SAM
PARNIA AND THE AWARE STUDY
I think that Sam Parnia
is an awesome giant and it is amazing! A few rounds of "I am not
worthy" go to Sam Parnia. Think about
it, the United Nations, establishing the need for the new paradigm and
25 medical institutions involved.
We all benefit from the AWARE
study. I had a researcher from Johns Hopkins contact me about near
death research. He may well have been motivated by the respectability
the AWARE study has given the field. Well, actually he says he wasn’t! He
wanted to use some pictures from my website to show people at his Church. I
am not sure I agree with him. I have
been doing this for 20 years, and only recently, after the AWARE study came
out, have I had so much interest in near death research from mainstream
scientists.
I do think the AWARE study is doomed to
"failure" in that it seems unlikely to produce the results that
they are looking for. For those of
you who are unaware (hah, hah), the AWARE study videotapes events in
emergency and operating rooms, and has signs and reader boards placed out
of the ordinary field of view. If someone has an NDE and leaves the body,
hopefully they would see something that later could be documented as truly
outside the ordinary field of view. I say “doomed to failure” simply
because most people who have NDEs don’t' really remember getting back
in their bodies, and the AWARE study depends on them noticing and
remembering signs and reader boards placed out of the field of
ordinary view. Ken Ring did a similar study at the University of Connecticut
a few years ago and had negative results.
Negative results of the AWARE study doesn't
mean that NDEs aren't real, but it simply could mean that
while experiencing quantum consciousness, you might not be reading and
remembering a sign on a reader-board near the ceiling of the room. You
might be trying to remember the essentials of quantum physics, as Tom
Sawyer and others did, or "the light that told me who I was and where
I was to go".
The evidence suggests that the near
death experience is a right brain phenomena, and
as such they won't be able to retrieve left brain information such as words
and numbers. For example, Controlled Remote Viewers have long known
they cannot retrieve letters and numbers as part of the experience.
The Brazilian Projectologists (Professor Vieira
and his crew) report a similar phenomena, and
have to train themselves to retrieve such information from the Out of Body
State.
But no matter, the study is for three
years and another to write up. By then it will have done so much
good, and have so reinvigorated the field, that the results will not be as
important as the study itself.
Furthermore, this has always been a difficult
field to research, as your research subjects are on the Web, on TV, and
commenting and criticizing your every move. Believe me, there are many
times I long for my days as a Rodent Brain Surgeon. (just
joking, kidding around)
Virtually everyone has written to
me expressing reservations against the
AWARE study and wanting me to speak out against it. Hey, it's
research, gang. We don't know the results of research. Instead
of assuming we know the answer Dr. Parnia is
going to come up with, why not relax and expect the unanticipated results
that research often presents us. What a concept, suspend judgment and
analysis and let the Universe do its thing through Dr. Parnia.
Wow, I am getting close to spiritual insights!
Sam Parnia, I
wish I could meet you and shake your awesome hand, you awesome giant. Dr. van
Lommel is the other exciting event of 2008
with his new book and his ability to capture the imagination of the
world.
I do hope Dr. Parnia
and Dr. van Lommel are working closely together
as they hold the direction of this field in their collective minds at this
time.
The AWARE study explains why I am so
interested in non local perceptions.
The success of the AWARE study depends on someone “seeing” something
in the operating room that they could not otherwise see. Yet as you can see from other areas of
this website, we already can document that humans have that ability and
learn the same lesson, simply by learning to remote view.