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afterlife,
28
, 354; belief in a form of, xiv, 55, 69, 83, 93, 149, 316–17, 358; scientists and, 329–30, 355

Akasha field, 211, 308

Altes, Alison Korthals, xii

Aspect, Alain, 238, 275, 294

Atwater, P. M. H., 48, 72–73, 75

auras, 62

autoscopy/autoscopic experience, 13, 14

Awaken from Death
(Swedenborg), 85

Bach, Richard, 1

Backster, Cleve, 298–99

Bailey, Alice, 85

Beaufort, Adm. Francis, 101

Beauregard, Mario, 198, 201

Bede (The Venerable Bede), 99

Bergson, Henri, 317

Berkovich, Simon, 194, 288–89

Besant, Annie, 85

Besso, Michele, 229

Betz, W., 153

Biophotonen
(Bischof), 290

biophotons, 283, 290–91, 294

birth, x, xiii; nonlocal consciousness preceding, 82, 346; as passing from one state of consciousness to another, xx, 318, 325; transpersonal theory and, 305; tunnel experience as memory of, 130

Bischof, Marco, 290

Blackmore, Susan, 115, 127, 201

Blanke, Olaf, 121–22, 190

Bohm, David, 247, 249, 264, 266

Bohr, Niels, 223, 235, 249, 254, 289

Boismont, Brierre de, 101

border, perception of, during NDE, 12, 14, 15, 33, 39–40, 102, 143, 144, 173

Born, Max, 236

Bosch, Jeroen,
28

Bragg, Sir William Lawrence, 281

Brahms, Johannes, 322

brain, x–xii, xxii, 160–61,
179
; during anesthesia, 128; carbon dioxide, NDEs, and, 116–17; cardiac arrest and, viii, 161–64, 262; chemical reactions, NDEs and, 117–18; computer vs., 200–202; consciousness and, ix, xvi, xvii, xxii, 9, 26, 106, 113, 160, 177, 178–79, 183–86, 195, 202, 223, 251, 252–53, 257–79, 307, 328, 331; consciousness relationship, six theories, 257–60; consciousness research using TMS, 191–93; cooling, 168, 340; death, xii, 141, 163, 166, 171, 328–29, 334–43; electrical stimulation, 120–22, 190; electromagnetic activity and brain function, 120–22, 188–93, 268–69, 272–73; facts, 202; flat EEG and, 340; fMRI,
180
, 180–81, 183, 191,
197
, 200; Fourier transform in, 275–76; heart stopping, effect of, 164–65; holographic hypothesis, 194; information transfer via quantum spin, 274–77, 292; interface of nonlocal consciousness and, 270–71; measurable activity, 178,
180
, 180–81, 183, 185, 198, 200; meditation and, 199–200; memory and, 106, 183–86, 193–95, 251–52, 279; memory and cell death, 186, 279, 281; memory loss, causes, 195; NDE during impairment, 8, 111, 112, 133, 164, 169–76, 202; NDE while not impaired, 111; neurons and electromagnetic fields, 186–88,
187
; neuroplasticity, 195–97,
197
, 200, 253, 259, 266, 279; oxygen deficiency and, xxii, 9, 113, 114–16, 134, 140–41, 144, 339; Pamela Reynolds’s NDE and, 169–76; pilot-light state, 165, 168, 169, 176, 273; placebo effect and psychotherapy, 197–99; psychedelics and, 118–19; psychoneural translation hypothesis, 198; quantum function of, 253; “readiness potential” theory, 200; research, reliability of contemporary, 180–83; resuscitation and, 166–68; temporary vs. permanent dysfunction or damage, 165–66, 168–69; “terminal lucidity,” 195, 353; theories about the transition of nonlocal consciousness to, 271–72; transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), 190–91; transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), 122,
189
, 189–90, 191; unproven hypotheses, 183–86; volition and, 200, 201

Brain That Changes Itself, The
(Doidge), 196

Buddhism, 81, 86, 89–91, 332

Bush, Evans, 30

Callanan, Maggie, 311

Chalmers, David, xvii, 177, 246; panprotopyschism, 259; six theories of brain-consciousness relationship, 257–60

