Scientists have claimed to have discovered extraordinary evidence suggesting that the ‘soul’ may leave the body when we die.
A recent study examined brain activity in clinically dead patients, with Dr. Stuart Hameroff, an anesthesiologist and professor at the University of Arizona, providing his insights on the findings.
For the study, researchers placed small sensors on the brains of seven critically ill patients who had only minutes left to live.
These advanced devices monitored each patient’s blood pressure and heart activity until both eventually dropped to zero, marking the moment of death.
As part of the results, an electroencephalogram (EEG) revealed a mysterious surge of energy occurring after death.
Hameroff told Project Unity: “They saw everything go away and then [psh] you got this activity when there was no blood pressure, no heart rate.
“So that could be the near-death experience, or it could be the soul leaving the body, perhaps.”
The professor suggests that this phenomenon might represent consciousness departing from the body, claiming that consciousness is ‘the last thing to go’ in the dying process.
“The point is it shows that consciousness is actually, probably, a very low energy process,” he explained.
“This has been a fairly reproducible event, not 100% like 50% of patients show this when you measure it.”
Researchers involved in the study proposed that the most likely explanation for these bursts of activity is oxygen deprivation in the brain.
Discussing this theory on Through the Wormhole, a documentary series on The Science Channel, Hameroff elaborated: “Let’s say the heart stops beating, the blood stops flowing; the microtubules lose their quantum state.
“The quantum information within the microtubules is not destroyed, it can’t be destroyed, and it just distributes and dissipates to the universe at large.”
He continued: “If the patient is resuscitated, or revived, this quantum information can go back into the microtubules and the patient says ‘I had a near-death experience.’
“If they’re not revived, and the patient dies, it’s possible that this quantum information can exist outside the body, perhaps indefinitely, as a soul.”
In this groundbreaking study, the team of experts concluded: “In our critical care practice, we spend a significant amount of time with grieving families. In these interactions, we have found that the idea that ‘something’ happens at the time of death is comforting to the families.”