It is being reported:
Scientists at the University of Southampton studied more than 2,000 people who suffered cardiac arrests at 15 hospitals across Britain, Austria and the United States. Around 40% of patients who survived described “awareness” during the time before their hearts were restarted, when they were clinically dead…
For the study, the scientists examined 2,060 cardiac arrest patients. Of the 330 that survived, 140 said they had experienced some kind of awareness while being resuscitated.
One in five said they felt a sense of peacefulness. Some said they saw a bright light and felt time had sped up or slowed down, while others described the feeling as drowning or being submerged in deep water.
Dr Sam Parnia, who led the study, told the Daily Telegraph: “We know the brain can’t function when the heart has stopped beating. But in this case, conscious awareness appears to have continued for up to three minutes into the period when the heart wasn’t beating, even though the brain typically shuts down within 20 to 30 seconds after the heart has stopped”…
Parnia is the principal investigator of the Aware study (Awareness during Resuscitation), which was launched in 2008 to examine near-death experiences during cardiac arrest with methods aimed at measuring the quality of oxygen delivered to the brain.
The issue will be that those sold out to a materialistic and naturalistic Atheist-like worldview will simply say, “We used to think that the brain can’t function when the heart has stopped beating but now we know that it can.”
Interestingly, “Parnia suggested more people may have similar experiences when close to death, but medication used in resuscitation may prevent them from remembering.” When I had knee surgery I was offered Versed which, I was told, was for thus and such and, oh, “helps you forget.” What? Firstly, I do not want to be naked in a room with perfect strangers who gave me a drug to helps me forget. Secondly, I got enough problems with my memory and do not need any more…uhm…the…and…with…’cause…wait, what was I writing about?
It was elucidated that it helps people deal with the stress of being nervous about the operation, etc. To which I replied that I was perfectly calm and ready to go. Fine then…but they offered to me two more times after that including when I was actually laying down ready to be put out. The statement was that they think I really should take it but I refused AGAIN!
So, it is interesting to learn that such drugs can actually make one forget near death experiences (NDE). I suppose that I had a form of NDE; a nearly drugged experience.
“Estimates have suggested that millions of people have had vivid experiences in relation to death but the scientific evidence has been ambiguous at best. Many people have assumed that these were hallucinations or illusions but they do seem to have corresponded to actual events.”
“And a higher proportion of people may have vivid death experiences, but do not recall them due to the effects of brain injury or sedative drugs on memory circuits,” Parnia said, adding that further research was needed.
Overall, we should learn something about ourselves via the metaphor of a computer. For example, the material brain is like the hardware and the immaterial mind is like the software. If you destroy a computer it does not mean that software does not exist but only mean that it cannot express itself via that material hardware any longer. It is even possible to retrieve the software and place it within another material hardware and this is what in theology is known as resurrection.
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Source:
Lydia Smith, “Life After Death: ‘Near-Death Experience’ Study Shows Awareness Continues After Brain Shutdown,” International Business Times, October 7, 2014 AD