Lucid Dying
The New Science Revolutionizing How We Understand Life and Death
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From internationally renowned expert in resuscitation and New York Times bestselling author Sam Parnia, MD, PhD, comes a groundbreaking look at what happens to us when we die, based on the largest-ever research study run on recalled experiences of death.
Today, for the first time in history, the scientific exploration of death and what happens when we die is real, active and ongoing. Contrary to popular perceptions, this subject is no longer the remit of philosophy, religion, or personal opinion. Truly remarkable scientific discoveries that will fundamentally affect everyone’s lives now and in the future are taking place, yet very few people are aware of them.
Most people—including scientists and doctors—maintain strong beliefs about death and its experience. Those beliefs are rooted in traditional, and often cultural, notions of death. But what if all that we have come to believe about death is fundamentally wrong? What if the paradigm we have been operating within no longer exists? What if death is not the end we thought?
Lucid Dying is the first book to share that science. Presenting data derived from multiple groundbreaking studies, Dr. Parnia shows that the entity we refer to as consciousness—our Self—does not seem to become annihilated when we die. In fact, during death, our consciousness vastly expands and leads to a vivid experience that follows a very specific narrative arc.
These studies support that there really is a universal experience of death that is meaningful, transcendent, positive, and transformative—not hallucinatory, delusional, or illusory as previously imagined. In his latest book, Dr. Parnia weaves empirical research with gripping stories to show us the truth of how death is not the end we all thought and how anyone can harness the newfound wisdom to lead deeper, more intentional lives.
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Contrary to popular belief, death is not a moment in time, such as when the heart stops beating, respiration ceases, or the brain stops functioning. Death, rather, is a process - a process that can be interrupted well after it has begun. Innovative techniques, such as drastically reducing the patient's body temperature, have proven to be effective in revitalizing both the body and mind, but studies show they are only employed in approximately half of the hospitals throughout the United States and Europe.
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Death isn't a moment, it's a Process
- By See Reverse on 12-15-16
By: Sam Parnia, and others
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Consciousness Beyond Life
- The Science of the Near-Death Experience
- By: Pim van Lommel MD
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
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In Consciousness Beyond Life, the internationally renowned cardiologist Dr. Pim van Lommel offers ground-breaking research into whether or n ouotr consciousness survives the death of our body. If you enjoy books about near-death experiences, such as those by Raymond Moody, Jeffrey Long, and James Van Praagh; watch televisions shows like Ghosthunters, Touched by an Angel, and Ghost Whisperer; or are interested in works that explore the intersection of faith and science, you'll find much to ponder in Consciousness Beyond Life.
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Charge
- Why Does Gravity Rule?
- By: Frank Close
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
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The charges of the proton and electron are opposite and equal, even though the proton is bigger. But why are they equal? This is one of the deepest unresolved puzzles of physics. Frank Close takes us on a journey into the quantum subatomic world of particles. He describes the strong and weak forces that operate alongside electromagnetism, the color and flavor charges, as well as the parallels between them, giving hints of a deeper unity.
By: Frank Close
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The Continuity of Consciousness
- The Survival of Human Consciousness After Death (BICS Presentation of Survival of Consciousness Essay Contest Three Top Winners)
- By: Pim van Lommel
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
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This book comprises the second place winner in the 2021 Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies essay contest. The winning prize was $300,000. In this book the concept of the continuity of consciousness is described, based mainly on recent scientific research on near-death experiences (NDE), but also on other experiences of enhanced consciousness. Since the publication of several prospective studies on NDE in survivors of cardiac arrest, with strikingly similar results and conclusions, the phenomenon of the NDE can no longer be scientifically ignored.
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Understandable
- By Conrad Sage on 08-25-24
By: Pim van Lommel
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The Crossover Experience
- Life After Death / 100 Exceptional NDE Experiences
- By: DJ Kadagian, Gregory Shushan PhD, Dr. Pim van Lomell
- Narrated by: Scott Smith, Melissa Connell, Ray Greenley
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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In the groundbreaking Crossover Experience, our trio of researchers focuses on the fine details found within NDEs that are often overshadowed by the more well-known main events. And it is here they found a treasure trove of clues that reveal more depth, contour, and messaging within a Near-Death Experience. What they also found, to their surprise—it is often in what we don’t see in an NDE that we gain the greatest insight.
