Tag: death
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The Mystery of Terminal Lucidity
Terminal Lucidity (also known as paradoxical lucidity or, in this case, energy surge) is a poorly understood condition where a person with existing significant cognitive decline such as Alzheimer’s or end-stage cancer suddenly improves. They may recognise their surroundings and family members again and hold meaningful, appropriate conversations. The US National Institute of Ageing defines…
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Can recalled experiences of Death (RED) be explained as just brain activity between clinical death and brain death?
Paper: Neuro-functional modeling of near-death experiences in contexts of altered states of consciousness.Author(s): Raymond Romand and Gunter EhretJournal: Frontiers in PsychologyLink to full article. In this paper, Romand and Ehret look at the phenomenon of RED or near-death experience as simply an epiphenomenon due to the neuro-functioning of the brain at the time of death.As…
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Book review: Living in a Mindful Universe
This is Dr Eben Alexanders third book dealing with the topic of life after death. His first one is titled: “Proof of Heaven” (2012) and was followed by “The Map of Heaven” (2014). I had not seen any particularly good reviews on his first two books and did not read them. As my views on the…
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Guidelines and standards in the study of Recalled Experience of Death
Article: Guidelines and standards for the study of death and recalled experiences of death––a multidisciplinary consensus statement and proposed future directions.Author(s): Sam ParinaJournal: Annals of the New York Academy of SciencesDownload as PDF The authors of this paper propose a set of definitions and terminology to adopt when studying near-death experiences which they suggest be…
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Looking at the evidence for survival of human consciousness after death
Robert Bigelow is an aerospace entrepreneur from the US. His research organisation the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies (BICS) recently sponsored an international contest to award authors submitting essays supporting the survival of human consciousness after death. The first prize was $500,000 and the second prize USD 300,000, so this contest was sure to attract…
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Awareness during resuscitation
Title: Awareness During Resuscitation – II: A Multi-Center Study of Consciousness and Awareness in Cardiac Arrest.Author: Sam Parina et alJournal: In pre-print. A pre-print version of the Aware II paper is now available online (not yet peer reviewed). The final version may get locked away behind a paywall so its worth grabbing a copy now…
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