Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience (54 page)

11. M. A. Gilliver et al., “Antibiotic Resistance Found in Wild Rodents,”
Nature
401 (1999): 233.

12. A. Goldbeter, “Computational Approaches to Cellular Rhythms: Review article,”
Nature
420 (2002): 238–45; A. Goldbeter et al., “From Simple to Complex Oscillatory Behavior in Metabolic and Genetic Control Networks,”
Chaos
11 (2001): 247–60; H. Fröhlich, “Coherent Excitations in Active Biological Systems,” in
Modern Bioelectrochemistry,
ed. F. Gutman and H. Keyzer (New York: Plenum, 1983); A. Farhadi et al., “Evidence for Non-chemical, Non-electrical Intercellular Signalling in Intestinal Epithelial Cells,”
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13. B. C. Goodwin, “Developing Organisms as Self-Organizing Fields,” in
Self-Organizing Systems,
ed. F. E. Yates (New York: Plenum, 1987), 167–80.

14. R. Sheldrake,
The Presence of the Past
(London: Fontana, 1988).

15. Sheldrake,
Presence of the Past.

16. P. Weiss,
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(New York: Holt, 1939); A. Gurwitsch, “Über den Begriff des embryonalen Feldes” [On the concept of the embryonic field],
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Presence of the Past;
R. Sheldrake,
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(London: Blond & Briggs, 1981).

17. C. G. Jung,
Memories, Dreams, Reflections,
trans. R. and C. Winston (New York: Random House, 1961).

18. R. B. Stone,
The Secret Life of Your Cells
(West Chester, PA: Whitford Press, 1989), 82.

19. C. Backster,
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20. C. Sylvia and W. J. Novak,
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(New York: Little, Brown, 1997); P. Pearsall,
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Journal of Near-Death Studies
20, no. 3 (2002): 191–206.

Chapter 14: Endless Consciousness

1. P. Russell,
From Science to God: A Physicist’s Journey into the Mystery of Consciousness
(Novato, CA: New World Library, 2002).

2. Russell,
From Science to God.

3. D. Mesland,
Bewustzijn: De metafysische ruimte
[Consciousness: The Metaphysical Space] (Delft, the Netherlands: Eburon, 2002).

4. F. van Eeden,
Studies: Tweede reeks
[Studies: Second Volume] (Amsterdam: Versluys, 1894), 296; I. Kant,
Critique of Pure Reason,
trans. J. M. D. Meiklejohn; see http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4280.

5. C. G. Jung,
Memories, Dreams, Reflections,
trans. R. and C. Winston (New York: Random House, 1961).

6. J. N. Ferrer,
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(Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002).

7. A. H. Maslow,
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(New York: Van Nostrand, 1968); S. Grof,
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(Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985).

8. K. Wilber,
No Boundary
(Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 1981); Russell,
From Science to God.

9. Wilber,
No Boundary.

10. Plato,
The Republic,
trans. Benjamin Jowett, http://philosophy.eserver.org/plato/republic.txt.

11. H. Walach et al., “Spirituality: The Legacy of Parapsychology,”
Archive for the Psychology of Religion
31 (2009): 277–308.

12. W. James,
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(1902; New York: Mentor Books, 1958); W. James,
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2 vols. (New York: Henry Holt, 1890); F. W. H. Myers, “The Subliminal Consciousness,”
Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research
8 (1892): 298–535; E. D. Kelly and E. W. Kelly,
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(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007); F. W. H. Myers,
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(London: Longmans, Green, 1903); W. James,
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2nd ed. (New York: Houghton, Mifflin, Bastion, 1900).

13. According to the
Oxford English Dictionary, endless
means “Having no end or limit of duration; unending, eternal.”

14.
Akasha
is the Sanskrit word for “ether.” According to ancient Indian philosophy, it is the source of the entire universe; it contains information about everything that ever was, is, and will be. See also E. Laszlo,
Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything
(Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2007).

15. Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life,
Many Americans Mix Multiple Faiths
(2009), http://pewforum.org/newassets/images/reports/multiple faiths/multiplefaiths.pdf.

16. For regression therapy, see J. Wade, “The Phenomenology of Near-Death Consciousness in Past-Life Regression Therapy: A Pilot Study,”
Journal of Near-Death Studies
17, no. 1 (1998): 31–53. For DMT, see Grof,
Beyond the Brain,
and R. Strassman,
DMT, The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor’s Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences
(Rochester, VT: Park Street Press, 2001).

17. M. Barbato, “Parapsychological Phenomena Near the Time of Death,”
Journal of Palliative Care
15 (1999): 30–37; E. Kübler-Ross,
On Death and Dying
(New York: Macmillan, 1969); M. De Hennezel,
La mort intime
[Intimate Death] (Paris: Éditions Robert Laffont, 1995); J. Lerma,
Into the Light: Real Life Stories About Angelic Visits, Visions of the Afterlife, and Other Pre-death Experiences
(Franklin Lakes, NJ: New Page Books, 2007); M. Callanan and P. Kelley,
Final Gifts: Understanding The Special Awareness, Needs and Communications of the Dying
(New York: Poseidon Press, 1992); P. Fenwick and E. Fenwick,
The Art of Dying: A Journey to Elsewhere
(London and New York: Continuum, 2008).

