Brief
Nonlocal consciousness
The claims the writer was given for Nonlocal consciousness, in the order they were given.
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Pim van Lommel considers that, beyond a reasonable doubt, there is a continuity of consciousness after the death of the physical body.
“After many years of research, it has become clear to me that, beyond a reasonable doubt, there is a continuity of consciousness after the death of our physical body.”
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Pim van Lommel considers that enhanced consciousness with memories and perception from a position out of and above the lifeless body can be experienced during a period of unconsciousness, independently of the brain and body.
“Enhanced consciousness, with memories and perception from a position out of and above the lifeless body, can be experienced during a period of unconsciousness, independently of the brain and body.”
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Pim van Lommel considers that, based on cases of corroborated out-of-body experiences, there are good reasons to assume that consciousness does not always coincide with the functioning of the brain.
“Based on these cases of corroborated OBEs, I think that there are good reasons to assume that our consciousness does not always coincide with the functioning of our brain.”
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Pim van Lommel considers that consciousness, not the eye or the brain, is what perceives.
“Who or what is seeing? Not the eye and not the brain... It is our consciousness that perceives.”
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Pim van Lommel concludes that the brain most likely has a facilitating or receiving, and not a producing, function in the experience of consciousness.
“I have come to the inevitable conclusion that most likely the brain has a facilitating or receiving and not a producing function in the experience of consciousness.”
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Pim van Lommel proposes that, based on universally reported aspects of consciousness experienced during cardiac arrest, the informational fields of consciousness likely consist of waves rooted in an invisible realm beyond time and space (nonlocality) that are always present around and through the body.
“Based on the universal reported aspects of consciousness experienced during cardiac arrest, we can surmise that the informational fields of our consciousness, likely consisting of waves, are rooted in an invisible realm beyond time and space (nonlocality), and are always present around and through us, permeating our body.”
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Pim van Lommel proposes that normal waking consciousness has a biological basis because the body acts as an interface for a larger, nonlocal field of consciousness.
“Our normal, waking consciousness has a biological basis, because our body is an interface for it. But it is one small part of our larger field of consciousness.”
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Pim van Lommel considers that, in his concept, consciousness is not physically rooted, and continues to exist even after brain function has been lost, though the ability to receive it into waking awareness is lost.
“as soon as the function of the brain has been lost, like turning off the TV, memories and consciousness do still exist, but the reception ability is lost; the connection, or interface, is interrupted. Yet consciousness can be experienced during such a period of a nonfunctioning brain, and this is what we call an NDE. So in my concept, consciousness is not physically rooted.”
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Pim van Lommel refers to consciousness that exists beyond time and space, with no material or biological basis, as "nonlocal consciousness".
“I refer to this consciousness beyond time and space, which has no material or biological basis, as “nonlocal consciousness.””
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Pim van Lommel proposes that nonlocal consciousness features an interconnectedness that offers the chance of communication with the thoughts and feelings of others, including deceased friends and relatives.
“It features an interconnectedness that offers the chance of communication with the thoughts and feelings of others, and with those of deceased friends and relatives.”
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Pim van Lommel considers that aspects of quantum mechanics, such as nonlocality, help explain how consciousness functions.
“Aspects of quantum mechanics like nonlocality help us to understand how consciousness actually functions.”
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Pim van Lommel considers that the near-death experience (NDE) can be explained in all its elements as an experience of nonlocal consciousness.
“such as the NDE, which can be explained in all its elements as an experience of nonlocal consciousness.”
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Pim van Lommel believes that at the time of physical death, consciousness continues to be experienced in another dimension, in an invisible and immaterial world containing all past, present, and future.
“because of the almost unavoidable conclusion that at the time of physical death consciousness will continue to be experienced in another dimension, in an invisible and immaterial world, in which all past, present, and future is enclosed.”
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Pim van Lommel believes that death, like birth, is merely a passing from one state of consciousness into another.
“I have come to believe that presumably death, like birth, is a mere passing from one state of consciousness into another.”
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Pim van Lommel believes that death is only the end of the physical body, and that people have a body but are consciousness.
“Death is only the end of our physical body. In other words: we have a body, but we are consciousness.”
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Pim van Lommel believes that essential consciousness existed before birth and will exist after death, with no beginning and no end.
“It is hard to avoid the conclusion that our essential consciousness existed before our birth and will exist after we die. It has no beginning and no end.”
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Peter Fenwick considers that all end-of-life experiences bearing a relationship to the near-death experience (NDE) or the survival of consciousness after death suggest that consciousness is nonlocal, as Pim van Lommel describes it, more a field structure than something created by the brain.
“All of them suggest that consciousness is nonlocal, as Pim van Lommel describes—more a field structure than something created by the brain.”
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Pam Reynolds's veridical out-of-body experience (OBE) during a state of no brain or heart activity suggests that consciousness can exist independent of the body.
