. . . Since momentarily, the neu is in the state of a free spirit (also called by eastern religions as Moksha), it can experience just about anything that is happening in the present time space or any other time spaces as well. And these are also recollected once the person is reviewed.
Hello CryptoGuru. Your theory re NDEs is very interesting and seems to have 'physical' support in terms of quantum 'phase space'. Here is an extract from the von Lommel paper I quoted above that characterizes this physically based interpretation:
". . . This is neither the place nor the time to go into quantum mechanics in more
detail, but I would like to discuss just some basic aspects of quantum physics,
because this seems necessary to understand my concept of the continuity of consciousness. About what I have explained until now, there seems to be a striking similarity between the content of several aspects of our consciousness
during NDE and some proven concepts in Quantum Mechanics, which have completely overturned the existing view of our material, manifest world, the
so-called real-space. It tells us that particles can propagate like waves, and so can
be described by a quantum mechanical wave function. It can be proven that light
in some experiments behaves like particles (photons), and in other experiments it
behaves like waves, and both experiments are true, which also means that there is
no objectivity, the consciousness of the researcher and his design of the experiment
define the result.
According to Bohr waves and particles are complementary aspects
of light (Bohr and Kalckar 1997). The experiment of Aspect and colleagues
(1982), based on Bell’s theorem, has established non-locality in quantum mechanics (non-local interconnectedness). Non-locality happens because all events are interrelated and influence each other, implicating that there are no local causes for an event. Phase-space is an invisible, non-local, higher-dimensional space consisting of wave-fields of probability, where every past and future event is available as a possibility. The quantum physicist David Bohm has called this dimension the implicate order of being (Bohm, 1980), and Ervin Laszlo has called these informational fields the zero-point-field or the quantum vacuum (Laszlo, 2003, 2004).
Within this so-called phase-space no matter is present, everything belongs to uncertainty, and neither measurements nor observations are possible by physicists
(Heisenberg, 1971). The act of observation instantly changes a probability into
an actuality by collapse of the wave function. Roger Penrose calls this resolution
of multiple possibilities into one definitive state “objective reduction” (Penrose,
1996). So it seems that no observation is possible without fundamentally changing
the observed subject; only subjectivity remains.
Quantum physics cannot explain the essence of consciousness nor the secret of
life, but in my concept it is helpful for understanding the transition between the
fields of consciousness in the phase-space (to be compared with the probability
fields as we know from quantum mechanics) and the body-linked waking consciousness in the real-space, because these are the two complementary aspects of consciousness (Walach and Hartmann, 2000). Our whole and undivided consciousness with declarative memories finds its origin in, and is stored in this phase-space, and the brain only serves as a relay station for parts of our consciousness and parts of our memories to be received into our waking consciousness. This is like the Internet, which does not originate from the computer itself, but is only received by it. In this concept consciousness is not rooted in the measurable domain of physics, our manifest world. The eternal wave aspect of our indestructible consciousness in phase-space, with non-local interconnectedness, is
inherently not measurable by physical means. The immeasurable can never be measured. This can be compared with gravitational forces, where only the physical effects can be measured, but the forces themselves are not directly demonstrable.
Life creates the transition from phase-space into our manifest real-space; according
to our hypothesis life creates, under normal daily conditions when we are awake, the possibility to receive only some parts of these fields of consciousness (waves) into or as our waking consciousness, which belongs to our physical body (particles). During life, our consciousness has an aspect of waves as well as of particles, and there is a permanent interaction between these two aspects of consciousness. When we die, our consciousness will no longer have an aspect of particles, but only an eternal aspect of waves. The interface between our consciousness and our body is eliminated.
This concept (von Lommel, 2004) is a complementary theory, like both the
wave and particle aspects of light, and not a dualistic theory. Subjective (conscious)
experiences and the corresponding objective physical properties are two
fundamentally different manifestations of one and the same underlying deeper
reality; they cannot be reduced to each other. The particle aspect, the physical
aspect of consciousness in the material world, originates from the wave aspect
of our consciousness from the phase-space by collapse of the wave function into
particles (“objective reduction”), and these can be measured by means of EEG,
MEG, fMRI, and PET scan. Different neuronal networks function as interface for different aspects of our consciousness, as can be demonstrated by changing images during these registrations of fMRI or PET scan. So the function of neuronal networks should be regarded as receivers and conveyors, not as retainers of consciousness and memories.
With this new concept about consciousness and the mind–brain relation all
reported elements of an NDE during cardiac arrest could be explained. This concept
is compatible with the non-local interconnectedness with fields of consciousness
of other persons in phase-space. This remote, non-local communication seems to
have been demonstrated scientifically by positioning subject pairs in two separate
Faraday chambers, which effectively rules out any electromagnetic transfer mechanism. A visual pattern-reversal stimulus is used to elicit visual evoked responses in the EEG registration of the stimulated subject, and this is instantaneously received by the non-stimulated subject resulting in an immediate change of activity in his EEG-registration (Thaheld, 2003; Wackermann et al., 2003).
In trying to understand this concept of quantum mechanical mutual interaction
between the invisible phase-space and our visible, material body, it seems appropriate to compare it with modern worldwide communication. There is a continuous exchange of objective information by means of electromagnetic fields for radio, TV, mobile telephone, or laptop computer. We are not consciously aware of the vast amounts of electromagnetic fields that constantly, day and night, exist around us and are even permeating us, as well as permeating structures like walls and buildings, also at this very moment. We only become aware of these electromagnetic informative fields at the moment we use our mobile telephone or by switching on our radio, TV, or laptop. What we receive is neither inside the instrument, nor in the components, but thanks to the receiver, the information from the electromagnetic fields becomes observable to our senses and hence perception occurs in our consciousness. The voice we hear over our telephone is not inside the telephone. The concert we hear over our radio is transmitted to our radio. The images and music we hear and see on TV are transmitted
to our TV set. The Internet is not located inside our laptop.We can receive what is transmitted with the speed of light from a distance of some hundreds or thousands of miles. And if we switch off the TV set, the reception disappears, but the transmission continues. The information transmitted remains present within the electromagnetic fields. The connection has been interrupted, but it is not vanished and still can be received elsewhere by using another TV set (“non-locality”).
According to my concept, based on the universal reported aspects of consciousness
experienced during cardiac arrest, we can conclude that the informational
fields of our consciousness, consisting of waves, are rooted in phase-space, in an
invisible dimension without time and space, and are present around and through
us, permeating our body. They become available as our waking consciousness
only through our functioning brain in the shape of measurable and changing electromagnetic fields. Could our brain be compared to the TV set, which receives
electromagnetic waves and transforms them into image and sound? Could it as
well be compared to the TV camera, which transforms image and sound into electromagnetic waves? These waves hold the essence of all information, but are only perceivable by our senses through suitable instruments like camera and TV set. And as soon as the function of the brain has been lost, as in clinical death during a cardiac arrest or during brain death, memories and consciousness do still exist, but the reception ability is lost, the connection, or interface, is interrupted. Consciousness can be experienced during such a period of a non-functioning brain, and this is what we call an NDE. So in my concept consciousness is not physically rooted! . . . .
