Mor Aucon

Quant aux témoignages captivants, je dois vous avouer que je suis un fan de Houdini. Vous comprendrez mes réticences.

Désolé, je suis nul en swahili.

Pour l’anglais, essayez comme ça : http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=en&tl=fr&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.infidels.org%2Flibrary%2Fmodern%2Fkeith_augustine%2FHNDEs.html&act=url

Ah non, mince alors. Je ne vais pas servir d’avocat à un avatar qui n’a jamais fait de mal à une mouche. Donnez-moi un vrai criminel à défendre. Je ne sais pas, moi... Le Pape par exemple.

Il y a omerta sur les NDE chez les pygmées. Encore un mauvais coup de la science officielle, c’est sûr. En remplacement, il y a quelques données provenant de Zambie :

« University of Zambia physician Nsama Mumbwe collected 15 NDE reports from Africa in order to determine if the elements of the prototypical Western NDE were cultural products of the Western media (Morse and Perry, « Transformed » 120-24).

In one case, after being attacked by a lioness protecting her cubs, a 60 year old truck driver reported that a highway opened up for him going endlessly into the sky, surrounded by stars ; when he tried to go on to the highway, the stars blocked his way, and he stood there until the highway and stars disappeared (Morse and Perry, « Transformed » 122).

In another African case, an 85 year old woman reports an NDE that sounds a little more like a prototypical Western NDE :

I was suffering from a stroke. During this time I felt I was put into a big calabash [the hollow shell of a gourd] with a big opening. But somehow I couldn’t get out of it. Then a voice from somewhere said to me, ’be brave. Take my hand and come out. It is not yet your time to go.’

After some time of being in the calabash I managed to get out on my own [brackets original] (Morse and Perry, « Transformed » 122-123).

In the first case the man attributed his NDE to a ’bad omen’ ; in the second the NDEr thought someone was trying to ’bewitch her’ into death. Clearly these are culture-bound interpretations of the experience ; but what of the reports of what was experienced ?

The single report of being caught inside of a calabash or ’hollow gourd’ with a large opening has widely been interpreted as a tunnel experience, but it may indicate feeling caught inside of something more like a bottle with only one opening, rather than something more tunnel-like with two openings. After all, the report explicitly refers to a single large opening rather than two openings. So we have a single African NDE which may or may not include a tunnel experience. There is little reason to describe the other African case where a ’highway’ through the stars opens up as either a tunnel experience or an OBE, since there is no indication of enclosure or of looking down on one’s body or the ground. »

http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/keith_augustine/HNDEs.html vous y trouverez, aussi, des analyses de cas en Mélanésie, Thaïlande, Japon et un tableau regroupant les données par culture.

« Les pygmées ne font pas de NDE. Point. »

Amen, alors.