Consciousness Beyond Life
The Science of the Near-Death Experience

First of all, I have to stress the difficulty of finding a reliable source of non-biased information on a topic such as Near Death Experiences, which is a field full of spiritual gibberish and religious hacks. 'Consciousness Beyond Life' was a refreshing break in the tide of gibberish, and while it......more

This book is a scientific study of near-death experiences (first half), followed by proposals about how near-death experiences might "work" and what those proposals mean for our understanding of consciousness (second half). And it's a fascinating read. I'm not sure how much I believe it (particularl......more

The author is a cardiologist who structured meticulous research around his patients. I expected the whole book to detail this research and current scientific information re. the brain, but there's a short section dealing with NDEs in history, myth and religion too. The central section is fairly scie......more

Ok, so there are reasons I rated this book a 2, below average, instead of a 3, average and balanced. The reason is this. The author gives too much anecdotal evidence to promote the theory that still could be false that there is life after death. Not much of his own experiences, and he writes too opti......more

Mooi wetenschappelijk boek over ons 'bewustzijn' dat (spoileralert) niet gekoppeld is aan de hersenen/ons lichaam. Met antwoorden op het leven na de Dood, het multidimensionale dat wij (99% van de bevolking) niet met ons 'menselijke' bewustzijn kunnen waarnemen en nog veel meer!......more