Near-death experiences are tricks of the mind triggered by an overload of carbon dioxide in the bloodstream, a new study suggests.
Many people who have recovered from life-threatening injuries have said they experienced their lives flashing before their eyes, saw bright lights, left their bodies, or encountered angels or dead loved ones.
In the new study, researchers investigated whether different levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide—the main blood gases—play a role in the mysterious phenomenon.
The team studied 52 heart attack patients who had been admitted to three major hospitals and were eventually resuscitated. Eleven of the patients reported near-death experiences.
During cardiac arrest and resuscitation, blood gases such as CO2 rise or fall because of the lack of circulation and breathing.
“We found that in those patients who experienced the phenomenon, blood carbon-dioxide levels were significantly higher than in those who did not,” said team member Zalika Klemenc-Ketis, of the University of Maribor in Slovenia.
He don’t ridicule this data. It is true that one sees bright lights and good things awaiting. Back when I was Napoleon and lay dying from the bastards who poisoned me, I saw the light, but to late. Then my next existence as a rat in an Indian Temple was cut short by a stupid jerk on a motorbike, no light then. Maybe that shit head would have seen me if he had one. So I do know there is an afterlife, currently I often feel I’m going to be making the trip again. Especially when I have one of those outrageous orgasms and see bight lights at the end.
The Ayurvedic herb Brahmi (latin: Bacopa Monnieri) causes long-term memory to radically improve when taken orally twice a day for 5 days or more.
In Ayurveda it is used to balance epilepsy. Its effect is similar to that of Ritalin, although much milder. In India it is used by students to prepare for exams etc.
A friend of mine started taking it regularly. A couple of weeks later he was sitting in a chair and had a flash where he experienced the entire past year in the space of a few seconds.
What is interesting about NDEs is not white light, but the fact that having your entire life flash in front of you is a valid experience. Correlate that to active substances in Brahmi and you have a small revolution in crime fighting: in my experience memory becomes very visual and vivid after a few days of regular intake, so witnesses will count for more.
#38–amodedoma==as usual, your words are gibberish. You talk just like a theist.
“All knowledge is to be taken in the context of the ignorance that contains and limits it.” /// OK, very zen and just as pretty. All surface, no depth.
Science. Testing. Reproducible results. Best explanation always open to a better one. Concepts of “ignorance” really have no function outside of a poetic nihilism of no import.
Every thought, notion, dogma, precept offered by religion has either been proven false or is not falsifiable, and yet it continues. Its not bounded by ignorance at all. Such as: no difference between the science of aspirin and the religion/ignorance of exorcism? That’s ok, I know you are joking.
So silly. Saying things you obviously don’t believe and not understanding the “point” you are unintentionally making.
So silly.
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Hey bobby, it sounds as if I offended you, I didn’t mean to. And yes, I do realize that science is a process, thanks for stating the obvious.
Furthermore, science is also a religion and a lot of others tihings as welll…it depends on how and who’s looking at it. Someday you’ll have the perspective to understand what I meant by it benefitting from more humility. Though you probably already do, but for some reason you just felt like being a smart a*s.
Thanks again, I’m glad you’re helping so much to bring things together, you’re one in a million, I’d be hard pressed finding someone like you on an internet comment board.
Correlation does not equal causation. Unless you can use a correlation to mock a bunch of non-materialists and their silly beliefs. Then the normal rules of logic go right out the window!
Science was so much more fun when it was about discovering the nature of reality rather than denying it.