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  • Death: how long are we conscious for and does life really flash before our eyes?...Death is still a mystery.

    04/04/2023 5:53:14 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 45 replies
    FreeThink ^ | April 2, 2023 | By Guillaume Thierry
    The first time I reached past the sheer horror of the concept of death and wondered what the experience of dying may be like, I was about 15. I had just discovered gruesome aspects of the French revolution and how heads were neatly cut off the body by a Guillotine. Words I remember to this day were the last of Georges Danton on April 5, 1794, who allegedly said to his executioner: “Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.” Years later, having become a cognitive neuroscientist, I started wondering to what extent a brain suddenly separated from...
  • Jane Seymour Saw 'White Light' During Near-Death Experience

    04/17/2023 1:48:57 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 19 replies
    AsiaOne ^ | APRIL 16, 2023
    Jane Seymour saw a "white light" during a near-death experience. The actress, 72, famed for playing Bond girl Solitaire in 1973's Live and Let Die alongside Roger Moore as 007, said she could have been killed when she contracted bronchitis while filming a movie and went into anaphylactic shock due to wrongly administered antibiotics. She told The Times about her vision during her brush with death, when she was asked if she believes in an afterlife: "I have no idea. I do know that I left my body [after the near-lethal antibiotics]". "I did see the white light and I...
  • Scientists discovered a “minimum mechanism” required for consciousness

    05/18/2023 10:53:45 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 17 replies
    FreeThink ^ | May 18, 2023 | By Stephen Johnson
    A study on monkeys found that stimulating a certain part of the forebrain wakes monkeys from anesthesia. Research suggests a tiny part of the brain plays a key role in enabling consciousness. The findings might someday be used to bring people out of comas, treat consciousness disorders or ensure patients stay anesthetized during intensive procedures. Past research has suggested that certain brain areas, like the parietal cortex and thalamus, are critical to consciousness. In the study, published in Neuron, a team of scientists used electrodes to stimulate various parts of the brains of two macaque monkeys. Macaque brains closely mirror...
  • So, how much does a soul weigh?

    06/12/2007 7:41:12 PM PDT · by Teófilo · 6 replies · 513+ views
    Folks, I want to keep commenting on the article published in this month's Discover magazine by Jane Bosveld, titled Soul Search, which I began reviewing in One monk goes up over the rainbow. The article goes on to narrate a 1921 experiment perform by Duncan MacDougall, a physician, who claimed he was able to weigh a human soul. He accomplished this by measuring how much a person weighs before and immediately after death. After monitoring six deaths, he reported that people lost between 11 and 43 grams at death, which he attributed to the material weight of the soul. Others...
  • Doctor Who Experienced Afterlife Says It Was Like Plato’s World of Ideals

    07/09/2023 1:49:30 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 80 replies
    Greek Reporter ^ | July 9, 2023 | James Ssengendo
    Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon doctor who claims to have experienced the afterlife during a seven-day coma, says the experience was like Plato’s world of ideals. In 2008, Dr. Eben Alexander went into a coma after catching an acute bacterial infection that had a severe neurological impact on his brain. For seven days, he lay unconscious. When he awoke, he described seeing a beautiful spiritual guide on a butterfly wing that took him through a wormhole. Sharing his story with the U.S. Sun, Dr. Alexander described a land of “beautiful very lush forests and meadow waterfalls into crystal blue pools, absolutely...
  • After Death — A Riveting Glimpse of the Hereafter

    10/23/2023 9:09:49 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 59 replies
    Evolution News & Science Today ^ | 10/23/2023 | David Klinghoffer
    Photo source: Angel Studios. I’ve just watched a remarkable, riveting documentary that releases in theaters on October 27 – After Death. It’s too bad the famous line from Hamlet has become a bit of a cliché — “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy” — since it so perfectly captures what I took away from the film. There sure are a lot more things about reality than are captured by a narrow naturalistic view.The message of the film, by directors Stephen Gray and Chris Radtke, is extremely well conveyed. It’s beautifully...
  • Video: Scientific Evidence For Life After Death – Gary Habermas

