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“A Peak(e) Behind The Curtain” (APBTC). Episode 07 – What is death?

29th December 2024 By Anthony Peake

Here Anthony Peake reads the most important sub-chapter of his latest book “Near-Death Experiences: The Science, Psychology and Anthropology Behind the Phenomenon” (Arcturus Books. 2024)

This is an inferior recording of a section the Audible Book that can be downloaded via Amazon. In this section Anthony presents some astonishing evidence for his “Cheating the Ferryman” hypothesis sourced from a series of peer-reviewed academic papers published over the last ten years.

This is, in his opinion, the MOST IMPORTANT section of his writings and needs to be listened to (and read) by anybody seriously interested in evidence for survival after death and the implications of the Near-Death Experience. This should be checked out by academics, journalists and media people because what it contains is, quite literally, paradigm changing. Please help getting this out-there and viral ….

If you want to know more, and wish to see Anthony doing a series of live lectures, workshops and intensives on his research into the Near-Death Experience, join him at the Contact In The Desert “Event Horizon” conference which will take place between 29th of May to the 2nd June 2024 at the Renaissance Esmeralda Resort & Spa in Indian Wells, California.

As Marcello Truzzi once stated, “extraordinary claims require extraordinary proofs”(Truzzi, M. (1978). “On the Extraordinary: An Attempt at Clarification. Zetetic Scholar Vol 1, No 1, 11) so for those of you wishing to follow up on the supporting material for this chapter, here are the references:

Beecher, H. K. (1968). A definition of irreversible coma: report of the ad hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School to examine the definition of brain death. JAMA 205, 337-340.

Bernat, J. L. (1984). The definition, criterion and statute of death. Seminars in Neurology 4, 45-51.

Borjigin, J. (2013). Surge of neurophysiological coherence and connectivity in the dying brain. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 110(35), 14432-14437.

Borjigin, J., Wang, M. M., & Mashour, G. A. (2013, October 29). Reply to Chawla and Seneff: Near-death electrical brain activity in humans and animals requires additional studies. Proc Natl Acad Sci (PNAS) Vol 10. No 44.

Chawla, L. S., Junker, C., Jacobs, B., Seneff, M. G., & Akst, S. (2009). Surges of Electroencephalogram Activity at the Time of Death: A Case Series. Journal of Palliative Medicine No 12, 1095 – 1100

Chawla, L., & Seneff, M. G. (2013). End-of-life electrical surges. Proc Natl Acad Sci.

Chawla, L. S., Terek, M., Junker, C., Akst, S., Yoon, B., Brasha-Mitchell, E., & Seneff, M. (2017). Characterization of end-of-life electroencephalographic surges in critically ill patients. Death Studies, 1-8.

Clute, H. L., & Levy, W. J. (1990). Electroencephalographic changes during brief cardiac arrest in humans. Anesthesiology, 821 – 825. Gambrell, M. (2005). Using the BIS monitor in palliative care: A case study. J Neurosci Nurs, 140-143.

Greer, D. M., Shemie, S. D., Torrance, S., Varelas, P., & Goldenberg, F. D. (2020). Determination of brain death/death by neurologic criteria: the world brain death project. JAMA 324, 1078-1091.

Greyson, B., van Lommel, P., & Fenwick, P. (2022). Commentary: Enhanced Interplay of Neuronal Coherence and Coupling in the Dying Human Brain . Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. Vol 14.

Hansen, A. J. (1985). Effect of anoxia on ion distribution in the brain. Physiol Rev, 101 – 148.

Hughes, J. R. (2008). Gamma, fast, and ultra fast waves in the brain: Their relationships with epilepsy and behavior. Epilepsy and Behavior. Vol 13, Issue 1, 25-31.

Kongara, K., McIlhone, A., Kells, N., & Johnson, C. (2014). Electroencephalographic evaluation of decapitation of the anaesthetized rat. Lab. Anim. 48, 15 – 19

Li, D., Mabrouk, O. S., Liu, T., Tian, F., Xu, G., Choi, S. J.,  Borjigin, J. (2015, April 6). Asphyxia-activated cortico-cardiac signaling accelerates cardiac arrest. Neuroscience.

Mazzi, C., Mancini, F., & Savazzi, S. (2014). Can IPS reach visual awareness without V1? Evidence from TMS in healthy subjects and hemianopic patients. Neuropsychologia 64, 134–144.

Muthukumaraswamy, S. D. (2013). High-frequency brain activity and muscle artifacts in MEG/EEG: a review and recommendations. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 7. Nair-Collins, M. (2022, Winter). “Expanding the Social Status of “Corpse” to the Severely Comatose:

Henry Beecher and the Harvard Brain Death Committee.”. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, vol. 65 no. 1, pp. 41-58.

Pani, P., Giarroccoa, F., Brunamonti, E., & Stefano, M. (2018, September 5-7 September). Persistence of cortical neuronal activity in the dying brain. Resucitation, 5 – 7.

Peake, A. (2022). Cheating The Ferryman: The Revolutionary Science of Life After Death. London: Arcturus.

President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Biobehavioral Research, 1981

van Rijn, C. M., Krijnen, H., Menting-Hermeling, S., & Coenen, A. M. (2011). Decapitation in rats: latency to unconsciousness and the ‘wave of death’. PLoS One 6:e16514.

Vicente, R., Rizzuto, M., Sarica, C., Kazuaki, Y., Sadr, M., Tarun, K., . . . Zemmar , A. (2022). Enhanced Interplay of Neuronal Coherence and Coupling in the Dying Human Brain. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 14.

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