Coscienza oltre la vita. La scienza delle esperienze di premorte

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

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 Leggi tutto

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 Leggi tutto

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 Leggi tutto

Wat een slecht, ontzettend slecht, boek. Een cardioloog die zich op het gebied van de neuroloog begeeft is al dubieus, maar die dan ook nog uitspraken over kwamtummechanica gaat doen. En dan onthutsende lariekoek produceert. En dat terwijl bijna-dood ervaringen heel interessant zijn.

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!

Here is a book on near death experience (NDE) by someone who took it extremely seriously (with rigorous research data). There now absolutely no doubt about the phenomena, but the open question remains of how we interpret it. Van Lommel tries with reductionist approaches and finds its limitations. Th Leggi tutto

Mooi overzicht van de wetenschappelijke analyses van het onderscheid tussen het bewustzijn en de hersenen nav bijna dood ervaringen. Ook interessant te lezen hoe hier in de geschiedenis mee is opgegaan en wat de houding van wetenschappers en medici hierop is. Als christen ben ik me vanuit de bijbelse Leggi tutto

Superb book that makes you think...if you approach it with an open mind. This was a truly brilliant book that presents a fascinating approach to answering the question of what happens after we die. I fear the people dismissing it as "pseudoscience" are doing so not from a point of view of actually