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For as long as modern medicine has existed, doctors believed the same thing. When the heart stops and blood stops reaching the brain, you have only a few minutes before the brain goes dark and silent for good. Everything after that is just the body shutting down.
Then a team led by a resuscitation specialist named Dr. Sam Parnia decided to actually test it. In a study spanning twenty five hospitals, they placed brain monitors on patients while doctors performed CPR on them, while these people were, by every clinical definition, dead. What the monitors recorded should not have been possible. In some patients, bursts of organized, near normal brain activity flickered back, sometimes as long as an hour into the resuscitation.
And a number of those who survived came back with stories. They described watching the whole thing from above, seeing the team work on their own body, feeling a deep sense of peace, reviewing their lives. The researchers gave it a careful name. Recalled experiences of death.
These are not campfire stories. They are brain readings logged in hospitals and published in medical journals.
Is it possible that some part of awareness lingers after the heart quits, in that gray space we have always assumed was simply nothing?
The dying brain firing its last sparks, or evidence that something in us outlasts the body? What do you think those patients really experienced?
What do you think about this? In 1615 a Spanish pearl ship is said to have sailed into an inland sea that then dried up. In 1870 a Los Angeles paper reported its hull found in the desert near the Salton Sea. Every searcher since has lost it to the sand. Mirage, or a galleon in the dunes?
What do you think about this? On May 20, 1967, a prospector in Manitoba walked up to a landed craft near Falcon Lake. It blasted him with hot gas and left a grid of burns on his chest matching its vents. Three governments investigated. Canada put it on a coin. Hoax, or the real thing?
What do you think about this? Serpent Mound in Ohio is a 1,348 foot snake of earth, its head aimed at the summer solstice sunset, its body built on the rim of an ancient meteor crater. One dating puts it right after Halley’s Comet in 1066. Sacred art, or a message for the sky?
What do you think about this? Since the early 1990s about two percent of people in Taos, New Mexico, hear a low hum like a distant diesel that never shuts off. In 1993 Los Alamos and Sandia scientists came to find it. Their instruments found nothing. Trick of the ear, or a hidden signal?
What do you think about this? In 1974 a retired air traffic controller cast footprints in Louisiana’s Honey Island Swamp: three webbed toes, a foot long. He had reported a seven foot gray haired creature with yellow eyes standing over a dead boar in 1963. Hoax, or the Letiche?
What do you think about this? For nearly three years beginning April 2, 1968, a glowing figure of a woman appeared on the roof of a church in Cairo, seen by crowds of tens of thousands, Christians and Muslims together, and caught in press photographs. Mass illusion, or a visitation?
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