Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience (64 page)

Droomvlucht in coma
[Dream Flight in Coma] (Kerkhoffs), xii

Druids, 82–83

Dutch Association Against Quackery, 152

Eccles, John C., 200, 201, 258, 261

Ecclesiastes, 94

Egyptian Book of the Dead
, 82

Eindeloos bewustzijn
[Endless Consciousness] (Van Lommel), 327

Einstein, Albert, 229, 233, 239, 241, 249, 254, 260, 277, 322, 332

electric phenomena, 59–60

Elfferich, Ingrid, 137

Eliot, T. S., 7

Elsaesser-Valarino, Evelyn, 48

empathetic NDE, 41–42, 311, 314

endorphins, 115, 117–18

enlightenment experiences, 8, 81, 85, 209, 218, 302, 309, 346

Entangled Minds
(Radin), 324–25

epigenetics, 283, 287–88

epilepsy, 113, 116, 120–21, 196

Er, vision of, 96–99

euthanasia and assisted suicide, 355–58

“Experience of Dying from Falls, The” (Heim), 106

fantasies and imagination, 126–29

Faust I and II
(Goethe), 329, 358

fear-death experiences, 8, 111, 124, 260, 262, 309, 346

feelings/affective component of NDE, 11, 12, 15, 18, 28, 34, 74, 143, 144

Fenwick, Peter, 155–56, 160–61, 311

Fenwick, Peter and Elisabeth, 48

Ferrer, Jorge, 305

Fludd, Robert, 83,
84

Fourier transform, 275–76

Francis of Assisi, 95

free will, xvi–xvii, 219, 253, 304

Fröhlich, Herbert, 250

Gallic Wars
(Caesar), 82–83

genius insight, 322–23

Gibbs, Josiah W., 242

Gisin, Nicolas, 239

Goethe, Wolfgang von, 329, 358

Goodwin, Brian, 294

Goswami, Amit, 325

Greece, ancient, 82

Grey, Margot, 48, 55

Greyson, Bruce, 7–8, 12, 14–15, 109, 110, 114, 147, 154–55, 160; Scale, 16

Grof, Stanislav, 305–6

Guggenheim, Bill and Judy, 312, 313

Gurwitsch, Alexander, 247, 290, 296

hallucinations, 20, 115, 117, 130–31, 164

Hameroff, Stuart, 252, 290

Hamlet
(Shakespeare), 32, 314

Hammarskjöld, Dag, 45, 347

Haraldson, Erlendur, 311

Hawking, Stephen, 225

Heart’s Code, The
(Pearsall), 299

heaven, 2, 14, 32, 74, 214

Heim, Albert von Sankt Gallen, 106

Heisenberg, Werner, xviii, 227, 252

hell experience, 11, 26, 29–31, 65, 74; George Ritchie’s, 30–31

Hennequin, Monique, xxii, 203–21

heredity, 296–98, 300

Holden, Janice, 8, 152

hologram, 243–45

holographic principle, 226, 244, 251–52

Hooft, Gerard ‘t, 244

Huygens, Christiaan, 233

hypnosis, 129, 240, 304, 307, 309, 333

identical experiences, 309, 346

India, 82, 86–89

ineffability and NDEs, 11–12, 217, 221, 306

International Association of Near-Death Studies (IANDS), 8, 137–38, 152, 350

intuitive sensitivity, enhanced, 48, 60–62, 79, 225, 301, 308–9, 319–21, 328, 346; symptoms chart, 61

Irreducible Mind
(Kelly), 114, 307

Islam, 95–96

“Is Your Brain Really Necessary?” (Lewin), 194

Jack, Anthony I., 182, 183

James, William, xvii, 252, 253, 307

Jeans, Sir James, 254

Jesus, 94, 95

Jewish Book of Living and Dying, The
, 93

Jewish mysticism, 92–94

John 3:6–7, 95

John of the Cross, 95

Josephson, Brian, 228, 237, 241

Jung, Carl G., 22–23, 298, 304

Kabbalah, 93–94

Kalam, A. P. J. Abdul, 152

Kant, Immanuel, 303

Kelley, Patricia, 311

Kelly, Edward, 114, 307

Kelly, Emily Williams, 114, 307, 311, 323

Kerkhoffs, Jan, xiiketamine, 117

Key, Thomas Hewitt, 202

Kircher, Pam, 151–52

Krishnamurti, 203

Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth, 69, 105, 311, 354, 356

Kuhn, Thomas, xvi, 264

Lashley, Karl, 194, 251

Laszlo, Ervin, 245, 308, 347

Lederberg, Joshua, 287

Lerma, John, 311

Libet, Benjamin, 200

Life After Life
(Moody), ix, 102, 105

life beyond death, 47, 68, 82

“Life Changes After a Cardiac Arrest” (table), 68

life review, 7, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 35–38, 101, 143, 144, 206, 224, 225, 252; children and, 74; in Islam, 96

light: deathbed visions or nearing-death awareness, 353; as pure consciousness, 302; visions of, viii, 2, 3, 7, 11, 13, 14, 15, 25, 26, 27, 29, 33–35, 172, 173, 208

