Near-death Experiences:

Where Science points to spirituality

The MysteryHow can we be conscious when we are not conscious? Near-death Experiences (NDEs) are the extraordinary perceptions of physically unconscious people who were close to death

NDEs – two aspects

Other-worldly perceptions: scientifically unexaminable This-worldly perceptions: scientifically examinable

Hallucinations? Hallucinations are: 1. Disorderly 2. Disturbing3. Not life-transformingNDEs are the opposite

NDEs are not hallucinations“With a purely physiological explanation [for NDE] such as cerebral anoxia [absence of oxygen] for the experience, most patients who have been clinically dead should report one.” - Dr Pim Van Lommel, Lancet article

Prior general knowledge? How could a person who was almost certainly unconscious, in the middle of cardiac arrest, about to be jolted by an electric shock, and lying down in such a way that he could not see the defibrillator meter observe minutely the motion of the needles on its dial?Re: Dr Michael Sabom, Recollections of Death

Partial consciousness? The case of Maria reported by Dr Kimberly ClarkMaria described details of a tennis shoe on a hospital window-ledge, details impossible to see from any window

When the blind seeNDEs of the Blind: Mindsight - Kenneth Ring and Sharon Cooper The case of Vicki Umipeg

Operation standstill: Pam Reynolds

Giant basilar artery aneurysmBody temperature lowered to 60 F, Heartbeat and breathing stopped,Brain waves flattened, and Blood drained from her head. Special earpieces emitting 90 to 100 decibel clicks at a rate of 11 to 13 clicks per second.

Operation standstill “At that stage in the operation, nobody can observe, hear, in that state, And I find it inconceivable that your normal senses, such as hearing, let alone the fact that she had clicking modules in each ear, that there was any way to hear through normal auditory pathways. I don't have an explanation for it. I don't know how it's possible for it to happen, considering the physiological state she was in. At the same time, I have seen so many things that I can't explain, that I don't want to be so arrogant as to be able to say that there's no way it can happen.” - Dr. Spetzler

Fraud? "That [Deception] is certainly always a possibility to be guarded against in individual cases; but when this suggestion is used repeatedly and without supporting evidence as a blanket defense against the entire body of evidence, it should be recognized for what it is, which is simply an unwillingness to examine that evidence in a truly scientific spirit." - Dr Emily Williams Kelly, Irreducible Mind

The Implication"What is clear is that something profound is happening. The mind - the thing that is 'you' - your 'soul' if you will - carries on after conventional science says it should have drifted into nothingness." - Dr Sam Parnia

Expanding the frontiers of science

Relativity and Quantum physics developed because scientists confronted the evidence that classical physical couldn’t explain

The Gita’s tripartite model of the self

Body – Hardware Mind – SoftwareSoul – User

Soul Eye

Subtle Body

Gross Body

Normal Vision

Outside Wor

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SubtleEye

Brain

Area pervaded by consciousness

Soul

Subtle Body

EyeBrain

Gross Body

No sight

No Activity at all

Outside Wor

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NDE Vision

SubtleEye

Area pervaded by consciousness

Redefining progress & happiness Materialism’s consequences: “We have guided missiles &

misguided men” A million suicides every year

The Ultimate Positive ThinkingYou are indestructible.Go beyond positive perception of reality to the perception of positive reality Eg Airlifted out of disaster zone

Questions?

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