Otherworld personal future revelations in near-death experiences

Abstract

Kenneth Ring (1982) described two kinds of precognitive vi sions in the near-death experience (NDE): the personal flashforward and the prophetic vision. I describe a third category, the otherworld personal future revelation (OPFR). The OPFR resembles the personal flashforward in that it previews the experiencer's personal future, but differs from the personal flash forward in that it is delivered to the experiencer by another personage in the otherworld rather than appearing in the visual imagery of a life review. The OPFR differs from the prophetic vision in having a personal rather than planetary focus. I cite four historic accounts to illustrate major features of the OPFR: entrance into the otherworld, encounter with others who foretell the experiencer's future, and later occurrence of the foretold events.Kenneth Ring (1980) labelled the apparent preview of an individual's future during the life review portion of his or her near-death experi ence (NDE) as "flashforwards." The life review is one of the common elements of the NDE, in which the experiencer sees an extremely vivid, real, and extraordinarily rapid visual display depicting various events of his or her life often extending back into very early childhood. Ring wrote that "it is as though the individual is lifted out of the on going daily stream of mundane life and, for one moment outside of time, sees something like a life trajectory, extending in either direction from the present" (1988, p. 5).

Near-death experiences and the theory of the extraneuronal hyperspace.

“…Brinkley returned from his NDE with predictions about the Persian Gulf War and the fall of the Soviet Union years before those events actually came to pass (Brinkley and Perry, 1994). Others (Lundahl, 1993;Ring, 1982) have discussed the precog nition phenomenon in greater detail.…”

Parallels between near-death experience prophetic visions and prophecies from the Bible and Mormon holy writ.

“…One type of flashforward investigated and labeled by Ring (1982) was the "prophetic vision" or PV. Prophetic visions differ from the two other types of flashforward-one identified as the personal flash forwards (PF) by Ring (1980) and the other identified as the other world personal future revelation (OPFR) by Craig Lundahl (1983)-in that they have a world or global focus and pertain to a picture of the Earth's future, rather than pertaining solely to the personal fu ture of an individual, and they are highly consistent from person to person. Ring (1984) reported that most of the individuals experienc ing PVs were shown them during their NDEs, often when they en countered guides or a being of light.…”