by Steve Volk
B. van der Kolk, “The psychobiology of traumatic memory: Clinical implications of neuroimaging studies,” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 821 (1997): 99–113.
I interviewed six soldiers in one group and had individual interviews with three more. One soldier declined to have his last name published. Thanks to Jimmy Rivers, Pete Reed, Wendell Marks, Ramone Calderon, George, Mike Sylvia, Mike Dick, Paul Thomas, and Tom Lareau.
Induced After-Death Communications, under “Trained Therapists Available Today” at http://induced-adc.com/
The IADC therapists I interviewed included Katelynn Daniles, Greg Rimoldi, and Hania Stromberg, Ph.D.
Bessel van der Kolk, Interview, March 2005.
As I was finishing this book, Botkin said he has found a researcher who is interested in conducting a study on the effectiveness of IADC therapy.
CHAPTER 11: OUR TIME IN HELL
William James, “The Energies of Men,” first published in Science, no. 635 (1907): 321–32, accessed October 27, 2010, http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/energies.htm
Lucid Dreaming Workshop, March 2010.
Stephen LaBerge, Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming (Ballantine, 2004): 87.
Robert Waggoner, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self (Moment Point Press, 2009): 51–75, 158–59 (Keelin story).
“Conversation Between Stephen LaBerge and Paul Tholey in July of 1989.” Author’s note: This interview took place at the 1989 Association for the Study of Dreams (ASD) conference in London. This interview, available online, nicely illustrates LaBerge’s position that the other dream figures are in fact our own mental constructs (or at least there is no proof of their independence). Accessed October 27, 2010, http://www.futurehi.net/docs/Laberge_Tholey.html
Sam Harris, The End of Faith (Norton, 2004): 40–41.
Index
Aborigines, 212
academia, 23, 55
Afghanistan, 174, 235, 250
afterlife, 6, 13, 15, 32, 34, 35, 41, 78, 101, 107, 111, 249
induced after-death communication, 233–50
near-death experiences and, 32–51
agnosticism, 14
Aharonov, Yakir, 9
AIDS, 50
alchemy, 5–6
alcoholism, 238
aliens, 156, 159
abductions, 150
See also unidentified flying objects (UFOs)
Allen, Joseph, 160
Allen, Steve, 115–19, 130, 132, 293
Allison, Paul D., 58
“Experimental Parapsychology as a Rejected Science,” 58
Amazing Meeting, 71
Amis, Martin, 1
amygdala, 9–11, 60, 192–93, 195–96
anesthesia, 85, 86–87, 89, 93
Angelou, Maya, 163
anoxia, 39
Apollo space program, 153–57, 158, 160–62
Aridaeus of Soli, 33
Aristotle, 211
Army, U.S., 56
IADC therapy for vets, 233–35, 238–43, 246, 247–50
remote viewing experiments, 56–59, 81
art, 103, 217
artificial intelligence (AI), 89, 90, 91
Association for Space Explorers, 161
Association for the Psychophysiological Study of Sleep (APSS), 214
Aston, Francis, 6
astrology, 67–68
astronauts, 153–75
atheism, 8, 14, 15, 16, 94, 107, 183, 186–88, 198, 263, 265
Atran, Scott, 187–88
Baltic Sea, 59
Barber, Theodore, 148
Barham, Jay and Martha, 47–50
Barrett, Deirdre, 220–21
BBC, 54, 126
Beaver, David, 171–72
behaviorism, 211, 238
belief, 14, 15, 234, 262, 263
skepticism vs., 53–81
Berger, Hans, 6
Berger, Rick E., 71
Beyond Belief Conference, 83–86, 100, 103, 108
Bigelow, Bob, 173
Bingham, Roger, 83–84
BioLogos Foundation, 200
biology, 102, 103, 127
Blackmore, Susan, 70–71
Dying to Live, 39–40
