Thank you, batfink!

At first I thought this Penny Satori didn't have anything new to reporton the content of the NDEs themselves, but her conclusions and continuing research are very much on the leading edge.  The reviewer said:

''She now intends to continue her research into the phenomenon
and is developing a private theory, not included in her book,
about what could be happening to these patients.
"I don't think it's quite as simple as life after death," she said.
"It's what consciousness is and how we define it. We are entering
an exciting time researching consciousness.
"Current science says it is a by-product of the brain. But it may
be that consciousness is around us and the brain might be a
mediator, an antenna, instead of controlling consciousness."

Maybe the book will show up in some public libraries near medical centers. I sure hope so! And with a name like Penny satori, she's got a great start !

bets

Hi Matthew,

I remember you did, but I didn't feel qualified to discuss it.

I hope you will have some medical peers now with Dr Piero
and this Penny Santori 'on the scene'. (Perhaps you can track Santori down
for email communication through google etc.) This whole field seems to be moving into a new level, one to which you will be able to contribute meaningfully ! 
Congratulations!

Bets

I've thought of it as rather like being inside a box (or, say, one of the bathyspheres, where your only communication is through radio and closed circuit).

When everything is working well, both those inside and those outside communicate just fine.  If one side (say the transmitter from outside) goes wonky, there can still be reasonable communication after a period of time for both sides to figure out what went wrong.  But if part or all of both transmitters and/or receivers goes bad, especially if it's intermittently, those inside the box/bathysphere/whatever could be perfectly coherent and mentally "there", but nothing they wanted to communicate would make any sense outside, and therefore they would get to where they couldn't tell if information from the outside was coming through accurately or not, nor whether what they had sent was coming through ungarbled to the outside.

Very freaky situation...now imagine it inside your own head...serious unpleasantness...