{"id":5470,"date":"2013-04-25T21:17:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T03:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5470"},"modified":"2013-04-25T21:18:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T03:18:35","slug":"consciousness-after-death-neurologically-inexplicable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5470","title":{"rendered":"Consciousness after Death: &#8220;Neurologically Inexplicable&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors performing &#8220;resuscitation medicine&#8221; keep finding people living longer after they are clinically dead \u2014 and talking about it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>New techniques promise to even further extend the boundary between life and death. At the same time, experiences reported by resuscitated people sometimes defy what\u2019s thought to be possible. They claim to have seen and heard things, though activity in their brains appears to have stopped.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds supernatural, and if their memories are accurate and their brains really have stopped, it\u2019s neurologically inexplicable, at least with what\u2019s now known. Parnia, leader of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nourfoundation.com\/events\/Beyond-the-Mind-Body-Problem\/The-Human-Consciousness-Project\/the-AWARE-study.html\" target=\"_blank\">Human Consciousness Project\u2019s AWARE study<\/a>, which documents after-death experiences in 25 hospitals across North America and Europe, is studying the phenomenon scientifically.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2013\/04\/consciousness-after-death\/\">Read the whole thing.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors performing &#8220;resuscitation medicine&#8221; keep finding people living longer after they are clinically dead \u2014 and talking about it: New techniques promise to even further extend the boundary between life and death. At the same time, experiences reported by resuscitated people sometimes defy what\u2019s thought to be possible. They claim to have seen and heard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-5470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-death"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1qe","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8807,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8807","url_meta":{"origin":5470,"position":0},"title":"How Long Until You Know You&#8217;re Dead?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"October 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"People who are familiar with occult tradition \u2014 and I would put most Hardscrabble Creek readers in that group \u2014 probably accept the idea of consciousness continuing after bodily death, in some form. Materialist medicine, however, does not, which is why this research is interesting. Scientifically speaking, this research, which\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"death\"","block_context":{"text":"death","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=death"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3860,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3860","url_meta":{"origin":5470,"position":1},"title":"A Glitch in the Matrix","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"February 23, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Jonathan Korman's blog, a collection of \"glitch in the Matrix\" stories collected through Reddit. 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In conjunction with Stanley Lombardo's audio recordings of his translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey, they had the print edition which I had not seen before.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Greece\"","block_context":{"text":"Greece","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=greece"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=chascli-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0872203522","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4147,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4147","url_meta":{"origin":5470,"position":5},"title":"Necrophilia: An Ancient Egyptian Tradition?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"April 26, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This may be the worst sort of environmental determinism, but what is it with Egypt? Is there something in the Nile water? For centuries Egyptian Paganism seemed to function\u2014on one level\u2014as as sort of post office of the dead. 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