Past lives (Introduction)

by dhw, Thursday, November 07, 2013, 14:30 (4034 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: ...I wish more research was being done on NDEs, transplant memories, reincarnation memories, and your species consciousness, but you may be right: we just need to find connections.-DAVID: That is why I keep reading. I've just finished Parnia's book. They are plowing ahead with their research but no answers so far. Two things are apparent: they are extremely impressed by the NDE's and OOB's events described. Many are veridical. Also he fiercely defends, as I have, that these are not hallucinations. They are related to consciousness during what he calls actual death. They have resuscitated patients literally hours after they entered into a dying state, by chilling their bodies so cells would stay alive during low states of oxygenation. No observable brain function by all means of testing, and yet they are revived with these very lucid memories.-I'm still looking for connections. An elementary question: during these episodes, what happens to the heart? Is it kept pumping by artificial means? I ask because the implications of the transplant memories are that the brain is not the only seat of identity. Of course cell communities (organs) are interconnected, so why should the brain be the only container of identity (which includes memory)? Identity has to emerge from interaction between many cell communities. I'm not proposing anything ... just searching!