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This is the best book I've read on NDEs!
- By Cristian on 02-07-24
By: DJ Kadagian, and others
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Lessons from the Light
- What Near-Death Experiences Teach Us about Living in the Here and Now
- By: Kenneth Ring PhD, Evelyn Elsaesser Valarino, Bruce Greyson MD - foreword by, and others
- Narrated by: Mitch Crawford
- Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
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Written by one of the foremost authorities on NDEs, Dr. Kenneth Ring, Lessons from the Light is a book for those who looking to gain knowledge and wisdom to enhance their own lives by incorporating the insights stemming from what many people have come to believe is the ultimate spiritual experience of our time.
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The TItle is so Appropriate
- By Gorji on 09-08-24
By: Kenneth Ring PhD, and others
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Erasing Death
- The Science That Is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death
- By: Sam Parnia, Josh Young
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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Contrary to popular belief, death is not a moment in time, such as when the heart stops beating, respiration ceases, or the brain stops functioning. Death, rather, is a process - a process that can be interrupted well after it has begun. Innovative techniques, such as drastically reducing the patient's body temperature, have proven to be effective in revitalizing both the body and mind, but studies show they are only employed in approximately half of the hospitals throughout the United States and Europe.
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Death isn't a moment, it's a Process
- By See Reverse on 12-15-16
By: Sam Parnia, and others
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Consciousness Beyond Life
- The Science of the Near-Death Experience
- By: Pim van Lommel MD
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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In Consciousness Beyond Life, the internationally renowned cardiologist Dr. Pim van Lommel offers ground-breaking research into whether or n ouotr consciousness survives the death of our body. If you enjoy books about near-death experiences, such as those by Raymond Moody, Jeffrey Long, and James Van Praagh; watch televisions shows like Ghosthunters, Touched by an Angel, and Ghost Whisperer; or are interested in works that explore the intersection of faith and science, you'll find much to ponder in Consciousness Beyond Life.
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Charge
- Why Does Gravity Rule?
- By: Frank Close
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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The charges of the proton and electron are opposite and equal, even though the proton is bigger. But why are they equal? This is one of the deepest unresolved puzzles of physics. Frank Close takes us on a journey into the quantum subatomic world of particles. He describes the strong and weak forces that operate alongside electromagnetism, the color and flavor charges, as well as the parallels between them, giving hints of a deeper unity.
By: Frank Close
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The Continuity of Consciousness
- The Survival of Human Consciousness After Death (BICS Presentation of Survival of Consciousness Essay Contest Three Top Winners)
- By: Pim van Lommel
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
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This book comprises the second place winner in the 2021 Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies essay contest. The winning prize was $300,000. In this book the concept of the continuity of consciousness is described, based mainly on recent scientific research on near-death experiences (NDE), but also on other experiences of enhanced consciousness. Since the publication of several prospective studies on NDE in survivors of cardiac arrest, with strikingly similar results and conclusions, the phenomenon of the NDE can no longer be scientifically ignored.
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Understandable
- By Conrad Sage on 08-25-24
By: Pim van Lommel
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The Crossover Experience
- Life After Death / 100 Exceptional NDE Experiences
- By: DJ Kadagian, Gregory Shushan PhD, Dr. Pim van Lomell
- Narrated by: Scott Smith, Melissa Connell, Ray Greenley
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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In the groundbreaking Crossover Experience, our trio of researchers focuses on the fine details found within NDEs that are often overshadowed by the more well-known main events. And it is here they found a treasure trove of clues that reveal more depth, contour, and messaging within a Near-Death Experience. What they also found, to their surprise—it is often in what we don’t see in an NDE that we gain the greatest insight.
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This is the best book I've read on NDEs!
- By Cristian on 02-07-24
By: DJ Kadagian, and others
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Lessons from the Light
- What Near-Death Experiences Teach Us about Living in the Here and Now
- By: Kenneth Ring PhD, Evelyn Elsaesser Valarino, Bruce Greyson MD - foreword by, and others
- Narrated by: Mitch Crawford
- Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
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Written by one of the foremost authorities on NDEs, Dr. Kenneth Ring, Lessons from the Light is a book for those who looking to gain knowledge and wisdom to enhance their own lives by incorporating the insights stemming from what many people have come to believe is the ultimate spiritual experience of our time.
