I am not a Christian, but I have had OBEs. I have looked at myself as an outsider. My consciousness has shifted momentarily. I have seen spirits. There is SOMETHING going on. I believe life after death is very real. There is more we don't know or understand than do

How do you explain people who were born blind or deaf and see or hear on the other side?

I've never heard of your work in this field, Dr Wilson but to get involved around this particular phenomenon (brain surges at the point of death supposedly) is a mistake. We can draw no conclusions whatsoever about what they mean, certainly they can't be attributed to the near death experience as they weren't able to tell us if they had one or not. And even if they did, what does that mean ? How does a surge in the brain of unknown etiology (it could be an uptake of chemicals, calcium for instance etc) account for the vast array of features reported ? What about all the veridical cases where patients accurately report events that occurred around them, sometimes in the next room and down the corridor? Is it likely that a dying brain would produce such an experience, only for it to be snuffed out for good a minute later, in accordance with the orthodox religion of materialism ? What is the evolutionary advantage of that ? It's quite amazing what lengths materialists will go to, to try and prove they are biological robots.

People report what happened 100+ meters away somewhat accurately. There is currently no good way of dealing with NDEs and OBEs scientifically.

Then how do they see their bodies from above in so many of them?

This does not explain how those who have flatlined can perfectly describe happenings in rooms for which they had no physical access.

I was shot in the head… I was in line for hell or heaven idk… decided to get out of line and got help by a old man woke up right away in the hospital. Vision blurry but I can hear my family voices and doctors nurse telling my family leave the room let me rest.

So... Basically this entire video just says, "Your brain does something, but... Not sure what." -- Thanks bud, thanks. Mind explaining to me, the phenomena of impossible information obtained through OBE (out of body experiences.) or even NDEs? For example, a lot of people have seen people in NDEs, that had died, and they had zero clue as to them dying to begin with. This also happens with people who claim to see loved ones while on their death bed, visit them. And also, people who have OBEs see things, that are completely independent of what is at that time, currently happening to them physically, and should be unaware of it, as they're fully unconscious. For example, they see people in other rooms of the hospital, or see people doing bizarre things that aren't normal. (Example, flapping their arms around.) They also might see (Items/people in other rooms, stains on shirts, or overhear conversations people have had in other rooms that they should have no ability to hear even while conscious.) Can hidden brain activity explain these things? You seem to be so smug, and confident in knowing nothing, in my opinion Sir. You might be smarter than me, but even someone as stupid as I, can see you're ignorant to what is going on in this world behind closed doors (so to speak).

This doesn’t explain NDE’s; it just explains brain activity before the individual passes.

Good video proving that everyone can be md but not everyone should be.

This doesn't explain my NDE. I was on a ventilator, in an induced coma, perfectly ventilated with normal arterial blood gases and stable vital signs.

So let me get this straight. There is apparently so much brain activity that a person can have fully lucid NDE....and yet there isn't enough brain activity to cause the pupils to respond to light????? (a key test for whether a person is declared dead)........Fact is if the brain was really as active as claimed, the patient would simply be able to get up and start screaming or interacting with the nurses and doctors directly just as you naturally would if you were awake.

Can I ask how can people see things happening around them when they are flat lined and can describe accurately everything that happened?

To explain NDE to an unbeliever is like describing green to the blind.

He doesn’t even know what consciousness is

So how do you explain people who have these same experiences who are supposed to be brain dead? And the parts of there brain that make them see stuff when there dying was completely switched off yet they remember everything? How do you explain that?

That does not prove the brain creates consciousness. The brain is like the antennae that just receives it.

this is the only video i've found that discusses this subject matter in a more disinterested and scientific manner, without the obligatory, and oppressive, deference to religio-spiritual implication. and i had to look a bit for it. thank you!

The dying brain explanation hasn't really ever made sense to me because of how composed the experiences are. For example, my grandmother had a very lucid experience where she was having conversations with her dead sister, and she was seeing dead relatives who had passed. How would a dying brain, with electricity flying everywhere, produce lucid visions that make sense? You would think it would be chaos if was just the brain dying and that they would be hallucinating crazy things like when someone is on drugs. (Sorry, my mom is on my youtube channel!) MOTHER, GET OFF OF MY ACCOUNT!

