Peter Fenwick - Love and Light: the Science of Near-Death Experiences

In this talk recorded in London, Peter Fenwick provides a fascinating overview of spiritual medicine, the power of intercessory prayer, and the current state of research on paranormal phenomena. But it is Dr. Fenwick's work with people who have literally died and come back to tell the tale that fascinates most. His infamous studies center on people who experience temporary brain death during a cardiac arrest. Some of these individuals are later able to accurately recall events that occurred during the period in which equipment monitoring their vital signs showed a total absence of brain activity. Some recount “floating” above their own inert body, and can describe objects in the room that would have been completely obscured to the physical body lying motionless and surrounded by flashing monitors and frantic medical personnel. Accounts such as these raise serious questions about whether consciousness resides entirely within the mind or somewhere outside of it.

To conclude this powerful introduction to near-death experiences (or NDEs) Fenwick plays an audio recording of one man's dramatic journey to heaven's gate. This gripping account provides a profound spiritual reflection on the nature of human existence and the possible hereafter.

BIO

A neuropsychiatrist and fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Peter Fenwick is a leading clinical authority on near-death experiences. He has analyzed more than 300 of these life-altering events in the course of four decades of research and is highly regarded both by medical colleagues and by the media for his knowledge of this subject.

In 1996, Dr. Fenwick became a consulting neuropsychiatrist emeritus to the Epilepsy Unit at the Maudsley Hospital, which he ran for twenty years. He is also chairman of the Scientific and Medical Network, a group of doctors and scientists seeking to deepen understanding in science and medicine by fostering intuitive as well as rational insights. He has had a longstanding interest in brain function, the relationship of the mind and the brain, and the “problem” of consciousness. He has an extensive research record and has published over 200 papers in medical and scientific journals on brain function and also several papers on meditation and altered states of consciousness.

With over 240 papers in medical and scientific journals to his credit, Fenwick has also coauthored three popular books with his wife, Elizabeth Fenwick: The Truth in the Light (1997), Past Lives: An Investigation into Reincarnation Memories (1999), and The Hidden Door: Understanding and Controlling Dreams (1999).