Researchers are now copyrighting our NDE tunnels!
Summary
People who have experienced Near-Death events, often share them verbally as well as in writing. And lately, they've been doing so in increasingly large numbers. NDE'rs, of-course, have a natural copyright to their personal experience. Researchers and authors who use these accounts to bolster their own stories or theories, are allowed to do so only under the fair use doctrine. To unilaterally copyright this phenomenon ( by plagarizing the content of NDEs), is to not only impound mankind's sacred esoteric knowledge but to usurp the property rights of the individual who experiences an NDE.
Discussion
A page titled, "The Physics of Near-Death-Experiences: A Five-Phase Theory," on a site called Noetic Now (see link below) is bothersome. Its authored by Maureen Venselaar, PhD.
The purpose of this argument is not to debate the scientific or theoretical ground nor the conclusions of Maureen Venselaar's theory (which is a fairly well thought out and plausible idea, but applicable only in a limited sense; as a possible subset, of the infinitely, larger, expanding connectivity of the self with the "internal - external" cosmos), but her copyright of the undeniable and ubiquitous structure of the Near-Death spiritual-scientific phenomenon. In addition, because of her copyrighted "characteristics" and "phases" lists ( which draw directly from the existential states of the individuals who have experienced an NDE, and also from the known essential structure of most NDEs. ), her "theory" becomes an artificial, unlawful mandate. It's an unnecessary, limiting factor in the understanding of the universal, dynamic and unfettered nature of near death experiences. The copyright gives her information/profit-making control over a significant portion of this phenomenon. The descriptions given by NDErs are given freely and magnanimously in order to benefit all of Humankind. They are not narrated for those wish to copyright and profit from this vista of inner knowledge.
Frankly, I don't know whether to laugh or gnash my teeth. This copyright is a monument to a base human nature. Imagine copyrighting the formation of Nimbus clouds, the hues in the sky from dawn to dawn, the 'Aurora Borealis' or the process of birth, growth and death!
In addition to the dishonorable copyright, a rudimentary analysis of the Five Phase Theory further establishes its lack of breath and specialized knowledge of the NDE paradigm.
(a) Over generalizations without regard to the complexity and variability in near death experiences.
(b) Misunderstanding individual consciousness. Asserting that those who are near death lose their individual consciousness and experience another kind of consciousness. A totally different one. But this is incorrect because the consciousness remains the same. However, it is uniquely enhanced; expanded. It is active in a very different environment with unusual geometric properties of time, space and ontology. It is this that evokes the feelings of having another consciousness.
(c) Confirmation bias as evidenced in the return to the body through a still open tunnel. Her references are from the book, "Nader tot het licht" by M. Morse. An English translation of this book called, "Closer to the light, Learning from the Near-Death Experiences of Children", M. Morse, M.D., with Paul Perry, is extant. A mere three accounts affirming a return to the body through the "tunnel" are not statistically significant. No serious researcher would leap to agreement with her "wormhole theory", based on just three NDE accounts.
(d) Lack of knowledge of the "ghostly body of light", "another body" etc. as names for the psycho- spiritual substances/counterparts of material bodies, as described in esoteric, occult and mystical literature (such as "the most sacred body" (wujud al-aqdas) and "supracelestial body" (jism asli haqiqi) in Sufism, the "diamond body" in Taoism and Vajrayana, the "light body" or "rainbow body" in Tibetan Buddhism, the "body of bliss" in Kriya Yoga, and the "immortal body (soma athanaton)" in Hermeticism, the "koshas" in Vedanta, the "etheric, astral and ego bodies" in Theosophy) indicate an individual who has little interest in the collective wisdom of humanity. There is not even a rudimentary allusion to this very significant and substantial body of knowledge in her work!
(e) A general condescending and superior tone.
This so called theory is not a scientific theory. Its her idea gleaned from reading personal accounts of people who were near death. The cases she relies on are statistically insignificant. Most NDE accounts have intrinsic to them, five (or more) aspects which she calls the "five phases". These aspects of an NDE predate her copyrighted "five phases theory". Even the language she uses to describe each phase, has already been used before by hundreds of accounts of people who have been near death. In other words, she is guilty of plagiarism. Her "copyright" is a totally bogus one and should never have been awarded to her.
