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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 Vedic tripartite model of the self
Body – Hardware Mind – SoftwareSoul – User
Soul Eye
Subtle Body
Gross Body
Normal Vision
Outside Wor
ld
SubtleEye
Brain
Area pervaded by consciousness
Soul
Subtle Body
EyeBrain
Gross Body
No sight
No Activity at all
Outside Wor
ld
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?
www.thespiritualscientist.com