1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: Welcome to the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast DAM paranormal 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 1: podcast network. Now get ready for another episode of Sheets 3 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:09,400 Speaker 1: of the Afterlife with Sandra Champlain. 4 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:19,119 Speaker 2: Welcome to our podcast. Please be aware the thoughts and 5 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:23,160 Speaker 2: opinions expressed by the host are their thoughts and opinions 6 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 2: only and do not reflect those of iHeartMedia, iHeartRadio, Coast 7 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:32,840 Speaker 2: to Coast AM, employees of premier networks, or their sponsors 8 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 2: and associates. We would like to encourage you to do 9 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 2: your own research and discover the subject matter for yourself. Hi, 10 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 2: I'm Sandra Champlain. For over twenty five years, I've been 11 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 2: on a journey to prove the existence of life after death. 12 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 2: On each episode, we'll discuss the reasons we now know 13 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 2: that our loved ones have survived physical doubt and so 14 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:08,399 Speaker 2: will we. Welcome to Shades of the Afterlife. Have you 15 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 2: ever heard the expression are you on the court or 16 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 2: are you in the stands? To me, this represents a 17 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 2: game like basketball. There are people who have trained, who 18 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:25,320 Speaker 2: are part of a team, who take coaching, who work 19 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 2: very hard, and they are playing the game on the court, 20 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 2: and there are others that are sitting in the sidelines. 21 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:38,119 Speaker 2: Sitting in the stands rooting for their team, but they're 22 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 2: not involved. Not too long ago, I received an email 23 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 2: from a lady who wanted me to email her back 24 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 2: and convince her of the reality of the afterlife. I 25 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 2: couldn't do it in one email, sorry, and she got 26 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 2: upset with me. To me, that's someone living in the stands. 27 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 2: I offered her past episodes a free copy of my 28 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 2: book Things that she could explore herself, and she wasn't interested. 29 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 2: I know for many of us, we can be in 30 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:14,639 Speaker 2: the stands, and that's okay. It's nice to hear stories, 31 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:18,079 Speaker 2: it's nice to be entertained, but to have our lives 32 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 2: transformed in live life, knowing the reality of the afterlife, 33 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 2: it takes being on the court. We have been together 34 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 2: well over two years now. I know some people are 35 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:36,919 Speaker 2: listening just for the first time, but many have been 36 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 2: around since episode number one. In this time together, we've 37 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 2: talked about so many reasons to believe in the afterlife, 38 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:54,360 Speaker 2: things like near death experiences, share death experiences, spiritually transformative experiences, 39 00:02:55,200 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 2: induced after death communication, all the various signs we've received 40 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:05,639 Speaker 2: from loved ones, even our pets, the different forms of mediumship, 41 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 2: there's the evidential or mental mediums. There's the trance mediums, 42 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 2: and even more rare are the physical mediums. There's religious 43 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 2: agreement for the afterlife. We've talked to doctors, scientists, hospice 44 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 2: workers about reasons to believe. We've explored instrumental trans communication 45 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:32,920 Speaker 2: images and audios of people in the afterlife that come 46 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 2: through that we can see and we can hear, like 47 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 2: electronic voice phenomena, the work that's being done with the 48 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 2: soul phone son You're in all these incredible experiments capturing 49 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 2: pictures and now moving images of people smiling or winking 50 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 2: from the afterlife. We've spoken about deathbed visitations and dreams 51 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 2: people have not only just before they're going to pass, 52 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:04,040 Speaker 2: but maybe weeks or months they are experiencing their loved 53 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 2: ones telling them they're going on a trip. We've explored 54 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 2: stories from children, whether past life memories or young children 55 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 2: being able to see people that they've never met who 56 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:22,840 Speaker 2: have already passed. There's even psychic kids, how children can 57 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:26,359 Speaker 2: be taught psychic abilities at a very young age, and 58 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 2: some of the arts and crafts and playing ball that 59 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 2: they can do blindfolded. We've talked about tapping into our 60 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:39,240 Speaker 2: own natural, psychic and mediumistic abilities, and how we can 61 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:43,720 Speaker 2: each communicate with our loved ones. I've guided you through 62 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 2: a meditation to connect with your loved ones and spoken 63 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:52,280 Speaker 2: about the importance of charging our own natural abilities by 64 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:56,159 Speaker 2: doing something called sitting in the power. And we've heard 65 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:59,599 Speaker 2: a ton of stories about reasons to believe in the 66 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:03,520 Speaker 2: after life. We've heard from the rich and the famous, 67 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 2: the authors, stories of inventors and people who have changed history, 68 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 2: and also stories of everyday people like you and me 69 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 2: who've experienced some incredible things and have great reasons to 70 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:25,039 Speaker 2: believe in the afterlife. So with all of that, can 71 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 2: you say you comfortably believe in the afterlife and that 72 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 2: we go on. We are human beings and part of 73 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:38,039 Speaker 2: that is having to deal with a skeptical mind and 74 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 2: I've got one too. We cannot and will not live 75 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:46,839 Speaker 2: life twenty four hours a day knowing the reality of 76 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 2: the afterlife. I think part of being human is to 77 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 2: forget who we really are. I know personally it is 78 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:57,560 Speaker 2: through the negative things that have happened in my life 79 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 2: where I've learned the most about myself, and even the 80 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:04,719 Speaker 2: darkest times and the grief has put me on a 81 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 2: journey to learn my own spirituality and my own beliefs. 82 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:13,279 Speaker 2: This voice we each have inside of us is not 83 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:17,919 Speaker 2: normally our best friend, yet we believe it so often, 84 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 2: especially around the conversation of the afterlife. It's okay to 85 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 2: be skeptical, and I encourage it. However, when you spend 86 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:32,360 Speaker 2: enough time on the court, you realize that the afterlife 87 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 2: is real, your loved ones are still alive, and you 88 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:40,239 Speaker 2: will see them again. Let me ask you another question. 89 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:45,119 Speaker 2: How would you live your life knowing that we don't 90 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 2: die when you wake up in the morning. Perhaps you're 91 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:52,279 Speaker 2: prone to negative thinking or wanting to hit the snooze button, 92 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 2: But what if you imagined your guides, your loved ones, 93 00:06:56,560 --> 00:07:00,120 Speaker 2: cheering you on that you have an opportunity for or 94 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:05,840 Speaker 2: another day. What if you listened to the ideas that 95 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 2: come into your mind seemingly out of nowhere, and acted 96 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 2: on some of these ideas or inspiration. What if we 97 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 2: looked at other people in our life and we saw 98 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 2: another divine soul dealing with their own baggage, their own worries. 