Change of Heart
(Sylvia), 299

“Changes in Post-NDE Religiosity” (table), 59

“Changes in Religious Affiliation After an NDE” (table), 57

children: ability to see auras, 62; changes after a childhood NDE, 74–76; circumstances prompting an NDE, 73–74; content of a childhood NDE, 74; death of, 353; example of NDE, 78–79; NDE in, xxi–xxii, 39–40, 71–79, 109; out-of-body experience, 74,
75
, 77–78; past lives, 332–33; psychological problems and NDEs, 76; research into NDE in, 72–73

Christianity, 94–95

Clarke, Sir Arthur C., 301

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 71

collective consciousness,
295
, 295–96

coma, viii, xi–xii, 8, 9, 179; brain damage and, 114–15, 146, 156, 160–61, 162, 168; brain death vs., 329, 334, 338; cardiac arrest and, 162; in children, 73, 74; cognitive problems and, 146;
Coma dépassé
, 338; consciousness during, xi–xii, xxiii, 23, 105–6, 108, 127, 128–29, 135, 138, 218–19, 261, 319, 336, 338, 343, 349, 351, 352 (
see also below
NDE and); DBS and recovery, 191; dead/deceased persons seen during, 33; fantasies and, 127, 128–29; hearing during, 23, 336; lucid consciousness and, xi–xii, 105–6, 128–29, 135, 147; NDE and, 8, 9, 24–26, 33, 40, 73, 108, 109, 110, 111, 113, 129, 132, 144, 147, 156, 176, 218–19, 309, 327, 346, 351, 352; nonlocal connection during, 225, 319; organ donation and, xii, 336, 337, 342; out-of-body experience during, 20–21, 24, 26, 71–72, 128, 129, 351; Pamela Reynolds’s NDE, 169–76; pilot-light state and, 169; pregnancy and birth during, 341; response of others to, 351–52, 355, 358; vegetative state or locked-in syndrome, xi, 338, 351; waking from, 40, 113, 115, 127, 168

complementarity, 226, 227, 228, 239, 243, 254; of nonlocal space, 246–47; particle-wave, 233–36,
234
; theory of, 267–68

Conklin, Edwin Grant, 288

Connectivity Hypothesis, The
(Laszlo), 245

consciousness, xi, xiv; after death, xii–xv, xxi, 47, 83, 317–19, 328, 332–34; altered state, 113, 305, 307–8; during anesthesia, xi, 128–29, 192; biological basis, xi, 26, 113, 135, 160; Bohm on, 266; brain and, xvi, xvii, xxii, 9, 26, 106, 113, 177, 178–79, 195, 202, 223, 251, 252–53, 257–79, 301, 307, 328, 331; brain and, unproven hypotheses, 183–86; brain-consciousness relationship, six theories, 257–60; during cardiac arrest, viii, 112, 193, 223, 265 (
see also
near-death experience); cellular, 306; during clinical death, ix–x, xii, 7, 140–41, 146, 159, 268; collective or universal, 295–96, 297–98, 304; coma and, xi–xii, xxiii, 23, 105–6, 108, 127, 128–29, 135, 138, 218–19, 261, 319, 336, 338, 343, 349, 351, 352; complementarity theory and, 267–68; continuity hypothesis, 263–64; DNA and, 193–94, 277; electromagnetic fields, 265–66; epiphenomenalism or weak dualism model, 258–59; global communication as, 268–69; gravity metaphor, 267; heredity as memory and, 296–98; information and worldview, 233; interactonist-dualism model, 258; interface of nonlocal and the brain, 270–71; life and, 303; light and, 302; link with (virtual) photons, 272–73; lucid and enhanced, 48, 60–62, 79, 225, 301, 308–9, 319–21, 328, 346; materialist and reductionist explanation, xvi, 257–58, 260–62; memory and, 265, 300; monistic materialism model, 257, 260; new perspective on consciousness and the brain, 265–66, 345–46; new scientific concepts, 264–65; nonlocal (endless, ultimate, eternal), xix–xx, 228, 242, 245–46, 259, 263–64, 265, 266–67, 268, 269, 272, 278, 301, 304, 305, 306, 307–11, 317–19, 325, 327, 333–34, 346; nonlocal, DNA and, 284, 300; nonlocal entanglement of, scientific proof, 269–70; nonreductionist and immaterial models, 258–60, 263–77; panprotopyschism, 259; paradox of lucid, during loss of brain function, 160–61; personal and shared aspects of, 304; as probability waves, 278; pure (samadhi), 302; quantum physics and, xvii–xviii, xxii, 53, 223–55, 258, 301; quantum Zeno effect and, 274; reality and, xviii–xix, 227, 240, 254, 255, 302–3, 347; research using TMS, 191–93; scientific study of, xv–xvii; self-organization and, 250–55; as the soul, 86–92; theories about the transition of nonlocal, to the physical brain, 271–72; transpersonal aspects, 305–6; uncertainty principle and, 227; during unconsciousness, 159; waking, 267, 272, 278, 301, 303, 304, 308, 318; what it is, 297, 301, 302–3

