'Near death, explained'
I read Moody's opus in the mid-70s.. will eschew details of subsequent enquiries, especially of the im-material.
The scientific NDE studies performed over the past decades indicate that heightened mental functions can be experienced independently of the body at a time when brain activity is greatly impaired or seemingly absent (such as during cardiac arrest). Some of these studies demonstrate that blind people can have veridical perceptions during OBEs associated with an NDE. Other investigations show that NDEs often result in deep psychological and spiritual changes.
These findings strongly challenge the mainstream neuroscientific view that mind and consciousness result solely from brain activity. As we have seen, such a view fails to account for how NDErs can experienceÂwhile their hearts are stoppedÂvivid and complex thoughts and acquire veridical information about objects or events remote from their bodies.
Excerpted with permission from
ÂThe Brain Wars: The Scientific Battle Over the Existence of the Mind and the Proof That Will Change the Way We Live Our Lives.Â
http://www.barnesand...ean=9780062071569
Courtesy of HarperOne.
Book due 4/24/12
Of course too, Eastern thought has long ID'd 'the mind' as, most-often ... "the monkey-mind".
With sufficient practice, a one can observe the 'mind' spewing out junk as if from a random BD's dev null.
Clearly more attention shall be paid in any next, as this Query relates to the core of all the superstitions, religio warz and..
the G.O. (Tea-)P., now so evidently:
the epitome of The Monkey MindÂ
Bon appetit
