Comments by "June VanDerMark" (@junevandermark952) on "Joe Rogan on Life After Death" video.

  1. If (for instance) children were locked in a room from birth, and not taught any language, they would create their own language among each other. Without religious teachers to persuade them that a soul, and a spirit, and a judge-mental god, and an afterlife exists, they would live and die as do other animals ... plain, and simple. I prefer to believe as did Stephen Hawking, before he died, that the universe always existed, no creator involved.
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  2. Buddhism is simply a branch off of Hinduism. Just as it was men that created the mythology of Hinduism, it was other men that later on created the mythology of Buddhism. To escape the treadmill of reincarnation, one has to believe that one is "totally enlightened spiritually" ... which would mean to be perfect. Imperfection would mean that the soul has to keep coming back to earth, to pay more debts of more negative karma. At least the mythology of heaven or hell is precise and definite, as the saved souls spend eternity in heaven, and the rejected souls spend eternity in hell. At age 70, I finally escaped religion, and at age 81 feel whole, just as I am, and now believe, as did Stephen Hawking before he died, that the universe always existed ... no creator involved.
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  3. It's all in the "wording." Had he coined the term “Near death hallucinations,” rather than “Near death experiences,” would he then have had a "following?" Raymond Moody. Raymond A. Moody, Jr. (born June 30, 1944) is a philosopher, psychologist, physician and author, most widely known for his books about life after death and near-death experiences (NDE), a term that he coined in 1975 in his best-selling book Life After Life.
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