{"id":596244,"date":"2023-11-01T05:06:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T02:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-a-documentary-pretends-the-afterlife-is-science\/"},"modified":"2023-11-01T05:06:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T02:06:58","slug":"watch-a-documentary-pretends-the-afterlife-is-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-documentary-pretends-the-afterlife-is-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch A Documentary Pretends the Afterlife Is Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41830cc7a43\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41830cc7a43\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-documentary-pretends-the-afterlife-is-science\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Documentary_Pretends_the_Afterlife_Is_Science%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online A Documentary Pretends the Afterlife Is Science&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-documentary-pretends-the-afterlife-is-science\/#%E2%80%9CA_Documentary_Pretends_the_Afterlife_Is_Science%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;A Documentary Pretends the Afterlife Is Science&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Documentary_Pretends_the_Afterlife_Is_Science%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online A Documentary Pretends the Afterlife Is Science&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CA_Documentary_Pretends_the_Afterlife_Is_Science%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;A Documentary Pretends the Afterlife Is Science&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In the early days of the culture war, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> stood on one side and religion on the other. In 1925, the so-called Scopes Monkey Trial hung on whether a Tennessee high-school instructor had violated state law by teaching human evolution. He was on trial, but it was really Charles Darwin who was on trial. Darwin won, and so, in a larger sense, did Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, and the whole tsunami of advanced science that was setting the stage for the 20th century. By the time physicists and astronomers were exploring the origins of the universe, the whole \u201cGod made the world in 7 days\u201d idea, even if you fervently believed it, did not pretend to be \u201cscience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But with the rise of the American Evangelical movement and its worldly political engine, the Christian Right, what once looked like a science-vs.-faith dichotomy began to break down. You could see this in the rise of the Christian \u201ctheory of evolution\u201d \u2014 demonstrated in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theme<\/a> parks and museums \u2014 that posited the existence of dinosaurs walking side by side with prehistoric man. This was not your father\u2019s Biblical literalism (unless I\u2019m forgetting some New Testament verse that includes a Triceratops). And it was not something that was taught in anthropology class. Yet it was very much presented as the Christian historical version of scientific truth. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    It\u2019s no coincidence that this happened just as science was coming under assault from right-wing politicians. The attacks on climate-change science, the resurrection of the war against Darwin \u2014 hell, even Donald Trump\u2019s election denial is, at heart, anti-science (or maybe anti-math), championing Trump\u2019s \u201cfaith\u201d (in his own infallibility) over what we once called empirical reality. Part of how the right has used the Internet Age to further its goals is that you <em>can\u2019t<\/em> have \u201cempirical reality\u201d in a world where everyone lives in his or her own reality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Which brings us to \u201cAfter Death,\u201d a faith-based documentary that\u2019s the latest release from Angel Studios, the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>-changing distribution company that released \u201cSound of Freedom.\u201d It\u2019s a movie about near-death experiences (NDE), and as such it presents itself as an adjunct to medical science. Of all the experts, authors, and researchers interviewed in the film, the most pivotal is Dr. Michael Sabom, a cardiologist whose first book, \u201cRecollections of Death: A Medical Investigation\u201d (published in 1982), presented the experiences of 116 people who had undergone a near-death crisis. In \u201cAfter Death,\u201d Sabom offers his findings as hard-headed science and even encourages skepticism. He\u2019s a drawling, white-haired avuncular figure in his late 70s, and this is his folksy way of saying, \u201cI\u2019m not doing a hard-sell on you. I\u2019m just looking at evidence.\u201d Tellingly, the film never mentions that he\u2019s a devout Christian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Sabom is a founding member of the International Association for Near Death Studies, and \u201cAfter Death\u201d includes other associates of that group. But what we learn early on, in listening to the testimony of those who claim to have had near-death experiences, is that their experiences are all the same. I\u2019m exaggerating slightly, but not much.