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Abstract:
In this article a concept of non-local consciousness
will be described, based on recent scientific research on near-death
experiences (NDEs). Since the publication of several prospective studies
on NDEs in survivors of cardiac arrest, with strikingly similar results
and conclusions, the phenomenon of the NDE can no longer be scientifically
ignored. In the last thirty years several theories have been
proposed to explain an NDE.
The challenge to find a common explanation for the cause and content
of an NDE is complicated by the fact that an NDE can be experienced
during various circumstances, such as severe injury of the brain as
in cardiac arrest to conditions when the brain seems to function normally.
The NDE is an authentic experience which cannot be simply reduced to
imagination, fear of death, hallucination, psychosis, the use of drugs,
or oxygen deficiency.
Patients appear to be permanently changed by an NDE during a cardiac
arrest of only some minutes duration. According to these afore mentioned
studies, the current materialistic view of the relationship between
consciousness and the brain as held by most physicians, philosophers,
and psychologists is too restricted for a proper under standing of this
phenomenon.
There are good reasons to assume that our consciousness does not always
coincide with the functioning of our brain: enhanced or non-local consciousness
can sometimes be experienced separately from the body.
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