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0:00August 1991,
0:01Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, USA.
0:05In the operating room of this hospital,
0:07a 35-year-old woman, Pam Reynolds, was lying down.
0:10Pam's brain had a tumor that could explode at any time.
0:14The doctors told Pam that she had very little time left.
0:18There was only one way to save her.
0:21An extremely risky operation.
0:23An operation in which the her heartbeats
0:25had to be completely stopped by machines.
0:28And then her skull would be cut open to extract all the blood and fluids.
0:32It sounds scary,
0:34but the doctors had no other option.
0:37They began the operation immediately.
0:39Pam's eyes were taped,
0:41and small speakers were placed on both her ears,
0:44they continuously played clicking sounds to check the brain's response.
0:48With one click, the machine was switched on,
0:50and Pam's heartbeat stopped.
0:53There was no response from her brain.
0:55No activity, no brainwaves.
0:58Nothing that could be detected and to say that Pam was still alive.
1:02Because according to every medical science definition,
1:05Pam had died by this point in time.
1:10But, this operation was successful.
1:13Pam regained consciousness.
1:14And after regaining consciousness,
1:16Pam said something that shocked all the doctors there.
1:20She said that she was watching the whole operation from above.
1:24"I was then looking down on my body, and I knew it was my body, but I didn't care."
1:29She described everything in the operation theatre,
1:31exactly as it was in reality.
1:35She also described the exact shape of the bone-cutting saw,
1:38which was used to operate her head.
1:40"I remember the instrument in his hand.
1:43It looked like the handle of my electric toothbrush."
1:47She even repeated the conversation that took place during the surgery.
1:53"Let's continue carefully."
1:55"Keep the field clear."
1:56"Retractor in place."
1:57She knew what the doctors were saying to each other during the operation.
2:01Pam said that she didn't feel any pain, suffering, fear or anxiety.
2:07But she saw all of this happening from above.
2:10It was impossible for this to happen.
2:12Because at that time, her brain was closed.
2:14Her eyes were sealed and her ears were blocked.
2:16So how did she actually see and hear all this in the operation theatre?
2:20This made news all over the world.
2:23"While undergoing brain surgery,
2:25she says she left her body and actually watched her own operation."
2:30Was it Pam's soul who saw all this happening?
2:34Did we finally find out what happens after death?
2:38Afterlife, meaning life after death,
2:41is one of the most fascinating and mysterious questions in the world.
2:4685% in Indonesia,
2:4870% in America,
2:4966% in Brazil,
2:51and 43% in India,
2:53believe that there is life after death.
2:56Every major religion in the world,
2:58has talked about the soul.
3:00About heaven and hell.
3:02The question is, how much truth is there in this?
3:05Did science get any proof of the afterlife here?
3:09Let's try to understand it in today's video.
3:12"You died!"
3:13"Are you kidding me?"
3:15"Do you want to see?
3:17Look down."
3:18"Yeah, sure."
3:24Hello, friends!
3:25Let's start with 1901,
3:27when a doctor tried to measure the soul on a scale.
3:30In the American city of Haverhill,
3:33Dr Duncan MacDougall,
3:35had been trying to prove for 4 years
3:37that the soul actually exists.
3:40His logic was simple.
3:41If the soul really exists,
3:43it should occupy space.
3:45And anything that occupies space,
3:47will have a weight.
3:48He decided to weigh a human at the time of death.
3:52And when the soul is leaving the body,
3:55it can be measured by the weight of the soul lifting from the body.
3:58MacDougall prepared for this experiment.
4:00He had a cot with a dying TB patient laid down on a big scale.
4:06As soon as the patient died,
4:08the scale moved,
4:10and the body weight suddenly decreased by 21 grams.
4:15This 21 grams was said to be the weight of the soul,
4:18and the news spread all over the world.
4:20This claim has been kept alive in pop culture.
4:23Hollywood even made a movie called 21 grams.
4:30McDougall did the same experiment on a total of 6 patients.
4:35In 1907, he published his findings in the American Medicine Journal.
4:39But as soon as the study was published, questions arose.
4:42Critics said that the fall in weight was due to
4:45the evaporation of the water vapour in the breath and sweat.
4:48Critics said that this must be the reason.
4:51To calm the critics,
4:53McDougall went back to his barn and scales,
4:56and repeated the experiment on 15 dogs.
5:00Do you know what the result was?
5:02After the deaths of the dogs,
5:04none of them lost weight.
5:05And here, MacDougall did that no scientist should ever do.
5:09Instead of rethinking the theory of the Weight of a Soul,
5:13MacDougall said that according to the Bible,
5:17animals do not have souls.
5:19That's why dogs don't lose weight when they die.
5:22Some Christians agreed with this theory,
5:24calling it logical and sensible.
5:27And this story ended there.
5:29For about 70 years, science remained away from this question.
5:33But then something happened that brought it back to the discussion.
5:36In 1965,
5:38a student of the University of Virginia,
5:40Raymond Moody met a professor.
5:43The professor talked about how he had died twice.
5:46And described what happened to him after his death.
5:54A few years later, when Moody became a professor,
5:57a student told him a similar story about his grandmother.
6:01It was the story of two different people.
6:03They had experienced the same thing.
6:06Moody was intrigued by this.
6:08"I kept hearing from these patients who had almost died and
6:12had really traumatic experiences
6:14that had profoundly altered their lives,
6:16and yet I couldn't find anything in the psychiatric literature,
6:20the psychiatric textbooks,
6:22the medical literature,
6:23that could give me any clue as to what was going on with these patients."
6:27He started to investigate further.
6:29Moody started compiling them together.
6:32After years of hard work,
6:34he had found around 150 such cases.
6:37And later, in 1975, he wrote a book on his research.
6:42Life After Life.
6:43In which he named such experiences,
6:46Near Death Experience.
6:48In short, NDE.
6:50Scientists believe that no one can return after death.
6:53So those who claimed to have died and returned,
6:57were called Near Death Experience.
7:00Not After Death Experience.
7:02This phrase became popular after his book,
7:04and is still used to this day.
7:06The most shocking thing is,
7:10that the story of all these near-death experiences,
7:12was almost the same.
7:14First, the patient hears the doctor say,
7:16he's dead.
7:17Then he feels like he's passed through a long, dark tunnel.
7:21After that, the person stands outside his own body.
7:24And then he sees the doctors CPR on his body.
7:28After a while, he sees his dead relatives and,
7:31who have come to meet him and help him.
7:33And then, a light comes on.
7:35a beam of light.
7:37As if it's a being from another universe,
7:39made of light.
7:40After that, the person's life
7:43flashes in front of him.
7:45Think about it,
7:46if you had to see your entire life flash in front of your eyes in a moment,
7:50what will you see?
7:51A palliative care nurse in Australia,
7:54Bronnie Ware,
7:54asked the people who had died for years,
7:56about their biggest regret.
7:58What was the thing that they most regretted in their lives?
8:03And do you know what the most common answer was?
8:06I wish I had lived the life that I wanted to live
8:09and not the life that others expected from me.
8:12The dying people told me, I wish I had lived a life true to myself,
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8:18And I wish I had allowed myself to be happier.
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10:30In the end, a person reaches a barrier or border,
10:34and as soon as he crosses it, he goes to another world.
10:36But he has to return.
10:39that the time of death had not come.
10:41The amazing thing is that in different countries,
10:43people who follow different religions,
10:45all tell the same story,
10:48who have experienced this near-death experience.
10:51In India, there are cases of near-death experiences and after-life experiences.
10:55One of these is the case of Chhaju Baniyaka.
10:58In the 1990s, Chhaju died of fever.
11:01And his relatives were preparing for his last rites.
11:04That's when Chhaju was alive.
11:06and the story she told after she was alive,
11:08was shocking.
11:09Chhaju claimed that after her death,
11:11he brought four black doves to her,
11:13and sent them to the Yamaraj.
11:15There was an old woman,
11:17who had a pen and many clerks,
11:20who had many books in front of them.
11:22One of the clerks said,
11:24we don't want Chhaju Banya,
11:25we want Chhaju Kumar.
11:27Push him back and bring another one.
11:29He still had some life left.
11:31Chhaju begged those people to give him some work there,
11:35but not to send him back.
11:36Today, on a high chair,
11:38with a white beard,
11:39but Chhaju was not heard.
11:41He was pushed back and he was revived.
11:44Another similar story is of Durga Jatav.
11:46Durga Jatav had a typhoid.
11:48After a week of illness,
11:49one day, his body cooled down.
11:51And his family agreed that Durga was no longer alive.
11:54But after a while, Durga regained her breath.
11:57She told her family
11:59that 10 people had taken her to another world.
12:02She tried to escape,
12:04they cut their legs under their knees,
12:06so that they couldn't escape.
12:08Then they were brought to a place where there were tables and chairs.
12:11And 40-50 people were seated.
12:13They looked at Durga's papers,
12:14and said with a shock,
12:15that their names weren't on our list,
12:17why did you bring them here?
12:18Take them back.
12:19Durga said how can I go back I don have my feet Then
12:23many pairs of legs were placed in pairs of legs and
12:26Durga recognised his legs and tied them back together
12:29On the way he was instructed not to bend his knees
12:33or he would not be able to join them again.
12:34The most shocking part of this story is that
12:36just a few days after Durga regained consciousness,
12:38his sister and a neighbour saw
12:40deep marks on Durga's knees.
12:43Right where, according to them, his legs had been cut.
12:47There were no such marks before.
12:48Hahaha!
12:50In India, there are many such stories of afterlife.
12:53In them, the Yamdut takes a person,
12:55and then presents him to a man with a book,
12:59who keeps a record of every person.
13:01Then it turns out that someone made a mistake,
13:03and the wrong man was kidnapped.
13:04So he is pushed back.
13:07Now, this sounds like a story taken from a religious book.
13:11In Hinduism, the journey after death is mentioned in the Garud Purana.
13:15According to this, when the Yamalok reaches,
13:17a secret that has been written all his life.
13:21Yama Raj decides what will happen to someone else after reading this letter.
13:25The question is, how much truth is there in these people's stories?
13:28How much can we believe in their stories?
13:31Science doesn't believe in religious books.
13:33Nor does it believe in these anecdotal cases.
13:36For science, these stories are just a collection that cannot be verified.
13:40But then a study came to light.
13:43In December 2001,
13:44a study on near-death experiences was published in The Lancet Journal.
13:48It is one of the most reputed journals in science.
13:51In this study, between 1988 and 1992,
13:54the hospitals of the Netherlands,
13:56interviewed 344 patients,
13:58who had died clinically after cardiac arrest.
14:01They were brought back to life after receiving CPR.
14:04Every patient had a medical record,
14:06and the interview was taken within 5 days of their return to life.
14:10Of these 344 patients,
14:12Out of 62 patients, 18% of them,
14:14claimed to have seen the afterlife while clinically dead.
14:18But believing in the afterlife means
14:20believing that even after death,
14:22our consciousness is alive.
14:24This challenges the basic assumption of medical science.
14:28Here, we have a concept called the Dependence Thesis.
14:32According to it, every mental experience of ours,
14:35depends on the brain.
14:36Our consciousness, memories, thoughts, feelings,
14:40all of them decrease with the rise of brain activity.
14:43There is no reason to believe that
14:45right after death,
14:46the dependence on the brain suddenly ends.
14:48That means that without the experience of the brain,
14:51without the consciousness,
14:52this cannot happen.
14:53But if this is the case,
14:54then how is it possible to see the tunnel of the body from above?
14:59Psychologist Susan Blackmore frames this whole debate in one line.
15:03Are near-death experiences the glimpses of life after death?
15:07Or are they visions of dying brains?
15:09Think about it, the people who share near-death experiences,
15:12have some things in common.
15:14One tunnel, deep peace,
15:16seeing one's own body from the outside,
15:18and a review of their entire life.
15:21The people who believe in this,
15:22tell it as the biggest proof of their afterlife.
15:25Their logic is simple.
15:26Everyone is experiencing similar experiences.
15:29It means that everything is real.
15:39It was so real. I mean, it wasn't like a dream at
15:41all. It's almost like my senses were multiplying.
15:44I didn't feel like I had imagined where I
15:46was or hallucinated. It was very real to me.
15:49But according to Dr Susan Blackmore this consistency proves
15:53that these are all visions of a dying human brain The tunnel
15:56that people see while dying is the wonder of our brain
16:00cells The visual cortex does the work of seeing in our brain
16:03And its wiring is special.