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The TItle is so Appropriate
- By Gorji on 09-08-24
By: Kenneth Ring PhD, and others
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Life as No One Knows It
- The Physics of Life's Emergence
- By: Sara Imari Walker
- Narrated by: Sara Imari Walker
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
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What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. All the definitions we have fall short. None help us understand how life originates or the full range of possibilities for what life on other planets might look like. In Life as No One Knows It, physicist and astrobiologist Sara Imari Walker argues that solving the origin of life requires radical new thinking and an experimentally testable theory for what life is.
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very interesting
- By Sequoia Spencer on 08-09-24
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Should We Go Extinct?
- A Philosophical Dilemma for Our Unbearable Times
- By: Todd May, Michael Schur
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Michael Schur
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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Should we bring new humans into the world? Or would it be better off without us? A renowned philosopher and advisor to NBC’s The Good Place offers a thoughtful exploration of humanity’s future—or lack thereof.
By: Todd May, and others
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Making Sense of Chaos
- A Better Economics for a Better World
- By: J. Doyne Farmer
- Narrated by: J. Doyne Farmer
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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Many books have been written about J. Doyne Farmer and his work, but this is the first in his own words. It presents a manifesto for how to do economics better. In this tale of science and ideas, Farmer fuses his profound knowledge and expertise with stories from his life to explain how we can bring a scientific revolution to bear on the economic conundrums facing society.
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Doyne Farmer is brilliant but...
- By dmh00000 on 08-25-24
By: J. Doyne Farmer
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After
- A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond
- By: Bruce Greyson
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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The world's leading expert on near-death experiences reveals his journey toward rethinking the nature of death, life, and the continuity of consciousness.
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Mainly the science of what NDE’s are NOT
- By K&T on 06-06-21
By: Bruce Greyson
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Why Animals Talk
- The New Science of Animal Communication
- By: Arik Kershenbaum
- Narrated by: John Hastings
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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Why Animals Talk is an exhilarating journey through the untamed world of animal communication. Following his international bestseller, The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy, acclaimed zoologist Arik Kershenbaum draws on extensive original research to reveal how many of the animal kingdom’s most seemingly confusing or untranslatable signals are in fact logical and consistent—and not that different from our own.
By: Arik Kershenbaum
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The Secret Life of the Universe
- An Astrobiologist's Search for the Origins and Frontiers of Life
- By: Nathalie A. Cabrol
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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We are living in a golden age in astronomy and in the search for life the universe. Over the last few decades, space exploration has shown that not only are there habitable environments within our solar system, but there are millions of exoplanets within our galaxy that could support life. We are on the cusp of breakthroughs that will revolutionize our understanding of our place in the cosmos in. In The Secret Life of the Universe, astrobiologist and the director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute Nathalie A. Cabrol takes us to the frontiers of the search for life.
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Incredible Book
- By Dennis T. on 09-20-24
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Penetration
- The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy
- By: Ingo Swann
- Narrated by: Paul Schmidt
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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Ingo Swann -- renowned psi researcher -- reveals a long-held secret series of experiences with a "deep black" agency whose apparent charter was simple: UFOs and extraterrestrials on the moon and worries about ET telepathic/mind control powers. The agency was so secret that it had no paper trail, and hence no written secrecy agreements. Only the verbal ones, which in Ingo's case expired several years ago.
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Enjoyed
- By Jim Tadlock on 10-02-24
By: Ingo Swann
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Bite
- An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans
- By: Bill Schutt
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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In Bite, zoologist Bill Schutt makes a surprising case: it is teeth that are responsible for the long-term success of vertebrates. The appearance of teeth, roughly half a billion years ago, was an adaptation that allowed animals with backbones, such as fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, dinosaurs and mammals—including us—to chow down in pretty much every conceivable environment.
