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

The White Crow?“If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn’t seek to show that no crows are; it is enough to prove one single crow to be white.”- Harvard psychologist William James

NDEs – two aspects

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

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 Here you have the neurons in a depth of a sleepy state, of a suspended animation, that makes it very hard to think that it’s from active neural transmission.I think it is the ultimate arrogance for anyone, whether they’re a scientist, or anyone else, to say that something can’t be. I accept Pamela’s account, although I have no explanation of how it could have happened.- Dr Spetzler

Explanation?

Hallucination?Guesswork?Semi-consciousness?

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

Questions?

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