Lindbergh, Charles, 309

Long, Jeffrey, 152

Lorber, John, 194–95

love: as Christian tenet, 94; compassion for others, 53; feelings/affective component of NDE and, 28, 34, 102; during life review, 36; unconditional, 3, 5, 33, 46, 265, 302

magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), 275, 276

Mantegna, Rosario N., 288–89

Marcer, Peter, 289

Mark 12:31, 94

Markings
(Hammarskjöld), 347

Martinus, 85

Maslow, Abraham H., xv–xvi, 305

Maso, Ilja, xv

Matthew, 94, 95

meditation, 199–200, 202, 304, 309, 346

Meduna, Ladislas, 116

Meijers, Vincent, 136, 137

Meister Eckhart, 95

Mendeleyev, 322

Merkawah Foundation, 137, 350

Metamorphoses
(Ovid), 83

Milton, John, 347

mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), 199

Montaigne, Michel de, 62

Moody, Raymond, ix, 13, 15, 102, 105, 113; NDE classification, 10–12, 17–40

morphogenetic fields, 247, 284, 296–98

Morse, Melvin, 48, 72, 75, 109

Mozart, Amadeus, 322

Musgrave, C., 55

Myers, Frederic, 102, 135, 307

mysticism: altered state and, 307; enlightenment and, 309; insight into death from, 83–96; NDE’s parallelism, 85; in world religions, 86–89, 92–96

near-death experience (NDE), xi–xii, 346; age, and reporting of, 109–10, 145–46; during anesthesia, 175; of blind patient, 24–26; brain death and, 335; brain function and, 8, 111, 112, 133, 164, 169–76, 202, 268–69; cardiac patients, vii–viii, ix, xxii, 13–14, 135–36, 264 (
see also
“Near-Death Experiences in Survivors of Cardiac Arrest: A Prospective Study in the Netherlands”); in children, xxi–xxii, 39–40, 71–79, 109; circumstances prompting, 8–9, 39, 50, 73–74, 96, 111–13, 262, 309, 352; during clinical death, 159; during coma, 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; consciousness and, 48, 60–62, 79, 225, 268–69, 278, 301, 308–9, 318–21, 328, 346; consciousness and, summary, 262; consequences of, 46–48; core experience, x, 142; cultural differences, 11, 102–3, 110, 124; as delusion, 132, 144, 146; depth of, scoring systems, 16–17; DMT and, 118–19, 124, 132, 134; dreams vs., 131–32; EEG and sleep disorders from, 122–24; elements of, 7, 11–12, 17–40, 74, 133, 224–25; empathetic, 41–42, 311, 314; Greyson’s four components, 14–15; hallucination vs., 115, 130–31, 164; in historic texts, 81–103; history of scientific research, 106–8,
107
; in the hospital, support and, 350–52; how and why it occurs, x, 103; image of humankind and, 347–48; inability to share with others, 9–10, 62–63, 65, 69, 74, 78, 126, 130, 147, 328, 350; incidence of, 9–10, 81, 108–9, 346; integrating the experience, 50–52, 65–66, 69, 76;
Lancet
study, xxii, 20, 127–28, 134, 135–58; loss of fear of death and, xiv–xv, 21, 45, 47, 68, 143, 148–49; Monique Hennequin’s, xxii, 203–21; onset of, 160; Pamela Reynolds’s NDE, 169–76; past lives and, 333; positive and negative aspects, 143, 144; practical significance of, xxiii, 346–47, 349–59; quantum physics and, 262–63; relationships affected by, 50, 53; retrospective vs. prospective studies, 15–16; Ring’s five phases, 12–13; Sabom’s three categories, 13–14; scientific explanations for, xxii, 9, 103, 105–34, 328, 331; scientific opposition to, 328, 329–32; suicide attempts and suicidal patients, 65, 352; Symptom Checklist 90, 349–50; term coined, vii; terminal and palliative care units and, 353–54; theories about cause and content, 113–22, 262; as transformative, x, xx–xxiii, 3, 4, 17, 42, 45–69, 100–101, 113, 116, 135, 147–51; typical instance of, 1–5; what it is, x, 7–8, 132–33, 305; who will have an NDE, 110, 126; world religions, parallels in, 96–103

Near-Death Experiences and World Religions
(Coppes), 96

“Near-Death Experiences in Survivors of Cardiac Arrest: A Prospective Study in the Netherlands” (Lommel, Wees, Meyers, and Efferich), 20, 127–28, 134, 135–58, 160; commentary on, 151–53; comparison with other prospective NDE studies, 153–58, 160–61; conclusions, 146–47; design, 138, 140; factors that do not/do influence the occurrence of NDEs, 144–46; findings, 140–41, 147–48; hidden sign used, 139; history of study, 135–36; identified NDE elements, 143–44; initial interview, 139; the longitudinal study, 137–38; mortality rate of patients, 136–37; organization of study, 136–37; results, 142–43, 148–51; significant differences between people with and without an NDE, 150; WCEI scores, 142, 147

New Science of Life, A
(Sheldrake), 248

Newton, Isaac, 229, 233, 234, 241, 246

No Boundary
(Wilber), 306

Noë, Alva, 185–86, 202

noise, sensitivity to, 54, 59, 76

nonlocality, 224; absolute vacuum and, 245; information transfer, 293–96, 321–22, 346; phase space, 242

Non-Local Universe, The
(Nadeau and Kaftos), 238

On Death and Dying
(Kübler-Ross), 105

Opdebeeck, Anja, 48, 55

organ donation, 334–43; brain death and, 334–43; Dutch registration form, 336–37; guidelines, 338–39; Lazarus syndrome, 340–41; transplanted memory and, 284, 299–300; unanswered questions, 335–36; in the U.S., 342

Osis, Karlis, 311