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  1. Oliver Sacks _ Everything in Its Place: First

    Nelson feels that the "dark tunnel" described in most NDEs represents constriction of the visual fields due to compromised blood pressure in the eyes, and the "bright light" represents a flow of visual excitation from the brainstem, through visual relay stations, to the visual cortex {the so-called pons-geniculate-occipital pathway
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  2. Oliver Sacks _ Everything in Its Place: First

    To deny the possibility of any natural explanation for an NDE, as Dr. Alexander does, is more than unscientific-it is antiscientific. It precludes the scientific investigation of such states.
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  3. Oliver Sacks _ Everything in Its Place: First

    But we know from the experience of Tony Cicoria and many others that a hallucinatory journey to the bright light and beyond, a full-blown NDE, can occur in twenty or thirty seconds, even though it seems to last much longer. Subjectively, during such a crisis, the very concept of time may seem variable or meaningless. The one most plausible hypothesis in Dr. Alexander's case, then, is that his NDE occurred not during his coma, but as he was surfacing from the coma and his cortex was returning to full function. It is curious that he does not allow this obvious and natural explanation but instead insists on a supernatural one.
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  4. Oliver Sacks _ Everything in Its Place: First

    But one almost always emerges gradually from a coma; there are intermediate stages of consciousness. It is in these transitional stages, where consciousness of a sort has returned, but not yet fully lucid consciousness, that NDEs tend to occur. Alexander
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  5. Oliver Sacks _ Everything in Its Place: First

    Neurologically, OBEs are a form of bodily illusion arising from a temporary dissociation of visual and proprioceptive representations-normally these are coordinated, so that one views the world, including one's body, from the perspective of one's own eyes, one's head. OBEs, as Henrik Ehrsson and his fellow researchers in Stockholm have elegantly shown, can be produced experimentally, by using simple equipment-video goggles, mannequins, rubber arms, and so on-to confuse one's visual input and one's proprioceptive input and create an uncanny sense of disembodiedness.
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  6. Oliver Sacks _ Everything in Its Place: First

    That which is not Body, is no part of the Universe: And because the Universe is All, that which is not part of it, is Nothing; and consequently no where.
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  7. Oliver Sacks _ Everything in Its Place: First

    There is, among Orthodox Jews, a blessing to be said on witnessing the strange: one blesses God for the diversity of his creation, and one gives thanks for the wonder of the strange.
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  8. Oliver Sacks _ Everything in Its Place: First

    Though I revere good writing and art and music, it seems to me that only science, aided by human decency, common sense, farsightedness, and concern for the unfortunate and the poor, offers the world any hope in its present morass.
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  9. Oliver Sacks _ Everything in Its Place: First

    In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical 'therapy' to be vitally important for patients with chronic neurological diseases: music and gardens.
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  10. Oliver Sacks _ Everything in Its Place: First

    But science is a human enterprise through and through, an organic, evolving, human growth, with sudden spurts and arrests, and strange deviations, too. It grows out of its past but never outgrows it, any more than we outgrow our childhoods.
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