99 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 2: Would we have a little more compassion for them When 100 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 2: we look in the mirror and see ourselves, would we 101 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:35,040 Speaker 2: beat up on ourselves, or would we have compassion that 102 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 2: we're doing the best we can and that we've come 103 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 2: a long way. We will continue to grieve, that is 104 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 2: part of being human. But I believe our grieving time 105 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:52,239 Speaker 2: is significantly reduced when we embrace the reality of the afterlife. 106 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 2: When times get tough in your life, can you look 107 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 2: at your life by what is it I'm meant to 108 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 2: learn here? Knowing that you're empowered by people helping you 109 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:07,120 Speaker 2: move through it. A friend of mine told me a 110 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:11,600 Speaker 2: story years ago. I spent many years catering for race 111 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 2: car teams, and he told me of a near death 112 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 2: experience he had had in which his grandmother and grandfather 113 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 2: were there in a world that seemed more real than 114 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:29,040 Speaker 2: we're experiencing right now, and when he came back to life, 115 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 2: it made this life seem like it was just a dream. 116 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 2: This man went on to win racing championships. He said 117 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 2: to me, Sandra, without the fear of dying, I didn't 118 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:47,320 Speaker 2: have the fear of living. So he could put his 119 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 2: foot on the accelerator for longer and took more risks 120 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:55,679 Speaker 2: than maybe others did. And I'm not saying that we 121 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:59,920 Speaker 2: need to live our lives at two hundred miles an hour. 122 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:03,400 Speaker 2: But I am saying that on the other side of 123 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:08,160 Speaker 2: our comfort zone, there's a bunch of rewards. We human 124 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:12,760 Speaker 2: beings have three main fears. One is the fear of dying, 125 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:17,080 Speaker 2: one is the fear of failure, and one is the 126 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 2: fear of being alone. Throughout our one hundred and thirty 127 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:26,200 Speaker 2: plus episodes together, there are plenty of reasons to believe 128 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 2: and know that we don't die, that we go on. 129 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:37,439 Speaker 2: Failure is an opportunity for success. The more we fail 130 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 2: means the more we've gone after our dreams. Some of 131 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 2: the greatest inventions would have never happened unless the inventor 132 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:49,680 Speaker 2: failed many many times. And as far as the fear 133 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 2: of being alone, oh my gosh, I wish I had 134 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 2: a magic wand and could let you know that there 135 00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:02,040 Speaker 2: is so much support in the unseen world around you. 136 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:06,679 Speaker 2: Don't be freaked out. Your loved ones and guides will 137 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 2: leave you your privacy, but when you need that strength, 138 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 2: they're right here for you. I'm definitely not telling you 139 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:20,040 Speaker 2: to believe everything I say. Challenge it, Go on your 140 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 2: own investigation, your own journey. Have experiences for yourself that 141 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:30,520 Speaker 2: you know the reality of the afterlife. There are some 142 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:35,880 Speaker 2: good reasons to believe other than calming our fears and 143 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:38,560 Speaker 2: knowing that our loved ones have lived on and that 144 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 2: we'll see them again. Those with the faith in the 145 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:49,520 Speaker 2: afterlife tend to live longer and healthier lives, have better relationships, 146 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:57,599 Speaker 2: lower blood pressure, appreciate nature more, are kinder, more generous, 147 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:05,239 Speaker 2: more loving, and overall have a higher quality experience to life. 148 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:09,640 Speaker 2: So I ask you, is it worth putting that little 149 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:14,800 Speaker 2: negative voice aside and spending our time together and even 150 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:19,800 Speaker 2: your life with the reality of the afterlife. I'm really 151 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:23,679 Speaker 2: excited to share so much with you on this episode. Today. 152 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 2: Coming up, there's some new research from the Michigan Center 153 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 2: for Consciousness Science talking about the gamma waves, a heightened 154 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:41,320 Speaker 2: brain state when we pass away. We'll also hear some 155 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:47,720 Speaker 2: words from our attorney author afterlife explorer friend ROBERTA. Grimes. 156 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:54,439 Speaker 2: Neurosurgeon doctor ajmal Zamar from the University of Louisville and 157 00:11:54,520 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 2: Kentucky talks about brain waves after death and correlates these 158 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:06,080 Speaker 2: brain waves with people who have near death experiences. We'll 159 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:12,240 Speaker 2: also hear some words from doctor Sam Parnia about consciousness, 160 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 2: survival after death and just Remember, science cannot explain consciousness. 161 00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:24,720 Speaker 2: Where we think, how we think, where thoughts are stored. 162 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:29,720 Speaker 2: It's all a mystery. There's so much more to life 163 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:32,840 Speaker 2: than meets the eye. And there is so much more 164 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:36,840 Speaker 2: to you, my friend, than you know. I hope you're 165 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 2: excited because I've got some great things coming up. We'll 166 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 2: be right back. 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You've heard those expressions. 184 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:18,960 Speaker 2: Perhaps let's just run through quick the basic guide to them. 185 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 2: Delta brain waves are when we are in deep sleep. 186 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 2: They are the slowest brain waves. Next comes the theta 187 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 2: brain waves. That's when we're in deep meditation or just 188 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:38,840 Speaker 2: before we go to sleep. Great place to be. It's 189 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 2: a place that helps us with creativity. It's relaxing. It 190 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 2: can help connect us with our intuition, our mediumistic abilities, 191 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 2: our subconscious mind. Next most active is the beta brain waves, 192 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:58,160 Speaker 2: and that's where we live most of our life. This 193 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 2: is when we're conscious. This is when we're thinking, This 194 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 2: is when we're doing. This is when we're problem solving. 195 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 2: So that's your beta brain waves. Now, one step more 196 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 2: active than that are the gamma waves. From one article 197 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 2: I'm reading, it says these waves are difficult to measure 198 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:24,800 Speaker 2: with the current EEG technology, but in the future scientists 199 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 2: are hoping they can understand them more. They say the 200 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:34,640 Speaker 2: gamma waves reflect a conscious awareness of what is around 201 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:39,040 Speaker 2: us and relate to feelings of happiness and compassion. They 202 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:43,440 Speaker 2: are also prevalent while processing information and learning at a 203 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:46,880 Speaker 2: high level. Think about how you feel when you're immersed 204 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 2: in a complex situation or listening to a subject matter 205 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 2: on a topic of great interest to you. This is 206 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 2: when your brain feels like it is firing on all cylinders. 207 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 2: Benefits of gamma waves include improvements in memory and information processing, 208 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 2: accurate perception of our reality, compassion and positive thinking, advanced 209 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:18,520 Speaker 2: learning and intelligence, boost high focus and energy levels, and 210 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 2: reduction of depressive symptoms. So that's gamma. And in the 211 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 2: news article I'm going to read to you shortly, gamma 212 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 2: is important. I have witnessed mediums being connected to these 213 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 2: EEG machines doing different forms of mediumship, evidential mediumship, trance mediumship. 