in chapter five dr. egnor shares considerable detail about near-death experiences (nde), and i recommend this chapter to you. (i have also posted a number of earlier blogs dealing with this issue.) dr. egnor describes the experience of a patient named pam reynolds who had a dangerous, life threatening aneurism at the top of her basilar artery against her brainstem. during the surgical procedure to treat the aneurism she was converted into a brain dead state with no blood flow to her brain, all blood within the brain drained out, her body temperature cooled to 25 degrees fahrenheit, the heart stopped, and her brain waves ceased. by multiple criteria she was dead. during this state she had a successful removal of the aneurism and was carefully resuscitated to full life. the description of the experience she had while clinically dead is an interesting read on pages 84-93, and mirrors the Nde’s of so many others across the world.
“. . . pam reynold’s ‘brain death’ was deliberately planned and carried out under meticulously documented circumstances. it entailed knowledge, verified later, that she could only have had if her soul - the immortal part of her mind - functioned while her brain was dead. it is clear evidence that the mind can function quite independently of the brain.”
an important take-away from this description is that there is increasing evidence that physical death does not include death of the human spirit and soul. it is of vital importance that we address this eventuality, even reality, in our lives on earth with the acceptance that we physically die to live . . . eternally . . . and by god’s grace, in the presence of his son, jesus christ, whose holy spirit seeks to indwell us in a personal interactive communion both in the present life and that to come.