“The Elusive Open Mind: Ten Years of Negative Research in Parapsychology,” 70
Blagrove, Mark, 220
BMC Genomics, 199
Bohm, David, 9
Botkin, Allan, 234–50
Induced After-Death Communication, 242
Bowie, David, 128
BP oil spill, 163
brain, 4, 6, 9–11, 16, 24, 39–40, 41, 60–61, 89, 90, 183, 246, 262
consciousness outside the, 83–112
dreaming and, 216–24
effects of meditation and prayer on, 177–204
near-death experience and, 39–40, 41–43
perceptual illusions created by, 190–92
See also amygdala
Branson, Richard, 173, 174
British Humanist Association, 107
Britton, Willoughby, 41–43
Brown, Dan:
The Da Vinci Code, 156
The Lost Symbol, 156
Buddhism, 105, 107, 166, 179, 197, 199, 200, 209, 211–12, 262
Bush, George W., 44
Campbell, Thomas, My Big TOE, 106
cancer, 167–68, 236, 244
carbon dioxide, 44
cardiac arrest, 33
cardiac massage theory, 38, 39
Carnegie Mellon University, 159
Carter, Chris, Parapsychology and the Skeptics, 66
Catholicism, 182, 210–11, 257
Cave, Nick, “Dig, Lazarus, Dig!” 21
Center for Sleep Research, UCLA, 218
Cernan, Eugene, 160
Chalmers, David, 109–110
change blindness, 190
chemistry, 5, 99
Chen, Norbu, 166–67
Chicago, 27, 238, 244
VA Hospital, 238–40
childhood memories, 139–46
China, 127
Christianity, 29, 34, 167, 194, 195, 198, 199, 200, 210–11
prayer, 195–96
Churchill, Winston, 3
Churchland, Patricia, 83, 102
clairvoyance, 57
climate change, 163, 173
CNN, 114
Coldea, Radu, 103
Cold War, 161
Collins, Francis, 200–201
The Language of God, 200
Collins, Michael, 160
Colvin, Barrie, 152
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), 72
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), 66–69, 72
compassion, 198
computers, 92, 99
consciousness, 13, 36, 83–112, 156, 167–68, 183, 211, 234
outside the brain, 83–112
Penrose-Hameroff model of, 83–112
quantum theory of, 83–112
research, 88–112
Copeland, Matt, 129
Copenhagen argument, 97–98
Copernican perspective, 162
Corcoran, Diane, 35
CPR, 32–33, 38
Crick, Francis, 217
Current Research in Social Psychology, 74
Daily Mail, 55
Dalai Lama, 17, 105, 200, 201
Dalton, Jeff, 227
Danley, July, 136
d’Aquili, Eugene, 183–84
dark matter, 8
Dateline (TV program), 157
Dawkins, Richard, 1, 14, 15, 16, 17, 83, 85, 151, 178, 183, 187, 201, 212, 265
“Time to Stand Up,” 1
death, 15, 218–19, 234
Buddhist views on, 209
fear of, 34, 38, 112
induced after-death communication, 233–50
Kübler-Ross on, 22–23, 26–32, 36–37, 45
near-death experiences and, 21–51
de Bono, Edward, 125–26, 219
Delorme, Arnaud, 110
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p; Dement, William, 211, 212–13
Dennett, Daniel, 15, 110–11, 178, 187, 201
Consciousness Explained, 110
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, 183
Deutsch, David, 54
Discover, 42
Discovery channel, 157
Disneyland, 141–42
District Nine (film), 128
DNA, 200, 217
dreaming, 6, 205–231
lucid, 205–231, 255–66
dream yoga, 209
drugs, 26, 38, 40, 167–68, 247
D’Souza, Dinesh, 187
DuBois, Allison, 76
Dunning, Brian, 13, 123–24
“dyadic” model of the universe, 169
Dylan, Bob, “Ballad of a Thin Man,” 53
Eagleman, David, 14, 17
Easterbrook, Gregg, “Why We Shouldn’t Go to Mars,” 153
Edwards, Tim, 122–23
Einstein, Albert, 9, 95, 99, 100
electricity, 6
electro encephalogram (EEG), 6
electronic voice phenomenon, 2–3
electrooculogram (EOG), 213, 214
EMF waves, 148
EmpireTribune, 114, 118, 129, 133
endorphins, 39
Enlightenment, 7
entanglement, 95, 101
