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Consciousness beyond life, the science of the neardeath experience. Pim van lommel, a renowned cardiologist, is the first medical practitioner to have undertaken a full, systematic study of neardeath experiences ndes. In 2001, he and his fellow researchers published a study on near death experiences in the renowned medical journal the lancet. In consciousness beyond life, the internationally renowned cardiologist dr.
Some people who have survived a lifethreatening crisis report an extraordinary experience. He worked as a cardiologist at the rijnstate hospital, arnhem, for 26 years 19772003. As a cardiologist, he was struck by the number of his patients who claimed to have neardeath experiences as a result. In 1986, he began studying near death experiences in patients who survived a cardiac arrest. Review of consciousness beyond life by pim van lommel g. Pim van lommel discuses how his research with neardeath experiencers has changed his beliefs about life and consciousness. The science of the neardeath experience by pim van lommel, m.
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