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due to the nature of the the
imaginal world and is one of
the effects of reducing the
attachment of the soul to the
body. In the view of Muslim
philosophers and transcendent
wisdom, matter and body cause
time and space limitations of
man in this world. Therefore,
in the NDE, with the gradual
reduction of the soul belonging
to the body and entering the
purgatory and the imaginal
world, the spatial and temporal
limitations of man are also
gradually removed.
According to most Muslim
philosophers, the concept of
time is “the amount of motion”.
(Mesbah Yazdi, 1986, Vol. 2: 142;
Motahari, 1997, Vol. 6: 140)
Movement is also defined
by philosophers as the gradual
departure of the object from
force to action. (Tabatabai,
1982: 254)
Therefore, since the imaginal
universe has no matter, there
is no motion and consequently
no time in this universe .
Exodus from time and
space does not happen all at
once in near-death experiences,
but gradually. The reason for
this, is the gradual reduction
of the soul's belonging to the
body. Thus, as the attachment
of the soul to the body
diminishes, so does the
departure from place and
time for the experiencer .
5. Feeling of Existential
Unity (Oneness)
The feeling of existential
unity is another feature of
near-death experiences that
has been attributed to various
phenomena in the expression
of the experiencers. These
include a sense of oneness
with light, a sense of oneness
with the sacred, a sense of
oneness with action, a sense