near death experiences - jacksonville 2017 by chaitanya charan prabhu
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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
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
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
Questions?
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