God did not destroy the earth, the archons did, with the flood and the conflagration, out of envy, because of the race that came down. That is, the true God only sent the spirits to this place to save the souls of the worthy ones, destroying the rule of the gods of chaos.

I didn't know it, but in some gnostic texts they say that the mind, or consciousness, is a power of the soul, or 'the lamp'.

Mortals only have souls, so if you received a spirit then you're from the immovable race :}

For real though, I would also like to go to various locales in our solar system to do some investigations that would have an impact on my knowledge of human origins...

You got it man.

Summerlander, I saw that documentary too. They usually have a form of 'initiation', so that the person ingesting the substance may know what to expect, and that removes a lot of the fear and anxiety.

Anyways, some NDEs reported by buddhists can be quite scary as well. Check out this link, it is a compilation of eleven near death experiences from Thailand. It can be a universal phenomena, independent of beliefs.

http://altered-states.net/barry/newsletter224/ndethai1.htm

Anyway, why isn't it right to state that the negative experiences only form a very small percentage of all NDEs or NDE-related experience patterns?

It seems that the shame and guilt associated with these expereinces may keep people from reporting them, so the statistics could be giving us a wrong idea.

It was not a radiant experience; it was an utterly terrifying experience of the void. I had never heard of anything like it. I didn't know anybody else in the world had ever had such an experience. That left me with a sense that I was walking around with secret knowledge too terrible to tell anybody.

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Most of the people who have written about unpleasant experiences talk about them as happening to people who were sin-ridden, guilt-ridden, hostile, God–denying, love denying, suicidal -– all of that. None of which applied to me. I was far from perfect, but for heaven's sake, I had been saved twice at Billy Graham crusades! I had been born again.....and again! There was nothing in my background that could in any way help me explain this experience. I didn't even know where to look for an explanation.

To read more: http://nhneneardeath.ning.com/forum/topics/nancy-evans-bush-on-1

How weired is that!!??  Considering EVERY other dream I have had whether I'm onboard an aircraft or watching one from the ground, has involved it crashing or being in some major difficulty. Yet last night I dreamt that I was on a plane and everything was great!!

Perhaps that's why they applauded.   

You don't believe them until one comes out under your bed

Mars is interesting, and the other planets too ...

Nice, thanks, I'll see if I can find that one.

I like one called 'the Enigma of the Pyramids', by Alvarez Lopez. He follows the line of Flinders Petrie, investigating vessels made out of granite and diorite, and how they couldn't have been done with the use of copper tools as conventional egyptologists suggest.

edit - correct name Sir Flinders Petrie

Yes Personalreality, I should update it but I've been so lazy hehe

And indeed, the greatest discoveries they make are secret.

The soul is actually able to transform into a bird, wind, or anything, using the correct spell, at that time at least.

According to our beliefs.  Their beliefs could have been far different.  If they believed that the ka (or ba, I'm rusty on this) could use things like dolls or renditions of food, boats and weapons, why not believe that they could use rockets?
They wrote in walls for spirits to read them as far as we know.   But, they could have been there for other reasons- they could have written on the blocks  and then put it together, like "the rocket goes here":  Assembly instructions.

Yes, but those were for the passage of the souls, since they have to cross the regions. The spirit goes straight up.

There are though some images of aeroplanes and helicopters in abydos I think.

Spirit needs no rockets.