Do NDEs prove that life after death does in fact -- exist? Again, we encounter problematic belief system. Religious groups remain divided as some believe NDEs support life after death. Other religious groups reject notion of an NDE because it falls in line with "the devil's work." Scientists, of course are universal skeptics. While most do not accept near death experience, some actually do. But how they perceive NDE may be quite different than what one would expect. Some scientists agree that an NDE may be an "outer body experience," but only caused by natural chemicals produced by brain that merely concoct hallucinogenic properties.

However -- I will conclude this article with an interesting fact that presents evidence of a much broader proportion. An NDE is when body ceases to function. In other words, there is absolutely NO life exhibited in human anatomy. It is when person is "clinically dead" that an NDE is mostly experienced. NDE'ers are comprised of all walks of life. All races. All ages. All nationalities. All religions. Atheists. The intelligent and not-so-intelligent. The wealthy and impoverished. World leaders and even hardened criminals. Science has not and cannot explain overwhelming reports and documented cases of NDEs. Due to deluge of NDEs, it is becoming harder and harder to ignore that life after death may INDEED exist.

Whether we ever experience an NDE or when our time comes to pass into "afterlife," I presume it will be then only that we finally discover answer to this quandary. Until then, paradox of near death experience and its life-altering effects on persons who have experienced it, will go unanswered.

© LadyCamelot 2003

Unfortunately, (according to Egyptian priests), Atlantis was continually pounded by catastrophic earthquakes and floods until one day when whole continent sunk beneath sea and disappeared. They were also quoted as saying that where Atlantis vanished, became an area in ocean that was impassable and undiscoverable. The theory behind sinking of Atlantis was that mankind had become so corrupt, that by their own hands, created their own demise.

In closing, Atlantis brings to mind biblical stories of Sodom and Noah. It also interrelates with continental shifts throughout ages of earth's history, but could Atlantis really have existed? The evidence, whether circumstantial or philosophical literature, fact remains that Plato only wrote historical truth. This being said, what message was Plato trying to convey to future of mankind? To reader, I conclude this article with a quotation from Critias, from literature of Plato, "There have been, and will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes; greatest have been brought about by agencies of fire and water, and other lesser ones by innumerable other causes." A thought to ponder.

(c) 2003 LadyCamelot