Psiclops
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I found this rather bizarre quote in a Sheldrake book 'look inside' on Amazon.
While expounding the merits of the various Christian denominations, he says: “The Baptists keep alive the idea of an initiation, a rite of passage, much more strongly than any other Christian tradition. Baptism by total immersion is potentially a near death experience and my own view is that John the Baptist was a drowner. If you hold people under the water long enough, they are bound to have a near death experience: leaving their body, seeing the light, coming back again and life never being the same – they really do feel they’ve been born again. All these traditional Christian beliefs make sense if baptism was originally a rite of passage that involved near-death experience”
Seems a bit of a dodgy way to initiate NDEs! A kind of Biblical forerunner to the Flatliners movie......
While expounding the merits of the various Christian denominations, he says: “The Baptists keep alive the idea of an initiation, a rite of passage, much more strongly than any other Christian tradition. Baptism by total immersion is potentially a near death experience and my own view is that John the Baptist was a drowner. If you hold people under the water long enough, they are bound to have a near death experience: leaving their body, seeing the light, coming back again and life never being the same – they really do feel they’ve been born again. All these traditional Christian beliefs make sense if baptism was originally a rite of passage that involved near-death experience”
Seems a bit of a dodgy way to initiate NDEs! A kind of Biblical forerunner to the Flatliners movie......