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More evidence of cosmic spirit from a cardiologist by howard jones dr van lommel is a dutch scientist and physician who worked as a cardiologist in holland from 1977 to 2003. Pim van lommel consciousness and the near death experience. Consciousness and neardeath experiences pim van lommel. A pioneering work on research about dying and a pim van. Like so many other doctors, his patients began to tell him of their experiences, while dead. Were in amsterdam were doing a day of filming here pim is from holland and he was a cardiologist. He worked as a cardiologist at the rijnstate hospital, arnhem, for 26 years 19772003. In 2001, his largescaled prospective study to the neardeath experiences after cardiac arrest was published in the. For hundreds of years the western world has believed that humansindeed all living thingsconsist of more than pure biology. The internationally renowned cardiologist and author of the famous dutch nde study offers even more groundbreaking research into whether or not our consciousness survives the death of our body. It emerged that during his spell of unconsciousness, the period in which he had been.
Pim van lommel born 15 march 1943 is a dutch author and researcher in the field of neardeath studies. The science of the neardeath experience by cardiologist pim van lommel, md pim van lommel designed a research study to investigate nde under the controlled environment of a cluster of hospitals with a medically trained staff. My name is iain mcnay and my guest today is pim van lommel. Download the science of near death experiences ebook pdf or read online books in pdf, epub. Pim van lommel, a renowned cardiologist, is the first medical practitioner to have undertaken a full, systematic study of neardeath experiences ndes. He worked from as a cardiologist in hospital rijnstate, an bed teaching hospital in arnhem, the netherlands, and is now doing fulltime research on the mindbrain relation. Mel van dusen interviews renowned cardiologist pim van lommel about his research into the neardeath experience and its implications for a radically new paradigm for.
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