    10/26/2023 1:52:53 AM PDT · by spirited irish · 17 replies
    PatriotandLiberty ^ | 10/23 | Gary Habermas
    Gary Habermas talks with John Ankerberg about the evidence for life after this life.
  • New Movie Investigates Near-Death Experiences

    10/27/2023 11:03:01 AM PDT · by Heartlander · 18 replies
    Mind Matters ^ | October 27, 2023 | News
    New Movie Investigates Near-Death Experiences What happens after we die? The new movie "After Death," out today," investigates near-death experiences and the possibility of the afterlife.Are reports of consciousness after death believable? Moreover, are they scientifically credible? A new film from Angel Studies, After Death, investigates these questions by interviewing people in near-death situations. These subjects report encountering exquisite beauty, loved ones, and even the ability to see their physical bodies from a disembodied vantage point after death. Many doctors and neuroscientists are admitting that these testimonies are hard to dismiss through materialistic explanations. The movie is out today...
  • Video of Matthew Perry Talking About Death, God and Math Resurfaces

    11/10/2023 11:19:46 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 9 replies
    MSN ^ | Paul Bond
    The spike in interest in all things related to Matthew Perry includes a nearly five-minute excerpt of an interview with Bill Maher where the deceased actor talks about a near-death experience, his belief in God and the "math" that was involved to feed his drug habit. "I believe there is a higher power. I believe I have a very close relationship with him that's helped me a lot," Perry said on Real Time with Bill Maher in November 2022 while promoting his book, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing. "A lot of people did have you in the 'dead...
  • Is Consciousness Part of the Fabric of the Universe?

    11/29/2023 2:41:01 PM PST · by TBP · 66 replies
    Scientific American ^ | SEPTEMBER 25, 2023 | DAN FALK
    Since Galileo’s time the physical sciences have leaped forward, explaining the workings of the tiniest quarks to the largest galaxy clusters. But explaining things that reside “only in consciousness”—the red of a sunset, say, or the bitter taste of a lemon—has proven far more difficult. Neuroscientists have identified a number of neural correlates of consciousness—brain states associated with specific mental states—but have not explained how matter forms minds in the first place. As philosopher Colin McGinn put it in a 1989 paper, “Somehow, we feel, the water of the physical brain is turned into the wine of consciousness.” Philosopher David...
  • Is Death Real? New Experiments Raise Important Questions On What It Means To Die

    12/18/2022 12:44:51 PM PST · by Tired of Taxes · 114 replies
    MSN ^ | 12-18-22 | Esther Landhuis
    (SNIP) Over the last 70 or so years, declaring death has gotten progressively messier. Scientific advances such as ventilators and life support have made it harder and harder to find the line between being a person and being a body. Now, mind-blowing experiments in pigs, and the development of a souped-up life-support system called OrganEx, are reinvigorating a decades-old debate about how our lives end. (SNIP) Yale neurobiologist Nenad Sestan researches genes that control how neurons grow and form connections in the developing brain. To perform these studies, he orders slices of tissue from brain banks around the world. Eight...
  • 5,000-Page Funding Bill Including COVID Relief Also Has Section Detailing Reincarnation of Dalai Lama

    12/23/2020 9:55:38 AM PST · by Sam's Army · 14 replies
    Newsweak ^ | 12.21.20 | JASON LEMON
    The 5,593-page government funding bill that includes the COVID-19 stimulus legislation also includes a section outlining the reincarnation and succession of the Dalai Lama. The legislation includes some notable sections that are not directly related to government funding or the pandemic.Section 342 of the bill outlines a "statement of policy regarding the succession or reincarnation of the Dalai Lama." Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, currently resides in exile in India after escaping from Tibet in 1959 amid a revolt against Chinese governance. Tibet was occupied by China in 1951 and incorporated as part of the East Asian nation.
  • I Was Killed and Now I’m Reincarnated as a Boy — and I Can Prove It

    10/19/2022 7:19:54 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 131 replies
    New York Post ^ | October 19, 2022 | Adriana Diaz
    A 5-year-old boy claims that he was an African American woman killed in a fire and reincarnated. Little Luke Ruehlman spooked his parents as he began incessantly insisting that he used to be a woman named Pam when he was just 2 years old. The young boy’s mother, Erika, told Ohio’s Fox 2 that her son began speaking of a woman named Pam from a young age, but the family didn’t know anyone by the name. One day Luke finally explained who Pam was. “He turned to me and said, ‘Well, I was,’ ” she recounted. “[He said] ‘Well, I...
  • Dutch teenager, 17, woke up after knee operation forgetting how to speak his native language and only knew ENGLISH (and he also forgot who his parents were and thought he lived in Utah!)

