Is God Dead? The greatest is love
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The phenomenon of Near-Death Experiences (NDE) is nothing new. In his literary masterpiece, Republic, Plato (428-347 B.C.) writes of the battlefield death of Er only to somehow return from the dead to tell what he saw in the afterlife. One finds some frequency of recorded such experiences running through the Middle Ages. However, with the Enlightenment Movement of the 17th century and the scientific revolution of the 18th century, reports of “mystical” phenomena became so heavily criticized that, although NDEs no doubt continued, very few people were willing to report them.
