CONSIDER THIS: What If Your Consciousness Does NOT End at Death?
This statement will come as a shock, or perhaps to some a joke, but here goes: Scientific evidence is growing that your consciousness does not end when your heart stops beating, the attending physician makes note of your time of death, and your physical remains begin deterioration.
What? It’s true, the scientific evidence is accumulating as researchers learn more and more about what follows death. Dr. Sam Parnia, who does not profess the Christian faith and indeed is not a declared follower of any of the world religions, has been researching this realm for years.
Parnia is Associate Professor of Medicine at the NYU Langone Medical Center where he is also director of research into cardiopulmonary resuscitation. In the United Kingdom, he is director of the Human Consciousness Project at the University of Southampton. Parnia is known for his work on near-death experiences and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
The professor makes it a point to not get involved in debates on religion. But his summary statement of what his research and that of others doing similar work is that “consciousness, psyche, the soul exists yet it’s a separate undiscovered entity to the brain. It’s most likely a very subtle type of nature, it’s not immaterial, it’s not weird and magical.”
If Parnia is correct, a whole bunch of folks who are convinced that death is the absolute end of everything for humans should at least acknowledge that maybe there is more to this issue than they have previously acknowledged.
The following Closer to Truth 9:39 interview with Parnia covers a lot of ground but is generally quite accessible for those of us who aren’t scientists. Please do watch it and then share your thoughts in the Comments:
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Check out this analysis on Mind Matters by Denyse O’Leary, a Canadian free lance journalist who specializes in covering issues related to science and faith.
A fascinating discussion but what was discussed within the nine minutes could have been discussed within two minutes. I wish they had gone deeper to discuss actual cases and why he believes what he says he believes, based upon his clinical observations.
I agree with you, Theodore Peter Savas, especially in the desire for some specific cases. I will be looking for another video in which Parnia does so.
Interesting how the interviewer insists that the “discoveries” cannot confirm an immortal soul and might even confirm that the soul cannot be immortal because we now might be able to prove its existence. There’s only so much room on the head of that pin and apparently it’s not enough to treat the scientific theory of a soul as a starting point but rather a definition, something the scientist does not claim.
I thought that was quite a reach by the interviewer.
I don’t know who the interviewer is, but he seems to be rather desperate in his attempts to get his guest to make a statement that would undermine any belief in the soul as an immortal component of humanity.
Indeed, and I think he tried three times to get Parnia to take on the religion issue, which Parnia absolutely refused to address. Still found Parnia’s analysis to be quite interesting, even if he did qualify it by insisting that the soul consists of some sort of as-yet undiscovered material.
It appears that the interviewer is desperately trying to disprove the existence of the God of the bible, and that he will someday have to face Him. Hopefully, God gives him eyes to see and a heart to understand.