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In this concept, consciousness is not rooted in the measurable domain of physics, our manifest world. This also means that the wave aspect of our indestructible consciousness in the non-local realm is inherently not measurable by physical means. However, the physical aspect of consciousness can be measured by means of neuroimaging techniques like EEG, fMRI, and PET-scan. There is a kind of biological basis of our waking consciousness, because during life our physical body functions as an interface or place of resonance. But there is no biological basis of our whole, endless, or enhanced consciousness because it is rooted in a non-local realm. Our non-local consciousness does not reside in our brain and is not limited to our brain, and our brain seems to have a facilitating, and not a producing function to experience consciousness. One cannot avoid the conclusion that endless or non-local consciousness has always existed and will always exist independently from the body, because there is no beginning nor will there ever be an end to our consciousness. For this reason we should seriously consider the possibility that death, like birth, can only be a transition to another state of consciousness. According to this idea death is only the end of our physical aspects, and during life our body functions as an interface or place of resonance for our non-local consciousness. This view of a non-local consciousness also allows us to understand a wide variety of special states of consciousness,13 not only near-death experiences, but also mystical and religious experiences, deathbed visions (end-of-life experiences), shared death experiences, peri-mortem and post-mortem experiences (after death communication, or non-local interconnectedness with the consciousness of deceased relatives), heightened intuitive feelings and prognostic dreams (non-local information exchange), remote viewing (non-local perception) and perhaps even the effect of consciousness on matter like in placebo-effect or neuroplasticity,14, 15 where in EEG, fMRI and PET-scan studies functional and structural changes in the brain are demonstrated following changes in consciousness (non-local perturbation).
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John C. Hagan III (The Science of Near-Death Experiences)