The anesthetist Jean-Jacques Charbonier, which operates in the region of Toulouse in France, calls himself a "professional who studies the experiences at the border of death" -that the spiritual experiences of patients clinically dead or favored by altered states of consciousness.

More than twenty years of research in this area lead Charbonier to say that there is life after death.
It has no trouble exposing himself with statements that go against Western medicine, based on a materialist tradition because his research convinced him that life is just a preamble to something bigger.
His scientific approach, in which are embedded practices developed in parallel sectors to medicine-as-mediumship or hypnotherapy could help change our vision of the human being, of consciousness and death.
In addition to holding numerous conferences and published books on the themes of death and the afterlife, the doctor also runs workshops hypnosis to make contact with the dead.
We spoke with him to understand something more about the afterlife and why the scientific community is not yet ready to accept his theories.
MOTHERBOARD: She is an anesthesiologist and conducts research on NDE experiences.
It also supports the existence of life after death.
As he started to deal with these matters?
Jean-Jacques Charbonier: I decided to take this route after living a personal experience without which I pursued a career in general practice.
My studies had "programmed me" to believe that our brain produces our consciousness and, when the organ stops working, this disappears.
But one day I experienced what Dr. Moody [pioneer in research on EMI] calls "shared experience of death."
During an internship in emergency medicine they were sent to the scene of a serious accident.
There were two bodies lying on the side of the road and a car inside a ditch.
Inside the car, a young man locked from the chest down.
He had lost a lot of blood.
I tried to give him a transfusion to prevent his heart to stop, but because of my incompetence I could not save him.
I literally saw death make his way in her eyes: her pupils are dilated while the vital spark left them.
But above all, I felt a vital and joyful presence coming from the top of his skull.
Everything has suddenly become clear.
At that time I realized that we are nothing but spirit within a body.
I remembered the book where Moody was subsequently reported-of-body experiences that started right from the top of the skull.
The experience was so engaging that I came home and I told everything to my wife.
I told her that I had to continue my studies to specialize in intensive care and anesthesia-which only involves a significant financial investment, required three years of additional study.
So we have revolutionized our lives: I had to take under management customers of a general practitioner and my wife left her job to become my secretary.
I collect a range of evidence to draw conclusions about the nature of consciousness.
I made as rapporteur for various doctoral thesis in medicine.
The last one was in December in the University of Reims by Franois Lallier.
A work based on the testimonies of EMI of emergency inpatients in which we assume the possibility of independence of consciousness from the body-namely, that the brain would be a simple transmitter of information and that, when it stops working, this continue to flow elsewhere.
I found it rather difficult to suggest the possibility of an intuitive consciousness extraneuronal delocalized in a medical thesis.
In fact, this terminology may well be replaced with the word spirit.
However, the thesis was awarded the highest marks of the jury and will soon be the subject of an international publication.
"There is scientific evidence.
But we are so intoxicated by materialist thought that we take for granted the fact that there is nothing after death. "
Among the testimonies of EMI he has collected, which struck you the most?
Those that impressed me the most are found in the literature.
The testimony of Eben Alexander is one of the most moving treated by Dr. Moody.
Alexander, a professor of neurosurgery at Harvard, was a hard materialistic and pure.
For him NDEs were only hallucinations caused by lack of oxygen.
Until, one day, he has lived in a first, passing several days in a coma due to a meningoencephalitis.
The professor was lucky to come out unscathed from this episode which he called "a journey in the afterlife."
During the experience he was accompanied by a young girl "by smiling and charming face" that he had never seen before.
Two months later, he tried his biological parents who had never met, reviewed the same girl on a photo.
In practice, the person who had accompanied him in the afterlife was his biological sister died some years before.
Her image could not be a remembrance of times stored in his brain, because he had never met that person.
The same Raymond Moody, after studying the subject for forty years, he described this as the most powerful experience that has ever occupied.
