Tag: consciousness
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Housekeeping: new website.
Just a quick note to let you know I have created a new website that aims to explore those liminal spaces where consciousness meets death. I have been interested in aspects of near-death experiences, philosophy of mind and the process of consciousness for a while now. I decided to compile the posts I have already…
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Near-death Experiences in Childhood.
I am currently reading Consciousness Beyond Life, The Science of the Near-Death Experience by Pim van Lommel M.D. My full review will follow once I finish it but the chapter on children and near-death experiences (NDEs) led me to look up one of the papers mentioned in the book. The first systematic study of NDE’s…
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Near death experiences and a change in worldview
Hans Zingmark (a pulmonologist) and Anetth Granberg-Axell (a retired physician) wanted to examine the worldview-altering impact of near-death experiences (NDEs) amongst a group of survivors of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) in Sweden. Suspending their judgements on whether NDEs are veridical, they wanted to study these reports from a phenomenological perspective. That is, they felt that…
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Video: Rupert Sheldrakes banned TED talk
Rupert Sheldrake has had a diverse career as a biochemist at Cambridge University, a Harvard scholar, a researcher at the Royal Society, and a plant physiologist. He developed a theory of Morphic Resonance and became interested in the study of telepathy and precognition as well as other anomalous phenomena. “memory is inherent in nature” and…
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