Near Death Experience:

Among those who absolutely deny it and consider it a form of hallucinations, irrationality, or
sometimes silliness, and those who takes it as a bright chance that falsifies atheistic beliefs or
those that deny the existence of life after death.

Between these two extremes, my article takes somehow an unbiased position. It is a

serious pause to review views and some recent research that tried to develop
reasonable explanations for such an odd phenomenon that certainly deserves to be
considered by everyone who passes by.

The phenomenon and visions recorded:

The near death experience, or getting out of body, is one of the strangest metaphysical
phenomena. It has been recorded among people of varying religious, cultural and
social backgrounds. It must be emphasized that it is not related to any particular
religion or belief of life after death. Although many religious persons may have taken
it as proof of the existence of life after death.|

The common denominator between all those who narrated their observations about
their feeling of the soul leaving their bodies is the content and type of the observations
themselves, and the preservation of their perception, awareness and memory.

My father told me one night about a medical case that he could not forget, which he
had treated during one of his nights in the emergency department of the hospital
where he worked. A 40 year old man, who suffered from acute asthma exacerbation.
The patient deteriorated into a state of cessation of breath "apnea".
His vital signs started to decline, and he became unconscious of what was going on
around him, and his skin and lips were colored in dark blue. This is a dangerous
condition that threatens his life, and requires rapid and emergency intervention. 

After the necessary procedures were performed, this man started to regain
consciousness and realized that his soul had returned to his body after he almost made
sure that it had left the earth to the other world.

This man has gone through the near-death experience. He said to my father that night:
“I firmly believed that I was dead and there is no return. I saw myself inside a long
dark tunnel with light at its end. I felt that my soul and awareness had literally left my
body, and gone into the other world" 

This is not the first time that doctors will listen to observations of a near-death
experience and the feeling of leaving the body, especially if they are dealing with
critical cases in which the heart stops (cardiac arrest) and vital functions are unstable,
in cases of clinical brain death, or coma.

The phenomoenon will surely create an endless curiosity to pursue and try to
understand it, especially if we know that it has been recorded many times by people
from different religious and cultural backgrounds.
In order to approach this phenomenon, we should first assemble those observations
and distinguish between those who just experienced hallucinations and those who
reported similar observations that were accompanied in most cases by awareness and
feeling of the soul leaving the body.
To say it is a near-death experience, according to scientific research that has restricted
most of the seeings, observations must include:
• Feeling of soul going out from body, and seeing the body and its surroundings from
a specific area.
• A feeling of transparency, some sort of "absence of matter" or a wavy state, as in
physics.
• Entering into a tunnel or a dark narrow place with light at itsend.

• Seeing a person’s life tape as pictures, including the past and the future.
• Complete separation from the physical world and entry into another world with the
awareness of the demise of the body.
• A state of complete calmness, peace and safety.
• Some people report a negative feeling of fear and terror.

Disagreement over the interpretation of the phenomenon:

Many specialists in neuroscience have suggested that this phenomenon is nothing but a form
of multiple hallucinations that occur frequently to those who suffer from mental disorders.
Hallucinations may also happen to those who do not suffer from any psychological problems
in situations of extreme danger and when confronting an event that threatens life, thus it
cannot be evidence of something religious or philosophical; Because it comes within the
context of "dissociation from the surrounding reality", which in turn is the brief definition of
"psychosis".

Also, many psychiatrists have seen it as an example of a 'dissociative defense mechanism', as

what happens in situations of high risk.

Besides, skeptics and materialists saw it as a mere "fantasy" that speaks out the soul needs
and reflects the constant yearning for achieving peace, prosperity, and safety, especially since
most of the views had a content full of reassurance and comfort.

However, this view, with its dependence on biology and nerve signals only, referring it all to
chemistry and its disturbances, did not deter me from researching this phenomenon and
believing that it may be more than just “biological hallucinations”, since there were no brain
changes recorded to accompany the hallucinations in the brains of those who had been
through this experience, according to a research published in 2009.

Perhaps I will not go much into an explanation of those who saw it as religious evidence of a
belief in a life after death, but we should knock the door of philosophy and know its definition
of consciousness in the first place, and quantitative physics that may carry a reasonable
explanation for such a phenomenon.
As I said earlier in the article that the common factor that calls for further research is the
preservation of consciousness and perception in the person whose body has ceased to function
in the clinical medical sense or who have entered into clinical death.

The controversy surrounding this phenomenon is summarized as to if a person is able to

remember these observations despite the brain stopping its functions and the EEG flattening,
does this mean that we have to review what cognitive neuroscience is based on, which is that
human consciousness and memory are related to brain activity? Does this prove the validity
of the assumption by some philosophers that the issue of human consciousness may be a
common state in the universe unrelated to the brain and the physical body?

This invites us to ask what consciousness is, and whether it is an integral part of the brain-
body synthesis?

If the preserved memory -the retrieval of the scenes- had scenes stored in it, then would
biological explanations solely be able to convince us how is memory being saved?

The concept of 'Quantum Entanglement Physics':

A research paper published earlier this year - anyone who wants to see it can write to me -
proposed the phenomenon of quantum entanglement in physics as an entry point to a new
understanding that corresponds to philosophical views of its concept about human perception
and consciousness.

The paper relies on quantum physics and what is known as quantum entanglement to explain
the creation of etheric energy for each body by which it is a storehouse of observations and
memories, whether in the past or future, and this may explain the preservation of memory
after returning to the body, despite the cessation of the brain's work "clinically".

The principle says that the behavior of molecules at the microscopic level is completely
different from the image that we receive with our senses at the visual level, where two
molecules can overlap and intertwine together and act as one molecule, this in turn creates
etheric energy which we can be considered as a reasonable explanation of what philosophy
and religion define as "soul or self", and science calls it "mind or consciousness."

Researchers have adopted the principle of reductionism to rely on quantum physics and what
can be an explanation of many phenomena that appear to be "metaphysical".
Seeing future events that happened for real:

"Janice"a 36 weeks pregnant, was in a very good health, and she didn't have any
complications after she had preterm labor. She was mistakenly given a bronchodilator for a
long period, the drug which she did not need. Suddenly, she started to deteriorate and her
pulse rate started to increase rapidly until she reached a state of cardiac arrest.

While doctors were doing their best to resuscitate her to save her life, she says she felt at that
moment that her heart has stopped beating, and she moved to the other world where she
regained her full perception and consciousness. She estimated that period with 30-40 minutes,
while the actual time of resuscitation was 3-4 minutes only.

The outstanding point is that during those minutes she has seen her all 'life-tape'; events of her
life, which contained events from the past and events from the future that have not happened
yet!

She saw her child daughter, who still was not born, while she is 2 years old. She saw her
daughter with her siblings, and she saw the main events of her future daughter's life!

She described the place where she saw her daughter as being completely transparent, she felt
her body too light as never felt before. She was unable to touch her legs or hands or even
perceive their feel. She also heard a voice calling her at a specific moment of the life-tape,
saying: Are you ready to leave? While she was in complete certainty that she died and no
longer alive.

Conclusion:

Whatever the truth about this phenomenon, it will keep being a field of research. I see that it
is necessary to gather adequate knowledge in many fields of science to find a full explanation.
The explanation may be not exclusive only to medicine, philosophy, and physics.