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'Afterlife' feels 'even more real than real,' researcher says
April 18, 2013 at 10:31 am
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/09/health...index.html
Quote:Laureys heads the Coma Science Group at the university hospital in the city of Liege. He and his colleagues published a scientific study on NDEs late last month.
People who go on these fantastic journeys are often forever changed. Many seem to come back happier and no longer fear death, he said. The experience becomes a cornerstone of their lives.
Results of a psychological test reveal memories of Near Death Experiences to be more vivid than any other memoryResults of a psychological test reveal memories of Near Death Experiences to be more vivid than any other memory
NDEs feel "even more real than real," Laureys said. It's this sparkling clarity and living color of the experience, which many have when they lose consciousness, that he and his team have researched.
But he doesn't think it comes from a spirit world. Laureys is a scientist, he emphasizes. He prefers not to mix that with religion.
His hypothesis is that near-death experiences originate in human physiology. "It is this dysfunctional brain that produces these phenomena," he said.
Laureys and his staff are interested in how the brain creates the mind and its perception of reality. "Our main focus is consciousness research in comatose patients," he said. His team hopes to raise the quality of their comfort and care.
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RE: 'Afterlife' feels 'even more real than real,' researcher says
April 18, 2013 at 10:38 am
Doesn't surprise me that people feel this way. If you're in a coma -without all the interference that the exterior world imposes upon you via your senses- for example...I could see how free your imagination would be to conjure up a very vivid world indeed.
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RE: 'Afterlife' feels 'even more real than real,' researcher says
April 18, 2013 at 11:12 am
Of course he offers no evidence to support his claim that brain dysfunction produces NDE.
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RE: 'Afterlife' feels 'even more real than real,' researcher says
April 18, 2013 at 11:16 am
-therefore ghosts 
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: 'Afterlife' feels 'even more real than real,' researcher says
April 18, 2013 at 11:20 am
(April 18, 2013 at 11:12 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Of course he offers no evidence to support his claim that brain dysfunction produces NDE. He does say there's still a lot to research and that it's a difficult thing to research given the unpredictability of Near Death of any given person and you don't want to be taking brain scans while a whole team of doctors is trying to keep the patient alive.
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RE: 'Afterlife' feels 'even more real than real,' researcher says
April 18, 2013 at 11:44 am
(April 18, 2013 at 11:12 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Of course he offers no evidence to support his claim that brain dysfunction produces NDE.
The article describes it as "his hypothesis." If, per his emphasis, he is a scientist, then it seems typical that he'd hypothesize about the cause of NDEs, while allowing for further research to test and possibly reject his ideas.
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