A new scientific study has recommended that dying rats encounter an abnormal course of intense neural activity throughout their last moments of existence. This enlarged brain use might be in line with (and thusly describe) Human accounts of near or after death experiences, as reported by some people around the world.
Approximately a 5th of all folks who have survived a cardiac arrest have reported having an ‘After Death Experience’ or ADE. This is sort of an alarming stat, specially as the ADE tends to have a profound effect within the life of the survivor. Having an ADE is seen by many as indisputable evidence of an afterlife or a continuation of the individual’s soul after death.
Equally, a ‘Near Death Experience’ (or NDE) is believed being comparable to an ADE, but noticeably happens whilst the patient remains to be technically alive. Some people who experience NDE’s report a floating sensation or ‘From Body Experience’ (OBE), as well as encounters with angels, dead family members and loved ones. Both NDE and ADE survivors frequently portray traversing an extended tunnel in the direction of an intense light.
Deliberations of life after death seems in early scriptures, archaeological sites and many subsequent works of philosophy and possess fascinated (and frightened) Human beings, no matter of creed, ethnic group or culture, since time immemorial.
After recovering from surgery in 1979, Jazmyne Cidavia-DeRepentigny of Hull, Georgia, USA, reported a stereotypical NDE account that was ultimately published in the book ‘Beyond The Light’ by P.M.H Atwater in 1994. Like many people, Jazmyne recounts information of her surgery that might be very complicated to obtain were she lying.
Jazmyne says that “I was floating over my body. I could see and listen to everything that was being said and done. I left the area for a minute and came back to where my body lay. I knew why I died. It is because I couldn’t breathe. There was a tube along my throat and the health staff didn’t have an oxygen mask on my nostril. I had also been given too much sedative”.
She went on to describe her attempts to get rid of the tube from her throat in a relatively traumatic account.
Prior to the aforementioned study, it is established incontrovertible fact that neural activity ceases once the heart stops. This has now been demonstrated as being untrue, at the least so far as rats are concerned. It’s also the strongest presumption to this point regarding the reasons of ADEs, OBEs and NDEs.
One of those scientists responsible for these results, Dr. George Mashour of the University of Ann Arbour, Michigan, USA said that the team was “surprised with the high degrees of activity” within the rats. “In truth, at near-death many identified electric signatures of consciousness exceeded levels found within the waking condition, signifying the brain is capable of well-organized electric activity over the early phase of clinical death.” He said.
The team’s lead scientist, Dr. Jimo Borjigin added that “This report tells us that drop of oxygen or both oxygen and glucose during cardiac arrest can stimulate brain activity that’s characteristic of mindful processing,”
However, Dr. Martin Coath from the University of Plymouth, UK was a little critical of the team’s findings.
Dr. Coath said, since the rats were anaesthetized, the findings better demonstrated the unconscious brain’s response to a dangerous lack of blood flow and oxygen. He also said that the study had not necessarily showed that any ‘heightened conscious processing’ had actually taken place, signifying the wording of that conclusion was “a bit of a stretch”. He commented that, while the results were “genuinely interesting” they were as well “hardly astonishing”.
The effects of the study will no doubt be of great importance to numerous in the scientific community, also as religious groups, those fascinated in the mystical and people who have experienced an ADE or NDE.
SOURCES:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/paranormal-death-experiences-explained-204403437.html#7mbMENa
http://www.iands.org/nde-stories/17-nde-accounts-from-beyond-the-light.html
(Possible) Explanation Presented for ‘After Death’ Experiences
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