off to a good start; needs to be finished!  i think this first part trails way off the bend as 'about f4t' ...

About the Food4Thot Archive

          Food for Thot is where we together can explore countless issues as they come up.  Here's how it works:  on some kind of regular basis yet-to-be-determined, a new article will appear.  There will be a feedback system in play on this page, perhaps tied to the survey option as well, to record your response, your ideas.            The best of the feedback will be posted on this page.   This is a place where we together can develop better ways to talk about, to explore the Larger-Life Reality.  The objective is always to find the most encompassing perspective, one that is first and last based on people's exceptional [anomalous] experiences, not on merely beliefs not resulting from personal experience. 

On wHeretwoworldsTouch, we honor everyone's own unique and genuine expertise and potential as an experiencer of a death-transcendent Exceptional Human Experience.  Expertise here has absolutely nothing to do with college degrees and didactic learning environments and affiliations with the "right" institutions.  It's about you, me, all of us as experiencers. 

          And here, all experiences of this nature, in all their vast variability, are equal.  What that means is their importance is not for anyone to judge but the one who has had the experience, and every and all experiences take us a little closer collectively toward understanding the nature of these experiences and our own nature as something far more than these physical bodies.  My surmise is, no one can, no one has ever come into physical incarnation and left again without having had the kinds of experiences that connect us consciously within non-physical dimensions of reality, if I may call them that.  I'm not saying we necessarily remember them always, and in fact we sometimes almost desperately suppress them!  Physical birth and death, for example must without exception be experienced within a transcendent frame of reference, but of course, few of us remember our birth experiences, and near-death experiences aside, when it's over, it's over, and that certainly short-circuits any hope for most of us to glimpse what that must be like or must have been like for those who have passed to the so-called Other Side before us.

          Most of us as children, if not adults, probably had transcendent moments, but when you are 0-3 years of age, maybe that's so ordinary you might not even imagine to think to talk about it -- that is if you could.  And of course, even if you could talk, the way most Westerners at least these days think, who would dare listen!  My premise and point here is, we are all experiencers.  Even if for those who do not feel that or who do not feel they had had such moments of glory, that does not mean that you can't or you won't. 

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          A fresh and exhaustively encompassing perspective of a conglomerate of subjects, which on this site will be called as a whole, Survival Studies, the inclusive study of all data pointing to our conscious survival of the demise of our physical bodies. Have you ever gone to the library or your favorite bookstore to find something about what is often spoken of as "the afterlife"? How many subject headings do you suppose there must be alluding to this topic? Just to start you off, some places you might look are 'death and dying', thanatology, biographies, 'new age', science or physics, consciousness studies, parapsychology, philosophy, psychology; under some of the more outstanding authors, such as Elisabeth Kubler-Ross or Raymond Moody, Jr.; religion and spirituality [and various subheadings -- Christianity, Buddhism, religious texts (e.g., The Tibetan Book of the Dead, The American Book of the Dead), some of the better-known types of experience suggestive of life beyond physical demise -- like near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences; … you get the idea.It is my humble surmise that the subject of Survival has not been taken as seriously as it could be in Western society because the amazingly scattered data that supports the subject has not been systematically collected and examined as a whole, at least not since near-death experiences have gained such singular attention. Efforts along this line did take place about a century ago, and eventuated into our present-day field of parapsychology. The findings supporting Survival have continually had a profound impact on a small percentage of people from then until now. Apparently, that earlier effort came to a virtual standstill for many decades, however, until the mid-1970s with the publication of Dr. Raymond Moody, Jr.'s book, Life After Life. The near-death phenomena has utterly fascinated most of us ever since.

          One could say that through the obvious limitations of the materialistic philosophy that currently dominates Western science, the subject has again reached a stalemate. But the greater truth is that this very subject, near-death experiences [and their attendant out-of-body experiences], has been one of several that has helped to open the door for many scientists and other professionals, as well as many people in general, to begin to question more openly, deeply the very foundation of our materialistic philosophy.

          The next step is to bring into wider public purview and to examine with the same depth and care given to, for example, genetics, the many other types of experiences TOGETHER, along with NDEs and OBEs. Collectively, these various types of extraordinary experiences [named in greater detail here] provide a far more powerful impression than the NDEs/OBEs alone. For example, it's a common but not intelligently examined notion that merely the deprivation of oxygen must answer for all those 'hallucinations' we generally term NDEs. ….It's always easy to have an opinion about something, and especially people with scholarly and professional standing must be careful about blithely judging something they know nothing about, which they are bound to regret later.

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