Placing flowers on the graves out of respect and love seems to be as old as mankind. A new study suggests the importance of these most beautiful of nature's wonders.
Fossilized pollen remains were found on the decorative tomb in the El Mirón cave at Cantabria, Spain. The Stone Age woman known as the Red Lady's bones were painted a reddish colour and the engravings nearby suggest a ritual burial. The Red Lady was discovered in 2010 and is a unique and uncontaminated Palaeolithic burial site. Source: The Telegraph.
Death of humans and flowers links us in nature. The limited life-span in flowers makes them more precious—nothing like those made of fiber or paper. But what of people? Are they more revered because they die? Over the years, spiritual leaders have said death is not the end of us. It is a controversial subject which has, until recently, been treated with widespread skepticism.
Fossilized pollen remains were found on the decorative tomb in the El Mirón cave at Cantabria, Spain. The Stone Age woman known as the Red Lady's bones were painted a reddish colour and the engravings nearby suggest a ritual burial. The Red Lady was discovered in 2010 and is a unique and uncontaminated Palaeolithic burial site. Source: The Telegraph.
Death of humans and flowers links us in nature. The limited life-span in flowers makes them more precious—nothing like those made of fiber or paper. But what of people? Are they more revered because they die? Over the years, spiritual leaders have said death is not the end of us. It is a controversial subject which has, until recently, been treated with widespread skepticism.
Scientists at the University of Southampton have spent four years examining more than 2,000 people who suffered cardiac arrests at 15 hospitals in the UK, US and Austria. In the largest ever medical study into near-death and out-of-body experiences, nearly 40 per cent of people who survived described some kind of ‘awareness’ during the time when they were clinically dead before their hearts were restarted.
Of cardiac arrest patients studied, 140 were surveyed. Drugs could have made some of them forgetful. Of the remainder, 39 per cent said they had experienced some kind of awareness while being resuscitated. Although many could not recall specific details, some themes emerged. One in five said they had felt an unusual sense of peacefulness while nearly one third said time was faster or slower than normal.
Some recalled seeing a bright light; a golden flash or a brilliant sun. Others recounted feelings of fear or drowning or being dragged through deep water. 13 per cent said they had felt separated from their bodies and the same number said their sensed had been heightened.
Editor-in-Chief at Resuscitation where the results were published said: “Dr Parnia and his colleagues are to be congratulated on the completion of a fascinating study that will open the door to more extensive research into what happens when we die.”
I don't know that science and spirituality mix. But at least research is being conducted into the strange occurrence of seeing light at the end of a tunnel.
Of cardiac arrest patients studied, 140 were surveyed. Drugs could have made some of them forgetful. Of the remainder, 39 per cent said they had experienced some kind of awareness while being resuscitated. Although many could not recall specific details, some themes emerged. One in five said they had felt an unusual sense of peacefulness while nearly one third said time was faster or slower than normal.
Some recalled seeing a bright light; a golden flash or a brilliant sun. Others recounted feelings of fear or drowning or being dragged through deep water. 13 per cent said they had felt separated from their bodies and the same number said their sensed had been heightened.
Editor-in-Chief at Resuscitation where the results were published said: “Dr Parnia and his colleagues are to be congratulated on the completion of a fascinating study that will open the door to more extensive research into what happens when we die.”
I don't know that science and spirituality mix. But at least research is being conducted into the strange occurrence of seeing light at the end of a tunnel.
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