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Life after death? Scientists claim proof
Is there life after death? The religious people know the answer is yes, but a new study may offer confidence to the science-minded who want proof.
According to a four-year State University of New York study, which examined 2,060 cardiac-arrest cases across 15 hospitals, there is indeed life after death.
"Contrary to perception, death is not a specific moment but a potentially reversible process that occurs after any severe illness or accident causes the heart, lungs and brain to cease functioning," says Dr. Sam Parnia, assistant professor of Critical Care Medicine and director of Resuscitation Research at The State University of New York, and the study's lead author.
"If attempts are made to reverse this process, it is referred to as 'cardiac arrest.' However, if these attempts do not succeed, it is called 'death.' In this study we wanted to go beyond the emotionally charged yet poorly defined term of NDEs to explore objectively what happens when we die."
The study reveals themes relating to the experience of death appear far broader than what has been understood so far, or what has been described as so called near-death experiences (NDEs). In some cases of cardiac arrest, for example, memories of visual awareness compatible with so-called out-of-body experiences (OBEs) may correspond with actual events.
For example, the study shows 39 percent of patients who survived cardiac arrest and were able to undergo structured interviews described a perception of awareness, but interestingly did not have any explicit recall of events.
"This suggests more people may have mental activity initially but then lose their memories after recovery, either due to the effects of brain injury or sedative drugs on memory recall," says Parnia.
Among those who reported a perception of awareness and completed further interviews, 46 percent experienced a "broad range" of mental recollections in relation to death that were not compatible with the commonly used term of NDEs. These included fearful and persecutory experiences.
Only 9 percent had experiences compatible with NDEs and 2 percent exhibited full awareness compatible with OBEs with explicit recall of "seeing" and "hearing" events. One case was validated and timed using auditory stimuli during cardiac arrest.
"This is significant, since it has often been assumed that experiences in relation to death are likely hallucinations or illusions, occurring either before the heart stops or after the heart has been successfully restarted, but not an experience corresponding with 'real' events when the heart isn't beating," Parnia explains.
In this case, he says, consciousness and awareness appeared to occur during a three-minute period when there was no heartbeat. This is paradoxical, he continues, since the brain typically ceases functioning within 20 to 30 seconds of the heart stopping and doesn't resume again until the heart has been restarted. What's more, the detailed recollections of visual awareness in this case were consistent with verified events.
"Thus, while it was not possible to absolutely prove the reality or meaning of patients' experiences and claims of awareness—due to the very low incidence (2 percent) of explicit recall of visual awareness or so called OBEs—it was impossible to disclaim them either and more work is needed in this area," Parnia says. "Clearly, the recalled experience surrounding death now merits further genuine investigation without prejudice."
"God does not exist": Stephen Hawking
The story of Stephen Hawking is a paradox: The 72 years scientist does not believe in miracles ignoring the fact that he is a living miracle himself, as he exceeded the life expectancy of a person with ALS.
The question of creation has tormented men since we can remember, and traditionally people have attributed to a divine action. Today science has refined the theory of the Big Bang and the Big Bang that originated the universe is more than confirmed. Thanks to the latest advances it is possible to understand exactly what had happened microseconds after, ie, how galaxies and planets were formed. But there is still no definitive answer on what happened before, what or who caused this outbreak and what is their reason for being.
For centuries scientists and philosophers have attempted to unravel these complex questions. The British cosmologist Stephen Hawking is one of the minds that have spent most time and energy devoted to the subject. His approaches and his life accomplishments have made him a star wherever he goes where people make their way to take a selfie at his side, and every sentence he utters is without any doubt a secure media headline. Lately, as a guest of honor of the festival of astrophysics Starmus on the island of Tenerife, his words again caused controversy when he unceremoniously reaffirmed that 'God does not exist', ignoring completely the laws of physics and science that he so much have tried to defend.
"In the past, before we understood the science it was logical to think that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation "he told the Spanish newspaper El Mundo. In his most famous work, A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, Hawking suggested that men would only know the "mind of God" when he managed to understand the theory of everything, which consistently seeks to unify the forces that govern the universe. The world famous astrophysicist considered agnostic, as though he could not scientifically prove the existence of a higher divine being, he had never closed the doors to that possibility: He simply believed that the concept of the divine was beyond his knowledge.
