There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death.
I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.
I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of being able to really do stuff hasn't worn off - I still feel like I'm making up for lost time.
No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious.
The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another.
I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history.
The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.
Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.
When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.
I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.