Beyond Death: The Science of the Afterlife

[GoneWithTheWind]

http://time.com/68381/life-beyond-de...e-afterlife-2/

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

I enjoy hearing stories of people who believe they went to hell or chilled with Jesus. They're usually amusing.

[GoneWithTheWind]

I enjoy hearing stories of people who believe they went to hell or chilled with Jesus. They're usually amusing.

Whats interesting is cases of being counscious while brain activity was dead

[Odin]

[sean]

The media and the general public have overindulged some of our thought leaders in the realm of physics (particularly quantum and cosmology), medicine and computer science - as it relates to the study of consciousness.

Specifically, these individuals will espouse completely bullshit theories as though they are fact, despite being demonstrably false - I'm speaking of things like "ORCH-OR", or "uploading your consciousness", or "NDE's are proof of the afterlife", with the latter carrying a bit more weight than the others.

All near death experiences are not actual near death experiences. They are hallucinations that surpass even a lucid dream. They happen because your brain is going into crazy overdrive.

Science is now showing it can create near death experiences on purpose and it is gaining more and more ground to be proven as just a reaction the body has before dying before you cease to exist and cease to remember everything forever.

There have even been a few reports in which those who have had an out-of-body experience (Veridical perception) can identify objects and events occurring during times in which they were considered clinically dead, but there have also been studies demonstrating that this all could be due to damage in the temporoparietal junction of the brain.

Scientific studies have been able to reproduce this phenomenon without bringing the subject close to death, simply by electrically stimulating the temporoparietal junction of the brain.

Some out-of-body experiences may be nothing more than anesthesia awareness and it is possible that those who believe that they have had a near-death experience are simply constructing false memories through this awareness.

Researchers have also found out that the excess carbon dioxide in the bloodstream can have a significant effect on vision, which leads to patients seeing the tunnel and the bright, white light.

They also believe that oxygen deprivation could well result in people "seeing their lives flash before their eyes" or being transported to a place where they are surrounded by friends and relatives who have long since passed on.

Esoteric experiences are commonly mediated by the temporal lobe of the brain, a spike in epileptic activity in the temporal lobe may be responsible for the visions of God or of Heaven that so many see during a near-death experience.

Ezekiel's vision occurred because he suffered from Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Fyodor Dostoevsky and Joan of Arc are believed to have been influenced by temporal lobe epilepsy, which included feelings of ecstasy and the presence of something otherworldly.

Dr. Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon, wrote a book detailing his personal experience with near-death, claiming the near-death experience was several days in length and must have occurred while his cerebral cortex was shut down due to the coma, a fact that is paradoxical since many of the sensory details he experienced are typically rooted in the cerebral cortex. And NDE in his case occurred not during his coma, but as he was surfacing from the coma and his cortex was returning to full function.

When one hallucinates voices, the auditory pathways are activated; when one hallucinates a face, the fusiform face area, normally used to perceive and identify faces in the environment, is stimulated.

Dr. Tony Cicoria saw no contradiction between religion and neurology — if God works on a man, or in a man, He would do so via the nervous system, via parts of the brain for spiritual feeling and belief.

Biocentrism is a borderline crazy, totally counterintuitive theory about the universe that tiptoes around the far-flung edges of acceptable mainstream science. Time, space, matter, and everything else should only exist because of our perception of them. If that’s true, then it means things like “death” stop being solid facts and become merely a part of this perception.

And its all hypothesis on its BEST DAY. Just because it has quantum in the title doesn't mean its backed by science. Quantum physics only work at an extremely microscopic level under highly controlled conditions and breaks down at a macro level.

[Hasien]

The media and the general public have overindulged some of our thought leaders in the realm of physics (particularly quantum and cosmology), medicine and computer science - as it relates to the study of consciousness.

Specifically, these individuals will espouse completely bullshit theories as though they are fact, despite being demonstrably false - I'm speaking of things like "ORCH-OR", or "uploading your consciousness", or "NDE's are proof of the afterlife", with the latter carrying a bit more weight than the others.

All near death experiences are not actual near death experiences. They are hallucinations that surpass even a lucid dream. They happen because your brain is going into crazy overdrive.

Science is now showing it can create near death experiences on purpose and it is gaining more and more ground to be proven as just a reaction the body has before dying before you cease to exist and cease to remember everything forever.

There have even been a few reports in which those who have had an out-of-body experience (Veridical perception) can identify objects and events occurring during times in which they were considered clinically dead, but there have also been studies demonstrating that this all could be due to damage in the temporoparietal junction of the brain.

Scientific studies have been able to reproduce this phenomenon without bringing the subject close to death, simply by electrically stimulating the temporoparietal junction of the brain.

Some out-of-body experiences may be nothing more than anesthesia awareness and it is possible that those who believe that they have had a near-death experience are simply constructing false memories through this awareness.

Researchers have also found out that the excess carbon dioxide in the bloodstream can have a significant effect on vision, which leads to patients seeing the tunnel and the bright, white light.

They also believe that oxygen deprivation could well result in people "seeing their lives flash before their eyes" or being transported to a place where they are surrounded by friends and relatives who have long since passed on.

Esoteric experiences are commonly mediated by the temporal lobe of the brain, a spike in epileptic activity in the temporal lobe may be responsible for the visions of God or of Heaven that so many see during a near-death experience.

Ezekiel's vision occurred because he suffered from Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Fyodor Dostoevsky and Joan of Arc are believed to have been influenced by temporal lobe epilepsy, which included feelings of ecstasy and the presence of something otherworldly.

Dr. Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon, wrote a book detailing his personal experience with near-death, claiming the near-death experience was several days in length and must have occurred while his cerebral cortex was shut down due to the coma, a fact that is paradoxical since many of the sensory details he experienced are typically rooted in the cerebral cortex. And NDE in his case occurred not during his coma, but as he was surfacing from the coma and his cortex was returning to full function.

When one hallucinates voices, the auditory pathways are activated; when one hallucinates a face, the fusiform face area, normally used to perceive and identify faces in the environment, is stimulated.

Dr. Tony Cicoria saw no contradiction between religion and neurology — if God works on a man, or in a man, He would do so via the nervous system, via parts of the brain for spiritual feeling and belief.

Biocentrism is a borderline crazy, totally counterintuitive theory about the universe that tiptoes around the far-flung edges of acceptable mainstream science. Time, space, matter, and everything else should only exist because of our perception of them. If that’s true, then it means things like “death” stop being solid facts and become merely a part of this perception.

And its all hypothesis on its BEST DAY. Just because it has quantum in the title doesn't mean its backed by science. Quantum physics only work at an extremely microscopic level under highly controlled conditions and breaks down at a macro level.

I once thought about this.