(…) realms beyond Death 4:37 to 5:05

Now there’s some truth to this but in fact there were simply not enough near death experiences available to them for them to build their ideas about the after life from people who had actually seen it first hand. They felt that meditation, yoga, spiritual practices of a kind they called “sadana”

Dreamviewers: I just went Googling for a definition for “sadhana” I found this:

Sadhana
Yogi Ashwini Ji, Dec 21, 2004, 12.00am IST
The guru, through shaktipath, initiates a person on the path of sadhana. The process requires immense energy, which is transferred from guru to shishya. If this energy is channelised towards people who have no value for it, the energy dissipates. That is why it is said that knowledge or 'gyan' should not be distributed before people who don't value it. This can also be said for people who come to listen to a discourse not to imbibe gyan but to defy it. These people are not searching; they are ruled by ego.
They are not interested in sadhana, are a drain on the energy of the initiator and are no good for the evolution of mankind (which is the purpose of shaktipath).

Back to Todd Murphy:

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They felt that meditation, yoga, spiritual practices of a kind they called “sadana” was actually a way to defete Death by breaking the cycle of Birth and Death and Rebirth and so forth.

Their whole notion of the afterlife was based entirely on experiences people had not during near death experiences but in meditation which is another context completely. And though there are some things that happen to people in the course of meditation that can also happen in the course of near death experiences the overlap isn’t quite good enough.

They actually missed it.

For me the starting point is here:



Charles Darwin