Tag: Consciousness
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Iain McGilchrist, matter & consciousness.
‘If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t’.~ Emerson Pugh This video is an interview with Iain McGilchrist, psychiatrist, Oxford literary scholar and author of one of my favourite (and most challenging) books….a voluminous read… ‘The Matter with Things’. Here is my review…
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Electrical activity in the brain at the time of death.
Does the brain have one last mental hurrah before it dies? There are many voices in the scientific community (perhaps most voices) who believe that accounts of near-death experiences including the consistently reported out-of-body experiences, transcendental perceptions and panoramic life reviews are simply the result of a final burst of chemical and electrical activity in…
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Near-death experience during an obstetric emergency.
The following quote is written by Dubravko Habek & Ingrid Marton from the University Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Clinical Hospital in Zagreb, Croatia. It originally appeared in a letter to the editor published in the medical journal Psychiatric Danubina in 2022. Original letter including references here Obstetric shock (OS) is the leading cause of…
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Veridical near-death perceptions.
One of the most interesting aspects of any NDE report is when the experiencer recalls specific events, conversations, objects etc (usually from a position floating somewhere above) and then those memories are later confirmed as having actually occurred (veridical). These events are referred to as veridical near-death perceptions. “[vNDEp] refers to any perception—visual, auditory, kinesthetic,…
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Review: Consciousnes Beyond Life
Perhaps the most comprehensive and thought provoking examination of the Near Death Experience I have read to date. Consciousness Beyond Life, The Science of the Near-Death Experience by Pim van Lommel M.D. was published back in 2007 with the english translation published three years later. Dr Lommel was a Cardiologist who pubished a series of…
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Music of the hemispheres.
I have been thinking about this video a lot today. Lucy is a 13-year-old girl who lives in the UK. She has autism, and severe learning difficulties and is blind after being born with cancerous tumours in her eyes. You are about to watch her play Chopin’s Nocturne Op.9 No.1 Wow.What is going on here?……just…
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