"The Physics of Near Death Experiences" in the title is a hyperbole which attempts to pigeon-hole the spectrum of near-death experiences into a geometric formula. This absurd copyright is unenforceable sham.
And with the free spirit that is the possession of all, I challenge Ms. Venselaar's copyrighted enumeration of her Five phase theory based on my own documented near-death-experiences, several of them occurring long before she even began indulging in NDE research and long before the advent of the internet or the publishing of NDE books.
My Five Phase/Point Theory (Oops! Six-Point) of the Near-Death-Experience
In addition to the dishonorable copyright, a rudimentary analysis of the Five Phase Theory further establishes its lack of breath and specialized knowledge of the NDE paradigm.
(a) Over generalizations without regard to the complexity and variability in near death experiences.
(b) Misunderstanding individual consciousness. Asserting that those who are near death lose their individual consciousness and experience another kind of consciousness. A totally different one. But this is incorrect because the consciousness remains the same. However, it is uniquely enhanced; expanded. It is active in a very different environment with unusual geometric properties of time, space and ontology. It is this that evokes the feelings of having another consciousness.
(c) Confirmation bias as evidenced in the return to the body through a still open tunnel. Her references are from the book, "Nader tot het licht" by M. Morse. An English translation of this book called, "Closer to the light, Learning from the Near-Death Experiences of Children", M. Morse, M.D., with Paul Perry, is extant. A mere three accounts affirming a return to the body through the "tunnel" are not statistically significant. No serious researcher would leap to agreement with her "wormhole theory", based on just three NDE accounts.
(d) Lack of knowledge of the "ghostly body of light", "another body" etc. as names for the psycho- spiritual substances/counterparts of material bodies, as described in esoteric, occult and mystical literature (such as "the most sacred body" (wujud al-aqdas) and "supracelestial body" (jism asli haqiqi) in Sufism, the "diamond body" in Taoism and Vajrayana, the "light body" or "rainbow body" in Tibetan Buddhism, the "body of bliss" in Kriya Yoga, and the "immortal body (soma athanaton)" in Hermeticism, the "koshas" in Vedanta, the "etheric, astral and ego bodies" in Theosophy) indicate an individual who has little interest in the collective wisdom of humanity. There is not even a rudimentary allusion to this very significant and substantial body of knowledge in her work!
(e) A general condescending and superior tone.
This so called theory is not a scientific theory. Its her idea gleaned from reading personal accounts of people who were near death. The cases she relies on are statistically insignificant. Most NDE accounts have intrinsic to them, five (or more) aspects which she calls the "five phases". These aspects of an NDE predate her copyrighted "five phases theory". Even the language she uses to describe each phase, has already been used before by hundreds of accounts of people who have been near death. In other words, she is guilty of plagiarism. Her "copyright" is a totally bogus one and should never have been awarded to her.
"The Physics of Near Death Experiences" in the title is a hyperbole which attempts to pigeon-hole the spectrum of near-death experiences into a geometric formula. This absurd copyright is unenforceable sham.
And with the free spirit that is the possession of all, I challenge Ms. Venselaar's copyrighted enumeration of her Five phase theory based on my own documented near-death-experiences, several of them occurring long before she even began indulging in NDE research and long before the advent of the internet or the publishing of NDE books.
My Five Phase/Point Theory (Oops! Six-Point) of the Near-Death-Experience
THE EXPERIENCE
- Under anesthesia, I fell deeper, deeper into my own body until I became a small point of consiousness. This I called:
- This point at some point of my "journey" separated from my physical body, in that I was not at all conscious of my physical body. This I called a separation from my physical body.
- At some point within the darkness I found myself journeying through a tunnel at the end of which was the presence of a beautiful loving, heavenly light.
- I attempted to go into this light, however I couldn't since there was a boundary as this was happening. This boundary was near where the light is, in the same general area. A tangible boundary through which no one can go.
- I returned to my physical body, as if waking from a coma. Unfortunately or fortunately, I don't recall a tunnel on my return journey, or stars and planets but there was a tunnel.
- After a few moments I reoriented myself to my body and united with it. I was in union with my body therefore I had a:
So you see the point? Most every NDE Experiencer has a natural copyright on the Five, the Six, the Seven and The Multiple Phase Theories.
Wikipedia Commons
Sapta Chakra, from a Yoga manuscipt in Braj Bhasa lanaguage with 118 pages. 1899.
