Meet The Greatest Near-Death-Experience Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of

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🧠 THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF THE GIANT'S SHOULDER FAMILY Here is the full, ad free version of my conversation with Janice Holden, including the members-only Q&A! Janice Holden is a near-death-experience researcher who designed the first hospital experiment to catch consciousness outside the body, edits the Journal of Near-Death Studies and spent 31 years on the University of North Texas faculty. For nearly 40 years she has tested one claim: that patients whose hearts have stopped can see the room from above. Surgeons have corroborated some of those details. No controlled study has caught one yet. Expect to learn: - The Leg In The Yellow Bag: an anaesthetised patient described an amputation in the next operating room - The Post-it Notes: a heart patient saw a detail only his surgeon would know - The Hidden-Target Experiment: pictures hidden near hospital ceilings, visible only from above - The Life Review: reliving every moment of your life as the people you affected - DMT Vs Near-Death: why the brain may interpret reality rather than create it GS EPISODES MENTIONED Rick Strassman - Meet The Father Of Modern DMT Research: https://youtu.be/KeAZOj7tYsc Anil Seth - No. 1 Consciousness Expert: Optical Illusions that Prove Reality is a Lie, Emotions, Books and AI!: https://youtu.be/lOSA06K0l1o Karl Friston - Meet The Neuroscientist Who Created The Best Universal Theory Of Brain Function: https://youtu.be/R-IZOFs4qmY Marjorie Woollacott - Neuroscientist: "Your Brain Doesn't Create Consciousness" — NDEs, Telepathy and Terminal Lucidity: https://youtu.be/mDWtmfmIUHA GUEST LINKS Website: https://www.janholden.com The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0313358648 Journal of Near-Death Studies: https://www.janholden.com/jnds IANDS: https://iands.org Articles: https://www.janholden.com/copy-of-articles BOOKS MENTIONED IN THE Q&A The Self Does Not Die (Rivas, Dirven & Smit): https://www.amazon.com/dp/0997560800 Mindsight (Kenneth Ring & Sharon Cooper): https://www.amazon.com/dp/0595434975 LISTEN ON Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5m3Gta5MtIYdk59pb2GJ7M Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-giants-shoulder/id1752486249 SKOOL Want a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/about FOLLOW EVAN https://x.com/evan_mcgl TIMESTAMPS 0:00:00 Trailer 0:02:15 From Doctoral Student To 40 Years Of Near-Death Research 0:03:38 How Resuscitation Created The Near-Death Experience 0:09:06 What Actually Happens During A Near-Death Experience 0:11:03 Moving At The Speed Of Thought 0:11:41 The Tunnel And The City Of Light 0:13:18 The Life Review: Feeling What Everyone Else Felt 0:14:55 "It's Not Your Time": Why People Come Back 0:19:27 Why Near-Death Experiences Aren't Just Dreams 0:21:09 The Woman Who Watched Her Own Surgery 0:27:11 The Post-it Notes A Dead Patient Saw 0:32:31 The Doctors Who Corroborated These Cases 0:33:39 The Harvard Neurosurgeon Who Changed His Mind 0:37:38 Why "False Memory" Doesn't Explain It 0:40:08 The Patient Who Floated Into The CPR Training Room 0:45:05 Hiding Pictures On Hospital Ceilings 0:49:35 Seven Studies, No Hits Yet 0:53:32 Is Humanity Ready For Proof? 0:58:08 DMT Vs Near-Death Experiences 1:06:35 Does The Brain Create Reality Or Interpret It? 1:10:27 Consciousness Before Birth And After Death 1:14:47 Why Don't We See This All The Time? 1:17:30 Karma And The Afterlife In Southeast Asia 1:20:50 MEMBERS Q&A: Can People Blind From Birth See During An NDE? 1:23:30 Why These Experiences Can't Be Put Into Words 1:27:37 Do You Have Any Control Once You're In One? 1:31:40 Would She Want One Herself? 1:33:34 Induced After-Death Communication 1:34:03 The Billion-Dollar Study She'd Run Tomorrow 1:39:15 Should Patients Be Told Where The Targets Are?