Where does consciousness originate from? The psyche – the self – has been a mystery for ages.
An intensive care doctor and his team have found a way to start answering at least some of the countless questions surrounding the mystery of consciousness. Through their research, Dr. Sam Parnia and his colleagues have confirmed that consciousness continues to exist, even when the body and the brain die.
Dr. Parnia is the director of critical care and resuscitation research at NYU Langone School of Medicine in New York City. According to Parnia, brain function halts almost instantaneously after the heart stops. Despite this, his study of people who suffered cardiac arrest shows that human consciousness exists, even after the brain is dead. Parnia and his colleagues have been studying what happens to consciousness and the brain during the period between physical death and when a person is resuscitated.
In the video above, Parnia makes the following claim.
Human mind and consciousness – that thing that makes us who we are, our self – does not become annihilated, when we’ve gone beyond the biological threshold of death.
While many, individuals, religions and spiritual traditions have come to their own conclusions about the everlasting nature of the soul, it takes a great deal of faith to be certain about the afterlife. To the scientific mind, this won’t do, and the question looks a little more like, ‘what happens to human consciousness after clinical death?’
One of my goals in raising consciousness through blogging is bridging the gap between science and spirituality. I personally believe religion is nothing more than hidden science and history. There is definitely something paranormal involved in our reality.
Scientists at the University of Southampton have spent four years examining more than 2,000 people who suffered cardiac arrests at 15 hospitals in the UK, US and Austria. And they found that nearly 40 per cent of people who survived described some kind of ‘awareness’ during the time when they were clinically dead before their hearts were restarted.
The scientists admit that they still don’t know at all what is going on with human awareness after death, even though the study gives concrete evidence that some portion of our consciousness is able to survive at least the first few minutes of bodily death, and maintain sufficient awareness to somehow observe the clinically dead body and its surroundings while awaiting resuscitation.
Parnia states that once people die,
“…they have a perception that the self is detached from the body. They are able to watch things, and they don’t feel any pain. They don’t feel any discomfort. They’re in complete peace. They know they’re being declared dead, but they have no distress about it.”
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This article, written by Stacy Flanagan, was originally published at https://www.dtss.us/blog/consciousness-survives-physical-death/
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