214 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:45,360 Speaker 2: And what's interesting is when people work with the spirit world, 215 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 2: how often they go into the gamma state. All right, 216 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:53,480 Speaker 2: So this news just came out the first week of 217 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:58,200 Speaker 2: May twenty twenty three, and just a few months prior 218 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:01,640 Speaker 2: to that, there was a study done by scientists with 219 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:06,120 Speaker 2: the New York Academy of Sciences announcing that near death 220 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:12,960 Speaker 2: experiences are definitely not hallucinations of a dying brain shutting down. 221 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:15,640 Speaker 2: I don't know if you've ever been in a conversation 222 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:19,160 Speaker 2: with someone and they say, oh, near death experiences. Oh, 223 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:22,399 Speaker 2: your brain just goes into this heightened mode and you 224 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:26,639 Speaker 2: are hallucinating. And that explains it. And I actually thought 225 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:29,119 Speaker 2: that way back in the beginning, when I was so 226 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:33,120 Speaker 2: skeptical and outspoken that the afterlife could not be real. Oh, 227 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:35,960 Speaker 2: you didn't want to know that, Sandra. Back then, she 228 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 2: was ugly. So scientists have proved, and they're not willing 229 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:45,679 Speaker 2: to say what's happening, but near death experiences are not 230 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:50,639 Speaker 2: hallucinations from a dying brain. So this new research, let 231 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:53,760 Speaker 2: me read this to you. The Proceedings of the National 232 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:58,920 Speaker 2: Academy of Science provide some preliminary evidence of increased brain 233 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:04,320 Speaker 2: activity associated with consciousness in the moments leading up to 234 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:10,720 Speaker 2: death in this study spearheaded by two doctors, doctor Borgin 235 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:16,320 Speaker 2: and doctor Maschour. In this study, in connection with the 236 00:18:16,359 --> 00:18:23,400 Speaker 2: Michigan Center for Consciousness Science, the researchers observed comparable gamma 237 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:28,520 Speaker 2: activation signatures in the dying brains of both animals and 238 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:35,919 Speaker 2: humans following oxygen deprivation caused by cardiac arrest. One doctor 239 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:41,159 Speaker 2: stated how vivid experience can emerge from a dysfunctional brain 240 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:47,679 Speaker 2: during the process of dying is a neuroscientific paradox. The 241 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:52,080 Speaker 2: research team identified four patients who died from cardiac arrest 242 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:57,879 Speaker 2: while being monitored by an EEG in the hospital. All 243 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:02,360 Speaker 2: four were comatose and unrest responsive, and, with the consent 244 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:07,120 Speaker 2: of their families, removed from life support after being deemed 245 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 2: beyond medical help. Upon withdrawal of ventilator support, two of 246 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:19,159 Speaker 2: the patients exhibited an increased heart rate accompanied by a 247 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 2: surge of gamma wave activity, known as the fastest brain 248 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:30,080 Speaker 2: activity and linked to consciousness. The surge of activity was 249 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:35,040 Speaker 2: observed in the hot zone of neuro correlates of consciousness 250 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 2: in the brain, located at the junction between the temporal 251 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 2: parishial and a capital lobes. I have no idea if 252 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 2: I'm pronouncing those right. This region has been associated with dreaming, 253 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:54,440 Speaker 2: visual hallucinations, and altered states of consciousness in previous studies. 254 00:19:55,119 --> 00:20:00,080 Speaker 2: Doctor Nusha Maylova explained that these two patients had a 255 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 2: history of seizures, but experienced none during the hour before 256 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:09,200 Speaker 2: their deaths. The other two patients displayed neither an increase 257 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:13,560 Speaker 2: in heart rate upon removal from life support, nor heightened 258 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:19,760 Speaker 2: brain activity. Despite these intriguing results, the researchers caution against 259 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:26,200 Speaker 2: drawing definitive conclusions due to the limited sample size. Additionally, 260 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 2: it is impossible to know what the patients experienced as 261 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 2: they did not survive. We are unable to make correlations 262 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:40,720 Speaker 2: of the observed neural signatures of consciousness with a corresponding 263 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:45,240 Speaker 2: experience in the same patients of this study. However, the 264 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:50,480 Speaker 2: observed findings are definitely exciting and provide a new framework 265 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:58,040 Speaker 2: for understanding our covert consciousness in dying humans, said doctor Nusha. 266 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:06,080 Speaker 2: Future large scale, multi center studies involving EEG monitored ICU 267 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:12,320 Speaker 2: patients who survive cardiac arrest could offer valuable data to 268 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 2: ascertain whether these bursts of gamma activity are indeed indicating 269 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:24,080 Speaker 2: concealed consciousness near death. So what this means to me 270 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 2: after witnessing mediums being connected with these egs and also, 271 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:37,160 Speaker 2: we don't really understand consciousness do we? We know we have it, 272 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:42,159 Speaker 2: but what exactly it is and where it comes from? 273 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:47,160 Speaker 2: And I believe our consciousness continues after death. Is there 274 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 2: some correlation between being in this heightened gamma state that 275 00:21:53,680 --> 00:22:00,000 Speaker 2: seems to kick in prior to death, and this may 276 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:04,520 Speaker 2: be responsible for not only the connection that we feel 277 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 2: to the afterlife, but when we listen to accounts of 278 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:14,959 Speaker 2: near death experiences, they are extremely memorable to the people 279 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:21,159 Speaker 2: experiencing them. Most memories that we have it's hard to 280 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:26,680 Speaker 2: remember them or they're vague, But people who experience these 281 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:31,920 Speaker 2: near death experiences, they can picture them as if they've 282 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:36,800 Speaker 2: only just happened. Even someone who is six years old 283 00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:40,640 Speaker 2: who had a near death experience can recall it when 284 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:45,480 Speaker 2: they're ninety years old, as if it had just happened, 285 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:51,359 Speaker 2: And the memories are so real to them, experiencing them 286 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:56,439 Speaker 2: with all of their senses. So, before we pass, is 287 00:22:56,480 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 2: it natural that we go into this heightened gamma state, 288 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:05,560 Speaker 2: and is that the state for our consciousness? And when 289 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:11,159 Speaker 2: we pass, does that just unleash our consciousness into the 290 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:16,600 Speaker 2: unseen world, taking us from a soul having a human 291 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:22,960 Speaker 2: experience to a spirit who now resides in the afterlife, 292 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:28,800 Speaker 2: the world unseen, the hereafter. It's a fascinating inquiry. I 293 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 2: think I've said this before, But row, row, row your 294 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 2: boat gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Life 295 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:41,920 Speaker 2: is but a dream. I also like this quote by 296 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 2: Nikola Tesla, great inventor and engineer. The day science begins 297 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:52,520 Speaker 2: to study non physical phenomena, it will make more progress 298 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:56,800 Speaker 2: in one decade than in all of the previous centuries 299 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,760 Speaker 2: of its existence. We've got some great things head. But 300 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:02,720 Speaker 2: before we go to the break, let me play a 301 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:08,320 Speaker 2: little clip of Attorney ROBERTA. Grimes, who's also afterlife explorer 302 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:10,400 Speaker 2: and host of Seek Reality. 