Is There Life After Death? moderated by John Cleese

Is There Life After Death? moderated by John Cleese – 2018 Tom Tom Festival

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The University of Virginia’s Division of Perceptual Studies research portfolio includes investigating children who have memories of past lives; the nature of consciousness and the mind-body relationship; neuro-imaging studies of psi events; and individuals who report experiencing near-death experiences(NDEs). In this panel, the legendary actor, writer, and comedian, John Cleese, convenes DOPS research faculty to present an overview of the research to which they have dedicated their academic careers.

Filmed: Thursday April 12th, 2018 | The Paramount Theater | Charlottesville, VA

Moderator: John Cleese, Cofounder, Monty Python
Speakers: Jim B. Tucker M.D. , UVA, Director of the Division of Perceptual Studies, Bonner-Lowry Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences | Bruce Greyson, M.D. , UVA, Chester F. Carlson Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences | Kim Penberthy, Ph.D. , UVA, ABPP, Chester F. Carlson Professor of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences | Edward Kelly, Ph.D. , UVA, Professor of Research, Division of Perceptual Studies, Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences | Emily Williams Kelly, Ph.D. , UVA, Assistant Professor of Research, Division of Perceptual Studies, Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences

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Kimberly Samuel

2 years ago -@

You've got a science that's rather difficult to reproduce at will yet, there are people it does happen to who can explain in great detail. Getting the NDE info as soon as possible is always very helpful, because we can talk ourselves out of it yet remember that day as if it were yesterday and life is described as before event and after, life altering…

Some children in abusive settings have been able to step out of their bodies, up above in a safe place, watching yourself being abused and feeling no pain. I remember the tortured look on my mom's face, I felt so much aching love and compassion for whatever was tormenting her to do this or be like this. My sister's had made themselves scarce, we all shared a bedroom, I could feel them outside the door wondering if it was ok to come back in or not, as I didn't make a sound, it was just my body standing there braced for impact, I was up by the ceiling watching everything. Mom spent her energy/rage,I looked at her with deep love and compassion, she left the room, I knew I didn't dare leave it, mechanically my body went to bed, and I got to see the rest of the house briefly, no one was talking, silence. TV on and ppl pretending to be watching it. I rejoined myself and just prayed myself to sleep. I had 3 fractured ribs, grossly discolored, exposed when we had to change into gym clothes. Said I fell down the stairs. Knew going home would be hell. I wish I could still do that as the surgeries I experience are excruciating. Therapy said I had to remain one entity, no more splitting. That would be helpful right now.

Jerry Emm

Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will receive eternal life with Him in heaven. He is the only way to the Father God…Time is short…only believe and receive His mercy and grace when you repent of your sins.

anon. aki

Thank You John Cleese for being a part of my life. I look forward to meeting you Next Time around too 🙂

Allan Hansford

I am still a sceptic. When we dream or hallucinate we ''see'' people, some we know and some we don't know. People who claim NDEs always see deceased friends and family, no strangers of the countless billions who have also died. What I think happens is the brain under the enormous stress of dying pumps hallucinogens into the brain and these people have hallucinations.

21EC

46:00 – Me and my sister both have the very same extreme phobia from sharks…from very young age, perhaps we both were once got attacked by a shark on a previous life of us together…? it was always mysterious as to how we both share this very phobia the same way, we can't think or let alone see sharks without being super scared and terrified from them, I already had this tehory in mind a few years ago, suggesting that we might be having a shared shark phobia from past life of us (also this makes sense since it is said that for reincarnated souls in this life and other lives the same souls are staying together but just get their role in life different each time)

Valerie Johnson

Yes there's life for some people after death the Bible clearly State the gift for God is the everlasting life for those who obey and keep his commandments and follow Jesus Christ

Cindy Baiz

If We do not remember, where, what we were prior to being born, I feel it’s the same after we died … non exist-ant :/.

