A new study explains why current brain theories fail to fully explain near-death experiences and consciousness.

Across cultures, religions, and centuries, people who come close to death often report strikingly similar experiences. They speak of leaving their bodies, moving through darkness, feeling overwhelming ...

An ambitious effort to create a neurophysiological paradigm to explain near-death experiences has failed to capture many ...

Our brains have been designed through evolution to make it impossible to think of ourselves as not having consciousness, easily leading us down the road of thinking of our minds as being immortal. In ...

Several years ago, I was approached to write a popular book on terminal lucidity—a near-death phenomenon in which individuals with severe cognitive impairment experience unexpected moments of clarity ...