Tag: death
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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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90 seconds.
90 seconds.still plenty of timeto forget The DOOMSDAY clock has recently been adjusted to stand at 90 seconds to midnight. It has never been this close. What is the Doomsday clock? SOURCE: https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/timeline/ Ok, 90 seconds. Bullet point the reasons for me. SOURCE: https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/nuclear-risk/ Listen, now you are depressing me. Can’t you just review a…