__________ IN THE NEWS ___________ From the Ananova News Service: Study "Proves" the Soul Exists
Story filed: 12:16 Sunday 9th December 2001
Its claimed a new study 'proves' the soul exists. The evidence is from 'dead' patients whose hearts stop beating and then experience a form of afterlife. The study will be published in the Lancet later this week.
Doctors who studied 344 heart attack survivors found more than one in 10 had experienced emotions, visions or lucid thoughts while they were"clinically dead" - unconscious with no signs of pulse, breathing or brain activity. Some reported having "out-of-body" experiences. It supports a long-held view that the mind ,or soul ,can survive death.
The research, by a Dutch team, will be seized on by academics who support a theory that the mind can continue to work after the brain has stopped. Church leaders will cite it as evidence for the existence of a soul.
The two-year study in 10 Dutch hospitals is the largest study into the phenomenon. It found that 12 per cent of cardiac arrest survivors reported having various "near-death experiences" (NDEs) before being resuscitated. Dr Peter Fenwick, a consultant neuropsychiatrist at London University, told >The Sunday Telegraph
If the mind and brain can be independent, then that raises questions about the continuation of consciousness after death. It also raises questions about a spiritual component to humans and about a meaningful universe with a purpose rather than a random universe."

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