![]() Throughout millennia people have tried bizarre ways to revive the dead. When we die, that entity we call consciousness or the self doesn’t necessarily become “immediately annihilated,” Parnia believes. Modern science simply lacks the tools to show it. ![]() Parnia, now a critical care and resuscitation specialist at New York’s NYU Langone Medical Center, believes human consciousness may continue after our heart stops beating for some undetermined period of time.Įvidence from AWARE and other studies, he says, raises the possibility that the mind or consciousness - the psyche, the “self,” the thing that “makes me Sam” and that makes us uniquely who we are - may not originate in the brain and may be a separate, undiscovered scientific entity, similar in nature to the electromagnetic waves that can carry sound and pictures. ![]() The case was part of a widely reported study Parnia published in 2014 called AWARE - the awareness during resuscitation trial, the world’s largest study of what happens to the human mind and consciousness in the early period of death. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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