Dr Pim Van Lommel’s scientific studies on near-death experiences and consciousness
Van Lommel is best known for his scientific work on the subjects of near-death experiences and consciousness, including a prospective study published in the medical journal The Lancet. He is also the author of the 2007 Dutch book titled Endless Consciousness: A scientific approach to the near-death experience (Eindeloos Bewustzijn: een wetenschappelijke visie op de Bijna-Dood Ervaring), which has been translated to German, English, French and Spanish (English translation: Consciousness Beyond Life, The Science of the Near-Death Experience”, Harper Collins, 2010).
In his book Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience, he postulates a model where consciousness is beyond neurological activities of the brain. He suggests that the brain is merely a terminal for accessing consciousness which is nonlocal (i.e. situated outside the physical body). In this model the brain is analogous to a computer terminal accessing a mainframe or the internet. He further hypothesizes that noncoding DNA and quantum mechanics would make such nonlocal access possible and this model can explain how near-death experiences can be experienced and remembered by people whose brain had no measurable activity.[2]
Van Lommel studied medicine at Utrecht University, specializing in cardiology. He worked as a cardiologist at the Rijnstate Hospital, Arnhem, for 26 years (1977-2003).
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9 Responses to “Dr Pim Van Lommel’s scientific studies on near-death experiences and consciousness”
Ich finde und, völlig unabhängig, was manch` andere (es seien hier die typischen unobjektiven Skeptiker) gemeint, davon halten mögen, das Hr. Dr. Pim van Lommel ein in dieser Richtung jedenfalls vorbildlicher Wissenschaftler ist. Das ist doch toll. Amit Goswami, Rupert Sheldrake, Milan Ryzl (Parapsychologe) und viele andere auch, wie u.a. James Lovelock und Bruce Lipton seien hier des weiteren dazu genannt, setzen sich für eine – sagen wir – mutige alternative Sichtweise ein, die auf jeden Fall wesentlich mehr Raum ermöglicht als es der bisherig- vorherrschende wissenschaftliche Ansatz verspricht. Hr. Dr.van lommel hat mit betreffend seiner Forschung in seinem Buch auf S. 18 alles richtig eingeordnet, indem er schrieb, ich zitiere: “Wahre Wissenschaft beschränkt sich nicht auf materialistische, also einengende Annahmen, sondern ist neuen, anfangs bisweilen unerklärlichen Phänomenen gegenüber aufgeschlossen und betrachtet es als Herausforderung, auch für sie Erklärungsansätze zu finden. Maso spricht von einer “umfassenden Wissesnchaft”. Sie schaft Raum für Ideen, die besser zu unseren Versuchen passen, Informationen über subjektive Aspekte der Welt und uns selbst zu gewinnen, als es mittels der gegenwärtigen dominierenden materialistischen Grenzziehung möglich ist. herzliches Namaste
I had a close call in my high school swimming pool (Central Bucks East) in Buckingham PA. I jumped off the side of the pool into the water – I was down 7 1/2 ft and for some reason I found I could not swim, I was just holding my breath but could not seem to be able to swim outward into the pool underwater. I had a strong fealing that this was it. I was going to drown and no one saw me jump into the water. I was still holding my breath and a strange wave of peacefullness came over me. I didn’t care if I drown’d or not. I didn’t think about friends or family or anything. I had an o’ well I guess I’m just going to have to die. Then I thought I’ll try one more thing to try to get to the surface of the pool. I pointed my body straight up and tried doing the doggie paddle and slowly, very slowly I rose up to the surface. I asked the swim coach why I could not move under the water like that and he just said that it was a bouncy problem. I’m sure I would have started on a nde if I had been down there any longer but- I know what people mean when they say they had a peacful calm experience going into death. My Mind believed I was going to die and therefore I got this peaceful wonderful feeling. Strange but true!
I think the after death experience is really just a hallucination because of the brain dieing and the persons experience of time is expanded so 1 sec may seem like 1hr as an example. Has there been any experiments where a person has been put into a death state and brought back ? Should be easy enough to do. Volunteers may be hard to find but then again maybe not considering dyeing people my want to further science. I dont think we will ever know if consciousness is in the body or outside or half and half. An analogy might be a *magnet * does a magnet create a magnetic field or does a magnet only focus a field that already exists universally ?
I’ve asked this question on different sites, but I worry I may come across as a moron in asking it, but I’ll try again, which is, could the NDE be put in the framework of a dream? In other words, a lot of people have similar dreams culturally that seem to mean similar things. Let’s take the common dream of forgetting to study for an exam or forgetting to do course work until the end of the semester (a dream I have often!). Could it be that the NDE is like that, in that it takes on various shared forms that are put together in our brains. For example, the inability to cross a boundary or to be told that one’s time has not come yet. That seems to be common. Could that be more or less hardwired into our brains, and upon returning from clinical death it appears? That said, these would be perhaps the most extreme or vivid dreams as it seems the person who experiences an NDE feels a hyper awareness and a firm implanting of memory. Many of them report it being more real than waking life. Often times dreams don’t really have a continuity to them. Who knows.
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