“suggesting consciousness can exist independent of the body.”
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Pim van Lommel described nonlocal consciousness as featuring an interconnectedness that offers the chance of communication with the thoughts and feelings of others and of deceased friends and relatives, with roots in another invisible, immaterial realm that is always in us and around us.
“Van Lommel described nonlocal consciousness as featuring “an interconnectedness that offers the chance of communication with the thoughts and feelings of others, and with those of deceased friends and relatives. Its roots lie in another invisible, immaterial realm that is always in us and around us.””
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Pim van Lommel and others proposed the theory of nonlocal consciousness, which postulates that deeper consciousness is not generated by the brain.
“Pim van Lommel and others have provided what may be the first step in that direction with the theory of nonlocal consciousness, postulating that our deeper consciousness is not generated by the brain.”
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Leslie Kean considers that data from modern mediumship experiments, together with conclusions drawn from the large body of general psi (psychic functioning) research, support a model of nonlocal consciousness that continues to exist after the death of the body, as opposed to a materialist model of consciousness.
“Together, data from modern mediumship experiments and the conclusions drawn from the large body of general psi research support a model of nonlocal (vs. materialist) consciousness that continues to exist after the death of the body.”
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Jane Katra coauthored two books on nonlocal consciousness and healing with physicist Russell Targ, a pioneer in the development of the laser.
“and coauthored two books on nonlocal consciousness and healing with physicist Russell Targ, who was a pioneer in the development of the laser.”
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Freda explained that the mind, which is all that we are, is eternal and indestructible, and that the physical brain is merely an instrument for the mind to give it physical expression rather than the source of the mind, so consciousness can be separated from it.
“Freda explained that the mind, which is all that we are, is eternal and indestructible. Like Pim van Lommel and Peter Fenwick described earlier, she said that the physical brain is merely an instrument for the mind to give it physical expression, rather than the source of the mind, so that therefore consciousness can be separated from it.”
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Bruce Greyson wrote that consciousness is not localized exclusively in the brain.
“"that consciousness is localized exclusively in the brain" / Greyson, "Cardiac Care Unit."”
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Julia Mossbridge considers the assumption that time travel would require building a device such as a spaceship to be a hypothesis stopper that prevents people considering what could be done with consciousness alone.
“for the most part, people still think that you have to build something, like a spaceship or something, if you want to do time travel, for instance... these things, it just occurred to me recently, are huge hypothesis stoppers.”
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Julia Mossbridge considers it possible that an already-existing object such as a rock could be made conscious rather than a conscious machine having to be built.
“Or if you were to build a conscious machine, you'd have to build it. You couldn't just take something that was like a rock that was already there and make it conscious.”
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Ross Coulthart attended a consciousness conference in Barcelona in 2025.
“I went to a conference last year in Barcelona”
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At the Barcelona consciousness conference, scientists including Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose discussed non-local consciousness and the idea that the human brain is an attenuator, transmitter and receiver rather than a computer.
“the number of consciousness scientists, notably people like Stuart Hameroff, Roger Penrose, who were talking about non-local consciousness and the idea that the human brain, it's more of an attenuator, a transmitter, a receiver than it is a computer”
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Ross Coulthart considers that what the consciousness scientists at the Barcelona conference described - a brain able to plug into an external unitary or Akashic field - is inherently the idea of a soul.
“realizing that what they were talking about inherently was the idea of a soul, the idea that that we have a spiritual entity within us that is external to our physical meat bodies.”
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Whitley Strieber believes there is a barrier between humans and another level of reality, and that when it is lifted there is a continuity of consciousness beyond the individual body.
“we have a barrier between ourselves and another level of reality that we do not see... The reality when that barrier is lifted is there is a continuity of consciousness”
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Hundreds to thousands of people have engaged Ross Coulthart on the idea that there is something intrinsic in human consciousness that allows humans to connect with the phenomenon.
“this aspect that you and indeed hundreds, thousands of people have engaged me on. It's this idea that there is something intrinsic in human consciousness that allows us to connect in the way that you're describing.”
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Julia Mossbridge considers getting people to go out of their body unsafe for them if it is not done well, because if consciousness can leave the body then another consciousness could enter it.
“I feel like there's this piece where getting people to go out of their body is very unsafe for them. ... I think not if it's not done well. It can be very unsafe. Because if you're out of your body, what can go into your body?”
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Chris Ramsay holds that information exists omnipresently around us and that everyone has access to it across space and time.
“it doesn't have to but it can but it exists sort of um i guess omnipresently um all around us and we all have access to that in space and time and i do believe that as well”
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Julia Mossbridge holds that the mind is not physical: it cannot be pointed to, has no mass, does not behave like a physical thing, and is not located in a place or a time.
“Is the mind in physicality? No. You can't point to the mind. It has no mass. It doesn't behave like a physical thing. It's not in a place. It's not really in a time.”