#10

Marjorie Richards

There is a need for more of these discussions

#11

Victor Cummings

Wrong wrong

#12

Kim Birch

There cannot be life AFTER death, as death means the end of life.
Jesus teaches that there is no such thing as death because bodies do not contain life.

#13

Klaus-Peter Kubiak

Normally a panel discussion like this has guests argumenting for or against a certain topic. But after these convincing arguments it would be very hard for a person with a purely materialistic and atheistic world view to defend this view. For people who are really interested in this topic I would recommend the books by Dr. Raymound A. Moody and Dr. Eben Alexander. The latter used to be a very sceptic scientist and changed his opinion drastically after he had his own NDE.
As to the purpose of life I would say after all I read about it that it is to overcome this level of consciousness that we are in and break the "cycle of reincarnations" i.e. to meditate and to evolve as far as we can in one lifetime.

#14

lisa pittman

I had four out of body experiences when I was 13-14 years old

#15

Wesco 777

a 2 min. Question ❓

#16

Lewis Clark

‘Mindfulness Treatments’, as discussed by the blond psychologist. WTF is that?

#17

KN7X

The outcome of the study is there’s another world exists. The mechanics how we interact with this world is yet to be researched.

#18

Kyrie Eleison

One of the poorest talks on subject I ever watched, lacked pace, direction, with some speakers (last one especially) totally off the topic…

#19

Rich McCready

You guys are getting smarter and smarter but what your talking about has already been under the microscope… Carry on.. You all have more to learn my human friends…

#20

סדר עולמי

33:45

Is there any similar case, only about person that had a stroke rather than dementia?

I hate to ruin the party, but dementia like Alzheimer is not as a result of brain cells death, but cells malfunctions because of plague that cover the brain, so this is not a proof of revival yet.

#21

Jonnie

People are entitled to all their suppositions but God’s Holy Bible is the only authority that can be trusted. The Bible says the dead know nothing, they are dead. Ecclesiastes 9: 5For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. 6Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

#22

paul bradley

I need a shovel.

#23

Is there life before death?

#24

Harvey Holloway

This is the resulting conversation I had during a near death experience in Dec 2022.

How did you build the universe? Answer: It is a massive self directing simulation like South Park is to us, but much more complex.

To set the stage properly it has to be realized God (our programmer), is not in his computer but sitting at it. He is not bound by the rules of our created simulation, any more than we are bound by the rules of south park or the Simpsons. He could be any one in his world, but because he can press delete, or adjust our reality to any thing he wishes, to us he is God.

I asked God, "Are you perfect". His answer was no, not then.

Are you now? Yes. I have an immortal body already of course, and will be in the new perfect heavens and earth along with you. I have dealt with every defect.

I then asked "Was Adam and Eve perfect. His answer was no.

Next, what about your re-action of deciding to throw Adam out and burn him instead of reviewing his schematics and correcting problems? Answer…I was a lot younger and more reactionary then.

I never sinned to be born. What is this crock of original sin? Answer: It is a glitch in the matrix I can not correct, and it affects all new introductions to the simulation.

What is Jesus? Answer: He is a patch program that if you use it removes this original defects called sin you inherit from the program.

I have been asked many times why death has to occur for this transfer to take place. Answer: Because at this time it is the limits of my technology.

The prayer includes several key words i will accent. Here it is.

JESUS, I BELIEVE in you, FORGIVE me this original SIN and all others, COME INTO my life and help me to live it better.

This patch does several things. One, the destination of your consciousness has now been transferred from hell, and paired with an immortal body that will be defect free and last forever. This body will also reside in a new defect free universe, on a redesigned, defect free earth. All this for the price of a one sentence prayer taking less than 30 seconds to pray. Why this way. Unknown, but I assure you it works. I have done it. This is his simulation, and he gets to choose the key words. What they are really does not matter, it is the effectiveness that counts.

As for the many evils and the horrendous crimes of our reality they are all real and I asked about this. Answer: This simulation has too much wrong, so I no longer fix it. I have left you to the consequences of bad self direction, and the destruction it brings. The new bodies are ready, the new universe almost ready so I have poured my resources into this. The reality of the universe you are now in is about to suffer total cascade failure, and end. As for all who accept this route of using the patch, no matter what you were, you are now perfect, and with a new destination after death.. This applies to us all.