continuity hypothesis (transcendence), 328

continuity of the changing body, 281–300; DNA and, 282–90

Cooper, S., 24

Coppes, Bob, 96

Corbeau, Igor, 65, 349–50

core experience, 142

2 Corinthians, 95

cosmic law, 46

Crick, Francis H. C., 183

Dante Alighieri, 30, 33, 83–85, 101

dark space during NDE, 11, 13, 14, 26–32, 209

Day I Died, The
(BBC program), 169

Day I Died, The
(Ring and Cooper), 24

dead/deceased persons: children and, 74; contact with (nonlocal) consciousness of, 311–12, 328; in deathbed visions, 310, 353; during NDE, 7, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 32–33, 143, 144, 172–73, 216–17, 225, 265, 334; perimortem, postmortem, or after-death communication, 311–16, 320, 334, 354; pets, 74

death, ix–x, xii, xiii–xiv, xiv; awareness of, during NDE, 18–19, 29, 143, 144; brain death and, xii, 141, 163, 166, 171, 328–29, 334–43; clinical, and consciousness during, 7, 140–41, 146, 159, 268; consciousness after, xii–xv, xxi, 47, 317–19, 328, 332–34; control over time of, 143; endless, nonlocal consciousness and, 269; expectations and, 124–25, 328; fear of, xiii, 4–5, 124, 314, 353–54, 356, 358; Hinduism in ancient India on, 86–88; ideas about, and behavior during life, 45; life beyond death, 47, 82; Myers on personality survival of, 307; mystical experiences and insight, 83–96; NDE and loss of fear of, xiv–xv, 21, 45, 47, 68, 143, 148–49; as passing from one state of consciousness to another, xx, 318, 325; premonitions of, 62, 320; transpersonal theory and, 305; views on, in health care sector, 354–55

Death—and After?
(Besant), 85

Death as Metamorphosis of Life
(Steiner), 85

deathbed visions/nearing-death awareness, 9, 310–11, 314, 328, 346, 353

Death Is an Illusion
(Martinus), 85

Death: The Great Adventure
(Bailey), 85

de Broglie, Louis, 239, 249, 254

deep brain stimulation (DBS), 191

de Hennezel, Marie, 311, 356

Dennett, Daniel, xvi, 201, 260

depersonalization, 125

Descartes, René, 258

“Different View of Death After an NDE, A” (table), 55

dissociation, 77, 125–26

Divine Comedy, The
(Dante), 30, 33, 83–85, 101

DMT (dimethyltryptamine), 118–19, 124, 132, 134, 266, 278–79, 309, 325

DNA, xxii, 282,
285
; biological laser (biophotons) and, 283, 290–91; cellular memory and, 284; communication with remote cells and, 298–99; consciousness and, 193–94, 277, 296–98; electromagnetic fields of cells and, 282; epigenetics and, 283, 287–88; heredity and, 296–98, 300; immune system and, 292; junk DNA, 283, 286–87, 288–90, 300, 325; morphogenetic consciousness of cells and, 284, 296–98; nonlocal information transfer via, 293–96; nontechnical synopsis of DNA and the exchange of nonlocal information, 282–85; as “quantum antenna” for nonlocal communication, 289; remote communication and collective consciousness, 284, 295–96, 298–99,
299
; as source of cellular information, 291–93; stem cells and, 296–97; transplanted memory and, 284, 299–300, 334–35; what it is, 283, 285–86

Doidge, Norman, 196

dreams, 118; annunciation, 333; collective unconscious and, 304; EEG and sleep disorders resulting from NDEs and, 122–23; lucid consciousness and, 304; NDE vs., 131–32, 224