18. K. Osis and E. Haraldsson,
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(New York: Avon Books, 1977); E. W. Kelly, B. Greyson, and I. Stevenson, “Can Experiences of Near-Death Furnish Evidence of Life After Death?”
Omega
40 (1999–2000): 13–519; I. Schmied, H. Knoblaub, and B. Schnettler, “Todesnäheerfahrungen in Ost- und Westdeutschland: Ein empirische Untersuchung” [Near-Death Experiences in East and West Germany: An Empirical Study], in
Todesnähe: Interdisziplinäre Zugänge zu einem Außergewöhnlichen Phänomen
[Near-Death: Interdisciplinary Approaches to an Extraordinary Phenomenon], ed. H. Knoblaub and H. G. Soeffner, 217–50 Konstanz, Germany: Universitätsverlag, 1999).

19. B. Guggenheim and J. Guggenheim,
Hello from Heaven: A New Field of Research—After-Death Communication—Confirms That Life And Love Are Eternal
(New York: Bantam, 1995).

20. European Value Systems Study Group,
Information Bulletin 1987
(Tilburg, the Netherlands: Tilburg University Press, 1987); E. Haraldsson and J. M. Houtkooper, “Psychic Experiences in the Multinational Human Value Study: Who Reports Them?”
Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research
85 (1991): 145–65; E. Haraldsson, “Popular Psychology, Belief in Life After Death and Reincarnation in the Nordic Countries, Western and Eastern Europe,”
Nordic Psychology
58, no. 2 (2006), 171–80; also Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life,
Many Americans Mix Multiple Faiths
(2009), http://pewforum.org/newassets/images/reports/multiplefaiths/multiplefaiths.pdf; A. M. Greeley, “Hallucinations Among the Widowed,”
Sociology and Social Research
71, no. 4 (1987): 258–65; W. D. Rees, “The Hallucinations of Widowhood,”
British Medical Journal
4 (1971): 37–41; T. A. Rando, ed.,
Parental Loss of a Child
(Champaign, IL: Research Press, 1985).

21. Guggenheim and Guggenheim,
Hello from Heaven,
216.

22. Guggenheim and Guggenheim,
Hello from Heaven;
M. Lensink,
Toevallige signalen: Meer dan 100 verhalen over ervaringen rondom de dood
[Unexpected Signals: Over 100 Stories About Experiences Near Death] (Amsterdam: Schors, 2006); C. Schouterden and G. vander Linden,
“Kijk, ik ben er nog!” Met getuigenissen over tekens van overledenen
[“Look, I’m still here!” Testimonies of Signs from the Dead] (Zoetermeer, the Netherlands: Free Musketeers, 2005). The quote is from T. Waanders,
De dood en de jongen: Monument voor mijn gestorven zoon
[Death and the Boy: A Monument for My Dead Son] (Kampen, the Netherlands: Ten Have, 2006).

23. L. Halman,
The European Values Study: A Third Wave. Sourcebook of the 1999–2000 European Values Study Surveys
(Tilburg, the Netherlands: Tilburg University, 2001); Haraldsson, “Popular Psychology.” The U.S. data comes from the Association of Religion Data Archives: http://www.thearda.com; the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life,
U.S. Religion Landscape Survey
(2007), http://www.religions.pewforum.org; and F. A. Curlin et al., “Religious Characteristics of U.S. Physicians,”
Journal of General Internal Medicine
20, no. 7 (2005): 629–34. Figures on belief in afterlife come from Halman,
European Values Study,
question 30-B. Figures on belief in reincarnation are from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life,
Many Americans Mix Multiple Faiths
(2009), http://pewforum.org/newassets/images/reports/multiplefaiths/multiple faiths.pdf; http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_poll4.htm; and Haraldsson, “Popular Psychology.”

24. E. J. Larson and L. Witham, “Scientists Are Still Keeping the Faith,”
Nature
386 (1997): 235–36; E. J. Larson and L. Witham, “Leading Scientists Still Reject God,”
Nature
394 (1998): 313. On Europeans’ belief in reincarnation, see Haraldsson, “Popular Psychology,” and Halman,
European Values Study.

25. J. Wackermann et al., “Correlations Between Electrical Activities of Two Spatially Separated Human Subjects,”
Neuroscience Letters
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Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
10, no. 2 (2004): 307–14.

26. Waanders,
De dood en de jongen
[Death and the Boy].

27. European Value Systems Study Group,
Information Bulletin 1987;
Haraldsson and Houtkooper, “Psychic Experiences” BBC News, “Britons Report ‘Psychic Powers,’” May 26, 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5017910.stm.

28. H. E. Puthoff, “CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing Program at Stanford Research Institute,”
Journal of Scientific Exploration
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Proceedings of the IEEE
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29. B. J. Dunne, R. G. Jahn, and R. D. Nelson,
Precognitive Remote Perception,
Princeton University Engineering Anomalies Research, School of Engineering/Applied Science,
PEAR Technical Note 83003
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Journal of Scientific Exploration
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(Buda, TX: Nemoseen Media, 2007).