303 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,960 Speaker 5: The beauty of it all is that the afterlife is 304 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:17,280 Speaker 5: exactly where we are. It's exactly in the same place, 305 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:20,080 Speaker 5: and the way it works is really pretty simple. We 306 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:22,879 Speaker 5: think what's around us is solid, but of course it's not. 307 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:25,560 Speaker 5: Any scientist will tell you. If the White House is 308 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 5: the center of an atom, the orbiting electron could be 309 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 5: in Denver and there's nothing between, not even air nothing. 310 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:35,440 Speaker 5: That's how little there is that is solid. And then 311 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:37,640 Speaker 5: if you look at the particles, while those particles must 312 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,520 Speaker 5: be solid, it turns out their vortices of energy. It's 313 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:44,840 Speaker 5: all energy. The great Bruce Lipton, who is a quantum biologist, 314 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 5: he's wonderful. He says, if you had a teeny tiny 315 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:50,359 Speaker 5: camera and you could put it inside an atom, that'd 316 00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:53,879 Speaker 5: be nothing for it to photograph. Matter is nothing but energy. 317 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,600 Speaker 5: So knowing that's true, it will make sense to you. 318 00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 5: And I tell you that right now you are tuned 319 00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:02,879 Speaker 5: to that's what we think the lowest level of reality. 320 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:06,160 Speaker 5: Your mind is tuned to this level, the universe level, 321 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 5: we'll call it, and to that body on this level. 322 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 5: When you die, all that happens is your mind, like 323 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 5: a television set, tunes to a higher level, and it 324 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:19,879 Speaker 5: picks up just like your TV would, a whole new, 325 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:23,640 Speaker 5: solid reality, just as solid as this one is. In fact, 326 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,239 Speaker 5: the people who live there say that's real. This is 327 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:28,720 Speaker 5: not real, which is a little hard to grasp when 328 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,879 Speaker 5: you're living through your life here and dodging taxis. But 329 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:36,080 Speaker 5: that's the reality. That's how it works. So that being 330 00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:39,359 Speaker 5: the case, it's easy to understand. I think that the 331 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,760 Speaker 5: dead are actually able to come and visit us easily. 332 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:45,080 Speaker 5: They can lower their vibratory rate. We can't go higher, 333 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:48,159 Speaker 5: especially when we're in bodies. They can lower their vibratory 334 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:50,840 Speaker 5: rate and be right here with us. In fact, I'm 335 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:52,720 Speaker 5: sure some of the people that I love around me 336 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,879 Speaker 5: now saying go ROBERTA, so thank you for listening to 337 00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:57,480 Speaker 5: this let's. 338 00:25:57,280 --> 00:25:59,679 Speaker 2: Go to the break and we'll be back. You're listening 339 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:03,440 Speaker 2: to Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast 340 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:20,359 Speaker 2: to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. 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Sandra on the iHeartRadio and Coast to 351 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:22,160 Speaker 6: Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. 352 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:33,760 Speaker 2: Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain, 353 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:37,639 Speaker 2: and we're talking about gamma wave activity in the brain 354 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:42,199 Speaker 2: as we die. Now, of course we don't die, but 355 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:46,159 Speaker 2: the body does. And what's happening is this gamma state 356 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:52,919 Speaker 2: responsible for our consciousness surviving after death. The University of 357 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:56,879 Speaker 2: Louisville in Kentucky found something surprising. 358 00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:59,119 Speaker 5: WDNC and a bear has more on the incredible finding 359 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:01,400 Speaker 5: about a patient's final moments. 360 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,640 Speaker 7: It was accidental science. An eighty seven year old's brain 361 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:08,920 Speaker 7: activity documented at the exact moment of his passing. A 362 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:13,120 Speaker 7: serendipitous finding opened one doctor's mind to what's possible when 363 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:17,479 Speaker 7: we die. Neurosurgeon doctor Ajmal Zammar was monitoring a patient 364 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:21,280 Speaker 7: for seizures using electrodes placed all across the skull when 365 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:22,760 Speaker 7: the unexpected happened. 366 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:27,560 Speaker 8: While we were doing this, the patient unfortunately suffered a 367 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:28,960 Speaker 8: cordiac arrest and died. 368 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,720 Speaker 7: The heart stopped, but the censor still in place picked 369 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:34,720 Speaker 7: up the patient's final brain waves. 370 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:38,600 Speaker 8: That left us alone with the recording from alive to death. 371 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:42,800 Speaker 7: As the University of Louisville neurosurgeon studied the rare recording, 372 00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:45,320 Speaker 7: a rather beautiful story unfolded. 373 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 8: There's very specific brainwave patterns that are happening in the brain. 374 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:55,640 Speaker 8: While we have a recall a replay of memories, so 375 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:57,520 Speaker 8: this is known in healthy humans. 376 00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:00,800 Speaker 7: In studies of healthy humans brain activit, the recordings have 377 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:04,280 Speaker 7: shown active gamma waves. As a person looks at pictures 378 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:07,760 Speaker 7: of memorable life events a wedding, the birth of a child, 379 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:11,680 Speaker 7: the same waves appeared in abundance in the dying patient 380 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,400 Speaker 7: and for thirty seconds after death. 381 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:18,080 Speaker 8: What exactly happens when is the time we really die 382 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:21,720 Speaker 8: and the brain stops really being active. 383 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,280 Speaker 7: The dying patient's brainwave patterns appear to correlate with those 384 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:26,959 Speaker 7: who have had a near death experience. 385 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 8: If you look at near death experiences, the people who 386 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 8: described them describe them fairly consistently. They describe memory, flashbacks, 387 00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:40,480 Speaker 8: memory recalls. 388 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:44,280 Speaker 7: The finding has sparked both scientific and spiritual debate. 389 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:48,920 Speaker 8: Am I nearly seeing nerve cells firing and brain waves 390 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:52,280 Speaker 8: being active? Or do they have a functional meaning and 391 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:55,479 Speaker 8: they let us perceive these memories and recalls? That to 392 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:56,520 Speaker 8: me is the biggest question. 393 00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:00,480 Speaker 7: Doctor Zemer says he plans to continue the fascinating and instigation. 394 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:04,680 Speaker 8: How would we like to imagine our death? I leave 395 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:08,840 Speaker 8: it to everybody else to decide by themselves. I would 396 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:12,120 Speaker 8: like it for me personally to be spin off seconds 397 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,480 Speaker 8: I replay memories before I die. I would like to 398 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:16,480 Speaker 8: die with that feeling. That would be a bad thought. 399 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:20,560 Speaker 7: Those same findings have been documented in animal studies. Researchers 400 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:24,480 Speaker 7: who induced cardiac arrest and rats noted gamma wave activity 401 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:26,640 Speaker 7: persistent after the heart stopped. 402 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:30,040 Speaker 2: Next, I want you to hear from doctor Sam Parnia, 403 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:34,600 Speaker 2: who is Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Director 404 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:40,440 Speaker 2: of Critical Care and Resuscitation Research at NYU School of Medicine. 405 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:46,480 Speaker 2: He is talking to UK's Times Radio stig Able about 406 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:50,880 Speaker 2: a man named Richard Hammond. Pay special attention to the 407 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,880 Speaker 2: words doctor Parnia shares on consciousness. 