The preliminary results of a large-scale study of the so-called near-death experience have been summed up
Leaving the body is a phenomenon that does not yet lend itself to reasonable, and most importantly, convincing explanations.
From the first journey to the underworld to the last
Is there any other material world apart from the material world visible to all of us? The one in which souls dwell? Common sense dictates that there is no chance of answering this question. However, scientists, surprisingly, have a different opinion. It is believed that there is an opportunity to understand. And people who have experienced clinical death provide it. That is, resurrected. Especially among those who believe that they have been to the next world, and when they return, they remember what they saw. Near death experience (NDE - in English abbreviation) - this is the name of this phenomenon.
In 2000, doctors - the Dutch cardiologist Pim Van Lommel and his British colleague Christopher French from the London Center for the Study of Abnormal Psychic Phenomena - undertook the first large-scale and serious study of this very NDE with the participation of 344 cores who went on otherworldly tours from 10 hospitals. The results shocked the public. Especially atheists. Doctors admitted: they could not find convincing evidence that there is no other world. And according to their data, the temporarily dead patients did "come to his gates."
In 2008, the restless Sam Parnia followed in the footsteps of the Dutchman, who first worked at the University of Southampton and now works at the State University of New York. He took with him about 40 more colleagues who undertook to test one of the most famous phenomena accompanying NDE. Namely, leaving the body. After all, about a quarter of the reanimated dead claim: they saw themselves from the outside when they were unconscious. It was as if something was leaving the body and looking at it from the ceiling.
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Many near-death survivors report strange visions.
Lost in the afterlife
It was assumed that the study will involve 25 hospitals in England, USA and Canada. With the assistance of resuscitators, scientists are examining 1,500 patients who survived clinical death. And they will record whether any of them really left the body. For this, shelves will be installed in the wards - under the very ceiling. And they will put special test pictures on them so that they are not visible from the beds. The resurrected will be asked what they saw. If people soar, as it should, to the ceiling, then they will answer.
According to the plan, the research should have been completed in 2011. But they dragged on. Sam Parnia and his colleagues have summed up some of the results just now, having published preliminary results in the journal Resuscitation.
As a result, there were more examined patients - 2,060 patients, and fewer hospitals: 15 in the UK, USA and Austria.
All examined patients had cardiac arrest and clinical death. 330 people survived after it. About 140 people reported about one or another NDE - just under half. And 26 patients said they left the body.
Parnia does not say whether anyone saw the same notes posted on the ceiling. 13 percent of patients described an experience of separation from the body. For me personally, in order to believe in the existence of both the soul and the other world, one correct answer would be enough. And it is, but received differently.
Scientists have documented the testimony of a 57-year-old social worker from the UK who was in a state of clinical death for three minutes. He accurately described what was happening around this time, including the actions of the doctors involved in intensive care and the sounds of equipment. It gave signals periodically.
“The brain usually shuts down 20-30 seconds after cardiac arrest and, deprived of oxygen, cannot remember anything,” says Sam Parnia. - And if this really happens, then the consciousness, or the soul can exist outside the brain.
However, scientists are careful with scientific conclusions. In the report, they emphasize that while they can only talk about the fact that consciousness is preserved for at least three minutes after death. Already something. Quite a serious allusion to the existence of the other world. But it certainly cannot be called convincing.
Is a longer "life after death" possible? No answer.
Sam Parnia has been trying to get a soul out of the dying for years.
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Just one gyrus
The out-of-body phenomenon is the last stronghold of mysticism. All other phenomena accompanying the "journey" to the next world and back are explained to one degree or another. It seems that they have physiological reasons associated with the vagaries of the brain at the moments of its on-off: the tunnel through which the dying rush, and the bright light, and the life spun in a split second, and meetings with ancestors, and pacification.
There is only one hypothesis about the ability to look at yourself from the outside. But it doesn't look very convincing.
Dr. Olaf Blanke of the University Hospital in Geneva, in an article published in the most respected scientific journal Nature, described an experiment with a 43-year-old patient suffering from epilepsy. To investigate her ailment, the scientist implanted electrodes into the woman's brain that stimulate the right temporal lobe. And he accidentally excited the angular gyrus located there - a structure that is associated with the organs of sight, touch and balance. As a result, a completely alive patient left the body - she saw herself from the side.
Blanquet suggested that perhaps the dying brain, but still retaining neural connections with the body, also somehow excites this gyrus. And with her participation it sends information about the position of the body in space to the visual cortex. She perceives it in her own way, mixes it with the pictures obtained before the consciousness has already turned off, and projects it onto the retina. And to a person deprived of all normal sensory signals and habitual sensations, it seems as if he sees himself from the outside.
Several years ago, experiments similar to those carried out by Dr. Parnia were undertaken by physicians from the English Wells. Clinical death of 39 patients was observed. At the same time, they also placed leaves with large symbols painted on them near the temporarily deceased. And none of those who left their body "saw" the symbols.
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"… We know perfectly well that a violation of the organ of vision, the organ of hearing, their pathways to the brain, their main brain link necessarily leads to impairment of vision and hearing, respectively. How, when leaving the body, the soul sees and hears?"
(Academician Natalya Bekhtereva, from the book "The Magic of the Brain and the Labyrinths of Life")