What happens to those that do not accept. Answer: They end up in the trash, as they can not be allowed to destabilize the matrix of the new universe with there still present defects.

Do they burn forever. I then saw a vision of Scotland and its burning bogs. God assured me that this is the fire the defective people that die will suffer from, not constant burning of individuals, but with fires that can spring up anywhere and do burn forever. I also was listening to a rabbi talk of hell and there version is quite different and much more merciful. I think there version must be considered correct as this belief system is originally there’s. They should know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI-Fpq1IzCQ

In short, this is a bad reality we are in. It will not be corrected. Like an old car, you get rid of it and can drive away in a nice new one. Pray the patch prayer and see. In short God is saying make this change this way because as right now it is the only solution available.

#25

human rebel

Seem to me the other side doesn't care about human suffering!

#26

Tambra Smith

My Nannie , that I was very close to got into the truck with me when she passed … I felt her .. I had been reading to her in nursing home… and had to go home to go back to work…3.5 hour drive ..
I know it … my mother called the next morning and told me she had passed

#27

Noel

All matter is energy energy cannot be created or destroyed only transform this bit of science for some reason is not thought to include our existence. Death actually does not exist the question should be is there life after life. Answer yes

#28

Ba Ku Ra

Have pity on the scoffers and all who are still strangers to spiritual life. Do not be angry with them when they become sarcastic; for they are only to be pitied. They stand before the great Work of Creation, which offers us so much, like drunkards, like sick people. Like blind men who grope their way through life on earth without seeing all the splendor around them!

These poor people are confused, they are asleep; for how can anyone still affirm, for instance, that only what he can see exists? That where his eyes perceive nothing, there is no life? That with his physical death he himself also ceases to exist, all because in his blindness he could not, up till now, convince himself to the contrary through his eyes? Does he not already know from many things how very limited is the capacity of the eye? Does he not yet know that it is related to the capacity of his brain, which is bound to time and space? That because of this he cannot recognize with his eyes anything rising above time and space? Has this logical, intellectual reasoning not yet become clear to any of these scoffers?

Spiritual life, let us also call it the beyond, is after all merely something that stands completely above the earthly division of time and space, and therefore requires a similar nature in order to be recognized.

Yet our eyes do not even see all that can be classified within time and space. Think of a drop of water, which appears immaculately pure to every eye, but which on examination under the microscope is shown to contain millions of living organisms mercilessly fighting and destroying each other. Are there not sometimes bacteria in both water and air that have the power to destroy human bodies, and that are imperceptible to the human eye? But they become visible by means of powerful instruments. Who then will still dare to maintain that there is nothing new and as yet unknown to be seen when the power of these instruments is further increased? Increase their power a thousand fold, a million fold, and there will be no end to what may be seen, but ever new worlds which previously you could neither see nor feel, yet which nevertheless existed, will unfold before you.

Logical thinking also leads to the same conclusions about everything the sciences have hitherto been able to collect. There is a prospect of continuous progress and development, but never of an end.

What, then, is the beyond? The word confuses many. The beyond is simply all that cannot be perceived by earthly means. And earthly means are the eyes, the brain and all other parts of the body, also the instruments that help them to do their work still more accurately and precisely, and to extend its scope. Therefore one could say: the beyond embraces all that is beyond the perceptive capacity of our physical eyes. But there is no division between this world and the beyond! Nor any gulf! All is united, as is the whole of Creation. One power streams through this world and the beyond, everything lives and works from this one life stream, and is thus quite inseparably linked.

Thus the following becomes clear: If one part of it sickens the effect must be felt in the other part, as with a physical body. Through the attraction of homogeneous species, diseased matter from this other part will then flow across to the sick part, thus further aggravating the illness. But should such a disorder become incurable, it will absolutely be necessary forcibly to sever the ailing member, if the whole is not to suffer permanently. And the danger compels healthy reciprocal action which, through a wrong mindset is made more difficult and sometimes inconceivable.

