Tagged with Near Death Experience

We've heard the story before. A patient slips into a coma and nearly dies. He experiences lights, colors, and landscapes, all while disconnected from his body.  Messages are imparted, deep feelings are felt, and then he is sucked back into the material world, his whole perspective changed. The difference this time is that the patient is a neurosurgeon. (more)

Like most people, I was familiar with the ‘bright light at the end of the tunnel' scenario, but that was all I knew. As it turned out, I was forced to grapple with a number of tough findings, the result being the formation of a new concept concerning the creative nature of the unconscious. (more)

There is a slow shift in our view of the nature of consciousness. It's occurring in incremental stages, its main bulk still writhing below the surface of frothing rhetoric and opinionated debate, but a Newsweek cover story on a Near Death Experience marks an important change in the public discussion. (more)