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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

 

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