408 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:57,640 Speaker 9: There are millions and millions of people who've gone through 409 00:30:57,640 --> 00:30:59,840 Speaker 9: the point of death and beyond. We actually don't call 410 00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:03,440 Speaker 9: the these near death experiences. That is a very ambiguous term, 411 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:06,560 Speaker 9: and it's a term that's been grossly misused. But the 412 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,160 Speaker 9: reality is that people who go through death and come 413 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:13,560 Speaker 9: back to life have recalled universal and consistent features, even 414 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:15,920 Speaker 9: though they don't know each other at all. And this 415 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:20,320 Speaker 9: is cross culturess so called religious beliefs and non religious 416 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:22,160 Speaker 9: beliefs and so on and so forth. It seems to 417 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:25,760 Speaker 9: be a universal human experience. And you have to realize 418 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,160 Speaker 9: we were never meant to go into death. We were 419 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:31,480 Speaker 9: never meant to scientifically start to parse through and beyond death. 420 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,800 Speaker 9: But that's exactly what science is doing now, and remarkably, 421 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,520 Speaker 9: we find that when people go through there, they have 422 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:42,080 Speaker 9: these lucid experiences of death that are not consistent with hallucinations, 423 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,920 Speaker 9: They are not consistent with illusions, They are not delusional. 424 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,320 Speaker 9: These are real experiences that are occurring. 425 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:49,800 Speaker 10: So what do you conclude from this? I mean, these 426 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,240 Speaker 10: are deep questions. And you know you're an intensive care doctor. 427 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:54,520 Speaker 10: You're talking to us from the intensive care now, so 428 00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:57,040 Speaker 10: I'll forgive you that. You might say, I can't be 429 00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,600 Speaker 10: interested in metaphysical questions that you're hurling at me. But 430 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,400 Speaker 10: there's two obvious areas that you're getting into. One is 431 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:05,560 Speaker 10: the mind body problem. Is there a kind of something 432 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:09,000 Speaker 10: other than just the flesh operating here? Is there something 433 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,720 Speaker 10: more significant? And I suppose other people will be thinking, well, 434 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:14,200 Speaker 10: does this make you think about after lives? Does it 435 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 10: make you think about there's something more for twos and 436 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:19,520 Speaker 10: four as when we die? Or what do you conclude 437 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:19,800 Speaker 10: from this? 438 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:25,080 Speaker 9: You see? The problem here is that we have very 439 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:28,680 Speaker 9: fixed societal views about what life and death is and 440 00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:31,800 Speaker 9: why Because for thousands of years, what used to happen 441 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,520 Speaker 9: was when the heart stopped, people would be permanently dead. 442 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:36,200 Speaker 9: There was nothing you could do. There was you could 443 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,080 Speaker 9: draw a clear line between when they were alive and 444 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:40,880 Speaker 9: they were dead because the moment the heart stopped, there 445 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:44,360 Speaker 9: were lifeless, motionless. The brain would stop working, they would 446 00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:46,000 Speaker 9: stop breathing, and they would be dead, and they'll be 447 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:49,320 Speaker 9: permanently dead. The reality is that science now has gone 448 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:52,520 Speaker 9: well into death and into the post mortem period, and 449 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,720 Speaker 9: what we've understood that actually is that you can be 450 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,240 Speaker 9: dead and I'm not playing with words. I don't mean 451 00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,600 Speaker 9: close to death, I mean really dead and beyond dead 452 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,920 Speaker 9: in the post mortem period and still be brought back 453 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:06,360 Speaker 9: to life again because the cells in your body do 454 00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:08,440 Speaker 9: not die at the same time that you die. They 455 00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:11,760 Speaker 9: go into sort of a hibernation state for hours of time, 456 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,160 Speaker 9: and that during that period you can be brought back 457 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,320 Speaker 9: to life, which is why the experiences that people have 458 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:20,760 Speaker 9: are truly reflecting the experience of death, not just near death. Now, 459 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:23,680 Speaker 9: to your other point that you raise is what on 460 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:26,320 Speaker 9: earth is going on? But that's a big question. What 461 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:29,160 Speaker 9: is going on with human consciousness? We are all conscious, 462 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:32,960 Speaker 9: thinking beings. Everyone who listens to this program is thinking 463 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,280 Speaker 9: and conscious. And the reality is that going back thousands 464 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:40,400 Speaker 9: of years to Plato and Socrates and Aristotle and Democratis 465 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:44,080 Speaker 9: and all these other great philosophers and Avicenna and great thinkers. 466 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,400 Speaker 9: People have tried to understand what is it that makes 467 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:49,640 Speaker 9: us who we are? How do our thoughts, our feelings, 468 00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:53,280 Speaker 9: our emotions, our self come to be? And essentially there 469 00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:55,920 Speaker 9: have been two very broad categories of belief system and 470 00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,960 Speaker 9: these are beliefs. Some people have always believed that will 471 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:04,120 Speaker 9: somehow magine the body, the brain will generate your thinking, 472 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:08,080 Speaker 9: your thoughts, your consciousness. Others have proposed that that may 473 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:11,800 Speaker 9: not address the problem, because actually, we can now study 474 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,560 Speaker 9: the brain in great detail. We know how every cell works, 475 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:16,760 Speaker 9: we know how the cells connect together, we know how 476 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:21,200 Speaker 9: millions and billions of cells connect together. Yet we cannot 477 00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:24,280 Speaker 9: find any evidence for how those cells can generate your thoughts. 478 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:29,400 Speaker 9: We cannot find how cells can start thinking and feeling. 479 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,120 Speaker 9: For instance, if I were to show you a brain 480 00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:35,520 Speaker 9: cell in a laboratory and say, oh, here, this brain 481 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:37,799 Speaker 9: cell is now thinking I'm hungry, you'd say, well, that's 482 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:40,680 Speaker 9: kind of crazy. It's a brain cell. It produces proteins, 483 00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:43,360 Speaker 9: it doesn't produce salt. But we are thinking, conscious beings. 484 00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:45,680 Speaker 9: And so I think, to sort of go back to 485 00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:48,359 Speaker 9: the point you raised, what's really remarkable here is that 486 00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:53,839 Speaker 9: and our consciousness itself is remarkable. We have things that 487 00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:57,880 Speaker 9: other animals can't do. We can recite poetry, we can paint, 488 00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:00,640 Speaker 9: We have people like Beethoven and Motes, and we can 489 00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:02,399 Speaker 9: go to the moon and to Mars, and we can 490 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:05,359 Speaker 9: cure COVID, and we can tackle even what happens when 491 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:08,920 Speaker 9: we die. So our consciousness is quite unique. And I 492 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:12,280 Speaker 9: think it's a little bit of a disservice to think 493 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:15,320 Speaker 9: that it is simply some sort of byproduct of the brain, 494 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:19,359 Speaker 9: a little bit like heat coming off of a fire. Now, well, 495 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:24,839 Speaker 9: it really oversimplifies what is remarkable about human consciousness, right, 496 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:28,279 Speaker 9: So I think the scientific answer that many of us 497 00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:32,440 Speaker 9: are verering towards is that I think that, and bearing 498 00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,840 Speaker 9: in mind there is no evidence, right we were scientists, 499 00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:37,160 Speaker 9: we need there is no evidence for how brain cells 500 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,200 Speaker 9: or millions of brain cells can produce thoughts. And one 501 00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:43,319 Speaker 9: alternative is that maybe consciousness, the things that makes us 502 00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:48,120 Speaker 9: who we are, is a separate, undiscovered scientific entity that 503 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:50,480 Speaker 9: interacts with the brain in the same way that you 504 00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:54,320 Speaker 9: need a radio or a TV to decode electromagnetic waves 505 00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:57,080 Speaker 9: and turn them into sound and picture, but they're not 506 00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,279 Speaker 9: produced by the TV or the radio, and it might 507 00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:02,840 Speaker 9: be your conscience is a separate, undiscovered entity that is 508 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:05,759 Speaker 9: remarkable and can do all these remarkable things. Yeah, and 509 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:07,160 Speaker 9: that might be a better explanation. 