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Title Page Dedication Epigraph Foreword by Neal Grossman Introduction

PART 1 Does Consciousness Depend on the Brain?

The Issues at Stake Implicit Assumption behind the Empirical Arguments against the Possibility of Survival The Ancient and Medieval Worldview Classical Physics Quantum Mechanics Determinism and the Role of the Observer Psychokinesis and the Age of Electronics Implications for Physics and Consciousness Localism Nonmechanical Causation A New Conception of Matter Quantum Mechanical Theories of Mind Phenomena Quantum Mechanical Models of Mind Can Explain Materialist Theories of Mind The Dreaded Interaction Problem The Objections of Daniel Dennett Concluding Remarks Remarks on the Debate The Evidence from Neurophysiology Implications for Memory Implications for Survival Other Lines of Evidence Conclusions

Ancient and Modern Theories Objections of Skeptics Opinions from Neuroscience Physics and Consciousness Are Memories Stored in the Brain? Theories of Life

PART II The Near-Death Experience

Stages of the Near-Death Experience Feeling of Peace Separation from the Body Passage through Darkness Seeing a Light Encountering the Deceased or a Presence Life Review Entering the Light After Effects: The Impact of the Experience Faith and the Near-death Experience Factors Influencing the Near-Death Experience Inverted Near-Death Experiences The Meaningless Void Hellish Near-Death Experiences China India Native America Guam Maori New Zealand Discussion Near-Death Research Today Fantasy and Wishful Thinking Dissociated States Imaginative Reconstructions Semiconscious Perception Memories of Birth Endorphins Oxygen Starvation Does Anoxia Produce the Tunnel? Excessive Carbon Dioxide Can Rapid Acceleration Induce the Near-Death Experience? Temporal Lobe Seizures Conclusion Regarding Temporal Lobe Seizures and Near-Death Experiences The Ketamine Model Relevance of Ketamine for the Near-Death Experience Concluding Remarks Neural Disinhibition and the Out-of-Body Experience Perception of Dead Relatives The Physiology of the Dying Brain The Effects of Cardiac Arrest Case of the Missing Dentures “Flapping His Arms as if Trying to Fly . . .” Operation “Stand still” Summary But Are They Really Dead? Features of the Near-Death Experience Suggesting Survival

Reports from the Brink Into the Abyss: Horrific Near-Death Experiences Near-Death Experiences across Cultures Proposed Psychological Explanations Proposed Physiological Explanations Experiencing Death through Drugs? The “Dying Brain” Theory of Susan Blackmore Veridical Near-Death Experiences Near-Death Experiences of People Who Are Blind The Scientific Challenge to Materialism The Near-Death Experience as Evidence for Survival

PART III Deathbed Visions

Reports from India Differences between the American and Indian Surveys

Reports from England to India Alternative Explanations Comparison with the Near-Death Experience Epilogue: Next Footnotes Endnotes Bibliography About the Author About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company Books of Related Interest Copyright & Permissions

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