Pim van Lommel > Quotes

“La mente humana es capaz de transformar la estructura anatómica y las funciones asociadas del cerebro: la mente puede cambiar el cerebro. Existe una inconfundible interacción entre la mente y el cerebro, no sólo una relación de causa-efecto. En consecuencia, sería un error afirmar que la conciencia no es más que el producto de la función cerebral. ¿Cómo podría el producto transformar a su propio productor?”
― Pim van Lommel, Consciencia más allá de la vida

“The newfound insight pertains to what matters in everyday life: acceptance of and unconditional love for oneself (including acceptance of one’s dark side), others, and nature. It also pertains to insight into connectedness: everything and everybody is connected. Because of this sense of connectedness, some people describe the NDE as an experience of unity. They speak of a “cosmic law” in which everything they do to another person will ultimately have an effect on them too, and this applies to both love and affection and violence and aggression.”
― Pim van Lommel, Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience

“Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t. —RICHARD BACH”
― Pim van Lommel, Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience

“Actually, it wasn’t about having but about being. I myself should be full of love, honesty, warmth, and awareness without wanting or having it from someone or something else. Only when I am these things shall I be able to give and receive them; therein lies the greatest wealth.”
― Pim van Lommel, Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience

“De acuerdo con la teoría cuántica, todo está interconectado, existe una causa no local para todo suceso y cuando algo ocurre cambia de inmediato el universo entero.”
― Pim van Lommel, Consciencia más allá de la vida

“El mensaje revolucionario de la física cuántica es que, si bien reina un cierto orden en el universo (ondas o partículas), existe algo más que el mero plano físico. Se puede cuantificar la materia, pero es la mente la que determina lo que sabemos. Nuestros pensamientos y sentimientos también desempeñan un papel a la hora de determinar cómo funciona el universo y cómo lo percibimos. El modo en que pensamos tiene consecuencias físicas en lo que percibimos, hecho que ha dado pie a una revolución tanto en la física como en la filosofía y en la investigación de la conciencia.”
― Pim van Lommel, Consciencia más allá de la vida

“By contrast, research into the effects of psychoactive substances such as DMT has found some striking similarities with NDE elements. It is a new and surprising hypothesis that DMT, which occurs naturally in the body, could play an important role in the experience of an enhanced consciousness during NDE. Perhaps DMT lifts the body’s natural inhibitions against the experience of an enhanced consciousness.”
― Pim van Lommel, Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience

“Isn’t it about time now that the medical profession should understand that the search for the truth about life and death and the practice of healing are inseparable?…To learn how to die is to learn how to live; to learn how to live is to learn how to act not only in this life, but in the lives to come. To transform yourself truly and learn how to be reborn as a transformed being to help others is really to help the world in the most powerful way of all.”
― Pim van Lommel, Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience

“When the consciousness-principle getteth outside the body, it sayeth to itself, “Am I dead, or am I not dead?” It cannot determine. It seeth its relatives and connexions as it had been used to seeing them before. It even heareth the wailings…. About this time the deceased can see that the share of food is being set aside, that the body is being stripped of its garments, that the place of the sleeping-rug is being swept; he can hear all the weeping and wailing of his friends and relatives, and, although he can see them and can hear them calling upon him, they cannot hear him calling upon them, so he goeth away displeased. At that time, sounds, lights, and rays—all three—are experienced.”
― Pim van Lommel, Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience

“The experience induced by psychoactive substances is often surprisingly similar to a near-death experience, especially in the case of DMT although, depending on the dosage, confusing or frightening perceptions may also occur. These substance-induced experiences include the following elements: a sense of detachment from the body, out-of-body experiences, lucid and accelerated thought, an encounter with a being of light, a sense of unconditional love, being in an unearthly environment, access to a profound wisdom, and wordless communication with immaterial beings. Sometimes the characteristic post-NDE transformation, including the loss of the fear of death, is also reported after administration of DMT or LSD.22 It is a new and surprising hypothesis that DMT, which occurs naturally in the body, could play an important role in the experience of an enhanced consciousness during near-death experiences. Perhaps DMT, its release triggered or stimulated by events in our consciousness, lifts our body’s natural inhibitions against experiencing an enhanced consciousness, as if it is able to block or disrupt the interface between consciousness and our body (and brain).”
― Pim van Lommel, Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience