Many of the authors under consideration here invoke the first object of admiration and awe—the starry heavens above—and as such reflect older theistic arguments for God’s existence, with such cosmological questions as why there is something rather than nothing, the Big Bang beginning of the cosmos that echoes Genesis 1:1, the fine-tuned nature of the universe, and the elegance and beauty of mathematics. I have chapters on each of these issues in my forthcoming book Truth: What it is, How to Find it, Why it Still Matters (January, 2026), so here I want to drill-down on the specific empirical claims made by these authors that new scientific evidence indicates the existence of a mind separate from a brain, and therefore a soul that exists independent of the body, which suggests the existence of an afterlife of some sort (whether the Christian heaven or, if your tastes tend toward the scientific, a quantum field somewhere). During his NDE he says that his “cortex was completely shut down.” He concludes from this that “there is absolutely no way that I could have experienced even a dim and limited consciousness during my time in the coma,” and therefore “my brain-free consciousness journeyed to another, larger dimension of the universe.” According to Dr. Laura Potter, the attending physician the night Alexander was wheeled into the ER, however, Alexander’s coma was induced by her in order to keep him alive while he was heavily medicated, and that whenever they tried to wake him he thrashed about pulling at his tubes and trying to scream, so his brain was not completely shut down.
Author: Skeptic
Published at: 2025-10-28 22:53:17
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