For this reason change your attitude. There is no such thing as this world and the beyond, but only one united existence! The idea of a division has been invented solely by man, because he is unable to see everything, and imagines himself to be the center and focal point of the surroundings visible to him. Yet his sphere of action is greater. With the erroneous idea of a division, however, he forcibly limits himself, hinders his progress, and allows his imagination to run riot and conjure up grotesque pictures. Is it surprising then, if as a consequence many only smile incredulously, while others adopt an unwholesome form of worship that becomes servile or degenerates into fanaticism? Who can then still be astonished if some people develop a nervous fear, even terror and consternation? Away with all this! Why these torments?

Break down this barrier which human error sought to erect, but which never existed! Your past wrong attitude also gives you a false foundation, on which you vainly endeavor continually to build up the true belief, that is, inner conviction. You consequently encounter points, obstacles, which must make you waver and doubt, or compel you to tear down the whole structure, perhaps abandoning everything out of despair or resentment. The loss is then yours alone, because this is not progress for you, but standstill or retrogression. The road which in any case you must follow one day will only be lengthened thereby.

– Grail Message by Abdrushin

#29

Peter Noordink

Hi I’m a retired psychologist interested in Universal Consciousness and how humans may be able to get beyond the limitations of the physical to experience greater ESP or PSI phenomena. Thank you for the discussion- fascinating. I hope the discussion has advanced and I will check on further talks

#30

chris jones

nope

#31

Mike Riter

I believe the reason the heart reacts first and sends the message to the brain, is because the SOUL is in the heart!

#32

Research into "walk-ins" will be helpful here! Research at Stanford etc., shows the heart thinks 5 seconds before the brain! Throughtout the Bible it is taught that the heart thinks! Jesus spoke of, "thoughts of their heart" (Luke 1:51), and "out of the heart come evil thoughts" (Matthew 15:19). The Apostle Paul spoke of "the thoughts and intentions of the heart" (Hebrews 4:12). The Psalmist said "my heart stands in awe of Your words" (Psalm 119:161). Moses spoke of the "thoughts of his heart" (Genesis 6:5).

#33

Cheryl Callahan

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#34

Dudley McHugh

are paying for their own sins by suffering what is known as the second death …the death in which there is the Sense that there is no forgiveness….Jesus suffered the second death ; "My God my God why have you forsaken me"
Some suffer briefly and others suffer long …but it is all over in one day.
Having payed for their own sins these ones will be resurrected…the third resurrection which the Bible dosent mention. We are given credit for being able to use our God given intelligence and immagination ; our sense of justice.
The eternal nature of the fire has to do with its destructive power not the duration of its burning.
God is love…God is mercy

#35

I don't want a god that will have no mercy on those who for some reason failed to permit God to refine their character…to suffer for ever in a place called Hell.
Isn't mercy the fruit of love ?
There is the experience of hell in the lake of fire. God commands that these lost ones can no longer run and hide , and they literally burn up with sham.
It's all over in one day…the Day of God's judgement…his strange act.
Why would God bother to harvest the grapes of his wrath , press them in the wine press , and then discard what he had pressed ?
How could God's enemies become his footstool if they are burning in hell…will he use them to warm his feet ?
Would God and the delivered know about this ongoing suffering ?
Maybe we could visit this hell and take a look at the agony…you know , a bit of entertainment.
Malachi in his last chapter speaks of the saved coming out of the New Jerusalem and walking around on the ashes of the lost…ashes don't suffer.
Those who are the in the lake of fire

#36

Elaine Koeppel

Your spirit body is identical to the mortal body and therefore has eyes and nose and ears and hands and etc. so when you have left your mortal body you still have a body

#37

Our spirit that makes the mortal body live. It is not the consciousness

#38

This sounds like an adrenal deficiency so when she is made angry it encourages the cortisol to come up stronger and snaps her out of the seizure

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