We are living in an age of exciting discoveries and one of the
most significant advances of recent years is our understanding of the
survival of human consciousness after death. Human consciousness itself
is still a great mystery and will be for time to come, but we now have
accumulated thousands of accounts of the conscious experience of people
who have past the "brain death" barrier and returned.
And these are not just anecdotal accounts related by friends of friends. Authors like Pim van Lommel, repected doctors with articles published in the most distinguished medical journals, have systematically collected first hand accounts over a lifetime spent in the cardiac-arrest unit of major hospitals and encouraged his peers to do the same.
The result is a coherent account of what actually happens to human consciousness at the moment and after all electrical activity has ceased in the brain, i.e. not only when the heart has stopped beating, but also when the patient has passed the final test to be certified dead: no electrical activity whatsoever in the brain.
And the results?
The results are nothing short of astounding. A coherent picture has come out, verified time and time again, that the death of the brain is not the end of consciousness, but the beginning of a period of much greater lucidity than we normally have in our lives.
The main body of the book is not the author's opinions but the first hand accounts of the patients themselves.
Only at the end of the book does the author examine each and every attempt of science to explain the phenomena, and anyone interest in the latest theories about quantum mechanics and the structure of the universe will love this section, because the explanation of where subatomic particles disappear to, before they reappear in another place may be intimately related to where our consciousness is stored (it's not in the brain!)
If the explanations are a bit over your head, it doesn't matter because just reading the direct experiences of people who have been clinically dead, become aware of the continuation of life, and returned to a completely transformed life is amazing, inspiring and uplifting.
In 'Your Eternal Self', R. Craig Hogan, Ph.D., et alia, go one step further than Pim Van Lommel and give a full description of the afterlife in all its detail. I find this text more readable for the lay reader than Van Lommel's later chapters, but nonetheless fascinating and well-documented. Prepare yourself to see the afterlife stripped of its mystery and darkness. Prepare yourself for an age where Science and Religion may finally be reconciled!
And these are not just anecdotal accounts related by friends of friends. Authors like Pim van Lommel, repected doctors with articles published in the most distinguished medical journals, have systematically collected first hand accounts over a lifetime spent in the cardiac-arrest unit of major hospitals and encouraged his peers to do the same.
The result is a coherent account of what actually happens to human consciousness at the moment and after all electrical activity has ceased in the brain, i.e. not only when the heart has stopped beating, but also when the patient has passed the final test to be certified dead: no electrical activity whatsoever in the brain.
And the results?
The results are nothing short of astounding. A coherent picture has come out, verified time and time again, that the death of the brain is not the end of consciousness, but the beginning of a period of much greater lucidity than we normally have in our lives.
The main body of the book is not the author's opinions but the first hand accounts of the patients themselves.
Only at the end of the book does the author examine each and every attempt of science to explain the phenomena, and anyone interest in the latest theories about quantum mechanics and the structure of the universe will love this section, because the explanation of where subatomic particles disappear to, before they reappear in another place may be intimately related to where our consciousness is stored (it's not in the brain!)
If the explanations are a bit over your head, it doesn't matter because just reading the direct experiences of people who have been clinically dead, become aware of the continuation of life, and returned to a completely transformed life is amazing, inspiring and uplifting.
In 'Your Eternal Self', R. Craig Hogan, Ph.D., et alia, go one step further than Pim Van Lommel and give a full description of the afterlife in all its detail. I find this text more readable for the lay reader than Van Lommel's later chapters, but nonetheless fascinating and well-documented. Prepare yourself to see the afterlife stripped of its mystery and darkness. Prepare yourself for an age where Science and Religion may finally be reconciled!
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