There are scientists looking beyond the certainties of their world, examining these spiritual clues, which, it turns out, are stunningly prevalent, writes Robert C. Koehler.
Turns out it was a presentation by five professors at the University of Virginia, moderated, good God, by John Cleese. I more or less had no choice but to click the link and listen—and doing so pushed me into places I'd never been before, into a universe of questions and wonder. This wasn't so much because I learned anything new.
I love heresy! I love challenges to our certainties, including the certainties of science. This was, so it seemed, science meeting the soul. And to my amazement, as they talked about matters such as out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences and other puzzling phenomena they are researching, they began tearing loose my own deepest wonderment, which happened in the immediate aftermath of the death of my wife 22 years ago.
But slowly the inevitable happened. She was bed-ridden only for the last week of her life; and on the final day, in her final hours, I sat at her bedside. Because the cancer had spread to her digestive system, eating and digestion had become a difficult process and she had turned to skin and bones, but as I sat next to my dying wife, with a Chopin cassette tape playing, a remarkable change began to occur. As her breathing slowed . . .
"I remember the rain," Chris said. She and her younger daughter, Becky, were in the car, headed somewhere. Becky, age 6, had truly loved Barbara, had called her"my second mom." When it started to rain, Chris said, all of a sudden Becky got totally silent. She just sat there. Finally, she said,"Mommy, somebody's having a baby."This was at the moment of Barbara's death.
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