Is Death 'Stepping Out of the Movie'?

As I’m sure you have experienced, Amazon keeps sending me newsletter blasts about books they think I’ll like, as if to say, “Your bot angels are watching.” A recent suggestion was this little book, The Survival of Human Consciousness After Permanent Bodily Death by Dutch cardiologist Pim van Lommel. This brief volume is the second in a series of three research studies awarded for excellence by the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies (BICS).

This is no religious tract. It is a scholarly white paper citing empirical evidence that a significant portion of people who have been revived after cardiac arrest report remarkably similar Near Death Experiences (NDEs). The most astounding finding is that these experiences of consciousness occur during times when there is no blood flow or oxygen in the brain and no detectable mental activity or capability. Before being resuscitated, those patients were literally brain dead for many minutes after conscious thought or perception should be possible.

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