In 2010, however, he elaborated that idea in his book The Grand Design, where he declared that the universe came from nothing, spontaneously, as an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics. In short, in his point of view God is not necessary to explain the origin of everything. He has now confirmed his radical stance: "What I meant when I assured my statement about knowing 'the mind of God' was that we would understand all what God would be able to archive if he would now exist. But there is no God. I am an atheist. Religion believes in miracles, but these are not supported by science", he concludes.
That statement is no less paradoxical, because to many he is proof that miracles exist. At age of 21 he was diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a neurodegeneration disease that causes progressive muscle paralysis, the same that caused the anger of the Ice 'bucket challenge'. The doctors gave her two to three years, but miraclely Hawking defied predictions. Today, at 72, he can only move his eyes and cheeks. With those he controls a computer that allow you him communicate through a voice synthesizer. With robotic accent he insists that science is the answer to everything.
According to the scientist science alone is the way to understand the origin and structure of the universe. In fact, right now we are close to achieving this goal, "he adds. Hawking refers to the recent discovery of gravitational waves generated during the creation of the cosmos which confirms the idea of inflation. According to this, after the Big Bang, the universe expanded at a faster rate than light and in the process they may have created other universes, as if it were a pot of boiling water where hundreds of bubbles appear and collide. This position, known as the theory of the multiverse, sheds light on what happened before the big bang.
The British is optimistic, as for him, "there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind." Missing all the miracles that is happening around him and scientifically proven but not explained near death experiences or how the mediums have been able to speak with the death...
The Scole Experiments - Fact or Faked? (Video)
The phenomenallife have analized the scole experiment. Throughout the 1990s, a small group of people sat in a cellar in the English countryside village of Scole, England. These sitters and the two mediums who faciliated the phenomena they witnessed, may have ushered in a new form of physical mediumship.
Ever since the middle of the 19th century, believers and skeptics sat in groups called "circles" to witness mediumship. Early mediumship produced not only information apparently unknowable to the medium involved, but also fantastic and seemingly impossible physical phenomena. These included the production of physical historical artifacts from far away and the appearance of a mysterious substance that came to be known as "ectoplasm". According to believers this ectoplasm, which issued from the mediums themselves, could form into rods to manipulate the surrounding seance room environment and even manifest as materializations of the deceased who would walk amongst the sitters, touching them and conversing with them. Many sitters came away from these seances absolutely convinced they had made contact with their deceased relatives. They believed this because they saw a resemblance to their loved ones and the deceased speaking to them seemed to know things and exhibit behaviors that were unknown outside their immediate family and friends.
Many believe these physical seances stopped sometime in the early 20th century and that the belief in Spiritualism likewise died out. Nothing could be further from the truth. Spiritualism as a belief system has reformed and is very much in existence. Today many believers attend home circles, which are generally not-for-profit. Modern physical mediums develop in these circles and they are today strictly social affairs, much as they began in the 19th century. But there are professional physical mediums still working. Some modern Spiritualists attend these commercial seances. The work of the professionals is simply not as well known today to the general public.
The Scole Experiments
The aforementioned modern Scole sessions stood out as a new type of physical mediumship in two significant ways. First, they employed an "energy" based production of phenomena instead of the ectoplasm-based phenomena of old. Robin Foy led the Scole group and is a veteran of decades of physical mediumship research. According to Foy, the energy-based physical phenomena production is far less taxing to the medium, more efficient and more productive than the older ectoplasm-based approach. Nevertheless, one can still find ectoplasm-based work in physical mediumship today. One modern example is the Fritz Experimental Group in Germany.
Skeptics Disagree
But skeptics have their doubts as they did in the 19th century. Drawing on a rich history of debunking claims of the psychic general and of physical mediumship in particular, most skeptics deride and denounce all such claims and their practitioners.
