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Bereavement

Clouds Passing

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4. Excellent article.

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Thu Dec 26, 2024, 11:27 AM

Dec 26

Even though the body and brain experience physical processes during death, do those brain activities actually produce the experiences of otherworldliness? Or are the experiences of otherworldliness actually real? Death is cellular and complete in the body, yet the loss of consciousness we know little about. The study of consciousness is going to need ingenious experiments to test these hypotheses.

Lamas emphatically state that our consciousness goes on lifetime after lifetime.

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The new science of death: 'There's something happening in the brain that makes no sense' [View all] littlemissmartypants Dec 26 OP

Fascinating... I do want a scientific approach (non-"spiritual," non-"faith-based" approach to studying this hlthe2b Dec 26 #1

Excellent article Easterncedar Dec 26 #2

1+ keithbvadu2 Dec 26 #3

Excellent article. Clouds Passing Dec 26 #4

The article gives the soul deniers credibility by insisting that BRAIN activity Karadeniz Dec 26 #5