ambush80
Senior Member
Yes I think that "the hot place" or some equivalent of it would be a theme in NDE's because NDE's are IMHO random similar to how dreams are random - we generally can't choose what we dream about. But I would like to hear the stories and see any data from NDE's across the entire planet - from many different cultures/religions in other words - to find out how often different cultures have very negative/scary NDE's. A couple of weeks ago in my internet research I found out that many of the different religions across the planet do not posit an eternal heaven nor "hot place" when we pass away.
The Abrahamic religions - specifically Christianity & Islam which so happen to be the two largest religions on the planet - are the religions that really lean hard into the heaven & hot place/worship or be tortured mindset. Ergo I am suspecting that followers of Christianity & Islam would be much more likely to have an NDE involving either heaven and/or the hot place because these concepts are thought about - even if subconsciously - much more often than would be the case for followers of religions with a different dogma. If anybody here has already provided a link to such studies and I forgot (sorry about my suboptimal memory) please post the link again. Caveat I don't listen to "podcasts" on a smart phone while I'm driving or exercising or whatever, but I do "watch" them sometimes when there is a you tube version of a podcast.
I find that if I speed up a podcast, I will be less likely to "zone out" and miss something. I feel like I have to listen harder when it's sped up.