Show Notes
A neuroscientist's near death experience: six years ago, after a long surgery, my heart stopped for three to five minutes. Here's what I saw, and what the science says.
I flatlined in the ICU, left my body, and watched my husband Mac bang on the door shouting that something was wrong. In this episode, my daughter Dominique and I talk through that experience, a shared death experience I had years later, and why so many researchers now say a dying, oxygen-starved brain can't explain what people report.
🔬 What you'll learn:
• What happens when you die, from someone who came back and studies consciousness for a living
• Why the oxygen deprivation and hallucination theories don't match what experiencers describe
• How nearly dying can take away the fear of death for good
• What a shared death experience is, and why the reports are so consistent
• How your mind drives your brain, and why that gives you more power than you realize
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📚 Research mentioned:
Dr. Raymond Moody, Life After Life
Dr. Bruce Greyson, After
Dr. Michael Egnor, The Immortal Mind
Dr. Eben Alexander, Proof of Heaven Dr. Sam Parnia, AWARE-II study (Resuscitation, 2023)
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