Our brain can switch between worlds
Last reviewed: 30.05.2018
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Scientists are sure that the connection between the afterlife and our world exists, and it is not so far away - experiments have shown that it is in our brain.
An unusual study of scientists was prompted by the idea of why some people during a clinical death have visions of tunnels with bright lights at the end, angels, deceased relatives, etc.
After preliminary studies, experts found that people who were in a coma or lost consciousness, also saw something similar.
The author of scientific work Steven Laureys with his colleagues followed the work of the brain. Among the subjects were also unconscious patients, who were characterized by activity in the temporomandibular node, which, according to Laureys, binds the two worlds - before and after death.
Colleagues of Dr. Laureys conducted their own experiments and confirmed his conclusions. Notable results were achieved by the neurologist from Switzerland Olaf Blanke, who examined a woman suffering from epileptic seizures. Dr. Blanke probed the woman's brain with electrodes and accidentally touched the temporomandibular node. Later, the woman told me that during the procedure she seemed to come out of her own body and look after what the doctor's actions were.
Similar results were also observed in Dr. Dirk Ridder, who also touched the temporomandibular node of the patient (an elderly man suffering from ringing in his ears ). The man also told that he flew out of his own body and watched from outside for everything that happens next to him. As the patient later claimed, he "flew" for 10-15 seconds, but this time it was quite enough for doctors to detect increased activity in the temporomandibular node, by the way, ringing in the ears never stopped.
Evidence of the existence of the soul in humans was sought 8 years ago. Dr. Sam Parnia, who with his colleagues examined more than a thousand patients who returned from "the other world," set a goal to fix the moment of the soul's release from the corporal shell. In the wards, the scientists set the shelves above the ceiling, where they placed certain images, all the pictures were arranged in such a way that they could not be viewed from the bed - the scientists believed that if the soul still leaves the body, then the patients returned from "the other world" could tell what was seen there, including about the images under the ceiling. Dr. Parnia's studies dragged on for an extra 2 years, and preliminary reports were published only in 2014.
As a result, the scientists examined more than 2 thousand people - all had a cardiac arrest, but 330 of them managed to "resurrect".
About what they saw after death. 140 patients were informed, another 26 noted that they were watching their own body from outside, but about whether they saw pictures, Dr. Parnia kept silent.
One of the patients, who was in a state of clinical death within 3 minutes, described with utmost accuracy what was happening in the ward after his death (sounds of equipment, doctors' actions, etc.).
According to Sam Parnia, from the moment of cardiac arrest, 20 to 30 seconds pass before the brain is turned off, because of oxygen starvation there is memory impairment, but the fact that the patients described what is happening to them after a minute even indicates the existence of the soul apart from the brain. Now scientists can not say exactly what happens to the soul further, maybe it just fades, but the fact that she lives and remembers everything that happens around the body for at least 3 minutes is a fact.
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