510 00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:09,399 Speaker 10: That's why they call it the mind body problem, because 511 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:12,080 Speaker 10: no one can really truly solve it. But perhaps Richard 512 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:14,560 Speaker 10: han't talked about his wife shouting at him. He said that, 513 00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:17,080 Speaker 10: you know, he was on the way towards death and 514 00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:20,959 Speaker 10: his wife shouted at him and said, come back, don't 515 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,640 Speaker 10: you dare die. You must have seen people in your 516 00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:27,279 Speaker 10: job have that type of experience, someone saying please don't die, 517 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:29,399 Speaker 10: the relatives there, the loved ones around them. 518 00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:30,440 Speaker 8: Do you feel that there. 519 00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:33,080 Speaker 10: Is a something that happens when there's a connection between 520 00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:35,640 Speaker 10: two people that can draw people back. 521 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,759 Speaker 11: Is that is that a fair assessment? Well, I don't 522 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:40,640 Speaker 11: think so. If that was the case, you wouldn't need 523 00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:44,719 Speaker 11: intensive care doctors like me. I think it sounds very 524 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,399 Speaker 11: nice and it's wonderful that his wife was screaming at him. 525 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:49,319 Speaker 11: It's good to know that your spouse was screaming. Even 526 00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:51,839 Speaker 11: if you're dying for a different reason. That doesn't end 527 00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,399 Speaker 11: it sounds like. But the reality is that I think 528 00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:56,360 Speaker 11: we you know obviously what and I don't unfortunate this 529 00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:58,280 Speaker 11: video doesn't give details of his medical condition. 530 00:36:58,320 --> 00:36:59,960 Speaker 9: We don't know what's going on. But the reality is 531 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:04,319 Speaker 9: that as people are in a deep coma, if they're 532 00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,239 Speaker 9: starting to wake up, depending on where he was, maybe 533 00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:09,920 Speaker 9: he was improving and he was actually coming back, that 534 00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:12,600 Speaker 9: they go into the sort of twilight zone where they 535 00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:15,719 Speaker 9: can hear things, but they don't process information quite correctly. 536 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:17,799 Speaker 9: They're a bit confused, and so it might be that 537 00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:21,200 Speaker 9: he was having some interaction with his wife, but that 538 00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:24,400 Speaker 9: was probably later as he was waking up from his coma, 539 00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:26,240 Speaker 9: rather than when he was deep in his coma. 540 00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:28,400 Speaker 10: We have to leave it now, Sam, But you're going 541 00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,080 Speaker 10: to go off and treat people in intensive care? How 542 00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:32,600 Speaker 10: do you go about thinking about that? I mean, does 543 00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:34,680 Speaker 10: it lightly blow your mind that in half an hour's 544 00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:36,520 Speaker 10: time you're going to be the difference between life and 545 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,239 Speaker 10: death for someone? How do you judge the boundary between 546 00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:41,160 Speaker 10: the two now when you live it every single day? 547 00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:45,200 Speaker 9: I think, truthfully, I think it's a privilege because you know, 548 00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:48,200 Speaker 9: we are able to bring life back to people, and 549 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:50,279 Speaker 9: then that obviously is an honor and it's a privilege 550 00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:53,520 Speaker 9: and we do our best. But what's also remarkable is 551 00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:57,160 Speaker 9: that and science has gone through and gone beyond the 552 00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:59,920 Speaker 9: boundaries of death, and we're exploring what happens to people 553 00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,640 Speaker 9: in that state. And what I think is really happening, 554 00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:05,600 Speaker 9: which is truly remarkable to me, is I think is 555 00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:08,600 Speaker 9: as they're going through death, their brain is shutting down, 556 00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:12,240 Speaker 9: and normally the parts of their brain that are acting 557 00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:15,440 Speaker 9: like a braking system, it's like an inhibition process that 558 00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:17,359 Speaker 9: allows them to do what they need to do. Pay 559 00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:19,880 Speaker 9: the bills, pay the mortgage, cook dinner, things that you 560 00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:23,040 Speaker 9: do in your day to day life. Those things that 561 00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:28,000 Speaker 9: are prominent disappear. It's called the process of disinhibition. Those 562 00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:30,960 Speaker 9: things go away, and then remarkably, they get access to 563 00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:34,919 Speaker 9: their entire consciousness, everything they've done, everything that they've said, 564 00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:38,280 Speaker 9: everything that they've intended, and then they start to analyze 565 00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:41,960 Speaker 9: themselves based upon morality and ethics. So it really is 566 00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:45,439 Speaker 9: truly remarkable what is going on when you're going into death, 567 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:48,040 Speaker 9: and I think that is something that we're trying to explore. 568 00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:48,319 Speaker 3: Further. 569 00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:52,600 Speaker 2: I love that doctor Parnia came right out and said 570 00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:57,040 Speaker 2: science can find no evidence on how our brain cells 571 00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:03,040 Speaker 2: generate thoughts. So many people say if science believes something, 572 00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:06,600 Speaker 2: we'll believe it. So people are looking to science to 573 00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:10,760 Speaker 2: prove exactly what happens when we die, that our life 574 00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,799 Speaker 2: goes on, and that there is life after death. But 575 00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:19,360 Speaker 2: there are so many questions yet to be answered. My friend, 576 00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,400 Speaker 2: there is more to life than meets the eye, and 577 00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:26,919 Speaker 2: there is more to you than you know. So let's 578 00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:29,760 Speaker 2: go into our next break and then we'll be back. 579 00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:33,720 Speaker 2: I've left you a lot to think about. You're listening 580 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:37,480 Speaker 2: to Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast 581 00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:41,000 Speaker 2: to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. 582 00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:47,279 Speaker 3: We're happy to let you know that our Coast to 583 00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:50,400 Speaker 3: Coast AM official YouTube channel has now reached three hundred 584 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,360 Speaker 3: thousand subscribers. 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Make sure and check out all 592 00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:19,120 Speaker 1: our shows on the iHeartRadio app or by going to 593 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:26,280 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio dot com. 594 00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:29,360 Speaker 11: Hi, this is ufologist Kevin Randall, and you're listening to 595 00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:33,240 Speaker 11: the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast am Paranormal Podcast Network. 596 00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:52,480 Speaker 2: Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain 597 00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:55,439 Speaker 2: and I feel like a dog who won't give up 598 00:40:55,680 --> 00:41:01,040 Speaker 2: his bone. I'm hooked on this Gammus dates and I 599 00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:04,800 Speaker 2: find it all very interesting about being in that heightened 600 00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:08,399 Speaker 2: sense of awareness before we pass. Can we get into 601 00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:12,000 Speaker 2: that state on our own and connect to the greater reality? 602 00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:15,560 Speaker 2: I say yes. I want you to listen now to 603 00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:19,400 Speaker 2: Daniel Goleman, who is the co author of a book 604 00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:24,320 Speaker 2: called Altered Traits, and this is the remarkable brain waves 605 00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:26,600 Speaker 2: of high level meditators. 606 00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:31,000 Speaker 12: My co author of the book Altered Traits is a neuroscientist, 607 00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:34,640 Speaker 12: Richard Davidson. He has a lab at the University of Wisconsin, 608 00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:38,520 Speaker 12: a very large lab. He has dedicated scanners. He has 609 00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:42,160 Speaker 12: about one hundred people working there, and he was able 610 00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:47,520 Speaker 12: to do some remarkable research where he flew Olympic level 611 00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:52,160 Speaker 12: meditators who live in Nepaul or India, typically some in France. 612 00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:55,560 Speaker 12: He flew them over to the lab and put them 613 00:41:55,600 --> 00:42:00,279 Speaker 12: through a protocol in his brain scanners and did state 614 00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:04,680 Speaker 12: of the art tests and the results were just astounding. 615 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:10,600 Speaker 12: We found, for example, or he found that their brain 616 00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:13,719 Speaker 12: waves are really different. Perhaps the most remarkable finding in 617 00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:16,640 Speaker 12: the Olympic level meditators has to do with what's called 618 00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:20,359 Speaker 12: gamma wave. All of us get gamma for a very 619 00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:24,040 Speaker 12: short period when we solve a problem we've been grappling with, 620 00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:27,759 Speaker 12: even if it's something that's vexed us for months, we 621 00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:32,319 Speaker 12: get about a half second of gamma. It's the strongest 622 00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:36,319 Speaker 12: wave in the EEG spectrum. We get it when we 623 00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:40,120 Speaker 12: bite into an apple, or imagine biting into apple and 624 00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:48,840 Speaker 12: for a brief period, split second, inputs from taste, sound, smell, vision, 625 00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:53,239 Speaker 12: all of that come together in that imagine bite into 626 00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:58,560 Speaker 12: the apple, but that last very short period in an 627 00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:04,319 Speaker 12: ordinary EG. What was stunning was that the Olympic level meditators, 628 00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:07,360 Speaker 12: these are people who've done up to sixty two thousand 629 00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:13,080 Speaker 12: lifetime hours of meditation, their brainwave shows gamma very strong 630 00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:17,120 Speaker 12: all the time as a lasting trait, just no matter 631 00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:19,920 Speaker 12: what they're doing. It's not a state effect, it's not 632 00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:24,799 Speaker 12: during their meditation alone, but it's just their everyday state 633 00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:30,560 Speaker 12: of mind. We actually have no idea what that means experientially, 634 00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:34,520 Speaker 12: science has never seen it before. We also find that 635 00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:38,800 Speaker 12: in these Olympic level meditators, when we ask them, for example, 636 00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:42,360 Speaker 12: to do a meditation on compassion, their level of gamma 637 00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:47,160 Speaker 12: jumps seven to eight hundred percent in a few seconds. 638 00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:51,160 Speaker 12: This has also never been seen by science. So we 639 00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:55,759 Speaker 12: have to assume that the special state of consciousness that 640 00:43:55,800 --> 00:44:00,840 Speaker 12: you see in the highest level meditators is a lot 641 00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:06,959 Speaker 12: like something described in the classical meditation literatures literature centuries ago, 642 00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:10,600 Speaker 12: which is that there is a state of being which 643 00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:13,800 Speaker 12: is not like our ordinary state. 644 00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:14,600 Speaker 6: You know. 645 00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:21,240 Speaker 12: Sometimes it's called liberation, enlightenment, awake, whatever the word may be. 646 00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:26,279 Speaker 12: We suspect there's really no vocabulary that captures what that 647 00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:30,279 Speaker 12: might be. The people that we've talked to in this 648 00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:34,319 Speaker 12: Olympic level group say, it's a very spacious sense. You're 649 00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:38,319 Speaker 12: wide open, you're prepared for whatever may come. We just 650 00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:41,680 Speaker 12: don't know, but we do know is quite remarkable. 651 00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:45,120 Speaker 2: It is really remarkable. And I'm playing this game of 652 00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:48,799 Speaker 2: connecting the dots to what I've learned about gamma to 653 00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:52,280 Speaker 2: some of the other things that I have learned. Remember, 654 00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:55,759 Speaker 2: we've talked about sitting in the power. This is that 655 00:44:55,880 --> 00:45:00,160 Speaker 2: technique to quiet the mind, very much like meditation and 656 00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:05,279 Speaker 2: get into those altered states. Please revisit episode one one 657 00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:09,439 Speaker 2: five because there's that experiential journey and I talk much 658 00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:12,960 Speaker 2: more about it. Also, if you really want to dig 659 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,879 Speaker 2: your teeth into this, go to the store page at 660 00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:20,040 Speaker 2: We Don't Die dot com. Our medium friends Carrie and 661 00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:24,000 Speaker 2: Phil did a five hour workshop on sitting in the power. 662 00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:28,240 Speaker 2: There were different ways to sit, Sitting just for your soul, 663 00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:32,920 Speaker 2: sitting for healing, sitting to connect with your deceased loved ones, 664 00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:40,320 Speaker 2: sitting to contact the spirit world through mediumship. I'm wondering 665 00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:45,040 Speaker 2: and thinking that this is connecting to the gamma state. 666 00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:48,360 Speaker 2: Remember I was saying I went to a workshop where 667 00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:51,920 Speaker 2: mediums were connected to this EEG and while they were 668 00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:56,480 Speaker 2: doing mediumship, they were engaged in the gamma state. Something 669 00:45:56,600 --> 00:46:01,200 Speaker 2: worth investigating. Now, Remember earlier I said, let's get on 670 00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:05,120 Speaker 2: to the court and not in the stands. Part of 671 00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:08,520 Speaker 2: why I do this show definitely is for evidence of 672 00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:12,640 Speaker 2: the afterlife and to help people through grief, but it's 673 00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:17,439 Speaker 2: also about having an incredible life. From time to time 674 00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:22,840 Speaker 2: in my journey, I would do gratitude exercises, meaning taking 675 00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:25,760 Speaker 2: out a piece of paper or my computer and writing 676 00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:29,400 Speaker 2: one hundred things I'm grateful for. While it might not 677 00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:33,320 Speaker 2: seem easy to do, there is a shift in consciousness 678 00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:38,680 Speaker 2: when you actually start feeling gratitude and really feeling joy 679 00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:44,680 Speaker 2: about the things you're grateful for, and then inserting something 680 00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:48,000 Speaker 2: you'd like to have happen in your life as if 681 00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:53,319 Speaker 2: it has already happened, and having gratitude for that. And 682 00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:56,120 Speaker 2: I have to tell you I have had miracles show 683 00:46:56,200 --> 00:47:01,680 Speaker 2: up in my life doing that practice. I subscribe to 684 00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:06,880 Speaker 2: a daily email called Messages from the Universe from tut 685 00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:11,440 Speaker 2: dot com tut tut dot com, and it is author 686 00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:15,080 Speaker 2: Mike Dooley who puts this on just a few days ago. 687 00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:19,120 Speaker 2: I got this one just once a day. Imagine the 688 00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:22,960 Speaker 2: life you dream of, believe that it can be yours 689 00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:27,120 Speaker 2: in this world of magic and miracles. Choose to live 690 00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:33,239 Speaker 2: as if you know of its inevitable manifestation. Don't compromise 691 00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:38,360 Speaker 2: and don't worry, don't look for results. And as surely 692 00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:43,480 Speaker 2: as spirit crafts one moment after another, so too will 693 00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:47,000 Speaker 2: it fuse together the life you now lead with the 694 00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:51,040 Speaker 2: life of your dreams, as if they were two pieces 695 00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:55,560 Speaker 2: of a jigsaw puzzle destined to become one. Are you 696 00:47:55,600 --> 00:48:03,240 Speaker 2: willing to play with gratitude, with meditation, with gamma waves? 