Bibliograph

Consciousness beyond life, the science of the near-death experience, Pim van Lommel

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Label

Consciousness beyond life, the science of the near-death experience, Pim van Lommel

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references(p. [413]-434) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Consciousness beyond life

Responsibility statement

Pim van Lommel

Sub title

the science of the near-death experience

Summary

Dr. Pim van Lommel, a renowned cardiologist, was so inspired by the stories his patients told of their Near Death Experiences (NDEs) that he became the first medical practitioner to risk his reputation with a full, systematic trial into the phenomenon. He interviewed 344 heart patients at his hospital who had all clinically died, some for five minutes or longer, before being resuscitated. The author claims these are authentic experiences which cannot be reduced to the imagination, psychosis or an oxygen deficiency; people are permanently changed by an NDE. In After Life, Van Lommel explains how people who are clinically dead can have such a transformative experience

Target audience

adult

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