    02/19/2022 5:01:29 PM PST · by simpson96 · 121 replies
    A Dutch teenager completely forgot his native tongue after waking up from surgery and could only speak English, doctors have revealed. The unidentified 17-year-old boy, thought to be from Maastricht, was in hospital for a knee operation following an injury during a football match. But after he awoke from the anesthesia, he was unable to speak or understand any of the medics, who were speaking in Dutch. Instead, he was only able to talk in English — a language he had only been learning at school and never used outside of the classroom. The boy also failed to recognise his...
  • Sarah Silverman Proclaims This Teenager Is Jesus Christ. Someone Call God.

    09/17/2019 9:56:26 AM PDT · by antidemoncrat · 48 replies
    The Daily Wire ^ | 9/16/2019 | Hank Berrien
    On Saturday, following an appearance on The Daily Show by teenage environmental activist Greta Thunberg, supposed comedienne and genuine leftist Sarah Silverman decided that Thunberg was the reincarnation of someone from long ago: Jesus Christ.
  • Princess Di reincarnated? TV host claims his son has iconic royal’s soul

    07/19/2019 9:25:55 AM PDT · by RummyChick · 88 replies
    ny post ^ | 7/17/2019 | hannah sparks
    Even someone who believes in reincarnation couldn’t hope for this sort of cosmic luck. Billy Campbell, the 4-year-old son of Australian TV host David Campbell, tells his parents he has the soul of philanthropist and beloved global figure Princess Diana. Billy, who talks of being a princess “before the sirens came” was born 18 years after Di’s fatal car accident in 1997.
  • Belief in Reincarnation Tied to Memory Errors

    04/06/2007 7:52:24 PM PDT · by Artemis Webb · 53 replies · 1,169+ views
    LiveScience.com ^ | 04/06/07 | Melinda Wenner
    People who believe they have lived past lives as, say, Indian princesses or battlefield commanders are more likely to make certain types of memory errors, according to a new study. The propensity to make these mistakes could, in part, explain why people cling to implausible reincarnation claims in the first place. Researchers recruited people who, after undergoing hypnotic therapy, had come to believe that they had past lives. Subjects were asked to read aloud a list of 40 non-famous names, and then, after a two-hour wait, told that they were going to see a list consisting of three types of...
  • Valley Woman Suffering From Rare Disease, Wakes With British Accent

    02/12/2018 2:11:47 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 81 replies
    ABC15 ^ | Feb 10, 2018 | Jason Volentine
    Imagine going to sleep and waking up sounding British. It's a real thing, and it happened to a Valley woman who has never even left the country. "Everybody only sees or hears Mary Poppins," said Michelle Myers, a mom of seven who lives in Buckeye. Myers is a former Texas beauty queen who has never even left the United States. Three times in the past seven years, Myers has gone to sleep with blinding headaches only to wake up with a different accent. The first time it was Irish. The second time was Australian. Both incidents lasted about a week....
  • American woman says she fell asleep with a headache — and woke up with a British accent

    02/12/2018 7:41:01 PM PST · by ConservativeStatement · 41 replies
    Washington Post ^ | Feb. 12, 2018 | Alex Horton
    Myers says she has been diagnosed with Foreign Accent Syndrome. The disorder typically occurs after strokes or traumatic brain injuries damage the language center of a person's brain — to the degree that their native language sounds like it is tinged with a foreign accent, according to the Center for Communication Disorders at the University of Texas at Dallas.
  • What Does It Mean to Die?(Jahi McMath Case Challenges the Very Nature of Existence.)

    01/30/2018 2:50:13 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 37 replies
    New Yorker | Rachel Aviv
    What Does It Mean to Die? When Jahi McMath was declared brain-dead by the hospital, her family disagreed. Her case challenges the very nature of existence. (New Yorker is not allowed to be posted)