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Sam Parnia - What Do Near Death Experiences Mean?

2022-11-01 Education
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Stories of 'near death experiences' (NDEs) are legion, affecting all cultures and peoples. NDEs have similarities—white lights, tunnels, spirit beings, feelings of unity, comfort, love. Do NDEs 'prove' that 'Heaven is for real'? Or are they mere by-products of shocks to the brain during times of physiological trauma and insults? Is there a science of NDEs? Make a donation to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywalls: https://shorturl.at/OnyRq Free access to Closer to Truth's library of 5,000 videos: http://bit.ly/376lkKN Watch more interviews on near death experiences: https://bit.ly/3Dr4J6r Sam Parnia is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Register for free at CTT.com for subscriber-only exclusives: http://bit.ly/2GXmFsP Closer to Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.

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@popeck27 2022-11-01

We must also consider what people (NDErs) report during this experience. To me it’s an additional « proof » that consciousness is not produced by the brain and our identity still continues after body dies. Because the content of these experiences are very similar from one person to another , not like dreams or personal thoughts. They travel « somewhere », they meet beings, they see their body and then they see or feel loving light, they understand things about our reality and existence. These experiences are spiritual and very profound. They are life changing. I cannot understand how a dying brain could be « programmed » to deliver such experiences. Why? No there is something more

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@arthurwatt5162 2022-11-17

My daughter works in hospice and she works with elderly patients close to death and she can now predict who is close to passing. They see loved ones sometimes pets in the corner of the room only they can see and say they have come for them. To help guide them to the other side.

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@Lea31706 2022-11-17

I had a NDE nearly 30 years ago and remember laughing at the time because we know everything already we just forgot, no one can ever tell me it didn’t happen,humans just can’t get there heads around it

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@teeniequeenie8369 2022-11-02

IF YOU LISTEN TO ENOUGH OF THESE NDE STORIES YOU CANT HELP BUT KNOW THERES SOMETHING VERY SPECIAL ABOUT THEM.

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@greyangelpilot 2022-11-03

One of Robert Lawrence Kuhn's best segments on the viability and validity that consciousness is perhaps a fundamental, separate part of brain function. Keep delivering these kinds of insightful, and enlightening segments Robert & team !

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@joeclark1621 2022-11-04

I am not sure what continues to held us back from concluding that there is something after this life considering how logical what Sam is saying seems. I guess the fact that it is still a mystery but when you think about it logically, if consciousness continues after physical brain death, then why would it suddenly stop existing! I mean medically, there should be no experience once the brain is flattened, yet you have so many ppl some of which have even verified things they could not have known otherwise, it is quite fascinating to say the least.

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@michaelt1775 2022-11-19

Sam parnia Is a genius medical expert his work in the field of science and consciousness are making discoverys daily

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@ThisDoctorKnows 2023-01-17

Physicalism is fascinating to observe. It fails to account comprehensively for the reality we observe, yet paradoxically it’s adherents hold to it with religious fervor reminiscent of fundamentalists. The same for scientism. The truth is that physical reality and the scientific method are part of the story of reality but clearly not all of it. One day we will realize that fact and learn vastly more about reality than we do now.

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@Farsider3955 2022-11-06

🤔…..well, this time I’m speechless. This is the best “Closer To Truth” vid I’ve seen so far.

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@khajashaik359 2022-11-04

This the best ever video I've ever seen on the channel. Next to Suskind's black hole description. Awesome experience. 👏

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