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Explores the extraordinary states of expanded consciousness that arise during comas, both positive and negative
List of contents
Foreword
A Wake-Up Call by E. Wesley Ely, MD Contributor’s
Preface
Coma and Consciousness: The Yawning Abyss by Jeffrey J. Kripal
Introduction
A Whole Other Life
PART 1
A World More Vivid than Life Itself
1 You’re Not Just Sleeping Your Time Away
From Confusion and Bliss to the Gates of Hell
2 Fantasies, Dreams, and Lucky Guesses
Or Something That We Have Known All Along?
3 Blinded by Science
And an Awakening to Other Possibilities
PART 2
Shining a Light on the Dimensions of Consciousness
4 The Chattering Monkey
And the Strange Things That Happen When Parts of the Brain Switch Off
5 Delirium, Hallucinations, and Something Else
Other Realities and How to Obtain Them
6 Apaches and Poets
A Reality Greater than a Mind Could Possibly Bear
7 Dark Brings Light
Touching the Void
PART 3
The Reality of Life after Coma
8 The ICU Death Trap
How Did We Ever Get It So Wrong?
9 The Awake and Walking ICU
And How Some People Never Learned Their ABCs
10 So, Who’s Going to Pay for All This?
(Every One of Us, Unless We Bring about Change) Afterword
A Call to Arms by Kali Dayton, DNP, AGACNP-BC
Acknowledgments
Useful Links
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Alan Pearce is a journalist, broadcaster, former BBC correspondent, and author of several books. He has contributed to numerous publications, from
Time Magazine to
The Sunday Times of London. He lives in Nouvelle Aquitaine, France.
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Explores the extraordinary states of expanded consciousness that arise during comas, both positive and negative
