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Characteristics of Near-Death Experiences… R. Salariyan et al (149

                      bed  so  I  could  better              mention     a    specific
                      observe what they were                 time,  I  mean  earthly
                      doing  on  my  body.  I                time.  That  is,  I  am

                      was  like  an  observer                describing  events  in
                      watching  a  ceremony                  terms of the time of the
                      with care and interest.                material  world.  Afew
                      (Morse, 1996: 24)                      seconds       in      the
                   ➢  I  found  myself  in  my               material  world  is  a
                      parents'  house.  They                 short  time.  In  the

                      were  sitting  in  the                 world  of  death,  these
                      smallest  room  of  the                earthly seconds can be
                      house.  It  was  a  three-             very long. (Ibid: 45)
                      by-four room… (Sadeghi,             ➢  In my experience, I have
                      2018: 114)                             come to understand that
                                                             time is just an illusion.
                  Also  exodus  from  the                    There  is  no  past  and
               dimension  of  time  is  seen  in             no  future,  and  time  is
               many     reports    of    NDE.                the  eternity  of  this
               According to the experiencers,                moment,  which  is  in
               the  time  component  has  no                 unity. All our lives are
               place  in  their  perceptions.                happening at the same
               They  considered  time  as  an                time
                                                                   (Ref: Taylor, 1994)
                                                                  .
               earthly  concept  that  was
               meaningless in their experience.        4.  Lack of Time and Place
               The  following  are  some  of              in  the  Imaginal  World
               these experiences:                         (Purgatory World)
                   ➢  There is no time in the         Exodus  from  the  dimension
                      world  of  death.  If  I        of  time  and  place  in  NDE  is
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