TUNNEL OF LIGHT EXPERIENCE

Article about the Tunnel of Light Experience. What is the tunnel experience after death? Article about the tunnel of light seen by dying people and the tunnel experience and near-death experiences of lights, spirits and tunnels.
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The Journey of Light

Today we still think of the transition to the afterlife as a journey. We speak of passing over, the other side, departure, going home, and so on. For example, the Incas believed that the soul had to cross a bridge made of hair over a large river to reach the "silent land." Although the dreams of the dying are still filled with this ancient imagery, we no longer take the mythical stories to be fact. Instead, we talk somewhat clinically of a tunnel of light to the next world. This would appear to be a real experience that has been described in contemporary reports of near-death experiences (NDEs).

SKEPTICS AND THE TUNNEL OF LIGHT EXPERIENCE

Some skeptics believe that this is a hallucination caused by the release of chemicals in the brain during times of acute stress. Others say it a memory of our birth. Another suggestion is that the experience is the result of drugs used in medication, but this is seen to be unacceptable when the matter is considered in any depth. Dr. Susan Blackmore of the University of Bristol says that the tunnel experience and the bright light are due to brain cells in the frontal lobes firing “'rapidly and randomly” through a lack of oxygen. However, the tunnel effect also exists in out-of-body experiences (OBEs), where death or approaching death does not arise--and there is certainly no incidence of oxygen deprivation.

Some psychologists believe that when the brain shuts down there is a frenzy of short-lived activity in the temporal lobes. This creates the tunnel-of-light illusion that many dying people have described. You then experience a period of heightened fantasy, as opium-like chemicals are released by the brain. Your brain “tricks” you into reliving memories of loved ones and constructs a fantasy world leading you to believe that there is an afterlife. In reality, it is a figment of your imagination, created by the brain to make the process of dying more acceptable to you. Nothing but the darkness of unconsciousness follows the demise of your physical body.

THE TUNNEL OF LIGHT EXPERIENCE

What if these theorists are right. What then is there to fear? So what! You're gone. That’s it for you, but humanity will continue to strive towards understanding a meaningless universe. Scientists will continue to ask “How?” while religious people ask “Why?” Yet all such questions are equally meaningless, for over the eons of time everything will return to lifeless space. They will be blissfully unaware of the futility of their existence.

Evolution was only the mathematics of DNA and served no purpose. The universe either burns itself out or becomes spread so thin that matter cannot form. The brief light of man's consciousness, wherever it may have come from, disappears for eternity. Like you, everything will be dead. Nothing will have self-awareness or awareness of existence. However, you will not suffer, or be disappointed that life is meaningless, for there will be no “you” to experience the suffering.

An alternative theory is that the tunnel experience is the result of our shift in consciousness as we move away from time and space. There’s an increase of energy at the moment of death, an increase of vibrational speed. This shift is experienced as movement, but is actually a change in frequency as our consciousness goes from one level of reality to another. You don’t “die;” you just change your vibrational speed. The tunnel of light is the dawning of your new awareness.

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Through the Tunnel

Hallucination or not, there will be a tunnel of light. Once your physical body is dead you will see the light appear far in the distance. Next, you will feel yourself drawn into darkness and through the tunnel. You will feel yourself moving at high speed, as if you have been fired from a cannon. You shoot towards the light, perhaps at the speed of light. You hear a loud buzzing sound, or a sound like rustling wind. You have feelings of lightness, freedom, and elation. But most importantly, you feel the irresistible pull of ineffable love. All fear falls away and it is replaced by bliss.

Ahead of you, you are aware of a golden light. You tumble towards it as your new spiritual senses awaken. It is like the time of your earthly birth, when your senses were first flooded with awareness of your new reality. Although the experience is unlike anything you have ever experienced on earth, it feels strangely familiar. You are becoming at one with your true reality. It is like waking up from a dream.

Most who have experienced this journey beyond the body say that there are no words that can adequately describe it. The light you will see is...brighter than any earthly light, and wonderfully beautiful. Brighter than the sun, yet it does not harm the eyes of those who look directly into it. Many people who have returned from a NDE say that, as they are drawn to this Light, they experience total love and acceptance.

You have encountered the formless nature of God. It is beyond description. To say it is infinite love or infinite light does not even begin to express the glory of what you experience. This is the all and end all everything. It is the infinite oneness. No wonder the ancient Egyptians likened the experience of the afterlife to the sun’s journey across the sky.