Once the body and brain dies, the soul alone sleeps until the appropriate time. 🕊

Interesting - an upload sometime prior to death …. In many accounts consciousness escapes the body and is able to observe events from a close distance, primarily from above the body . Clearly there is more to our limited technology, science needs to return to the drawing board.

This is because many people are between worlds during the nde. Meaning their soul can still cause a reaction in the brain.

Yes indeed thanks. Robert Temple's work explains, in his 2022 book and interviews about it, A New Science of Heaven - the Universe is not made of atoms; it's 99.9% plasma. The problem is that we've not been taught about energy in a true sense. The aboriginal people of ancient times understood much better. Death was accepted and embraced as a part of life and our spiritual experiences. Nowadays, most people are unable to think beyond their fears and obsessions and addictions. Thanks and love, Alan Chapman "Do we make life hell because we fear death that is not?"

The comments reveal everyones biases. I have my own. But I can still separate my bias and understand what the science says. Which currently cannot say anything about life after death. So even scientists claiming there is nothing after we die isn't a scientific statement. The findings in this video are fascinating nonetheless. One logic puzzle that I think about is if we are nothing but atoms, products of nature, and things like survival and self preservation are of the utmost importance, then why do many who experience an NDE say they dont want to come back to this life? That whomever they meet on the other side almost forces them to come back here? How did nature build that mechanism inside us using only evolution?

I want to believe that there is afterlife.

What a study. Repeating this on hundreds of people until we have a few survivors that can describe there "dreams" and we might end up learning.... well something.

The fact that you "won't discuss" the idea of consciousness surviving physical death just means you're limiting your level of knowledge and understanding. We don't need to push religious belief into the discussion, but refusing to even acknowledge that conscious survival is a theoretical possibility is self-limiting. Both string theory and quantum theory are based on physics that can't even be proven and yet, they are our most accurate explanations for the origins of the universe. In theory, the universe could be the information of a three dimensional space being stored and/or displayed on a two dimensional surface. Or.. We could very tiny bits of consciousness that are a part of a much larger single-conscious being. Or there's the possibility of having endless versions of you in a multiverse. We could also be a scripted simulation created by a higher intelligence or future generation who is controlling our every thought and action, while making it appear to us that we're in control. You gave a very "dry" and basic explanation of what might be happening in the human mind as it's dying, but you've failed to acknowledge all the other possibilities. Scientific discoveries have shown us that life is so far beyond the cut and paste science of space and matter... Like, the unexplainable physics of black holes, white holes, quantum mechanics, string theory, multi-dimensional science, quantum gravity, the physics behind superposition, atoms, and quarks. We've learned that everything we see and touch doesn't even physically exist, that our minds lie to us every second of the day. That physical matter actually has no physical matter. Or that time doesn't flow in one direction as we perceive it. And what about how time is relative only to the observer? Gravity determines how fast time moves. Or how everything is just empty space with different variations of vibrational strings. These were all recent "WTF moment" discoveries that forced us to realize that the meaning and origin of life goes far beyond what anyone could have ever imagined. We can't explain things that, at times, break the laws of physics... And yet, that IS our reality. So, don't shut out possibilities just because they sound impossible or ridiculous at the time. Science has proved to us that the impossible IS possible. That said.. We should always leave religious belief out of science, regardless of our personal beliefs and feelings. We only follow the science.. no matter where it leads. My suspicion is that the majority of people who claim to have had an NDE were either mistaken or are lying. But, here's the problem - Of the 4% - 15% of people surveyed who claimed to have had an NDE (survey conducted in the US, Germany, and Australia by IANS).... If just ONE SINGLE PERSON out of all of those people that reached clinical brain death was being honest and ACCURATELY described their conscious experience, then what does that tell you? Because what it tells me is that at least one person on this planet experienced consciousness after death, which means it has validity and should be further researched - no religious perspective or opinon needed. Coming up with reasons to explain it away doesn't do any justice to science.

