Mind of deceased exists: Mays excerpt #23

The Mays write: ADCs provide strong evidence indicating not only the survival of death of the individual but also a persistence of that person’s personality, memory, and relationships with those still living. As with NDErs meeting deceased loved ones, ADCs indicate that the deceased person’s consciousness, personality, and identity continue on after death. Shared ADCs, that is, encounters in which two or more people witness the deceased person, provide objective corroboration of the event and cannot be attributed to imagination or wishful thinking.

In Part 2 of this essay, in Sections 10–12, we presented the evidence of encounters with deceased loved ones and friends from NDEs and other death-related phenomena.

In Section 10, we presented evidence from encounters with a deceased person during an NDE who communicated accurate veridical information. The person may be a deceased person known to the NDEr but not known to have died or a deceased person not known to the NDEr but later identified. Veridical communication with someone who has already died is evidence implicitly for personal survival of physical death. These cases are strong objective evidence of contact with those who have died and that the minds of deceased persons continue after physical death.

In Section 11, we described the phenomenon of shared death experiences (SDEs) in which a healthy, awake person observes the dying person’s spirit body separate from the physical body or may be drawn out-of-body with the deceased person’s spirit body and observe details of the dying process. Therefore, SDErs are objective eyewitnesses to the process of dying. The process of dying is identical to the process in an NDE, except that the dying person does not return to the physical body but continues to exist after physical death. Thus, SDEs are strong objective evidence that the deceased person’s conscious Self survives physical death.

In Section 12, we described the phenomenon of spontaneous after-death communications (ADCs) which is the experience of direct communication from a deceased family member or friend with a healthy, living person. The deceased person frequently appears completely solid, in their full form and the encounter seems more real than everyday reality. The encounter may include physical interactions, such as hugging between the witness and the deceased person. The deceased person may provide veridical information which is later verified to be accurate. Shared ADCs, that is, encounters in which two or more people together witness the deceased person provide objective corroboration of the event. Therefore, ADCs provide strong objective evidence that the deceased person continues to exist after physical death.

Thus, in Part 2, we have presented strong, convincing evidence from encounters with dying or deceased persons in NDEs, SDEs, and ADCs, that the deceased person’s mind or consciousness continues to exist after physical death. The convergence of strong evidence from these experiences supports the fact—beyond a reasonable doubt—that the mind of a deceased person continues to exist after physical death.

 

 

Robert G. Mays, BSc and Suzanne B. Mays, AA,  “There is no death: Near-death experience evidence for survival after permanent bodily death.” An essay written for the 2021 Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies addressing the question: “What Is The Best Available Evidence For The Survival Of Human Consciousness After Permanent Bodily Death?” Footnotes are omitted from these excerpts but are in the full text available from the Bigelow website at https://bigelowinstitute.org/contest_winners3.php.