The Unintelligibility Approach to Near Death Research

Abstract

Near-death experiences occur when someone narrowly survives a cardiac arrest, major illness or injury or other sever life-threatening condition or event. Such experiences have been reported and studied by physicians and other investigators over much of the world. Near-death research shows that individuals from every walk of life and numerous different cultures and religious faiths had fairly uniform and similar experiences worldwide. Although, near-death experiences reveal something about the nature of consciousness., a variety of factors impedes genuine rational investigation of this crucial question. These include psychological factors such as wishful thinking, religious beliefs and the unability to explain a reality that cannot be described with logical conventional words. The article provides the required conceptual connection for a new rational understanding of near-death experiences. Specifically, the concept of unintelligibility, bridges stories of near-death experiences and the prospect of conscious existence in an afterlife. The article also proposes the quantum consciousness paradigm as the ontology that can be used to represent the unitellibile aspects of near-death experiences.