In an August 2012 "Coast to Coast" program, host George Noury interviewed professional mentalist and skeptic Mark Edward who was promoting his new book. Edward claimed he had reproduced the Scole phenomena purely by trickery. And he said he was troubled by the lack of apparent controls in the Scole sessions. It is unclear to what degree Edward actually produced the Scole phenomena. It is unlikely, for example, that Edward was able to reproduce detailed knowledgable discourses that took place between respected living scientists and purported "spirit scientists" during some of the Scole sessions.
The so-called "lack of controls" that troubled Edward is a very questionable criticism in the context of the events. Any professional entertainer who works as a seance medium knows it is incredibly difficult to perform these sorts of effects in a wide variety of venues. The Scole phenomena was produced on three continents over a period of a decade. Trickery is not a given in these cases in my professional opinion. This is not analogous to taking a magic show on the road. Nor is it a mentalism act. There are some significant props, equipment, and potentially people that would have to be employed in the production of these effects. There would have to be a way to secret these things.
But there are some holes in the Scole story. For example there was a second cellar room in the Foy home at Scole that was apparently checked only once at the outset of the phenomena and never again. If this room were where the props were stored and where assistants that might have been part of the "act" hidden, the Foys would almost had to have been implicated.
What most lay people don't know is that to fake the reported phenomena would have probably required a cast of characters. This was done back in the 19th and early 20th centuries. And similar things are going on today in some entertainment venues. Mediums of the period have openly admitted to having done these things. This is not a "might have happened" scenario - this is a "did happen" scenario, at least in those specific cases.
Mark Edward and his fellow skeptics seem to have forgotten that English ultra-skeptic Prof. Richard Wiseman built oen of the test boxes that was used at Scole to contain film artifacts. Unexplained writings and drawings appeared on these rolls of controlled and undeveloped film. Wiseman was convinced this box was a satisfactory control. He never attended a Scole seance, but that didn't prevent him from making derogatory comments about Scole with no personal experience to draw upon.
Even if these devices had been compromised, the sophistication needed to fabricate the messages in toto would have required scholarly knowlege which none of the four regular sitters possessed. So other scholars would had to have been involved. Difficulties keeping secrets grow exponentially with the number of people who know those secrets. The explanations must fit the facts. In contrast, the skeptics routinely reduce the data to what they can explain and reject everything else. This tactic is often employed when skeptics "review" psi research, for example.
Of course, it makes great headlines to say "Scole Debunked Says Professional Medium" - film at eleven. And it is very true that skeptics do understand the value of sound bites to the media, ever-hungry for stories that appeal to the lowest common audience denominator and play to ratings. In fact, the key criticism of professionals working in psi research is their relative inability, until recently, to package their results for the lay audience. Psi researchers still don't market to that audience as skeptics do. So it is no surprise skeptics can freely say anything to the media that advances their agenda, almost without hindrance.
Scientist meets Spirit
With regards to improving the quality of dialogs with mediums and their apparent controls, I have been working on protocols to engage mental mediums in the same sort of "knowledgable discourses" that apparently occurred at Scole.
The idea is to connect a so-called "spirit expert" with a living scientist through a medium. The discourse would be at the scientific level on a current problem with which the living scientist is struggling. The goal would be for a discourse or discussion between the two, through the medium, to yield a solution to the problem. This would of course have to be a solution that was demonstrably beyond the medium's skill and knowledge. The discussion would be in the language of the specialized area of knowledge as opposed to common everyday language. These factors taken together - the language used, the subject matter discussed and the formulation of a practical and workable solution for the living scientist - would conclusively demonstrate an intelligence behind the communications. There would be no guesswork to the scoring. Either the discussion was fruitful and led to a discovery or it did not. No cold reading would be possible. No fishing would be possible. No pre-work would be possible.
The greatest obstacle to success is the same as with most astounding phenomena demonstrations: finding suitable subjects. In this case the problem is exacerbated because one has to find not only a suitable medium but one who also has access to a qualified "spirit expert" and a willing living scientist who will risk his or her reputation in this endeavour.
None of these obstacles are insurmountable - they are simply difficult. Nothing is impossible; the improbable miracle just takes a bit longer.
It is possible that the events at Scole as well may have been indeed, one of those improbable miracles.
