![]() ![]() One doesn’t even need to have these experiences personally to benefit from them. One of the core transformative features of the NDE is an out-of-body experience, which is also associated with psychedelic experiences but, unlike these other states, is something that can be induced through training and intent. There’s a strong association between a decreased fear of death and undergoing a near-death experience (NDE), out-of-body experience (OBE), lucid dream and psychedelic experience.ĭuring an NDE, people report several features such as a transcendence of time and space, a life review, feelings that the experience is ineffable and authentic, encounters with deceased loved ones, and deep feelings of love and peace. Research is starting to reveal that certain states of consciousness can have a powerful and positive effect on how we perceive our own mortality. But how can we overcome a fear of death that’s so deeply rooted in our culture? ![]() Unconscious denial of death can have a demoralising effect on an individual, potentially affecting loved ones and the community as a whole.īy not facing the issue of our mortality prior to our passing, we miss a unique opportunity, not only to reconcile with death and make peace with it, but also to gain a sense of levity and serenity that we can carry with us through our lives. ![]() He suggested that ‘consciousness of death is the primary repression, not sexuality’ as Sigmund Freud had popularised. The cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker argued in The Denial of Death (1973) that human civilisation is ultimately a symbolic defence mechanism against the awareness of our finite existence. Studies by terror management theory researchers have found that when death salience is aroused in people, they adapt their behaviour and increase their reliance on defence mechanisms such as denial. One way or another, we will all approach the end of life, we are all terminal, and existential anxiety can be a burden long before this. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |