A team of psychologists and medical doctors
associated with the Technische Universität
of Berlin, have announced this morning
that they had proven by clinical
experimentation, the existence of some form
of life after death. This astonishing
announcement is based on the conclusions
of a study using a new type of medically
supervised near-death experiences, that
allow patients to be clinically dead for
almost 20 minutes before being brought
back to life.
This controversial process that was repeated
on 944 volunteers over that last four years,
necessitates a complex mixture of drugs
including epinephrine and
dimethyltryptamine, destined to allow the
body to survive the state of clinical death
and the reanimation process without
damage. The body of the subject was then
put into a temporary comatic state induced
by a mixture of other drugs which had to be
filtered by ozone from his blood during the
reanimation process 18 minutes later.
The extremely long duration of the
experience was only recently made possible
by the development of a new
cardiopulmonary recitation (CPR) machine
called the AutoPulse. This type of equipment
has already been used over the last few
years, to reanimate people who had been
dead for somewhere between 40 minutes to
an hour.
Near-death experiences have been
hypothesized in various medical journals in
the past, as having the characteristics of
hallucinations, but Dr Ackermann and his
team, on the contrary, consider them as
evidence for the existence of the afterlife
and of a form of dualism between mind and
body.
The team of scientists led by Dr Berthold
Ackermann, has monitored the operations
and have compiled the testimonies of the
subjects. Although there are some slight
variations from one individual to another,
all of the subjects have some memories of
their period of clinical death. and a vast
majority of them described some very
similar sensations.
Most common memories include a feeling
of detachment from the body, feelings of
levitation, total serenity, security, warmth,
the experience of absolute dissolution, and
the presence of an overwhelming light.
The scientists say that they are well aware
the many of their conclusions could shock a
lot of people, like the fact that the religious
beliefs of the various subjects seems to have
held no incidence at all, on the sensations
and experiences that they described at the
end of the experiment. Indeed, the
volunteers counted in their ranks some
members are a variety of Christian
churches, Muslims, Jews, Hindus and
atheists.
“I know our results could disturb the beliefs
of many people” says Mr Ackermann. “But
in a way, we have just answered one of the
greatest questions in the history of
mankind, so I hope these people will be able
to forgive us. Yes, there is life after death
and it looks like this applies to everyone.”