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 161, 163
epilepsy, 41, 42
epistemology, 14
Everett, Hugh, 98
evolution, 200
evolutionary neuroscience, 83
extrasensory perception (ESP), 57
eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), 236–50
Falwell, Jerry, 198
Family Ghost, 139–46, 251–54, 266
fantasy-prone personality (FPP), 148–50
Fanthorpe, Lionel, 3
Fate magazine, 67
fear, 196, 197
Feynman, Richard, 98, 99
The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, 99
Fields, W. C., 251
fight-or-flight response, 192–93, 246
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 15
Franciscan nuns, 195, 196
French, Chris, 55, 61, 73, 151
Freud, Sigmund, 217
“fringe” journals, 66
Gaitan, Lee Roy, 113–14, 117, 133, 135
Galileo, 64
Ganzfeld tests, 60, 75
Garn, Jake, 161
Gauquelin, Michel and Francoise, 67–68
Gebser, Jean, 17, 201
Geller, Uri, 69–70, 164–66, 170
Gell-Man, Murray, 98
genetics, 198–99, 200
Gentile, Lou, 1–3, 17, 18, 152
ghosts, 3, 4, 6, 7–8, 18, 51, 139–52, 251–54, 266
childhood memories of, 139–46
skeptics, 143–44, 146–52
“giggle factor,” 173
global warming, 163
glossolalia, 184–85
Goddard, Robert, 158–59
Gödel, Kurt, 92
gold, 5
golden ratio, 103
Great Britain, 53–55, 93, 123–24, 148, 188
Greeks, ancient, 54
Green, Al, 185
Greene, Brian, The Fabric of the Cosmos, 102
Grush, Rick, 102
Guardian, 200
Haiti earthquake, 182
Halloween, 7
Hameroff, Stuart, 83–112
theory of consciousness, 83–112
Ultimate Computing: Biomolecular Consciousness and Nanotechnology, 89–90, 91
in What the Bleep Do We Know?, 100–101, 102, 108
Hamilton, William, 126
Harper’s, 49
Harribance, Sean, 61
Harribance Effect, 61
Harris, Sam, 15, 16, 83, 178, 187, 200, 265
End of Faith, 61
Haunt Project, 148
Hawaii, 205, 208, 218, 221, 225, 226, 231, 255, 259, 265–66
Hawking, Stephen, 98
HBO, 50
Hebard, Arthur, 70
hell, 257–58, 263–64
Hemingway, Ernest, “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” 21
Henry, Joe, “Flag,” 177
Herodotus, 54
Hessler, Peter, Oracle Bones, 127
Hilprecht, Hermann, 221
Hinduism, 212
Hitchens, Christopher, 15, 178, 182, 183, 187, 201
God Is Not Great, 182
Horgan, John, The End of Science, 8
hospice movement, 23
Howe, Elias, 220
Humanist, The, 67
Hume, David, 63
Hyman, Ray, 64
“Evaluation of a Program on Anomalous Mental Phenomena,” 60
hypnagogic hallucinations, 149
hypnotism, 5, 148
hysterectomy, 261–62
imaginary playmates, 148
Imara, Reverend Mwalimu, 27–32, 46, 48–49, 50, 51
Inception (film), 206
induced after-death communication (IADC), 233–50
for retired soldiers, 233–35, 238–43, 246, 247–50
infrasound, 147–48
Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), 156–57, 164, 168, 169, 175
Remission Project, 168
Internet, 80, 131, 165
iPod, 99, 203
Iraq War, 174, 235, 250
Islam, 187, 212
isotope, 6
James, William:
“The Energies of Men,” 255
The Will to Believe, 233
James Randi Educational Foundation ( JREF), 72–73
Jansen, Karl, 38
Japan, 114
Jesus Christ, 29
Jewel, 121
“Stephenville, TX,” 113
Johnson, Samuel, 139
Joiner, Angelia, 114, 118–20, 129, 130, 134, 135
Jones, David, 126
Josephson, Brian, 53–55, 73
Josephson Junctions, 54
Joshi, Shaun, 6
Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 185
Journal of Chemical Education, 126
Journal of Projective Techniques, 167
Kammann, Richard, 69
Kanakaredes, Melina, 50
Kekulé, Friedrich, 220
ketamine, 38
King, Rodney, 1
Kinsel, Pam, 130