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Our first witness, Dale Black, is a retired airline pilot whose seminal near-death experience occurred in 1969. He and two other pilots had just taken off in a small plane from Hollywood Burbank Airport when the plane\u2019s engine began to falter. They were 100 feet in the air when they went down. The plane crashed into a basilica (we see black-and-white photographs of the crash site). The two other pilots were killed; Black survived. And that means that he lived to tell of his experience, which is that he felt himself floating up, above the crash site, until he was looking down on it (seeing the other pilots and himself). And then he saw the white light\u2026 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The 1960s and \u201970s were a seminal time for the rise of <em>belief<\/em>. People began to believe in conspiracy theory (the two big early ones were the JFK assassination and, in a goofy but telling way, Paul Is Dead). They began to believe in New Age mysticism, in crop circles, in cult figures like Jim Jones and Charles Manson. And, building on the fabled story of what had happened in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, they began to believe not just in the existence of UFOs but in alien abduction. Hundreds \u2014 thousands \u2014 of witnesses started popping up to testify about what had happened to them when they\u2019d been abducted by extraterrestrials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    These stories, too, weren\u2019t just about the uncanny; they had an uncanny similarity. The aliens, as described, always looked just like the aliens at the end of \u201cClose Encounters of the Third Kind\u201d (blobby white heads with slit eyes). The person would describe being taken into an alien spaceship, then dimly waking up, in a groggy half-consciousness, as they were being tinkered with in some ominous alien lab experiment. Then they would be dropped back off on earth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Was this reality? I would call it mythology. But the eagerness to believe it \u00ad\u2014 the eagerness to believe in <em>something<\/em> beyond the everyday life that we can all see and touch \u2014 was powerful. (Elon Musk is on record as believing in simulation theory, which holds that the world around us isn\u2019t real.) That sense of an alternative belief system underlies the descriptions of near-death experiences, at least as they\u2019re documented by the Christian researchers in \u201cAfter Death.\u201d The floating, the heightened \u201c2001\u201d acid-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> colors and incandescent light, the transcendent feelings of love and calm: It all sounds tantalizing, and it all sounds more than a little like a mythology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    What we discover, though, is that \u201cAfter Death\u201d is a Trojan Horse of a documentary. The film, as directed by Stephen Gray and Chris Radtke (their style comes down to the tabloid-TV technique of bathing every talking-head moment in \u201crevelatory\u201d music), implies that it\u2019s merely collecting near-death experiences as a responsible, fact-based documentary would do. The experts interviewed have advanced degrees!<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Yet this is all a big come-on. The one piece of \u201cpowerful\u201d non-subjective evidence is the (archival) testimony of Pam Reynolds, an American singer-songwriter who died in 2010, and who claimed, in 1991, at the age of 35, to have had a near-death experience during a brain operation. She, too, said that she floated out of her body and observed, from the air, everything that was going on. The proof, in this case, is that she later identified objects in the operating theater \u2014 a bone saw, the other surgical instruments laid out just like her father\u2019s shed tools \u2014 that she couldn\u2019t have known about otherwise. That\u2019s the closest the movie comes to a \u201cWhoa!\u201d moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    All of this, though, is just designed to whet the audience\u2019s appetite for a gauzy extended advertisement for the Heaven that awaits you. About 30 minutes into the movie, God gets his first mention; 15 minutes later, we hear of our first near-death Jesus sighting. I\u2019m not saying that renders the experiences invalid, but at this point we\u2019ve left the realm of science. We have to take what everyone is saying on\u2026well, faith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The film is also a clandestine advertisement for faith healing. The reason there weren\u2019t many near-death experiences 100 years ago is that medical science wasn\u2019t advanced enough; it\u2019s now far more common for a patient to come close to death, or be \u201cclinically dead,\u201d and then be resuscitated. That\u2019s science. After a while, though, we start to notice that the film is presenting the recoveries themselves as miracles. By the end, the witnesses who\u2019ve undergone these experiences are proselytizing, with beatific smiles, for the eternal life of the soul. That\u2019s fine; maybe it\u2019s even faith. But when faith feels compelled to sell itself by pretending it\u2019s something else, you\u2019d be forgiven for thinking it\u2019s propaganda.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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