{"id":8807,"date":"2017-10-19T12:15:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T18:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8807"},"modified":"2017-10-22T16:07:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T22:07:14","slug":"how-long-until-you-know-youre-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8807","title":{"rendered":"How Long Until You Know You’re Dead?"},"content":{"rendered":"

People who are familiar with occult tradition \u2014 and I would put most Hardscrabble Creek<\/em> readers in that group \u2014 probably accept the idea of consciousness continuing after bodily death, in some form.<\/p>\n

Materialist medicine, however, does not, which is why this research is interesting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Scientifically speaking, this research, which was first published in 2014<\/a>, says our consciousness may still function for a period of time after our physical body is declared dead. So, in theory, a person could literally hear themselves be pronounced dead by a doctor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is a long tradition of such research though. I recall how some 18th-century French scientist (probably executed himself during the Reign of Terror<\/a>) persuaded friends who had appointments with Madame Guillotine to start blinking their eyes as the blade came down and to keep blinking as long as they could thereafter, his way of asking the same question.<\/p>\n

(That Wikipedia entry is kind of scary itself. How much do some of the French revolutionaries resemble the social justice warriors of today, such the ones who shouted down an American Civil Liberties Union speaker <\/a>by chanting deeply philosophical slogans such as “Liberalism is white supremacy”? Read the entry for the inevitable trajectory such movements take, from outrage to radicalism to authoritarian radicalism to mass murder to collapse.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 was first published in 2014, […]<\/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":[96,79],"class_list":["post-8807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-death","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-2i3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5470,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5470","url_meta":{"origin":8807,"position":0},"title":"Consciousness after Death: “Neurologically Inexplicable”?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"April 25, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Doctors performing \"resuscitation medicine\" 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\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":4147,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4147","url_meta":{"origin":8807,"position":1},"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. All those mummified cats, ibises, crocodiles, etc. neatly stacked in little\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":1668,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1668","url_meta":{"origin":8807,"position":2},"title":"Video Gaming and Lucid Dreaming","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"June 5, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Some researchers think that playing video games may help dreamers to have and control lucid dreams more ably. The first study suggested that people who frequently played video games were more likely to report lucid dreams, observer dreams where they viewed themselves from outside their bodies, and dream control that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"dreams\"","block_context":{"text":"dreams","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=dreams"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":493,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=493","url_meta":{"origin":8807,"position":3},"title":"Pagan studies, nature religion at\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"August 18, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Pagan studies, nature religion at AAR-SBLFor anyone attending the annual meetings of the American Academy of Religion and Society for Biblical Literature in Philadelphia in November, here is a quick--and not necessarily definitive--list of the Pagan-studies sessions.First, the all-day Conference on Contemporary Pagan Studies, which has been happening since 1998\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10239,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10239","url_meta":{"origin":8807,"position":4},"title":"Anderson\/Feri Tradition Material Cataloged at Valdosta State University","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"February 21, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Anderson (1917\u20132001) and Cora Anderson (1915\u20132008) founded the Feri tradition of Witchcraft (which had multiple spellings). Since their passing, their papers and home library has been divided among several recipients: the Oakland, Calif., public library, the New Alexandrian Library, and some private purchasers. A large number of their books,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"academia\"","block_context":{"text":"academia","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=academia"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Victor_H_Anderson.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12059,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12059","url_meta":{"origin":8807,"position":5},"title":"Christmas, When the Veil is Thin","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"February 11, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"In December (yeah, this is late) I was tapped by a public library in Oregon to give an hour's Zoom lecture on the \"Pagan origins of Christmas.\" I did it, but that format is still pretty weird. How many people are watching? Three? Thirty? Three hundred? And are they awake?\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"ancestors\"","block_context":{"text":"ancestors","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=ancestors"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Christmas-eve-lantern-1-238x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8807"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8827,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8807\/revisions\/8827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}