The BBC reports on a new study into NDEs to take place at 25 hospitals, co-ordinated by Southampton University. An interesting part of the project will involve placing objects in positions whereby they can only be seen from a vantage point above the body.
Dr Sam Parnia, who is heading the study, said: “If you can demonstrate that consciousness continues after the brain switches off, it allows for the possibility that the consciousness is a separate entity.”
The experiments may shed some light on accounts such as this famous story of a tennis shoe on a window ledge observed by a heart-patient undergoing a near death out-of-body experience. It also partly recreates Stanley Krippner’s famous 1966 dream experiments from the Maimonides Sleep Labs [read Krippner’s account here].
Dr Parnia hopes to use 1500 heart-patients in the study and we look forward to hearing the results.
From the BBC