From: David Lynch <dnl1960 at yahoo.com>
To: Pim van Lommel <pimvanlommel at gmail.com>; Greyson, Bruce *HS <cbg4d at uvahealth.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2024 at 01:39:38 PM EST
Subject: Re: Death Experience Aftereffects scale?

Dear Bruce,

We are approaching two decades of your most generous support for my endeavors.

Words can not fully express my gratitude.

I looked through the questions in the Appendix A of your LCI-R-JNDS.pdf. I do not think I answered them directly, but I seem to recognize them from the multitude of questionnaires I did answer for you.

As I try to wind down my artistic expression, for guidance I reached out to a business associate of my brother.

Paul Jenkins is a British comic book writer with a tremendous library of work. Below is a link to my email to Paul.
http://lynchphoto.com/jenkins

In preparation I asked Ai's "Llama-2 70b" to compare Paul's body of work to my body of work. I was pleasantly surprised by the response.

Keep in mind that Ai has been trained on a tremendous number of books.

"Firstly, it is important to note that Anthology is a unique work that transcends traditional storytelling." ~Llama-2 70b

Below is a link to the full comparison.
http://lynchphoto.com/The-Human-Condition

Sincerely,
David


On Tuesday, January 30, 2024 at 10:11:27 AM EST, Greyson, Bruce *HS <cbg4d at uvahealth.org> wrote:


Dear David,

Actually, Ken Ring revised his Life Changes Inventory several times over the years, so there are different versions of the scale over the years. In 2004, he and I collaborated on developing a final revision that we called the LCI-R, which is the version that Ken and I recommend. I am attaching to this e-mail a copy of the paper describing the LCI-R (and a brief overview of the history of the LCI).

Best wishes,
Bruce

Bruce Greyson, M.D.
Carlson Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences
Division of Perceptual Studies
University of Virginia Health System
Box 800152
Charlottesville, VA 22908-0152
Phone: 434-924-2281
Fax: 434-924-1712
E-mail: cbg4d at UVAHealth.org
Website: www.brucegreyson.com


From: David Lynch <dnl1960 at yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2024 9:16 AM
To: Pim van Lommel <pimvanlommel at gmail.com>
Cc: Greyson, Bruce *HS <CBG4D at uvahealth.org>
Subject: RE: Death Experience Aftereffects scale?
 
Dear Pim,

I greatly appreciate the response.

Sadly, I have never been able to read for pleasure.

My dyslexia makes reading a bunch of words difficult for me.

I will definitely look into "Heading Toward Omega"

In the top left section of the KnoWell, I draw a lowercase "a" representing alpha.

In the top right section of the KnoWell, I draw a lowercase "w" representing omega.

We are are heading from alpha to omega.

I look forward to answering the Ring questions.

Sincerely,
David


On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 4:53 AM, pimvanlommel at gmail.com
<pimvanlommel at gmail.com> wrote:

Dear David Lynch,

Kenneth Ring has written about the 34 life-change questionnaire to find out about the transformation following an NDE. He wrote about this in his book ‘Heading Toward Omega: In search of the meaning of the Near-Death Experience’. 1984, New York, Quill William Morrow.

I refer to this questionnaire in my book ‘Consciosuenss beyond Life’, in the description of our longitudinal study about the transformation following an NDE in patients who survived a cardiac arrest.

In love and peace,

Pim van Lommel
 

From: David Lynch <dnl1960 at yahoo.com>
To: Bruce *HS Greyson <cbg4d at uvahealth.org>; Pim van Lommel <pimvanlommel at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2024 at 05:30:41 PM EST
Subject: Death Experience Aftereffects scale?

Gentlemen,

I hope that both of you are doing well, and I greatly appreciate your opinions.

Are either of you aware of a Death Experience Aftereffects scale?

My Greyson score is low, but I think that my aftereffects score would be at the high end of the scale.

For example: My seriously strange aftereffect regarding the sensitivity to light is the reason that I can create abstract photographs. I feel bright and dark.

I use my camera to blend them together, and I have even tied sunlight into a knot.

http://lynchphoto.com/john

My curiosity stems from a recent delusional Messiah complex statement made by Donald John Trump. “I alone can stop World War Three…” Dude. That is mental.

I have never been told that I have a Messiah complex, but I imagine that some people watching me draw a KnoWell have thought it.

Especially when I make the statement, “Your KnoWell empowers you to be one with your creator.”

I have been told by numerous people, “You have lost your mind”, and I would respond, “You cannot lose something that you never had.”

I have also been called the Devil himself, Jesus, and Buddha. I have been call the devil the most.

In numerous videos about death experiences, people describe the feeling of being all knowing, being shown the future, being with Jesus, etc..
 
There are numerous studies on what people remember about their death experience, but I can not find much information about their aftereffects.

I am curious about the creativity aftereffect. If I never had my death experience, I would never have created the KnoWell.

I understand that putting aftereffects on a scale is a difficult task. Especially when my artistic expression aftereffect did not begin until 26 years after my death experience.

Another of my sensitivities is Science regarding how they have forced the label near-death experience upon people like me that had a death experience.

I wonder how many people that had an experience like mine might have the same sensitivity and would drop the word near out of the descriptor.

Ironically, I am the single person that is trying to deliver the message contained within the KnoWell, and some may think that is clearly a Messiah complex.

If only they would take the time to learn the KnoWell, they might realize that I am just a messenger delivering to them a tool that can help them see their creator.

While drawing a KnoWell for those that know the name of God, I AM, they are the people that most often call me Christ, and I would respond, “Takes a Christ to see a Christ.”

Over the years, one of my aftereffects is a deep sensitivity to good and bad people, and that has aided me in deciding who to give a KnoWell.

Because the KnoWell shows that if you act out of Love you embody the spirit of Christ, and the KnoWell shows that if you act out of Hate you embody the spirit of the anti-christ.

As to not empower the hateful people, I would try to give a KnoWell to only good people I sensed to be good.

Many people have written books about their experience, many have made videos, many have made art, I wonder how many have had the label Messiah Complex placed upon them, and how many actually obtained a Messiah Complex. Do I appear to have a Messiah complex.

In my 2004 conversation with Henry Gracz at the Immaculate Conception Shrine, I said, “If Jesus returned today, he would do one thing.”

Henry said, “Oh Yeah. What is that?”

I replied, “He would write on a piece of paper, Jesus the Christ, then scratch out the word “the” and change it to the letter “a” resulting in Jesus a Christ. That way since everyone is on the same level, no one would want to kill him.”

When I had my moment on 16 Sep 2003, the night my abstract art began, I was dealing with a sensitivity to an impression that was placed upon me by looking at a single statement from my death experience in the reverse.

In my death experience, the voice said, “Just call me father.”, and in the essence of my entity I heard, “Christ”.
 
I immediately started saying to myself as a rebuttal to father, “No. No. No. I do not want that job. You can not make me.”

Another aftereffect is that I began frantically trying to figure out a way to avoid such a dreadful fate.

Over the next year, the KnoWell became my solution. If God elevates me to be a Christ, I will use the KnoWell to teach everyone that they are a Christ too. The only catch is that their actions need to be based in Love.

My greatest aftereffect is the feeling that I never quite came back into my body. To this day, I feel like a spirit attached to but not incarnated within my body.

Please pardon my brain droppings. Do either of you know of a Death Experience Aftereffects study?
 
Thank you,

David