Live Q&A with Mike McKinsey

Live Q&A with Mike McKinsey

Mark your calendars: Tuesday, July 14, at 5:00 pm PST, Jesse and Eliot host a live Zoom event with near-death experiencer Mike McKinsey. The first half is a guided discussion of Mike's NDEs. The second half opens to general discussion and audience Q&A. All subscribers can attend live; recordings go to paid subscribers only. RSVP is required.

Gobble's Take: A live Q&A is where private wonder has to stay interesting under fluorescent lights. Usually it does. Source: Coming Home Channel

The same story, told from everywhere

Victor Swift has built a research database drawing on the film series behind What They Saw — described as "a comparative analysis of Near Death Experience stories revealing shared elements and messages." The site organizes what NDE-ers report into four themes: elements, messages, inspiration, and voices. The pattern that keeps emerging: overlapping similarities across age, time period, and geographic location.

Gobble's Take: When the same motifs surface from different lives across different centuries, coincidence starts feeling like a bad explanation. Source: Coming Home Channel

If consciousness survives, whose argument wins?

Philosophy professor J.P. Andrew of the University of Colorado Boulder has a sharp answer. In a new essay, he argues that if any NDE reports involve genuine experiences of continued consciousness beyond bodily death, they provide strong evidence favoring theism over atheism. The logic: continued personal existence beyond death is considerably more expected on theism than on atheism.

Gobble's Take: One empirical crack in the wall and the whole philosophical scoreboard shifts. Andrew is simply pointing at the crack. Source: Coming Home Channel

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