British Museum
Further more. . .
The author proudly proclaims that after reading hundreds of NDEs, she has further pulled out features from other people's experiences; but remember, according to natural law, the owners of these experiences are the authentic copyright holders of these features, phrases and expressions and not Maureen Venselaar, no matter how she summarizes the content of already copyrighted content to create her bogus copyright. Her reasoning is entirely self-serving. Note what she says in the following paragaraph, "I am convinced of a third possible explanation, which connects severe trauma or sickness to the appearance of an NDE." By this she means the physics of the event - a physics, that is the spatial experience that every NDE experiencer as well as yogi's and others already knows, first hand.
This copyright serves no real purpose for humanity. It only testifies to self-aggrandizement and profit. Even a third grader could read through NDE accounts, make a list of features and sell them at a lemonade stand. Thousands of accounts have already been given by NDEs as a service to humanity with the belief that they will be utilized exclusively for this purpose and not for a researcher's copyright. All NDEers, concerned individuals and organizations worldwide must come together to challenge any exclusive copyright on any sequence or list of features/characteristics and other items gleaned from the account of Near-Death-Experiences.
"For these reasons, I felt challenged to discover and to develop a new coherent and all-inclusive theory. I analyzed hundreds of NDEs, and after more than ten years of study. . . It also adds another ten features to the list of NDE characteristics (all of which are under copyright" she says. Features such as vibrations, the subtle body of ight, moon, stars, milky way, other heavenly bodies, becoming small like a grain, expansion, travelling faster than the speed of light, a magnet-like force, the light, two tornado-shapes that appear like an hour glass, blue and green lights, the importance of a person's thoughts and the forgetting of the higher wisdom received. These additional features that she is copyrighting are glaringly common to NDEs, to copyright them is an absurdity. Yet it appears that the NDE world and its significant others have allowed her to get away with this affront.
A 10 Point Plus Theory of the Near-Death-Experience
An illustration to make a point.
Specific characteristics in this account are authentically under my copyright, so if anyone wants to lift an NDE characteristic from this account to add to a copyrighted lemonade list, beware of my wrath.During part hypthetical, part true NDE, part true OBE, part true Lucid Dreaming collage event I had the following sensations, which can be called features, or attributes, or characteristics or. . . Since they happened to me I feel I have a perfect right to enumerate and express them in my own words and in Phase-Sequence.
I suddently began to feel vibrations (which are a well documented phenomenon in OBEs) as I separated from my body. I felt the cells in my body pop, in a generalized apoptotic event. Suddenly, I was caught up in a cloud and in this cloud I noted that I had the typical linga sharira, a long, rubberband-like, diamond, shining ghostly body. As I expanded into the universe, I zoomed through stars and planets. I saw multiple universes with their own suns and also the milky way. I also saw exactly which spiral I was on. I was in the body of a gigantic, invisible time spirit, the spirit of our galaxy. Our Earth in actuality is in the far lower left leg of this great and sacred being. I became a grain of consciousness, I suppose for the sake of ordinary language description, it could be compared to an ordinary physical grain of sand or better analogy is grain of diamond dust in o during this "journey". Then when I returned, I expanded into my body. I was traveling even faster than even the speed of light. I felt that while I was on the escalator, I was going toward something that was magnetically pulling me towards it. I saw energy vortex/ spirals that looked like an hourglass. Then I was given a choice. Either choose the blue streak of light or the red. I chose the red, as I thought I might be happier after real death within that loving white light, which I had seen earlier. I believed this is what choosing the red meant, my death, code red, however, I was thwarted in my attempt to merge with the light, being shown that my loved ones would be very sad if I died, so I was led to choose the alternative. My thoughts gained pre-emminent supremacy and meaning and became a critical decision making tools. Much was explained to me by unseen spiritual beings, however, I have since forgotten some helpful information although I remember the bulk of my NDE. I had returned to my body through a hole like space inside my head. Then I experienced my expansion into my body. There might have been a tunnel on my return but I don't recall it..
And Finally
"Ken Ring, Raymond Moody, Bruce Greyson, Jeff Long, Pim von Lommel – have defined the NDE phenomenon to the satisfaction of the
NDE community. If Maureen’s definition is different then she is outside
the standard bell curve and is less credible because of it."- A veteran of the NDE community
The Copyright Grinches are coming!
