Raymond Moody

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SC consciousness physics

Quantum Entanglement, Nonlocality, and Consciousness: Metaphor or Mechanism?

In 1935, Albert Einstein co-authored a paper with Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen that was intended to prove quantum mechanics was incomplete. The paper described a scenario in which two particles that have interacted remain correlated even after being separated by arbitrary distances —...

15 min · 1 researchers · 8 concepts
SC consciousness

Near-Death Experiences and Shamanic Initiation: When Clinical Death Meets Ancient Ceremony

Here is something that should stop you mid-step: a Dutch cardiologist and a Siberian shaman, separated by five thousand miles and five thousand years of cultural context, are describing the same journey. One speaks in the language of peer-reviewed cardiology journals.

13 min · 9 researchers · 20 concepts
UP death consciousness

Shared Death Experiences: Consciousness as a Field Phenomenon

A woman sits at her husband's bedside in the final hours of his life. He has been unconscious for two days, breathing shallowly, his body shutting down.

14 min · 2 researchers · 12 concepts
UP spiritual emergency

Stanislav Grof's Spiritual Emergency Framework: When Awakening Becomes Crisis

In the standard medical model, a person who hears voices, sees visions, experiences the dissolution of their identity, believes they are connected to a cosmic intelligence, or feels that reality has fundamentally shifted is mentally ill. The diagnosis is psychosis, the treatment is antipsychotic...

19 min · 8 researchers · 20 concepts
UP spiritual practice

Dying Practices and Bardo Navigation: The Art of Conscious Death

Every spiritual tradition agrees on one thing: how you die matters. Not in a moral sense — not heaven for the good and hell for the wicked — but in a practical sense.

15 min · 5 researchers · 14 concepts