Near Death Experience

Near Death Experiences lead to some very interesting ideas being explored that are at the edge of our currrent ideas of consciousness and notions of mind/body. Two main sites that explore the area are:

• The International Association for Near-Death Studies
• Near-Death Experiences and the Afterlife

A programme that explored this topic was "The Day I Died" which was shown on BBC2 on the 5th February 2003. This programme included research work of the following people.

Visions of a Dying Brain or Visions of a New Science of Consciousness review of a lecture by Drs Sam Parnia and Peter Fenwick.

Here is an an Australian radio interview with Dr Sam Parnier.

Dr Michael Sabom's Research of life and death experience in operating theatres.

Dr Stuart Hameroff has collaborated with Roger Penrose to produce a quantum level theory of consciousness called "Orchestrated objective reduction" or Orch OR, which is said to occur in the microtubules in the cells of the brain. See the Penrose-Hameroff Orch OR Publications. I personally find this latter particularly exciting as a possible model of consciousness.