What We Don’t Want To Think About
What We Don’t Want To Think About By Near-Death Experience Researcher Kenneth Ring, PhD In order to delay my seemingly inevitable slide into terminal torpor, I have taken up a new form of exercise that I …
KENNETH LETTERMAN
These days as I cope with a condition I have sorrowfully come to realize is one from which I shall never recover – I am referring to old age, which I don’t recommend (though I …
THE BODY IS A SOMETIMES THING by Dr. Kenneth Ring
The blind receive sight and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up. — Matthew, 11:5 Death is no more than passing from one room into …
NOTHING TO BE FRIGHTENED OF
“I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.” — D. J. Enright or perhaps Julian Barnes, or was it Thomas Nagel? Possibly all three. “Dying is hard; death is easy.” …
DETOURONOMY by Dr. Kenneth Ring
A funny thing happened to me on the road toward death. I got sidetracked and wound up taking a detour. These days, it seems, I am being courted, and my life, at least my professional …
CHEERS AT THE HALF with DR. KENNETH RING
This will be embarrassing, but at least it will be short. The ancient Greeks looked down on anyone who was guilty of false modesty; they felt that if you were a superior person, you …
WHAT HATH ROTH WROUGHT? by Kenneth Ring
Philip Roth, who wrote so fiercely about the torments of aging and the calamity of approaching death, died a few months ago. In the end it was congestive heart failure that brought his long life …
BETTER DYING THROUGH CHEMISTRY
Dr, Raymond Moody and the staff of The University of Heaven are not advocating the use of psychedelics. However, we do think that informed discussion about them is important in our exploration of consciousness and end of life. *************** A high dose …
GOODBYE TO ALL THAT
Dr. Ring enjoys hearing from his readers. If you have comments about his blog posts, please send them to theuniversityofheaven@gmail.com . ************* What is the bane of an old man’s life? That’s obvious. Naturally, it is the …
Dr. Kenneth Ring: Laughing at Death
Dr. Ring enjoys hearing from his readers. If you have comments about his blog posts, please send them to theuniversityofheaven@gmail.com . *************** Nature has symbols for her nobler joys, Her nobler sorrows. Who had dared foretell …