Summary
The website content discusses the possibility of consciousness continuing after death, supported by personal experiences and a study by Dr. Sam Parnia.
Abstract
The article presents a profound exploration into the nature of consciousness beyond the threshold of death, intertwining personal anecdotes with scientific research. The author shares a deeply personal journey of mystical experiences post-cardiac surgery, describing encounters with an all-encompassing energy believed to be divine. These experiences have fortified the author's conviction in the survival of consciousness after death. Additionally, the article references a study by Dr. Sam Parnia at NYU's Langone Medical Center, which suggests that consciousness may persist for hours following clinical death, challenging traditional understanding of the relationship between consciousness, brain, and cardiac activity.
Opinions
I believe our consciousness continues after death.
I have never believed anything different.
These are my opinions and my personal beliefs.
Even before I listened to the theories of others with similar beliefs, I believed it to be so.
Even before I went searching, I believed.
I am persuaded that I will know myself and the people in my life.
I believe my ancestors that have passed on from this life retain the knowledge of who they are.
They know who I am and they will always be “aware” of who we are in relation to each other.
How can we be accountable and allow for soul-growth if we do not have recall?
I do not subscribe to the belief that we sleep in peace and rise in glory. I believe that once our spirits/souls vacate the physical house, death is then free to occur.
If the life-giving energy, the soul is present, death cannot / will not happen.
Since my surgery and following continued mystical experiences, I am even more firmly entrenched in my beliefs.
I felt a “newness” and constantly seemed to attract a forcefield of electrical energy to myself.
The electrical transfer I felt on more than one occasion has only served to deepen these beliefs.
Because I believe “God” was in the details. I felt his presence and his love.
There were times when I was recovering from cardiac surgery when I felt I was enveloped in his electrical energy.
The hairs on my body stood on edge. All of who I am was acutely aware of an energy that eclipsed everything else around.
An energy so all-encompassing, that it brooked no interference.
Each cell was so acutely aware of this life force I could not be still. I had no idea what it was at the time.
I would look this way and that trying to understand what the source was.
Though no one close to me was feeling this power and I was never alone when it occurred.
Because I was recovering from illness, someone was always with me or very close.
Now I am familiar with the feeling, and I experience a similar effect when the Holy Spirit visits with me.
This is never a feeling of fear, it is always a loving powerful presence, I know to be God.
Soon after my surgery, I began having these new experiences with electrical energy that I could not understand. I was not close to electrical outlets or using electrical equipment, yet I felt its invisible force.
The culmination of that force would come the day I saw the misty ball-like moving object that came in through the window I was next to and touched me on my right shoulder.
Immediately I was infused with a life force, a love, electrical energy if you will and I flew to my feet praising God.
I felt the encompassing love of God.
I have never felt a fraction of that love before, and I have not felt it since.
I was crying and praising and lost in the wonder of the divine.
It was the closest I came to heaven and deep worship and the one thing I have wished for more than anything else since then.
I long to have a minute taste of the glory I felt that day.
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
— Leonardo da Vinci
The above quote says better than I ever could my hopes after what I felt that day.
I wait with bated breath to be loved like that again.
Researchers at NYU’s Langone Medical Center have conducted a study of patients who have experienced near-death experiences, and the results are intriguing and chilling. Dr. Sam Parnia, the director of resuscitation research at NYU Langone, joins CBSN to discuss the findings of this mind-bending study. OCT 19, 2017
Here Dr. Sam Parnia speaks on the continuation of consciousness after death.
Is this the beginning proof of what I felt all along?
Proof that our consciousness succeeds death.
He concludes that consciousness continues for hours after death in the absence of cardiac and brain activity.
Of course, science has its limitations. Even this current hypothesis has not been possible before.
But for now, at least, an awakening seems to be taking place.
If you are curious about this topic, pull up a chair and feast.
Here is my re-entry story if you are curious.
Pene Hodge is a mom, a nurse, a writer. She writes because she must. She loves people and is committed to sharing and gleaning knowledge for the betterment of all.
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