Hope, Not Fear by Rabbi Benjamin Blech

Author:Rabbi Benjamin Blech
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2012-09-15T16:00:00+00:00

He writes:

The reductionist scientific culture of the West is almost alone in its unshakable belief in the finality of death. The slowly progressing scientific dominance of a materialist view has led us to abandon the concept of the transcendent. It is argued that consciousness is formed entirely by the brain. The idea of the journey after death has almost completely disappeared from the scientific perspective and we are left with a random universe where dying is simply a mechanical process. However, recent studies of the mental states of the dying suggest that this is too limited a view. I am a neuropsychiatrist, which means that I’ve been trained in the understanding of the brain and its functioning as well as in the nature of the mind. So I stand in the zone between mind and brain. I have studied the dying process and written scientific papers in peer reviewed journals to disseminate a new view of what actually happens when we die, and to ask what the experiences of the dying could contribute to our understanding of consciousness. (Leslie Kean, Surviving Death, 2017, p. 134)

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