By: Bill Schutt
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Beyond the Brain
- The Survival of Human Consciousness After Permanent Bodily Death (BICS Presentation of Survival of Consciousness Essay Contest Three Top Winners)
- By: Jeffrey Mishlove
- Narrated by: Frank Block
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
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The best evidence in favor of an afterlife are the multiple, independent investigation approaches all pointing, in different ways, to postmortem survival. This essay includes nine categories of inquiry. Dr Mishlove examines the evidence from these nine distinct domains pointing to survival of consciousness. While each individual domain of evidence is strong, when united as a whole, they are virtually invincible.
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Scholarship abounds in this essay!
- By Serendipity on 04-16-24
By: Jeffrey Mishlove
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Surviving Death
- A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife
- By: Leslie Kean
- Narrated by: Leslie Kean, Erin Bennett, Gildart Jackson, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
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Kean explores the most compelling case studies of young children reporting verifiable details from past lives, contemporary mediums who seem to defy the boundaries of the brain and of the physical world, apparitions providing information about their lives on earth, and people who die and then come back to report journeys into another dimension. Based on facts and scientific studies, Surviving Death includes fascinating chapters by medical doctors, psychiatrists, and PhDs from four countries.
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This incredible book was stunningly well put together!!!
- By Amazon Customer on 06-09-17
By: Leslie Kean
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In My Time of Dying
- How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
- By: Sebastian Junger
- Narrated by: Sebastian Junger
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
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For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet, the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020 while spending a quiet afternoon at the New England home he shared with his wife and two young children. Crippled by abdominal pain, Junger was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Once there, he began slipping away. As blackness encroached, he was visited by his dead father, inviting Junger to join him.
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Profound
- By Anonymous User on 06-16-24
By: Sebastian Junger
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Paranormal
- My Life in Pursuit of the Afterlife
- By: Raymond Moody MD, Paul Perry
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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The grandfather of the NDE (near death experience) movement, Raymond Moody has, in the words of Dr. Larry Dossey, author of The Power of Premonitions, "radically changed the way modern humans think about the afterlife." Paranormal, essential listening for fans of Dannion Brinkley and Jeffrey Long, is "a thrilling and inspiring literary experience. Anyone who is not grateful for Moody's immense contribution to human welfare ought to check his pulse."
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Engaging memoir of near-death researcher
- By tru britty on 03-20-20
By: Raymond Moody MD, and others
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- LoveFromBothSides
- 10-06-24
Scientific Evaluation of NDE
I love this book, because the science behind it proves what I know empirically. When I was 19, I died, felt joyful, and then got slammed back into my body. With me? I felt a knowingness that I had work to do. It felt as if I was in the army and I signed up for a difficult tour and that I had just gone AWOL. I knew I would live. And I wasn’t happy about that whole prospect .
Later on in my life, I married a rocket scientist and lawyer, who, when he died, came back to me. My own book, love from both sides, tells the story of what happened to him after death. And it’s very similar to the stories and this wonderful book. The life evaluation, he was shown what he did, and what he neglected to do. My wonderful husband had a lot of apologizing to do!
The science and documentation in this book tells why peoples experience like mine were real.
My own NDE happened in 1967. That was before Raymond Moody‘s book was published, so I kept that experience completely to myself. Just like a lot of the people mentioned in this book kept their own experiences to themselves.
I love the ending of this book because it’s what I teach my clients. Find a way to use your life to make other people happy and you will find the purpose of your own life. Read this wonderful book! And then share it with everybody. I will share it with all my clients. Oh, and I do life regressions for a living. Brian Weiss was my teacher. So I make a living saying to people while they are in trance and they are are dying in another body, “float above: what did you learn in that life time and how does it relate to this lifetime?” People want to find the purpose of their lives. And I think this book gives a roadmap!
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- Mav
- 08-27-24
Excited to See Scientific Rigor Applied to This Vital Topic
Dr. Sam Parnia brings a level of scientific rigor to the topic of what happens after death that is both refreshing and much needed. As someone deeply interested in the intersection of consciousness and end-of-life experiences, I’m thrilled to see a doctor—and a community of medical professionals—applying evidence-based research to a subject often shrouded in mystery. This book offers proof and insight that can help us navigate our lives with greater awareness and clarity, making it a must-read for anyone curious about the science behind what comes next.
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