Latest from Dr Sam Parnia

This short interview with Dr Sam Parnia was conducted today (19 April). Unfortunately, the host doesn't do a very good job, mainly because Parnia isn't given enough time, even to properly finish an anecdote he was recollecting about his colleague, Dr Richard Mansfield (and a patient of his that described events that occurred whilst he was dead)

So, I wondered if I should or shouldn't post it and I thought...maybe it's better than nothing for the time being.

 http://www.iheartradio.ca/newstalk-1010/...de=Article

Even with the unfortunate interruptions, lots of new and interesting information was conveyed during the interview. I hope it won't be long before both parties will be able to get together again to further discuss aspects of the experience. If the interviewer or his team is on the job, I expect we'll hear more from him and Parnia shortly.

Thanks tim!

A recent interview with Dr Sam Parnia. Nothing new, but the journalist who 'got it', confirmed it was very recent (I emailed her). Typical responses from mainstream neurologists such as Adrian Owen were...(summary) consciousness is produced by the brain and that's it, anything else is BS.

(Owen)  “If you take that organ away or kill that organ or that organ dies, you cannot be conscious.”

Seeing this reminded me of a post in a NDE group I saw somebody concerned about their "atheist" friend make. They were concerned by the fact that this friend thought NDEs were just cases of sleep paralysis. In their case, the person just sounds really naive. 

The above statement from Owen on the other hand is just plain ignorance in my opinion

The Sun reports:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/7819011/di...ter-death/

WE know we are dead when we die because our brains keep working to make us aware of what's happening around us, haunting new research suggests.

Experts say our brains keep working for some time after we die

However a new study suggests your consciousness carries on functioning after your heart stops beating and your body movements fail.

This means you are essentially 'trapped' inside your dead body with your brain still working, if only for a short time.

Fox news summarises Parnia's work in this delightful headline,

When you die ‘you know you’re dead because your brain keeps working’, scientist claims

Huh?????

Words fail me.

Comments, Tim?

The Sun reports:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/7819011/di...ter-death/




Fox news summarises Parnia's work in this delightful headline,

Huh?????

Words fail me.

Comments, Tim?

This seems to be a story the tabloid newspapers recycle every so often without giving any indication that it's old.

The comments by Parnia apparently originate in a LiveScience article prompted by the release of the film "Flatliners" 18 months ago:
https://www.livescience.com/60593-flatli...ation.html

This seems to be a story the tabloid newspapers recycle every so often without giving any indication that it's old.

The comments by Parnia apparently originate in a LiveScience article prompted by the release of the film "Flatliners" 18 months ago:
https://www.livescience.com/60593-flatli...ation.html

Yes, that would be an additional issue. My original point was that the quality of the reporting was less than adequate. It was completely misleading and misrepresenting the actual findings.

Even with the unfortunate interruptions, lots of new and interesting information was conveyed during the interview. I hope it won't be long before both parties will be able to get together again to further discuss aspects of the experience. If the interviewer or his team is on the job, I expect we'll hear more from him and Parnia shortly.

Thanks tim!

The very fact that Parnia’s willing to give interviews is encouragement enough for me. Getting cut off at the end is disrespectful to a man like Parnia, but it’s more than acceptable nowadays. At least he got some airtime.

Huh?????

Words fail me.

Comments, Tim?

I'm sure you know, Typoz it's a complete distortion of what Parnia is trying to convey. But the notion that "the mind" can continue to exist without the brain seems to be so unthinkable (pardon the pun) that these kind of statements will appear ad infinitum. Parnia wants to bring what used to be regarded as the territory of the supernatural, into the realm of science (what happens to consciousness when we die) And why shouldn't he? (Millions of ordinary people all over the world are consistently reporting this phenomenon, so medicine (science) is going to have to come to terms with it)  
 
To academia/the scientific Institutions, it's a disaster. They fear the return of the influence of religion and superstition that was consigned to the dustbin hundreds of years ago.  Adrian Owen has probably never even looked at the literature because he "knows" he doesn't need to. Those things can't happen, period...and yet they do happen all the time, so we're at a funny stage. Parnia has to very careful because if he gets the irrefutable evidence, he's effectively holding dynamite in his hands.

What will be the consequences of "proving" that consciousness continues, that life goes on ? Certainly it will have huge implications for how we conduct our lives. Hope that doesn't sound like a lecture to anyone, apologies if it does.

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This national Canadian newspaper had the following article a few days back, related to Parnia:

Life — after life: Does consciousness continue after our brain dies?

How can people brought back from death after cardiac arrest report having experienced lucid and vivid memories and recollections without a functioning brain? The study of near-death experiences is challenging the idea our consciousness fades to black when our body expires

Sharon Kirkey
National Post, April 18, 2019

Parnia, now a critical care and resuscitation specialist at New York’s NYU Langone Medical Center, believes human consciousness may continue after our heart stops beating for some undetermined period of time.

Evidence from AWARE and other studies, he says, raises the possibility that the mind or consciousness — the psyche, the “self,” the thing that “makes me Sam” and that makes us uniquely who we are —  may not originate in the brain and may be a separate, undiscovered scientific entity, similar in nature to the electromagnetic waves that can carry sound and pictures. Modern science simply lacks the tools to show it. When we die, that entity we call consciousness or the self doesn’t necessarily become “immediately annihilated,” Parnia believes.

p.s. I noticed this article as I was using newspaper to wrap food for compost!

This is Sam Parnia's latest tweet (16 may)

"We will be officially launching a the NYU Critical Care and Resuscitation Reserach Program in June.  As we approach this, I will be providing information on our projects, including the AWAreness during REsuscitation (AWARE) II study.  Thank you for all those with an interest...."

Interesting, isn't it? I wonder what kind of information he is gonna give out. 

This is Sam Parnia's latest tweet (16 may)

Interesting, isn't it? I wonder what kind of information he is gonna give out. 

I appreciate Parnia's work, but most likely it will just be a description, an overview, of what they are aiming to do.