Publisher's Synopsis
A practising anaesthetist routinely turns off and restores the consciousness of his patients daily. But theories about the mechanism of action of anaesthetic agents and drugs on the brain always reach an impasse because orthodox science does not have an understanding of the exact nature of consciousness. Dr Graham Grant looks at the situation and considers that the one area of study that can possibly advance our insight in this regard is psychical research. Recognising that most people have little or no proper knowledge in this field, he gives a brief introduction and summary of some of the evidence available. This book will be of interest to genuine truth-seekers in the medical and scientific community, and general readers who have an interest in unexplained phenomena. It features a number of original diagrams representing human dimensions, the normal conscious physical state, natural deep sleep, the out-of-the-body experience, general anaesthesia and typical death processes. The author takes a brief look at some of the unusual psychic communications, purportedly from now-deceased famous men of science, received and transcribed by members of the Unarius organisation in the U.S.A. The investigations lead to certain philosophical considerations of general interest. He concludes with some simple hypotheses and looks forward to the possibility of the emergence of a new physics in the not-too-distant future, as recent discoveries in orthodox science combine with the evidence accrued in the last hundred years from serious psychical research.