I appreciate when neuroscientists discuss neural correlates of the brain and consciousness at or near death. It's an exciting question of our times. And yet, however well-meaning disclaimers about "being a materialist" who will not indulge in matters of "metaphysics" (the "structure to an afterlife"), the temptation to avoid discussing metaphysics is, evidently, extremely difficult. The once comforting belief that materialism is science is no longer tenable, if my higher education is to be trusted. It's metaphysics--philosophy, if you prefer--and not a tenet of science. The methodological framework assumed in the video is a level-headed one that unnecessarily, and surreptitiously, moves into, at first, relatively modest philosophical claims, couched in phrases such as "[m]ore likely [than the presummed "metaphysical structure to an afterlife"], it seems to me is ...." and then ends with the flagrant, unproven view that "the root of consciousness comes from ... very specific parts of the very complicated machine [!] that is the brain." Leaving aside the issue that the metaphor of the machine to describe organic processes is increasingly disparaged, the overview begins with the otherwise laudible belief that conscious experience is "mediated" (1:05) by the brain. However, we quickly discover that by mediation is meant derivation (1:26). It seems necessary even today to keep reminding ourselves that correlation is not causation. I'm not disputing the good doctor's right to believe whatever seems likely to him. I'm only pointing out that he's more of a metaphysician than he thinks. I'll leave it to others to decide whether the science really supports his metaphysical materialism.

This man has a big ego. No judgment torwards him.

knowing my luck, the light at the end of the tunnel will be a train - because I was subjected to horrific abuse of every type as an adolescent, at the hands of my family - does this mean I will have to meet them again and be nice, etc? certain persons ruined my life and it’s only because of my own personality that I didn’t become a criminal - I developed TLE on (both lobes) as a child, and at age 70, I’m in my third battle with cancer, but this is Stage 3 - so now I have a very good idea of how I’m going to die

This view explains the least regarding the near death experience.

This proves exactly zero

Did it occur to him that the spirit might still be somewhat connected to the brain, even when it's just left the body.

my hamster became an angel and then floated to heaven...how do you explain his poo on cedar chips in the after life?

I think you are going to find it VERY challenging to come up with a basis of first person experience from third person objects (materialism). It's not a problem of detail, it's a problem "in principle", like trying to derive a measure of social justice from a set of kitchen scales.

Isn’t this like one motherboard monitoring the electrical output of another motherboard and it’s circuits and deducing that it produces the illusion of a human operating it. Or better yet, the human does not exist. And the motherboard is just a random pile of firing electronic circuit boards? If you WERE the motherboard, how could you possibly figure out a way to even realize that the outside world really exists ? Or is it like measuring the heat output of a car engine and the rumblings of the engine and assuming that the car is the driver. That there can be no other “driver”. I’m not religious but I do think of it that way, and do believe in the larger consciousness.

If near-death experiences are just a result of some higher activity of the brain - how is it possible that people who 'come back' would remember what was said during an operation or what happened in another room? If there is higher brain activity near death, does not this fact refer to the possibiity that our brains are so much more capable of recieving, than just taking in our sensual experiences? Maybe there is some neurologic fundation for the 'sixth sense' or telepathy or similar phaenomena? On the other hand - I very strongly believe in a One-ness, in God or a Higher Spirit or however you may call it. Or in the teachings of Jesus. And I don't think, that science will ever prove something essential concerning the mystery of life - in contrary, this 'scientific experiments' have something cruel, heartless and I don't think just by logical messuring people will ever find the truth about life and death. The truth transcends science. As much as love and wisdom does.

Explain veridical ndes then mr expert on death???

This study is a sad attempt to debunk NDEs that many ( including myself ) have been through. Please explain how it was that I watched my mother bending over my deadish body and how I watched my brother and sister eating jello, which was verified later, by my vantage point up above by the roof?