Klass, Philip, 69, 124–25
knowledge, 14
Korean War, 154
Krauss, Lawrence, 85
Krebiozen, 167–68
Krippner, Stanley, 73
Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth, 21–51, 149, 165
childhood of, 25
on death, 22–23, 26–32, 36–37, 45
fall from grace, 23–25, 45, 49–51
near-death experiences and, 23–25, 29–32, 34, 35, 40, 44–51
On Death and Dying, 22–23, 31, 36, 37, 45
Wheel of Life, 45
Kucinich, Dennis, 130–31
Kuhn, Thomas, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 12
Kurtz, Paul, 67, 68
LaBerge, Stephen, 205–231, 255–66
Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming, 206, 224
lucid dreaming and, 205–231, 255–66
Lareau, Tom, 233–34
Larry King Live (TV program), 114, 125
Lawrence, T. E., 205
Lewis, Karl, 120
Life magazine, 31, 70
life review, 34
Lincoln, Abraham, 6
Loewi, Otto, 220
logic, 126–27, 219–20
Long, Jeffrey, 33, 34, 38, 39
Lorenz, Konrad, On Aggression, 153
Los Angeles Times, 49, 132
love, 198
lucid dreaming, 205–231, 255–66
meditation and, 206, 207, 211–12, 226
Lucidity Institute, 215
Maccabee, Bruce, 123
MacLaine, Shirley, 130
Sageing While Aging, 131
Magical Ideation Scale, 150
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manyworlds theory, 98–99
Margolis, Jonathan, 70
“Mars effect,” 67–68
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 159–60
materialism, 17, 34, 43, 94, 107, 174, 265
mathematics, 92
Mayer, Elizabeth, Extraordinary Knowing, 65
McDougall, Christopher, Born to Run, 197
McGaha, James, 69, 125, 132
McKenna, Terence, 41
McKinnon, Gary, 3
McMoneagle, Joe, 59
media, 8, 14, 23, 24, 34, 43, 44, 50, 152, 262–63
on lucid dreaming, 206, 210
on UFOs, 114, 117, 118–20, 128–35
See also radio; specific publications; television
meditation, 156, 177–204, 206, 261
lucid dreaming and, 206, 207, 211–12, 226
neurological effects of, 177–204
Tibetan, 179, 180, 184, 195–96, 199
mediums. See psychics
memory loss, 40
Mendeleyev, Dmitri, 220
mental telepathy. See telepathy
meta-analysis, 60
micro-and macroworlds, 102–104
microtubules, 89–91, 93, 94, 101, 109
MILD technique, 228–29
military, 58–59, 105, 154, 159, 260
IADC therapy for vets, 233–35, 238–43, 246, 247–50
UFOs and, 113, 116, 120, 123–24, 128–29, 131, 134–35
Mindful Awareness Research Center, UCLA, 199
mindfulness, 226, 227
Mitchell, Edgar, 153–75, 179
The Way of the Explorer, 166
Molloy, Doreen, 77–81
Moody, Raymond, 35
Life After Life, 23, 46–47
Moore, William, 124
Mousseau, M. C., 65–66
Munk, Dr. William, Euthanasia or Medical treatment in the Aid of Easy Dying, 33
Murphy, Mark, 133–34
music, 193–94
Musk, Elon, 174
Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), 114, 120, 125, 132
mysticism, 11, 13, 17, 47, 199, 265
Nagel, Lynn, 212, 214
NASA, 3, 106, 156, 160, 161
near-death experiences (NDEs), 4, 21–51, 149
description of, 33–34, 39
history of, 33–34
Kübler-Ross and, 23–25, 29–32, 34, 35, 40, 44–51
in Vietnam soldiers, 35
neurons, 12, 41, 42, 43, 84, 89, 90, 91, 92, 109, 110
neuroplasticity, 196, 223–24
neuroscience, 6, 11–12, 16, 55, 85, 195, 201, 265
neurotheology, 178–204
New Age, 75, 94, 100, 107, 156, 173, 174
New Atheists, 15, 16, 178, 182–83, 186–88, 200, 201
Newberg, Andrew, 177–204, 207, 209, 221, 223, 226, 264
Why God Won’t Go Away, 180
Newton, Isaac, 6, 76, 92, 94, 95, 96, 154, 202
New York, 76, 183
New York Times, 14, 42
NPR, 157
Obama, Barack, 44, 177, 200
occult, 6
Oracle at Delphi, 54