By Buck Rogers | Waking Times
The greatest question of all time may very well be, ‘what happens to us when we die?’ While many, individuals, religions and spiritual traditions have come to their own conclusions about the ever-lasting nature of the soul, it takes a great deal of faith to be certain about the afterlife. To the scientific mind, this won’t do, and the question looks a little more like, ‘what happens to human consciousness after clinical death?’
A team of researchers at Southampton University in the UK recently conducted one of the largest ever studies about what happens to consciousness after death. The conclusion: We still don’t know what happens, but consciousness and awareness appear to linger for sometime after physical death, suggesting that consciousness and the body are entangled actors somehow, and that may unravel and follow separate paths after what we refer to as death.
“Scientists at the University of Southampton have spent four years examining more than 2,000 people who suffered cardiac arrests at 15 hospitals in the UK, US, and Austria.
And they found that nearly 40 percent of people who survived described some kind of ‘awareness’ during the time when they were clinically dead before their hearts were restarted.” [1]
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We are accustomed to thinking of this issue in terms of ‘near-death experiences,’ which have very little scientific appeal as by their very nature these experiences are entirely subjective and impossible to quantify. Attempting a more objective look at what happens to the mind/conscious apparatus of our being, the multi-disciplinary team was led by Dr. Sam Parnia, who in an interview related to the study, remarked:
“The evidence thus far suggests that in the first few minutes after death, consciousness is not annihilated. Whether it fades away afterward, we do not know, but right after death, consciousness is not lost. We know the brain can’t function when the heart has stopped beating. But in this case, conscious awareness appears to have continued for up to three minutes into the period when the heart wasn’t beating, even though the brain typically shuts down within 20-30 seconds after the heart has stopped. This is significant since it has often been assumed that experiences in relation to death are likely hallucinations or illusions, occurring either before the heart stops or after the heart has been successfully restarted. but not an experience corresponding with ‘real’ events when the heart isn’t beating. Furthermore, the detailed recollections of visual awareness, in this case, were consistent with verified events”.
The scientists admit that they still don’t know at all what is going on with human awareness after death, even though the study gives concrete evidence that some portion of our consciousness is able to survive at least the first few minutes of bodily death, and maintain sufficient awareness to somehow observe the clinically dead body and its surroundings while awaiting resuscitation.
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The research is a scientific clue that consciousness survives clinical death, and while not all that conclusive, the study certainly opens the door for an expanding understanding of the relationship between the body and the spirit. The singularity point between science and spirit may be approaching more rapidly than ever.
Sources:
[1] – https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11144442/First-hint-of-life-after-death-in-biggest-ever-scientific-study.html
[2] – https://bioethics.georgetown.edu/2015/07/consciousness-after-clinical-death-the-biggest-ever-scientific-study-published/
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Buck Rogers is the earthbound incarnation of that familiar part of our timeless cosmic selves, the rebel within. He is a surfer of ideals and meditates often on the promise of happiness in a world battered by the angry seas of human thoughtlessness. He is a staff writer for WakingTimes.com.
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Try reading the afterlife of billy fingers. It goes into some graphic detail of life after death. 🙂
How can I get the book please
I got mine on Amazon and added it to my Kindle. There are 2nd hand books also available on Amazon.
The Afterlife of Billy Fingers is an amazing insight into this very subject and if anyone is interested in knowing more then I definitely recommend reading it!
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Totally cool study. Totally cool article. Who better to gain subjective data from than this population.
hard to believe.
YES ! I have known this ! I have reincarnated countless times ! I love life !
How can I find out please… I feel so many lives I lived
you have to look within your heart. you know who you are and who you have been but you have to allow yourself to see it. some people aren’t ready to know their past lives. for me, the pain of my past was so great that I blocked it out for over 2000 years. I barely remembered this lifetime after 2045 years ! things like this are a mental and spiritual journey that you must take on your own.
All Wisdom is within the AKASHIC RECORDS, seek and yea shall find.
john, it’s ye. yes I agree. I have access to those records. all the memories of your past lives are within your own mind.
Mona Wind is my access to the RECORDS, I know enough to point out the Live I want her to find. I know of 7 at this time that I have to look into. I was Thutmose I, Pharaoh of Egypt. Read. Believe or not, but read. https://www.horuscentre.org/library/Hermetism/The_Emerald_Tablets_Of_Thoth.pdf
I have read them. I have personal access to the records. I was a pharaoh too but I won’t say who.
I have lived hundreds of lifetimes.
I know what happens been there
https://youtu.be/hoHjL5iV8fM
the surgeon van lommel is a very interesting researcher on this.https://www.e-ostadelahi.com/eoe-en/consciousness-and-near-death-experiences-pim-van-lommel/
I almost always feel people who have passed that I know lingering around for about a week. There are exceptions. If someone is old and has been eager to die, but hasn’t for some reason–loved ones who can’t let go, an event they are waiting for, whatever–when they go, it’s like ‘zoooom’ they’re gone.
Ascension= One with consciousness.
Mahtaub Golab Carlos Enrique Molina
That is the Spirit, fools
Yes I’ve died over twenty times yet i don’t believe I will ever die.
I was ina coma. I dont rember anything. I didnt see anything. When I started to come out of it(slowly, over weeks) not suddenly like tv, all I can tell is there is nothing. enjoy!
Did you die though?
uh, no. none of these people died either.
Reincarnation is Real, I know of many of my Past Lives. All Wisdom is within the AKASHIC RECORDS, seek and yea shall find.
Oh My God… :/ Why dont you discuss what color smurfs turn when they choke? Or what sound a giraffe makes? Reincarnate my ass. Why would I want to be stuck in this plane of existance over and over? Live here once. Die once. And move onto somewhere else. And this agnostic archaic crap about Askashic records… Ill give your 12 false idols something to keep record of~ …. *farts really loud and long*
Reincarnation is from moment to moment,not after a life,watch how the mind reforms the self from mo to mo, giving this ignorance a false continuity through memory,Thought.
Kairo Myth
I know that you can leave your body real time. I did this a went to someone I haven’t talked to in months and described where they where and what they where doing and exactly what they where wearing to the T. And they weren’t just sitting on the couch. They sent photos the following day and it changed my life forever ????
Like if reincarnation is real.
I took a big dose of pills to kill myself and when I realized I started. To get cold I walked. Up to my room this was a two story apt I got to the room layed down after that I don’t recall nothin except seein that man in the chair from the waist down he was sitting straight. Up bright lights and beautiful told me it was going. To be alright I stared to see everything. I ever did people. I ever did meet or come across the bad and the good everthing I’ve been thru it was amazing I will never forget it but I never seen that mans face in that chair next to the bed there wasn’t no chair when I went up to my room I dont know where the chair came from either but I can tell u this it was beautiful.
Ur whole life flashes before ur eyes everything
Kaitlyn Werder…you said you are open minded but prefer science. Are you open to reading this?
Miranda Murphy
Try astral projection. It can tske weeks or months to do. Patience is a virtue.