I believe in this. NDE happens to people who actually wake up to tell us the story. So the brain somehow almost died and produces all those feelings and memories etc etc. You can do the same with drugs (especially mushrooms) and you will fly through the tunnel and have a nice understanding that everything is connected and see the bigger picture and have more understanding of things you usually don’t. So he’s not a unbeliever, he just says what if could be. But there are a lot of people, including my bf who had this experiance of looking from above in the room and seeing me him and a friend of us sitting on bed. So before we have conclusions, we need to rething reality and make sure we don’t go too far from reality and we don’t canell all the thoughts Nde ers had

I am saddened by the dishonesty of some scientists in trying to show that there is nothing spiritual about this world we live in. I am a stroke Consultant Physician of many years in the UK and I know that there is limit to scientific knowledge. We should be honest enough to admit that we cannot scientifically understand love, hate, ideas,trust, inspiration etc. Therefore trying to analyse these scientifically is silly. NDE is Supernatural. The most reasonable explanation is that Someone is sending consistent messages through these experiences. That Someone, in my view, is Jesus Christ. I have never read about NDE talking about things like watching a great football match of Manchester United or attending a concert of Taylor Swift.

It would be nice to see the control data of regular people waking up from a deep sleep.

"Evidence based" gave the game away.

Would also consider speaking to professor of philosophy at Yale Keith DeRose about this too though i like and have read his soterology 😊

Thank You for your Research Dr. Im guess The word death is what scares people the most sometimes, if we were to eliminate the word out of text books we would have been in happier experience. To me Memory has always been the devil, memory makes you suffer the most because you want to remember past loved ones and you want to remember good times and past events. When the memory fades away you are truly free from the pain. But also another part is telling me there is a lower level vibrational undetectable state that is equal to Shrodengers cat paradox where the soul is a accidental fuzzyness by chance where we are illuminating through the brain, and the brain acts as the illuminations transducer. But all the information that we gather is all in the brain but when we die we just illuminate within the vibrational field without perception and body but we are still mind, niether dead or alive.

This man proved that stuff happens to your consciousness after death but he doesn't disprove people's experiences and not come back to give testimonies.

What will be the social implications when ndes are proven to be a brain illusion? Thats alot for a human to comprehend. You are just a temporary animal and what you do or day doesn't matter, like a cow or horse. So do you just do what you want with your temporary experience and don't worry about repercussions? Just live for the moment?

A "correlate" is not a cause. Materialists are always reaching.

The guy didn't do enough research. According to studies although the person describes these experiences differently, there are all similar factors to them. Also, the brain doesn't produce drugs such as DMT or any sort of drug when dead. Even if it did, it would be too small to do so. Also, the brain sending signals back and forth is wasteful of those precious last sips of life. So, as much as possible, the neurons go silent, instead using their remaining energy stores to maintain their internal charges, waiting for the return of a blood flow that will never come. We also have cases such as Pam Reynolds that let us know when the NDE happened... and an EEG that proves she was flatlined. It's not a case of the brain. I wish this guy did some more research rather than coming to a materialist conclusion. Also the comments are doing my job by cooking this guy.

"As a materialist..." You can't be more biased than that. Did he not get the memo that materialism is dead?

I just think someone who has not had an nde is not qualified to talk on this subject.

Flood of dimethyltryptamine from pineal gland?

Read the book AFTER by Dr Bruce Greyson MD he goes into great detail to explain how episodes of seizures and drug use etc are different from the NDE… read his book all, a seasoned well studied MD who can explain the NDE given all the chemical and physiological changes that take place in the brain…

Frequently, the stories of reincarnation are omitted. Memories from a life now irrevocably gone. Little to explain disembodied consciousness in the sense of being completely deceased.

Actually that opening statement is not correct, if you read the acutal reports the similarity is amazing similar, only difference is how they interpret it. Learn to discern the difference.

Scientist think they can explain everything, that everything can be explained with enough research... Good luck with that !

It will be interesting to apply the technology of AI reading the brain during death. As in this video of Mackenzie Mathis at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne and her colleagues examined brain activity data from around 50 mice while they watched a 30-second movie clip nine times. The researchers then trained an AI to link this data to the 600-frame clip, in which a man runs to a car and opens its trunk. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l7OWabubnqesiIU.html

Yout title is misleading. Nobody experienced a mear death experience and therefor there is no relation to the topic. It's interesting but there is no proof that this is related in any form to what people experienced in near death experiences with profounder aspects.

We are spiritual beings having a human experience. The other place (heaven / the spirit world / the after life) is real. I have seen it, and it is more real than this world.

As much as this is terrifying, that's probably what's happening. And then light goes off. But what we all can agree on - sooner or later we all gonna find out.

