From: buzzbomb@yabbs
To: Natalie@yabbs
Subject: re: life, afterlife, prelife,..
Date: Thu Jun  9 10:00:40 1994

just a bunch of (kinda) random thoughts....
  - cool story topi! i never thought of it that way.... there was a news 
show on last night about near death experiences (NDE's) and scientists 
were
saying that it's all physiological - the "light at the end of the tunnel" 
effect is because the brain is running out of oxygen and that's causing 
neurons to fire off randomly, exciting more and more of the optical nerves 
so that a big spot of white light (all colors of the spectrum) appears in 
the center of the eyes and gets bigger... the feeling of comfort and love 
is because of endorphins (natural opiates your body produces in times of 
stress or pain, and death is definitely one of those times!)... and they 
were able to induce an out of body experience by electrically stimulating 
a certain part of someone's brain, and this could happen in an NDE because 
of the random firings of neurons... just a different view...

  - if different stimuli can change (at least temporarily) a person's 
intelligence and creativity (beethoven has been shown to do this) and 
other's reduce it (getting drunk/stoned)  what would happen if (these are 
actual situations me and my friends have been in and wondered about ): you 
get stoned and then play chess; listen to punk rock and play chess; listen 
to beethoven after watching stupid TV sitcoms... i guess it all balances 
out huh?

  never mind i dunno what i'm talking about.