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Julia Mossbridge holds that the psychological sense of time and of events in time does not live in the physical world but is the mind, which lives in and is almost equivalent to information space.
“So the psychological sort of sense of time or the sense of events in time doesn't live in the physical world, that's the mind. And so that mind really lives in this information space. Mind really is almost equivalent with this information space.”
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Julia Mossbridge holds that the brain is a byproduct of the mind rather than the mind arising from the brain, and that this manifestation differs between humans and insects.
“The physical, the brain is sort of this byproduct of the mind. That's how it shows up... You know, in a bug, it shows up in a different way.”
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Julia Mossbridge considers the deeper source of resistance to non-local consciousness to be a fear of being subsumed - of discovering that one is not separate.
“sort of, I want to call it fear of being subsumed. Like fear of, Freud talks about this... the fear that both men and women have, this is not just a male thing, of the mother bringing you back into her womb. Like not being separate.”
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Chris Ramsay considers that if everything is one and all things are connected, each person matters as much as everything else rather than not mattering at all.
“where my perception would be no you matter as much as everything else... Like we all matter equally.”
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Chris Ramsay finds comfort in the idea that memory may be retained after death even if individuality is lost.
“the one thing that provides a little more comfort is the idea that memory however might be retained... But what if memory doesn't go away? What if memory is still retained somehow?”
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Chris Ramsay considers the body to be a processor that plucks non-locally existing information out of the substrate and applies it to physical reality.
“I've always thought the body as being some type of processing machine, right? Like some processor, like, you know, if information exists non-locally and sort of omnipresently, and then we somehow filter suck pull or whatever pluck information out of the substrate and and then apply it to this physical reality”
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Julia Mossbridge considers the mind, rather than the body, to be the processor of information, and that the mind does not go away when the body dies.
“The mind is the processor and it doesn't go away when the body dies is the idea.”
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Julia Mossbridge considers the informational substrate to be the mind of the universe, holding all information from the birth to the death of the universe.
“the informational substrate itself, you could call it the mind of the universe. because it has all the information from the birth to the death of the universe in this worldview that we're making up.”
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Julia Mossbridge considers the individual mind to cease when the body dies, while the universal mind retains awareness that the body existed in physical form.
“that individual mind i think ceases when the body goes away well although the the big mind the universal mind would have awareness of oh that body is dead but someone could see a ghost”
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Julia Mossbridge believes people can be made to dissociate from their bodies in order to go and retrieve information, if consciousness can indeed float free of the body.
“I think you can get people to dissociate from their bodies if your goal is to get them out of their body and to go get information, assuming the consciousness can float around like that”
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Chris Ramsay regards the out-of-body state as a non-physical reality, and suggests part of his consciousness may project that reality while another part remains in his body.
“But I do feel like this is a non-physical reality that I'm currently experiencing. ... perhaps part of my consciousness is projecting ... and the other part of the consciousness is well intact in my body”
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Julia Mossbridge believes being in a state of unconditional love does not itself change anything but removes conditions on time and space, so a person no longer restricts where in the universe they can draw information from.
“So unconditional love doesn't change anything, but what it does do is when you are already in a state of unconditional love, I think what it actually allows you to do is not have any conditions on time or space. So it's almost like a belief factor. It's like if you could imagine the universe as this giant bubble of love, why are you privileging or saying that you could only get information from this half of the universe, but not this half of the universe”
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Julia Mossbridge has repeatedly urged the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies to study consciousness rather than only the craft, and at the most recent gathering the group agreed with her.
“I say the same thing whenever I go, which is you guys, we have to study consciousness. Like we can't just look at race cars in the sky. And this year they're like, okay, you're right. We've got to study consciousness.”
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Julia Mossbridge holds that anyone who does not recognise a relationship between the human mind, mind as a universal thing, and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena has not understood the phenomenon.
“But I think if you don't understand that there's a relationship between the human mind and mind itself as a universal thing and UAP, you haven't understood the phenomenon.”
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Julia Mossbridge considers the consciousness aspect of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena to be a cultural taboo that is being avoided because treating the phenomenon as merely craft in the sky is easier.
“And I know that we're staying away from it, you know, at a cultural level, because it's much easier to say, oh, look, race cars in the sky. But like, that is the big taboo. And we've got to walk towards it with our eyes open.”
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The third point in the Wilbert Smith 1950 memorandum on flying saucers is that the phenomenon is mental.
“And number three, he goes, and the phenomenon is mental.”
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Julia Mossbridge holds that under the informational substrate model precognition works with a substrate aware of what needs to happen, rather than only with events that reach physical manifestation in time.
“Where it's no longer that you have to work with the events in time that actually make it up to physical manifestation. You're working with this substrate that is actually aware, its mind, its universal mind is aware of what needs to happen.”
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