It's a simplified view that ignores quite a few factors. However, we shouldn't also ignore the following facts... 1) Some parts of the experience can be induced artificially - by electric stimulation of specific parts of the brain or chemical substances 2) People's NDEs can actually be very different, very specific and sometimes completely contradict one another 3) Some yet unknown ability of our brain - e.g. displacement od consciousness - while seemingly very strange would in fact be a less shocking discovery than the existence of an afterlife

Proves nothing. How do you explain the guy who was dead and put into a body bag for 30 minutes while watching everything that happened to his body during the trip to the hospital? Like that’s story there are thousands of others who saw things verified after their return.

I’ve heard that the soul can leave the body before the actual death of the body. The NDE’s happen when the soul leaves the body. You can’t explain it with science but nice try.

Explaining NDE's from an "objective" scientific point of view...to what shall I liken that? Well....maybe it's like explaining what sugar tastes like without ever once having tasted anything sweet.

Brain is our prison

But this doesn’t explain patients who have zero EEG or EKG measurements for days (coma) but report (upon recovery) incredible experiences and activity impossible to explain with a completely inactive brain. Eben Alexander (neurosurgeon) is the most well know example of this but there are others. Also feels like you buried the lead here: if all of these patients died, there is no NDE confirmation or report to compare. Isn’t this just a general brain activity report near death?

a wonderful study conducted.

Don't break their dreams! )) Christians will be so disappointed

How do you think the brain got made to be of this magnitude in structure and function? Can’t you put two and two together and comprehend that a higher Divine entity( God) created it and that alone is a sign of His creation? What’s the matter with you? You most definitely have not had a NDE so you are not in any position to put out this blurb of disrespect to all those who have had a profound NDE and the many who have lived a full life and can attest to the presence of the Divine

MBA... MBA... MBA... MBA...

As objective NDE research evolves, the argument that NDEs have a purely biological basis increasingly takes on flavors resembling flat-earth theory with regard to narrowness of scope.

Look into verifiable NDE’s. Also, if you think the brain 🧠 is responsible for the “other side” experience then I’d refer you to Dr. Eben Alexander (neurosurgeon). love to all!

Untill he has a nde silly man

Scientists need to protect their beliefs, books ,carriers, research papers and jobs. If thats not grounds for not researching what is. Science advances one funeral at a time. This generation just needs to die. Nothing personal . Nde 2008

I would like to ask the person in this video if he’s personally experienced an NDE or an OBE? If not, then how can you truly understand the process?There’s a neurosurgeon who speaks about his NDE and basically explains that the knowledge he obtained as a neurosurgeon combined with his 14 plus years of professional studies doesn’t even come close to the knowledge and conscious abilities he obtained during his NDE. I’m sorry to say that you can spend your entire human life trying to scientifically explain what existing is outside of this earthly body and you will never come close. Even those who have NDEs aren’t able to bring all the knowledge they obtained back with them because our brains were not meant to carry that much knowledge. The brain is only a filter for the consciousness, the soul, the spirit. Meaning our bodies were programmed by a higher being , the source, OURSELVES (because we are source energy) to experience a lower level of consciousness while here on earth.

His statement , “as a materialist “ previews his bias. Bias does not advance science.

No. Just heck no. You are clueless about NDEs. Your mistake is to assume "If there are brainwaves, then it MUST BE an NDE." As well as "If there is an NDE, there MUST BE brainwaves." But we have NDEs that took place without brainwaves. So it is incumbent upon you to prove that the person with "a surge in activity" actually had an NDE. Furthermore, the person with the 'surge' had epilepsy. Let's add on to that, even more, that this "study" is people looking at EEGs from the mid 1990s.

No matter if you believe or not, we will all kneel before God. The Devil works hard to make us question faith!

Another wholly dismissive MD who ignores data.

Ok long story short. The brain and the soul are linked together. There you all go.

HARD disagree.

He doesn’t know what he’s talking about. There is no scientific proof that the brain produces these experiences.

I have one name. DOCTOR Mary Neil.

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You refuse a metaphysical explanation only to offer up nothing. Not very open minded for a pretentious scientist.

Foolish

Like he knows.... he insults or intelligence

"No less sublime than the breath of God" A typically primitive M.D..