As a cardiologist, Pim van Lommel was struck by the number of
his patients who claimed to have near-death experiences as a result
of their heart attacks. As a scientist, this was difficult for him
to accept: Wouldn't it be scientifically irresponsible of him to
ignore the evidence of these stories? Faced with this dilemma, van
Lommel decided to design a research study to investigate the
phenomenon under the controlled environment of a cluster of
hospitals with a medically trained staff.
For more than twenty years van Lommel systematically studied
such near-death experiences in a wide variety of hospital patients
who survived a cardiac arrest. In 2001, he and his fellow
researchers published his study on near-death experiences in the
renowned medical journal The Lancet. The article caused an
international sensation as it was the first scientifically rigorous
study of this phenomenon. Now available for the first time in
English, van Lommel offers an in-depth presentation of his results
and theories in this book that has already sold over 125,000 copies
in Europe.
Van Lommel provides scientific evidence that the near-death
phenomenon is an authentic experience that cannot be attributed to
imagination, psychosis, or oxygen deprivation. He further reveals
that after such a profound experience, most patients' personalities
undergo a permanent change. In van Lommel's opinion, the current
views on the relationship between the brain and consciousness held
by most physicians, philosophers, and psychologists are too narrow
for a proper understanding of the phenomenon. In Consciousness
Beyond Life, van Lommel shows that our consciousness does not
always coincide with brain functions and that, remarkably and
significantly, consciousness can even be experienced separate from
the body.
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