NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE (NDE) – INTERFACE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH AND BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION

Guja, Cornelia, Guja, (2015), Near-Death Experience (NDE) – Interface Between Life and Death and Between Science and Religion, Vienna International Congress on Science and/or Religion: a debate of the 21st century, Sigmund Freud University, (Vienna, 27-29 August, 2015), Abstract Book, p. 57. ISBN: 978-3-902626-49-3, Vienna, Austria.


NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE (NDE) – INTERFACE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH AND BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION

ABSTRACT

The paper intends to analyze, from an anthropological point of view, the significance and importance of near death experiences (NDE) with persons in clinical death status (CD). People experiencing near death that come back to life, either resuscitated or spontaneously, have feelings and perceptions that are difficult to explain with scientific arguments. Sometimes they have a significantly religious content and are described in a similar way regardless of sex, age, cultural or religious degree of the persons coming round. CD is a state of the human body at the limit between life and death. NDE is a new individual experiment which we considered to be an informational anthropological interface between the living organism and the one at the limit with the non-living. In the latter situation the main systems of the human organism – the heart, the lung, and the brain - are partially or totally non-functional. Birth and life are processes intensely studied by biological, medical and anthropological sciences. Death, on the other hand, is a natural process less approached even by the modern man. The scientific explanations are unsatisfactory mainly owing to the limits of the dogmas of materialist science while the religious explanations are unsatisfactory owing to their dogmas. The present paper proposes to change the way of thinking about man’s adaptation and evolution. When studying we should apply the method of astronomic interfaces alongside with the method of systems currently used nowadays. NDE offers the opportunity to study the limits of human existence, to reformulate the conception on our individual and social life and its part played in the evolution of society and nature.


INTERFACES THEORY APPLIED IN INFORMATIONAL BIOCOSMOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Cornelia GUJA, 2015, INTERFACES THEORY APPLIED IN INFORMATIONAL BIOCOSMOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Vol. 4 no 2 / 2015 Annals Series on Biological Sciences, Volume 4, No. 2, 2015, pp. 83 -101, ISSN 2285 – 4177 Online Edition 



Abstract

The paper intends to approach, from an anthropological point of view, near-death experiences (NDEs). The interdisciplinary character of anthropological sciences and their capacity to study human variability in its whole complexity makes it possible today to analyze the phenomenon of human experience (feeling) by NDE from a scientific, religious and philosophical point of view. The general character of the phenomenon identified by medicine on a large scale at present, as well as its individualized character demonstrates its cognitive importance. In this paper we attempt to analyze the phenomena of NDEs using the interface method which we developed in time. We started from the hypothesis that NDE is an interface between life and death, and, at the same time, between science and religion. Near-death experience is an Anthropological phenomenon, both individual and collective, that should be approached in its entire complexity and profoundness. It is highly relevant for practical and theoretical science and religion, as well as for understanding man’s and mankind’s origin, evolution and future.
Keywords: Near-Death Experiences, interface, Informational Anthropology, archetypal communication.