u/PurpleBasilTree

First I want to say that in general I believe in NDEs, but there are a few things that make me feel doubtful sometimes.

One thing is that people always say that they suddenly find themselves floating directly above themselves, near the ceiling. Usually, it’s about ten meters away from the body.

Why do they never float to the left or right of their body, or stand behind it or underneath it? Why does there seem to be this kind of law that, when you’re floating, you’re always somehow above yourself?

I know, for example, that DMT hasn’t been proven to be involved to this day. And I also think the DMT explanation is pretty ridiculous. Overall, like I said, I do believe in NDEs.

I just find it so strange that people always seem to be hovering about ten meters directly above their body, because that sounds so mathematically precise. If the soul leaves the body, it should theoretically be able to see the body from anywhere, rather than necessarily from above.

I’d really like a spiritual explanation for how this could be understood, so I can feel more assured about NDEs.

Thank you 🙏

People often say if you don't know where you see yourself in 5–10 years, you don't have strong Ni.

What does that have to do with Ni???

I can use Ni every single day without having a specific goal for where I want to be in 10 years. A future goal by itself has nothing to do with Ni.
Every type can have goals. The goal itself doesn't tell you which cognitive function produced it.

What Ni actually does is unconsciously form a bigger-picture conclusion from Se observations.

For example, I repeatedly observe people who have good jobs, a lot of money and social status, yet they're still unhappy.

Se data: People work their asses off and still remain unhappy.
Ni conclusion: Career success alone does not create happiness.

That's much closer to Jung´s description of Ni than simply saying, "I want to become a doctor" or "I want to be a CEO in 10 years."

Another example would be seeing yourself slowly turning into a doormat if you keep saying yes to a manipulative person.
You don't consciously calculate every step. The image simply appears as an impression of where the current path is leading.

That's how Ni is usually described: unconsciously synthesizing observations into an underlying meaning or likely future outcome.
"I want to be a doctor in 10 years" is not evidence of Ni by itself. It's simply a conscious goal. It actaully more likely comes from judging functions.

Judging is conscious, perceiving is unconscious, so setting future goals can never be done by a perceiving function.

The drive to reach a goal does comes not from Ni alone.
Ni creates the image, then your judging function decides what to do and then the drive is born.

Example:

Ni says you´re going to be obese in 10 years if you keep on eating junkfood.
Te says "We should cut carbs and increase our protein intake".
---> Drive to reach a goal

With Ni alone the drive wouldn´t be there. Ni is about unconsciously recognizing patterns, meanings and future implications from accumulated Se observations.
Your judging funtion then decides what to do.

That is why Te-Ni users are always more productive than Ni-Te users, because their judging function is higher than their perceiving function.

The thing is, cutting carbs and increasing protein to reach a healthy goal doesn't automatically mean Ni + Te. It can also be Si + Te.

But that´s another story.

Today, I listened to an older psychology podcast in which a guest explained—from a scientific and biological perspective—what happens during meditation. He told a personal story of reaching such a profound state of presence during a session that it felt as though his body were dissolving and he was suddenly connected to everything.

However, as a committed scientist, he did not interpret this experience as a sense of oneness with God or the universe. Instead, he offered a rational explanation:

When meditating deeply, one eventually ceases to perceive one’s body. The brain then generates a sensation of merging with the surroundings because the usual physical boundaries are no longer being registered.

So literally, he viewed it just as a kind of illusion.

He said that while he could understand why spiritually inclined people might interpret this experience as oneness with God, for him, it was simply a phenomenon that could be explained scientifically.

What do you think about this? I think what he says makes more logical sense than I want to commit.

I'm currently reading a German book by an author named Silke Weinig called "Mit schwierigen Menschen klarkommen" ( =Getting Along with Difficult People).
In one chapter, she writes about how the conscious mind and the subconscious constantly get in each other's way when we're pursuing goals. She also explains how the subconscious works, and I thought it was a perfect description of the Ne–Si axis, even though I'm sure that wasn't her intention.

Here's the passage:

>"When we're faced with a decision, everything happens at lightning speed in the subconscious. Within fractions of a second, the brain generates many different mental images of possible future scenarios. These ideas play out like short movies before our mind's eye and pop up almost simultaneously in rapid succession. However, they remain below the threshold of conscious awareness. <- Ne
At the same time, these mental movies are compared in parallel with similar situations from our pool of experiences stored in our emotional memory. If something comparable is found, it automatically triggers the associated evaluation. We perceive this as a physical signal—for example, a queasy feeling in the stomach, a sense of lightness or spaciousness in the head, nausea, a firmly grounded stance, tension, or a warm feeling in the abdomen." <- Si

I found that very interesting. I assume the author herself is probably an Ne–Si user. Otherwise, she likely would have described the process differently.

I imagine that for Ni–Se users instead of creating many possible future scenarios at the same time, the subconscious may first take in all the information from the environment and automatically pick out the most important patterns and connections. From all these details, it slowly forms one main idea of where things are likely heading or what the situation really means.

This idea can suddenly appear in the conscious mind as a feeling of certainty, or the sense that "this is the right direction." Only then does the mind compare this inner picture with what is actually happening in reality: Does what I'm seeing match my intuition? If it does, there is often a strong urge to move forward and take action. If reality doesn't fit the inner picture, it can create the feeling that something is off, incomplete, or not quite right. This is more of a mental image/symbol than a physical feeling though.

So you can see that the actual process happens completely unconsciously. But the result is different.

Si experiences a physical resonance, for example a warm feeling in the chest area, perhaps accompanied by the feeling of "this feels familiar." Or it might be an uneasy sensation in the pit of the stomach, along with the thought, "I'm not quite sure what to make of this."

Whereas Ni experiences the result more as an inner realization or a sudden sense of clarity. The information does often not appear as a physical sensation itself, but rather as an internal image, or a certainty about the direction things are moving in.

I think I´m Ne-Si user, but not sure yet. If I described Ni-Se wrong, please feel free to correct me.