Non-Local Mind
It is apparently quiet common for surgery patients to come out of an operation
having experienced an "out of body" experience. These patients
quite often say things like they rose above their bodies and saw the whole
operation. They can even give great details of what took place and what
was said. Most surgeons, however, just consider it a dream and say that
the details come from what the subconscious mind could hear being talked
about.
One physician, Larry Dossey M.D. tells of an especially startling case
where a lady went into cardiac arrest during an operation and had to be
fibrillated with the ‘electrical pads on the chest’ like you
see in all the ER shows. After waking up she was able to give minute details
of, not only what went on during the cardiac arrest and fibrillation,
but also she was able to repeat detailed conversion. On top of that she
knew the color of the sheets covering the operation table; the hairstyle
of the head scrub nurse; the names of the surgeons in the doctors lounge
down the corridor, who were waiting for her case to be concluded; and
even the trivial fact that her anesthesiologist was wearing unmatched
socks. Why is it so amazing, you may ask, that she knew the color of the
sheets covering the operation table or that the anesthesiologist wore
unmatched socks? Well you see, she had been blind since birth. When she
questioned her surgeon about the experience he patronizingly dismissed
her account and walked away.
What is going on here? How can we patronizingly dismiss this case? Something
very important has happened here. We cannot just dismiss it out of hand
because it doesn’t fit in our reality box. Did you know that five-months
after the Wright Brothers’ flew their airplane at Kitty Hawk, the
prestigious Scientific American had an article stating that flight was
impossible? Are we doing the same thing as Scientific American?
I have to agree with Dr. Larry Dossey that this is very credible evidence
that our mind is "non-local". Non-local is a physics term that
means something, energy or matter, resides in two places at the same time.
This is hard for us to accept because most things in everyday life seem
to stay in their place. Or do they? Maybe we don’t see non-local
things because we are not looking. Maybe we need to change our reality
box.
