Is consciousness actually separate from the brain — can it survive after the brain has stopped?

“amazing. Her body was failing, her organs shutting down. Yet her awareness was more vivid than ever. And when she returned, her cancer began to vanish. If the brain was silent, who was watching? If the heart had stopped, who was remembering? What if we are more than the body? What if consciousness doesn't end with death? [Music] Uh they are very very strong evidence for the fact that that you can continue to think and feel and perceive and make decisions when your body when your brain is not functioning. It suggests that the”9:55

“Another question springs to mind, and as before, it is answered without my having to speak: "Your consciousness exists outside your body. It's not contained or housed in the brain. It's eternal and cannot be held inside anything. It exists whether your physical body does or not."”16:56

“Well, what's driven me these past few years because I had experienced it? I was certain that consciousness isn't just created by this lump of meat up here called the brain, but that consciousness exists by itself. It takes a body for some time, gains experiences, and leaves it again. I was sure of it, I didn't have to think about it, I understood it.”15:04

“consciousness arises purely from the brain and is not independent of the brain which I disagree with as near-death experiences tell us that consciousness can survive bodily death and exist in another realm. Now neuroscience or people who study brain function, they will look at neurotransmitters, they will look at uh EEG, they will look at brain wave patterns as they have trying to detect the moment of death, trying to decide what defines clinical death. You see, the question is, how can these people”12:42

“If you look at all the evidence from NDEs, the enhanced thinking when the brain has stopped, the out-of-body perceptions, the seeing deceased loved ones who you thought were still alive, the logical conclusion is that our thoughts and feelings are not created by the brain, but are independent of them, and therefore may persist when the body dies.”51:06

“people are saying, well, was this just something in your mind versus something real? Mind is body. Mind is body. Consciousness is that part of God that we all are. So if your brain's offline, you can't think, you can't imagine, you can't make things up. That was a soul experience. that was who I really was was going through that. My body was over here. Same thing with people that are, you know, have a heart attack. You know, they're gone and and and it's their spirit that's that's going to heaven and”41:19

“And so for me, my experience shows that very striking, vivid experience can occur. And I can't tell you how amazing was how it seemed like the blinders came off, that this was the reality. But it took down my cortex, and it brings up something that, of conventional neuroscience, doesn't really want to talk about very much. Something called disembodied consciousness, which is the idea that consciousness can exist independent of the brain.”50:38

“Despite the ordeal of having a heart attack, I now have an answer to a question that has intrigued humanity for centuries: Does our consciousness continue after our body dies? My experience has shown me that the answer is a resounding 'Yes,' and that realization has left a profound impact on my life.”2:59

“I was out of my body because it's like stepping out of your body. Your consciousness leaves your body. So, the brain that I'm speaking to you with leaves the body. It's not physically your brain. It's your consciousness. And we can talk all day about consciousness and raising your consciousness. So I was saying to myself, when are they going to stop saying that? Cuz with it they as long as the healing was going on, they were saying that. Okay. They didn't stop until the healing stopped. And then I was analyzing”45:45

“You know, like I believe that consciousness, first of all, can exist outside the body.”19:20

“Human consciousness – does it extend beyond brain and body?”49:31

“So what is your view? Where does consciousness come from? Does it arise in the brain, or can it also exist without the body?”10:18

“My consciousness had separated from my body and I seemed to be next to it, watching... like a spectator or rather a "bystander".”5:53

“I know that there is definitely consciousness after the physical body's departure; I know that the consciousness remains and continues.”39:03

“So, is consciousness part of the body or not?”25:44

“there's two primary viewpoints that are taken on this. One is that consciousness is created by the brain and the other is that consciousness is primary. And interestingly, what people are told in their near-death experiences sometimes is that the brain acts as a receiver to receive consciousness and integrate it into the body. If this is the case, it makes complete sense why there would need to be certain parts of the brain that ground the consciousness into the body that cut off all the other experience of consciousness and narrow”18:41