16:05It has many cells for the centre vision.
16:08And less cells for the vision on the edges.
16:11In the case of near-death experiences,
16:13when there is a lack of oxygen,
16:15these cells start firing randomly.
16:17And in the middle, where there are more cells,
16:19more light is seen.
16:20And on the edges, where there are fewer cells,
16:22the light fades.
16:24According to Dr. Blackmore,
16:25this looks like a tunnel.
16:27Typically, you have a dark tunnel
16:29moving through a dark tunnel towards a bright light,
16:31to be looking at the world from a position outside your body,
16:34and maybe even watching things happening to the body.
16:36He also made a simulation of this random firing on the computer.
16:39After that, the screen started to look like a tunnel.
16:41Similarly, the deep peace and happiness that is felt,
16:45is responsible for endorphins and morphine.
16:47Which are released in extreme stress.
16:49And give the feelings of peace and well-being.
16:52which is visible throughout the lifetime,
16:54is because endorphins cause seizures and random activation
16:58in the temporal lobe and the limbic system.
17:01This is the part of the brain where memory is stored.
17:04Apart from this, the out-of-body experience,
17:06where it feels as if you have come out of your body,
17:09and are looking at your body from a distance.
17:11Some scientists say that this is a way of dealing with the breakdown of the brain.
17:16And it was also proven in an experiment,
17:18whose afterlife and near-death experiences
17:21had nothing to do with it.
17:25Fighter jets.
17:26When fighter pilots maneuver very rapidly,
17:29due to gravitational force,
17:30their heart, blood and oxygen
17:32cannot reach the brain.
17:34And the pilots go unconscious.
17:36This condition is known as GLOC.
17:38Full Form G-Force Induced Loss of Consciousness.
17:42To understand this, the US Navy's
17:45Winery had turned the volunteers around in a human centrifuge,
17:50and made them unconscious in a controlled manner.
17:52You must be aware of what a centrifugal machine is.
17:54A human centrifuge was a large centrifugal machine,
17:58with a rotating device,
18:00and people were turned around.
18:01When these people were unconscious,
18:02the volunteers shared their experience.
18:04And their experience was similar to that of near-death experiences.
18:09The interesting thing was that no one was dying here.
18:11Nor was the door of another world opening.
18:14It was a rotating machine,
18:15which stopped the blood and oxygen from reaching the brain.
18:19The same thing that happens to the dead people often.
18:22Today, what happens in near-death experiences,
18:25can be explained better than the dying brain hypothesis.
18:29Now, the skeptics of the Indian cases,
18:32prove that the entire near-death experience
18:35is the result of our culture and expectations.
18:39Details of what people see,
18:40are absolutely dependent on their religion.
18:42".be a cultural being at the end."
18:43Exactly!
18:44So the Christians are going to see St. Peter at the pearly gates.
18:48And the Hindus are going to have a book and the name is not in it.
18:51They got the name wrong and they are sent back.
18:52All of that is culturally dependent.
18:54If you have been listening to the stories of Yamaraj and Chitragupt since childhood,
18:57you will see the Yamdut even while you are dying.
19:00, in this mystery,
19:01today science can explain almost everything about near-death experiences.
19:06But there are some things that science has no answer to.
19:10To understand this, we have to go back to the story of Pam Reynolds.
19:14Remember the conditions of Pam Reynolds during her surgery.
19:18Her eyes were blocked with tape.
19:19Her ears were blocked with a speaker.
19:21Her body temperature was 16 degrees.
19:23Her heart was not working.
19:24And all the activities in her brain were stopped Pam told us that a throbbing sound
19:31pulled her out of the body And she started to
19:35see the operation from the surgeon shoulder
19:39She saw the bone-cutting vein clearly.
19:41According to her, it looked like an electric toothbrush.
19:44She also heard a woman's voice.
19:46She said that the veins and arteries were very small.
19:49And then she saw a small point of light.
19:52That was pulling her towards herself.
19:54In that light, he saw his dead grandmother, uncle,
19:57and many other people who were made of light.
20:00In the end, his uncle pushed him,
20:02and forced him to return to his body.