697 00:48:04,239 --> 00:48:04,439 Speaker 6: Hey? 698 00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:10,319 Speaker 2: Why not? Right earlier we listened to doctor sam Parnia 699 00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:15,400 Speaker 2: talk about consciousness. Nowhere in our brain or bodies cells 700 00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:21,280 Speaker 2: can science figure out where thoughts, feelings, and emotions come from. 701 00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:24,839 Speaker 2: So I want to leave you with a reminder of 702 00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:28,719 Speaker 2: some of those powerful words he said, and also to 703 00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:32,080 Speaker 2: remind you to come see me every Sunday on our 704 00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:33,000 Speaker 2: Sunday gathering. 705 00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:34,319 Speaker 8: Just go to we. 706 00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:39,200 Speaker 2: Doo'tdie dot com. Explore the website, go to the store page, 707 00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:43,520 Speaker 2: find the Sunday gathering. It'll help to empower you of 708 00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:47,080 Speaker 2: who you really are. So here is doctor sam Parnia 709 00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:47,800 Speaker 2: once again. 710 00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:52,359 Speaker 9: We are all conscious, thinking beings. Everyone who listens to 711 00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:55,960 Speaker 9: this program is thinking and conscious. And the reality is 712 00:48:56,000 --> 00:49:00,000 Speaker 9: that going back thousands of years to Plato and Socrates, 713 00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:02,640 Speaker 9: Stotle and Democratis and all these other great philosophers and 714 00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:07,480 Speaker 9: Avicenna and great thinkers, people have tried to understand what 715 00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:09,200 Speaker 9: is it that makes us who we are? How do 716 00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:12,480 Speaker 9: our thoughts, our feelings, our emotions, our self come to be? 717 00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:15,920 Speaker 9: And essentially There have been two very broad categories of 718 00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:19,000 Speaker 9: belief system, and these are beliefs. Some people have always 719 00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:23,480 Speaker 9: believed that well, somehow, magically the body, the brain will 720 00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:28,360 Speaker 9: generate your thinking, your thoughts, your consciousness. Others have proposed 721 00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:31,919 Speaker 9: that may not address the problem, because actually, we can 722 00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:34,520 Speaker 9: now study the brain in great detail. We know how 723 00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:36,880 Speaker 9: every cell works, we know how the cells connect together, 724 00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:39,960 Speaker 9: we know how millions and billions of cells connect together. 725 00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:43,920 Speaker 9: Yet we cannot find any evidence for how those cells 726 00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:48,640 Speaker 9: can generate your thoughts. We cannot find how cells can 727 00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:52,160 Speaker 9: start thinking and feeling. For instance, if I were to 728 00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:55,799 Speaker 9: show you a brain cell in a laboratory and say, oh, here, 729 00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:58,440 Speaker 9: this brain cell is now thinking I'm hungry, you'd say, well, 730 00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:01,480 Speaker 9: that's kind of crazy. It's a brain cell. It produces proteins, 731 00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:04,160 Speaker 9: it doesn't produce thought. But we are thinking conscious beings. 732 00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:06,480 Speaker 9: And so I think, to sort of go back to 733 00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:09,160 Speaker 9: the point you raised, what's really remarkable here is that 734 00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:14,600 Speaker 9: and our consciousness itself is remarkable. We have things that 735 00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:18,640 Speaker 9: other animals can't do. We can recite poetry, we can paint, 736 00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:21,399 Speaker 9: we have people like Beethoven and Mozart, and we can 737 00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:23,200 Speaker 9: go to the moon and to Mars, and we can 738 00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:26,120 Speaker 9: cure COVID, and we can tackle even what happens when 739 00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:29,719 Speaker 9: we die. So our consciousness is quite unique. And I 740 00:50:29,719 --> 00:50:33,080 Speaker 9: think it's a little bit of a disservice to think 741 00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:36,120 Speaker 9: that it is simply some sort of byproduct of the brain, 742 00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:40,160 Speaker 9: a little bit like heat coming off of a fire. Now, well, 743 00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:45,640 Speaker 9: it really oversimplifies what is remarkable about human consciousness, right, 744 00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:49,120 Speaker 9: So I think the scientific answer that many of us 745 00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:53,240 Speaker 9: are veering towards is that I think that, and bearing 746 00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:55,640 Speaker 9: in mind there is no evidence, right we were scientists, 747 00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:57,520 Speaker 9: we need every There is no evidence for how brain 748 00:50:57,560 --> 00:51:00,680 Speaker 9: cells or millions of brain cells can produce thoughts. And 749 00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:03,960 Speaker 9: one alternative is that maybe consciousness, the things that makes 750 00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:08,160 Speaker 9: us who we are, is a separate, undiscovered scientific entity 751 00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:11,160 Speaker 9: that interacts with the brain in the same way that 752 00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:14,680 Speaker 9: you need a radio or a TV to decode electromagnetic 753 00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:17,719 Speaker 9: waves and turn them into sound and picture, but they're 754 00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:19,920 Speaker 9: not produced by the TV or the radio. And it 755 00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:23,440 Speaker 9: might be your consciousness is a separate, undiscovered entity that 756 00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:26,800 Speaker 9: is remarkable and can do all these remarkable things. Science 757 00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:30,200 Speaker 9: has gone through and gone beyond the boundaries of death, 758 00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:32,760 Speaker 9: and we're exploring what happens to people in that state, 759 00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:35,640 Speaker 9: and what I think is really happening, which is truly 760 00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:38,160 Speaker 9: truly remarkable to me, is I think is as they're 761 00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:42,000 Speaker 9: going through death, their brain is shutting down and normally 762 00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:44,600 Speaker 9: the parts of their brain that are acting like a 763 00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:48,239 Speaker 9: braking system. It's like an inhibition process that allows them 764 00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:49,920 Speaker 9: to do what they need to do. Pay the bills, 765 00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:52,200 Speaker 9: pay the mortgage, cook dinner, things that you do in 766 00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:57,319 Speaker 9: your day to day life, those things that are prominent disappear. 767 00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:01,279 Speaker 9: It's called the process of disinhibition. Things go away, and 768 00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:05,400 Speaker 9: then remarkably, they get access to their entire consciousness, everything 769 00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:08,239 Speaker 9: they've done, everything that they've said, everything that they've intended, 770 00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:11,960 Speaker 9: and then they start to analyze themselves based upon morality 771 00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:16,200 Speaker 9: and ethics. So it really is truly remarkable what is 772 00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:18,000 Speaker 9: going on when you're going into death. And I think 773 00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:20,399 Speaker 9: that is something that we're trying to explore further. 774 00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:26,279 Speaker 2: Science is our partner investigating the afterlife. How would you 775 00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:30,880 Speaker 2: live your life knowing that we don't die. Look around 776 00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:35,880 Speaker 2: in this invisible space. You have cheerleaders who want you 777 00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:40,719 Speaker 2: to have a wonderful, wonderful life. I do too, get 778 00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:44,520 Speaker 2: out of the stands onto the court. It's about the journey, 779 00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:49,839 Speaker 2: not the destination. You are never alone and I love you. 780 00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:55,240 Speaker 2: This is Sandra Champlain. Thank you for listening to Shades 781 00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:58,680 Speaker 2: of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast 782 00:52:58,719 --> 00:53:01,760 Speaker 2: AM here on Normal Podcast Network. 783 00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:09,040 Speaker 1: And if you like this episode of Shades of the Afterlife, 784 00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:11,480 Speaker 1: wait until you hear the next one. Thank you for 785 00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:14,840 Speaker 1: listening to the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal 786 00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:16,040 Speaker 1: Podcast Network.