Making Sense of Near-Death Experiences by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780857003423
Goodreads: 17168736
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2011-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Pathophysiology and beyond

It is indeed a challenge to discuss new hypotheses that could explain the possibility to have clear and enhanced consciousness with memories, with self-identity, with cognition, with emotion, with the possibility of perception out and above the lifeless body, to explain the reported interconnectedness with the consciousness of other persons and of deceased relatives, to explain the possibility to experience instantaneously and simultaneously (non-locality)[*] a review and a preview of someone’s life in a dimension without our conventional body-linked concept of time and space, where all past, present and future events exist, and even to explain the experience of the conscious return into the body. In my book (van Lommel 2010) I describe a concept in which our endless consciousness with declarative memories finds its origin in, and is stored in, a non-local space, and the brain only serves as a relay station for parts of this non-local consciousness to be received into or as our waking consciousness. Could our brain be compared to the TV set, which receives electromagnetic waves and transforms them into image and sound? Could it as well be compared to the TV camera, which transforms image and sound into electromagnetic waves? These waves hold the essence of all information, but are only perceivable by our senses through suitable instruments like camera and TV set. The function of the brain could so be compared with a transceiver, a transmitter/receiver, or interface, quite like a computer that of course does not produce the internet with more than a billion websites, but only receives it. Different neuronal networks function as interface for different aspects of our consciousness, and the function of neuronal networks should be regarded as receivers and conveyors, not as retainers of consciousness and memories. In this concept, consciousness is not rooted in the measurable domain of physics, our manifest world. This also means that our endless or enhanced consciousness in non-local space is inherently not measurable by physical means, which could be compared with gravitational fields that are also not measurable but still continuously influence the whole universe. However, the physical aspects of consciousness, which originate from the wave aspect of our non-local consciousness through collapse of the wave function (‘objective reduction’) can be measured by means of neuro-imaging techniques like EEG, fMRI, and PET-scan (‘neural correlates’).

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