The two have also published a book together, which I had the pleasure of treating the preface, at their request.
There are others who want to tell us?
There is also the experience of Pamela Reynolds.
A woman made to remove an aneurysm of the brain stem.
The blood circulation in his brain was interrupted for more than an hour and the organ was brought to 15.5 degrees.
At that temperature, there is no possibility of any biochemical exchange between neurons.
Suffice to say, we were sure to have her declared clinically dead.
Still, she woke up and was able to describe the whole operation.
The woman reported to have floated from the ceiling, seeing the instruments used and listened to the discussion between the surgeon and cardiologist.
It seems incredible, but he told us every detail of how the scene took place.
On its website it says that you have practiced resuscitation of clinically dead patients.
How does this type of surgery?
When a patient is in cardiac arrest is declared clinically dead after 15 seconds.
Then you try CPR: CPR, controlled ventilation and electrical cardioversion to restart your heart-if you can manage it.
In 18% of cases, patients tell of having experienced a near death experience.
Melvin Morse, who has studied the cases in younger, has collected 65% of testimonies in children victims of cardiac arrest.
A percentage much higher than adults.
This is simply due to the fact that children do not place the censorship process experienced at the hands of what I call the "analytical mind" -the which refuses all sorts of information.
When you are awake, it operates at full capacity.
We dream every night, but only rarely remember the content of our dreams upon awakening: this is due to the influence of our analytical consciousness.
Regarding the coma, however, we have 5% of EMI and only 1% in people under anesthesia.
Normally, in a state of clinical death occurs when the heart-brain-stopping the activity stops after 15 seconds, after which it should be impossible to understand what is happening around us, hear and perceive.
The sensory abilities are reset because the brain can not analyze anything.
Yet, many people are able to tell us what happened during resuscitation, what happened in another operating room or in another place far from their physical body.
This is proof that we are able to have perceptions that are not related to our brain.
For me, it is one of the proofs that there is some form of life after death.
Today we have a number of case studies, and there are also scientific evidence.
But we are so intoxicated by materialist thought that we take for granted the fact that there is nothing after death.
With these techniques we can turn back the declared doomed patients, a revolutionary possibilities.
Yet certain ideas can not be spread.
Specifically, because the scientific community has difficulty accepting the idea of life after death?
A similar idea undermines the entire scientific conception based on materialism.
For scientists, the human being is composed only of matter.
During my medical studies, I was only taught that the brain is the organ that produces consciousness, as well as the liver produces bile and thyroid produces thyroid hormones.
According to the materialist theory, when the brain stops working, you lose everything.
Yet, there are many phenomena related to consciousness extraneuronal: intuition, the cases of foresight, artistic inspiration, telepathy and mediumship.
Their existence is denied by the medical community because it can not be explained by the materialist theory.
This is why a lot of scientists do not want to hear about these experiences "disturbing."
We can not afford this silence.
According to estimates, about 60 million people worldwide have tried these experiences: a huge number.
The materialist conception is going to disappear?
It will end definitely to collapse.
What sense does it say that the brain produces consciousness if, when this fails, we experience a higher consciousness?
I myself am doing some research about it is not enough to collect data.
My guess is that by the time our brain goes off, we experience an expansion of consciousness.
I conducted a series of experiments it based on this theory.
For example, I brought the ICU medium to see if they perceived information from patients in a coma.
I also conducted laboratory-hypnosis and sometimes used hypnosis instead of anesthesia during operations in order to facilitate the extra-body experiences.
The results often surprise me: in 65% of cases, patients say they had contact with the dead.
In my view, at present, we have enough material to warrant further research.
For example, you could bring three mediums who do not know and have no ability to communicate with each other, a person in the room in a comatose state to ask them to provide data to compare.
I never refuse to consider certain phenomena just because they seem too absurd to be true.
I believe that the medicine would take a huge benefit from the collaboration with complementary disciplines to it.
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