20:05And he fell back into his body on another electric shock.
20:08Now, to see that small point of light,
20:11to see his grandmother and uncle,
20:12to experience the out-of-body experience,
20:14to see one's own body from above,
20:16science has the answer to all these things.
20:18But the exact shape of the bone saw,
20:21the arrow that was placed there,
20:22the woman's voice,
20:24the head of the cardiovascular team.
20:26And the biggest thing,
20:28how did they find out that
20:29they were given an electric shock for the second time,
20:31and they survived.
20:33Even the operation doctor, Dr. Spetzler,
20:35didn't remember that Pam was given electric shocks twice
20:38to revive her.
20:40But Pam knew about this.
20:41"- She talked about her heart being shocked twice.
20:44Give me details that she just shouldn't know."
20:47An explanation for this was given,
20:49that Pam regained her consciousness during the operation,
20:52and he looked around and saw the sounds,
20:55and made a picture.
20:56But he was blindfolded.
20:58Both ears had speakers,
20:59which were making the same loud noise,
21:0211 to 33 times per second,
21:04as a subway train.
21:05Hearing the conversation during the operation,
21:09was almost impossible for a patient.
21:11Apart from this, all the instruments were in the packets,
21:15so while coming for Pam's operation,
21:18There was no possibility of seeing her.
21:20Dr Robert Spetzler, who operated on Pam himself,
21:23in an interview in 2007, told that
21:25he couldn't understand how Pam told him about the operation.
21:29From a scientific point of view,
21:30he had no explanation for it.
21:33There are some mysteries here,
21:35that we don't have the answers to.
21:36Scientists had done another study to prove the afterlife conclusively.
21:41Dr Sam Parnia did a study called AWARE.
21:44The design was simple.
21:45In the areas of hospitals,
21:47where cardiac arrest is the highest.
21:49Height shelves were placed near the roof.
21:51And an image was placed on each shelf.
21:53Which could only be seen from the roof.
21:57In many hospitals, around 1,000 such shelves were placed.
22:00The logic was clear.
22:01If people were to see their bodies near the roof during the near-death experience,
22:05then someone would see this image.
22:07But if this vision was only in the mind,
22:10they wouldn't be able to tell about this image.
22:13In 4 years,
22:14in America, the UK and Austria,
22:16more than 2,000 people were studied
22:18involved in cardiac arrest at 15 hospitals.
22:20Out of which 101 patients
22:22completed all the stages of the interviews.
22:249 out of these 101 people
22:26claimed to have near-death experiences.
22:29And 2 of them had detailed memories of their room.
22:33But no conclusive evidence was found for this study.
22:36One of these 2 people was so sick,
22:38that no interview was possible.
22:40And when the other patient was arrested for cardiac arrest,
22:42and no shelf was laid in that room.
22:45The truth is that some mysteries are still mysteries today.
22:49Science has the explanation of light tunnels,
22:52the explanation of seeing its dead relatives,
22:54the explanation of seeing yourself out of your own body.
22:57But explaining and finding the answer are two
23:00different things Cases like Pam Reynolds are still
23:03a crack in the wall of this theory Neither the
23:06believers nor the skeptics have the answer to this
23:10Although, as I always say,
23:11extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
23:15And nothing can be more extraordinary than the afterlife.
23:19So, the unexplained existence of something,
23:21is not the proof of the afterlife.
23:23In one era, the fall of lightning was unexplained.
23:25The answer to that was not God's anger,
23:28but physics.
23:29What happens after death,
23:31is the only question the world can answer.
23:34Every human being will get the answer one day.
23:36The thing is,
23:37no one has been able to come back to tell us.
23:41The good of the world is that
23:42instead of waiting for heaven or hell,
23:45we see our lives as a single opportunity.
23:48That there is nothing after this.
23:50By doing this,
23:51we will be able to focus on making our own Earth heaven.
23:55Because this is the only thing we know for sure exists.
23:59Your life, this Earth, our planet Earth.
24:06Now, if you want to know how life began,
24:09where did life come from?
24:12Were there aliens behind it?
24:14Or did God drop life on Earth?
24:17This is a question,
24:19that we know the answer to to a large extent.
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24:35Thank you very much!

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