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Powerful and profound stories on death and the afterlife, and NDE by Dr. Eben Alexander 

"My experience showed me that the death of the body and the brain are not the end of consciousness, that human experience continues beyond the grave.” - Dr. Eben Alexander.

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The afterlife or life after death is a purported existence in which the essential part of their stream of consciousness or an individual's identity continues to live after the death of their physical body. 

In some views, this continued existence takes place in a spiritual realm, while in others, the individual may be reborn into this world and begin the life cycle over again, likely with no memory of what they have done in the past. In this latter view, such rebirths and deaths may take place over and over again continuously until the individual gains entry to a spiritual realm or otherworld. 

The memory erasure is not just for one life or one body. It wipes out the all of the accumulated experiences of a nearly infinite past, as well as the identity of the ‘Spirit’. 

The shock is intended to make it impossible for the ‘Spirit’ to remember who they are, where they came from, their knowledge or skills, their memory of the past, and ability to function as a spiritual entity. 

But sometimes the memory erasure is not 100% and when a ‘Spirit’ inhabit a new body, the ‘Spirit’ still can have past life memories. 

When a ‘Spirit’ with past life memories returns to Earth and inhabit the new body, for example of a young child, the child can have verifiable past life memories that can be independently corroborated. They can present specific names, places and events that they never can had a chance to know about. These specifics can be confirmed by going back years in the public records. Birth marks and birth defects can show up in situ of weapons wounds that caused their often violent or traumatic death.

 

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