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Science Explains Claims

of Life After Death

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7. People May Have Different Levels
of Consciousness After They Die
In the same study, Dr. Parnia noted that out of
the 360 patients in the study, many of these
patients recalled dramatically different
experiences of their time after death. Out of all
of the patients interviewed, 39 percent said that
they had distinct feelings of consciousness but
that they were unable to describe anything that
happened to them or around them during the
period when they were clinically dead.
About 46 percent of all of the patients
interviewed said that they had some recollection
of their near death experience; however, these
memories do not fit in with the general
knowledge about near-death experiences. Only
9 percent of the patients interviewed actually
experienced the bright lights that are most
commonly associated with a near death
experience. study is impossible. Are they making them up? color, height and weight are all things that are
Many of the people with memories Are they merely tricks the brain plays to cover established partly through the heredity of genes.
remembered feeling scared and persecuted up the trauma? It remains impossible to tell.
while they were dead. As for the man who accurately described But it is not just physical features that live on
But people’s experiences varied widely. the scene after his death, that alone can finally through these genes. Some studies suggest that
Some people felt joyful while others described justify further investigations into the problems the trauma you experience can be passed on
being enveloped a bright light. Some believed of life and death. through your genes as well. Recent studies have
they had encountered a kind of mystical or suggested that Holocaust survivors’ genetics
mythical being. Only 13 percent of the people 5. If We Are Conscious after Death, It were affected by the indescribable trauma they
with these recollections felt as though they had Is Not Clear How Long This suffered during the Second World War.
been separated from their body. A new study was released by researchers
Consciousness Lasts
The variety of experiences that patients at Mount Sinai hospital in New York. The study
Assuming that the brain truly can live on after
in this study reported suggests that if there is life looked at the genetics of 32 Jewish men and
the death of the body, the next question is, how
after death, or in this case, brain function after women who had either experienced torture at a
long can the brain function after death? The
death, then this experience is vastly different for concentration camp or who had to go into
answer to that question makes a huge difference
everyone. hiding during WWII.
in many areas that are currently considered to be
There have been several reports in the If it is true, the process of passing on
pseudo-science.
media over the years of people who have come trauma through genes is called epigenetic
The belief in ghosts and spirits is one of
back from the edge at the last moment and inheritance. This is the idea that your lifestyle
the most common paranormal beliefs. The
claimed to have their lives flash before them. can go on to affect the genetic disposition of any
belief is spread around the world, regardless of
Some claim that they were taken in by a warm, children you have. It can even potentially be
education or religion. People from all walks of
brilliant light. While many of these reports are passed on to grandchildren.
life claim not only claim to have seen or feel the
written off as hallucinations at best and outright Epigenetic inheritance is very
presence of someone who is known to be dead
lies at the worst, this new study provides some controversial within science but it has been
but truly believe that this is the case.
scientific merit to the experiences humans have studied in many areas. One study suggested that
Of course, the belief of ghosts and
encountered for years. Dutch women who gave birth to girls during the
spirits has been capitalized on by media and
famine that came at the end of WWII saw that
Hollywood. But, the legend of a dead person’s
6. Consciousness Cannot Be Proven by these babies would grow up to have a higher
spirit remaining among the living is an
Science incredibly old one. If it was possible that than average risk of schizophrenia.
Unfortunately, even after at least 2,000 years of consciousness, whatever it is, could continue Although the details have not yet been
trying to understand human consciousness, no even after the heart stops beating and the brain determined, the idea does not sound
one seems to have any real answers. The topic stops functioning, then the idea of ghosts is not preposterous. Accounts that deal with the
was first documented as being considered by the as far-fetched as it once was. survivors of the Armenian death marches in
Greeks and thinkers around the world have been 1915 would suggest that not only were the
infatuated with the subject for years. 4. You Live On Through Your Genes traumas encountered suffered by those who
Consciousness cannot be proven. People lived through it, but subsequent generations of
Thinking about life after death is not limited
can’t even think about their own consciousness. the survivors families would find that they
purely to consciousness. People’s traits and
The main problem, so far, with the perception of suffered some of the same fears as their parents
personalities can live on long after they die
consciousness is that people cannot even think and grandparents did while living through the
through their genes. Genetic science, one of the
of the questions to find the answers to. genocide during World War I.
harder sciences of the biological set and it is
Philosophers, psychoanalysts, doctors
somewhat easier to experiment with than
and learned people from all walks of life have (Continued on Page 11)
psychiatry or neuroscience because it does not
made thousands of attempts to discover what it
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means to be conscious and how a person is being truthful.
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