Near Death Experience and Subjective Immortality of Man

• Authors: Serdyukov Yuri M.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The life of the brain is believed to be a major factor determining the existence of subjective reality during clinical death. The duration of the existence in question cannot be measured in the units of astronomical time for two reasons. Firstly, it is impossible to determine once and for all how long the brain survives after cardiac arrest and termination of breathing. Secondly, the duration of subjective time during near death experience (NDE) differs from that typical of daily regular experience. Immobilization, loss of the sensation of one’s body, state of affect and severe sensory deprivation ensure that consciousness is focused and fixated in and onto itself exclusively which, in its turn, diminish and slacken the course of time so that it expands to eternity and subjective reality goes beyond the usual limits of the temporal “past-present-future” paradigm.

Keywords

EN

time; subjective time; eternity; near death experience (NDE); subjective reality; psyche; consciousness

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 97-103

Contributors

author

Serdyukov Yuri M.

• Far Eastern State Transportation University, Khabarovsk (Russia)