpler than anyone thought. Without the glue of consciousness, time essentially reboots.

The mystery of life and death can't be examined by visiting the Galapagos or looking through a microscope. It lies deeper. It involves our very selves. We awake in the present. There are stairs below us that we appear to have climbed; there are stairs above us that go upward into the unknown future. But the mind stands at the door by which we entered and gives us the memories by which we go about our day. Everything is ordered and predictable. We're like cuckoo birds who appear through a door each morning. We fancy there's a clockwork set in motion at the beginning of time.

But if you remove everything from space, what's left? Nothing. The same applies for time -- you can't put it in a jar. You can't see through the bone surrounding your brain (everything you experience is information in your mind). Biocentrism tells us space and time aren't objects -- they're the mind's tools for putting everything together.

I was a young boy when I realized there was something unexplainable about life that I simply didn't understand. I learned this from one of the last smiths in New England, when I, as a child, tried to capture a woodchuck on his property.

Over his shop a chimney cap went round and round, squeak, squeak, rattle, rattle. One day the blacksmith came out with his shotgun and blew it off. The noise stopped. Mr. O'Donnell pounded metal on his anvil all day. No, I thought, I didn't want to be caught by him. Yet, I had my purpose.

The woodchuck's hole was in such close proximity to Mr. O'Donnell's shop that I could hear the bellows fanning his forge. I crawled noiselessly through the long grass, occasionally stirring a grasshopper or a butterfly. After setting a new steel trap that I had just purchased at the hardware store, I took a stake and, rock in hand, pounded it into the ground. When I looked up, I saw Mr. O'Donnell standing there, his eyes glaring. I said nothing, trying to restrain myself from crying. "Give me that trap, child," he said, "and come with me."

I followed him into his shop, which was crammed with all manner of tools and chimes of different shapes and sounds hanging from the ceiling. Starting the forge, Mr. O'Donnell tossed the trap over the coals and a tiny flame appeared underneath, getting hotter until, with a puff it burst into flame. "This thing can injure dogs, and even children!" he said, poking the coals with a fork. When the trap was red hot, he took it from the forge, and pounded it into a little square with his hammer. He said nothing while the metal cooled. At length, he patted me upon the shoulder, and then took up a few sketches of a dragonfly. "I tell you what," he said. "I'll give you 50 cents for every dragonfly you catch." I said that would be fun, and when I parted I was so excited I forgot about my new trap.

The next day I set off with a butterfly net. The air was full of insects, the flowers with bees and butterflies. But I didn't see any dragonflies. As I floated through the last of the meadows, the spikes of a cattail attracted my attention. A huge dragonfly was humming round and round, and when at last I caught it, I hopped and skipped all the way back to Mr. O'Donnell's shop. Taking a magnifying glass, he held the jar up to the light and made a careful study of the dragonfly. He fished out a number of rods, and with a little pounding, wrought a splendorous figurine that was the perfect image of the dragonfly. It had about it a beauty as airy as the delicate insect.

As long as I live I will remember that day. And though Mr. O'Donnell is gone now, there still remains in his shop that little iron dragonfly âˆ'- covered with dust now âˆ'- to remind me there's something more elusive to life than the succession of shapes we see frozen into matter.

Before he died, Einstein said "Now Besso [an old friend] has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us ... know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." In fact, it was Einstein's theory of relativity that showed that space and time are indeed relative to the observer. Quantum theory ended the classical view that particles exist if we don't perceive them. But if the world is observer-created, we shouldn't be surprised that it's destroyed with each of us. Nor should we be surprised that space and time vanish, and with them all Newtonian conceptions of order and prediction.

It's here at last, where we approach the imagined border of ourselves, the wooded boundary where in the old fairy tale the fox and the hare say goodnight to each other. At death, we all know, consciousness is gone, and so too the continuity in the connection of times and places. Where then, do we find ourselves? On stairs that, like Emerson said, can be intercalated anywhere, "like those that Hermes won with the dice of the moon, that Osiris might be born." We think that the past is past and the future the future. But as Einstein realized, this simply isn't the case.

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing; in reality you can take any time -- whether past or future -âˆ' as your new frame of reference. Death is a reboot that leads to all potentialities. That's the reality that the experiments mandate. And when I see Mr. O'Donnell's old shop, I know that somewhere the chimney cap is still going round and round, squeak, squeak. But it probably won't rattle for long.

"Biocentrism" (BenBella Books) lays out Lanza's theory of everything.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lanza/what-happens-when-you-die_b_596600.html

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