Avengers' 'Hawk' Had Near Death Experience

I wouldn't have given the above cited article any attention, except for the fact of the research being done in neuroscience lately.

I had cited a discovery with human brain tissue that led to research with pig brains that has been turning neouroscience on its head (pun intended) in regard to the relationship between consciousness and the brain. In essence, the brains in pig heads procured from meat processing plants have been fully revived, though unconcious, up to two days after being severed.

This research has, in turn, led to research being done in near death experiences, filtering out those that are merely called 'near death' even in medical and scientific literature, and focusing on those experiences that would be classified as 'near to biological death' by a rigorous scientific and medical approach.

The experiences are remarkably consistent. One such description that caused my ears to prick up was of a metaphysical 'cord.'

Some people describe a connection to their own body through a type of a “cord” or “wisp,” and they recognize that if this “cord” is severed they may not be able to return into their body. Michael said: “I suddenly ‘woke up’ floating on the ceiling and was looking down. It wasn’t dream-like because everything was in clear detail… There were several people in green gowns, who were working around my body on the operating table. I distinctly remember marveling at the thin, glowing, silver ‘cord’ leading… down to the body on the table. It was stretched [so] very thin, [that] I started to wonder what would happen if it broke.” ​
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Mache said, “It felt like I was attached to a cord.” Mark, an American, described how “I continued to merge upward with something to which I was connected… ” ​
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Anna, a Dutch woman who had suffered a life-threatening infection as a complication after her hysterectomy, described this as a “whitish translucent cord attached at one end to the floating ‘me,’ and at the other end to my body on the bed. [I was instructed] to be careful not to break that cord as I was going to need it to get back into my body.” ​
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Leonard, an American man who had suffered complications of a burst appendix at the age of eight in 1963, explained, “I discovered a long thread hanging down from my… existence. It led down to my body on the operating table.”​
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Parnia, Sam. Lucid Dying: The New Science Revolutionizing How We Understand Life and Death (p. 147). Grand Central Publishing. Kindle Edition. ​
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And this is why:

Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. - Ecclesiastes 12:6 KJV​
 
Ekklesian said:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/aven...-says-he-briefly-died-after-snowplow-accident

“I could see my lifetime. I could see everything all at once,” he said in part during an interview with US Weekly, noting how his heart rate bottomed out at 18 BPM.
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Another common theme is the experience of a "huge expansion of consciousness" and understanding.

From the same book cited above:

Throughout the hundreds of testimonies that I had studied and examined from the mid-1990s onward, this was something that I and others had often heard people say. As we have already seen, they frequently described gaining tremendous insights and knowledge about things they had not known before in their day-to-day lives. This included even complex scientific concepts, such as mathematics and quantum physics, as Mary had described, too. At first when I used to hear such claims of sudden insights and knowledge about the underlying fabric of the universe and deep scientific realities, I would ignore them as I had no way to explain them. They just seemed like oddities.
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It's not just a feeling. There are testimonies of those who were able to accurately report what people were doing and saying in other locations during the experience.

The interesting thing is that after resuscitation, they don't retain their expanded understanding.

However, with time I started to notice a pattern emerge as more and more people made the same claim. They described experiencing a huge expansion of their consciousness and with it a tremendous expansion of their knowledge. Interestingly, though, as Dr. Montgomery had explained, their knowledge and those insights would be snuffed out, almost like a valve had closed, and they could no longer recall them after they had recovered, even though they knew they had come to know so much more then.​
 
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