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Is there a material world besides visible to all of us some other? The one in which souls dwell? Common sense suggests: there is no chance to answer this question. However scientists, surprisingly, have a different opinion. Believe that There is an opportunity to understand. And provide her survivors clinical death. That is, resurrected.
Especially among those who believe that they have been to the next world, and returning, they remember what they saw. Near-Death Experience (NDE – in English abbreviation) is the name of this phenomenon.
In 2000, doctors – Dutch cardiologist Pim Van Lommel and his British colleague Christopher French of the London Study Center abnormal mental phenomena – undertook the first large-scale and a serious study of this very NDE with 344 cores, went to otherworldly tours from 10 hospitals. results shocked the public. Especially atheists. Doctors admitted: to them failed to find convincing evidence that the afterlife there is no peace. And according to them, temporarily dead patients are really “approached his gate.”
In 2008, in the footsteps of the Dutchman, the restless Sam Parnia (Dr Sam Parnia), who first worked at Southampton University (University of Southampton), and now works in University of New York (State University of New York). With him carried away about 40 colleagues who undertook to check one of the most known phenomena accompanying NDE. Namely, the way out of the body. After all, about a quarter of the living dead assure: they saw themselves from the side when they were unconscious. As if something was leaving body and looked at him from the ceiling.
Many clinical death survivors report strange visions.
Hesitated in the next world
It was estimated that 25 hospitals in England, USA and Canada. With the assistance of resuscitators, scientists 1,500 patients who survived clinical death are examined. AND they will record whether one of them actually left the body. For this will be installed in the chambers shelves – under the ceiling. And on them put special test pictures so that they are not visible from the beds. The Risen are asked what they saw. If people soar, as expected, to the ceiling, they will answer.
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According to the plan, the research should have ended in 2011 year. But they dragged on. Sam Parnia and colleagues let down some results only now by publishing preliminary results in the journal Resuscitation.
As a result, there were more examined – 2060 patients, and hospitals – less: 15 in the UK, USA and Austria.
All examined had a cardiac arrest and clinical death. 330 people survived after it. About this or that 140 people reported NDE – just under half. And 26 patients They said that they left the body.
Parnia does not report whether anyone saw the very notes posted under the ceiling. 13 percent of patients described separation from body. Personally, in order to believe in the existence of both souls and the underworld, one correct answer would suffice. And he is, but received differently.
Scientists have documented the testimony of a 57-year-old social a worker from the UK who was able to clinical death three minutes. He accurately described what was happening. around this time, including the actions of doctors involved in resuscitation, and sounds of equipment. It periodically gave signals.
– The brain usually turns off 20-30 seconds after stopping heart and, deprived of oxygen, cannot remember anything, – says Sam Parnia. – And if this really happens, then consciousness, or the soul is able to exist outside the brain.
However, scientists are wary of scientific conclusions. In the report they emphasize that so far they can only talk about the fact that consciousness lasts at least three minutes after death. Already something. A pretty serious hint of the existence of the other world. But Of course, one cannot call him convincing.
Is a longer “life after death” possible? The answer not.
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Just one gyrus
The phenomenon of leaving the body is the last bastion of mysticism. All other phenomena accompanying the “journey” to the next world and back, explained to one degree or another. It seems to have physiological causes associated with the quirks of the brain at its moments on-off: and the tunnel through which the dying are carried, and bright light, and life scrolled in a split second, and meeting with ancestors, and appeasement.
At the expense of the opportunity to look at yourself from the side there just one hypothesis. But she does not look very convincing.
Dr. Olaf Blanca from the University Hospital in Geneva at article published in the most reputable scientific journal Nature, described an experiment with a 43-year-old patient with epilepsy. To investigate her illness, the scientist implanted electrodes into the woman’s brain, stimulating the right temporal lobe. And accidentally excited the angular gyrus located there – a structure that is connected with the organs of vision, touch and balance. The result is quite lively the patient left the body – she saw herself from the side.
Blanca suggested that perhaps a dying man, but still the brain that maintains neural connections with the body is also somehow excites this gyrus. And with her participation sends to the visual information on the position of the body in space. That her in her own way perceives, mixes with pictures taken before consciousness has already shut off, and projects onto the retina. A a person deprived of all normal sensory signals and habitual sensations, while it seems as if he sees himself with side.
Several years ago, experiments similar to those conducted Dr. Parnia, doctors from English Wales undertook. Clinical death of 39 patients was observed. At the same time, they too placed near the temporarily deceased leaflets with painted on them in large characters. And none of those who came out of their bodies, characters are not “seen.”
QUOTE IN THE TOPIC
“… We are well aware that a violation of the organ of vision, the organ of hearing, their paths to the brain, their main brain link necessarily leads to impaired vision and hearing, respectively. How on exit sees the body and hears the body? “(Academician Natalia Bekhtereva, from the book “Brain magic and the labyrinths of life”)
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