Near-death Experiences (Life-after-death), are really the only substantiable evidences we have to test the “spiritual” cosmologies promoted by the earth’s organized religions. They are one of the primary ways to really “test” the religious evidence offered by descriptions of reality which lie outside the realm of average human perception. And as the internet and global experience-sharing expand, I believe that the ever growing body of these experiences will be the key to guiding mankind into a universal understanding of “God”, higher beings, the afterlife, the shared mental realm or shared consciousness of humanity and our relationship to the cosmos.

By identifying contradictory material in these accounts while comparing common themes–these experiences may be the key in helping us to collectively understand which aspects of religious cosmology are purely historical constructs based on subjective psychological phenomena, myth, and cultural bias— and which parts are true descriptions of an unseen disincarnate realm, collectively verifiable by multitudes of human witnesses.

The following are a few of my favorite near-death experiences or channeled ‘after-death’ experiences which give a more complete picture of the afterworld than most of the simplistic concepts taught in cultural religion (including cultural Mormonism). I’ve written a few articles linked to below which seek to harmonize the hundreds of NDE’s I’ve read with Mormon cosmology, as well as the more detailed after-life descriptions given in the many channelings featured in my “channeled texts” section. See my article Eternal Progression, Degrees of Glory, and the Resurrection: A Comparative Cosmology, for details on how Joseph Smith’s revelations fit within the evidence given in NDE’s and other revelatory works.

“Could you gaze into heaven five minutes, you would know more than you would by reading all that ever was written on the subject” -Joseph Smith (TPJS, p. 324; cf. HC 6:50)