People in comas have near death experiences (as did Anne Strieber), explore past lives and even visit other worlds. Listen as Whitley explores the groundbreaking Coma and the Near Death Experience with author Alan Pearce. Alan, a well-known British reporter (London Times and others) became interested in comas during the COVID years. He contacted coma survivors and was amazed at what he found. It seems that many comas are anything but blank spaces in the lives of the victims. In this interview, he tells some of their fascinating stories and suggests that the way that the medical establishment treats comas is all wrong. This is the only show Dreamland has ever done on this subject, and it is a real eye-opener. What Alan and Beverley Pearce have discovered offers important insight into the true nature of the human experience. Not to be missed!
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Thank you for yet another great show! The discussion about psychosis reminded me of a horrific event that made the headlines in France a little while ago. An ordinary teenage boy suddenly turned “psychotic” and attacked his teacher with a knife. He told the police that his mind had been invaded by an evil spirit who made him do this. Maybe this is literally what happened to him.
Great Show. More evidence that a soul of consciousness is primary and failing to live with this understanding is detrimental.
Mr. Pearce says there is seldom justification for keeping people in deep sedation for a prolonged time. But many or most people in ICU are intubated. It is acknowledged in medical literature that being conscious while intubated is a form of torture. My brother had to be heavily sedated after being intubated following a seizure, because he was physically struggling. I had a similar, albeit mercifully shorter, experience. While undergoing bronchosopy, I was initially put in relatively light sedation. I was moving, and the anesthetist put me out deeper. Unaware consciously of what had happened, and finding out only later, I came out of that procedure with a nightmarish memory of choking. That brief experience, endured while mostly unconscious, was so horrible I told my husband I did not want to be intubated if I got COVID pneumonia, I would prefer to die. So there is probably no way out of doing harm to critically ill patients.
I’m remembering Star Trek, “The Inner Light”.
It was one of the most powerful Next Generation episodes ever made. If you’re unfamiliar with it you can see it on Paramount Plus. Sadly, there’s a pay wall.
You can also read about the episode on Wikipedia if you’re not able to view it on Paramount.
For those that watched the series, it’s the one where Picard learns to play the flute.
“The Inner Light” is EXACTLY what I was thinking of! One of the most beautiful, if not the very most beautiful, episodes of any Trek series.
For non-Trekkies out there, in just a short time Captain Picard experiences the entire life of a man from a planet where the inhabitants all died long ago due to a natural disaster. Just as it’s described here, he marries, has children and grandchildren, pursues his career, and grows old. And learns to play a pennywhistle-type flute quite beautifully– you can hear the tune on YouTube.
This is how those long-dead people tell others that they existed and what their culture was like. Perhaps something like that could even be the explanation for some real cases?
This was really, really fascinating to me. Wow!
I would love to know if these people in comas with vivid experiences are also people that have lucid dreams during normal sleep. To be clear, not all people remember their dreams, lucid or otherwise, when they sleep, including many folks that I have known. So, is that a factor being explored by the Pearce’s?
Regarding anesthesia, years ago when having a cesarean
section, anesthesiologists had a final say on the type of anesthesia being used. When I was pregnant with my older son, we discovered that he would need to be delivered via cesarean. I wanted to be awake for his birth, but at the last minute, the anesthesiologist decided to use general anesthesia. I was very upset, but I had no say. While I was under, I heard the conversation in the operating room, and even the obstetrician announcing “It’s a boy!” (In those days, they didn’t yet have ways to definitely tell you the sex of the unborn baby.) Worse yet, I didn’t get to actually see and hold my son until the next morning, something I’ve always regretted.
The morning that I had my brain bleed, somehow I stayed conscious…and it was serious. I remember the trip to the first hospital, a scan being done, then being transferred right away to another hospital better able to handle my condition. The type of brain bleed I had is one that typically goes into coma, because of the area of the brain involved, and it was inoperable. After reaching the second hospital I lost consciousness, waking up several hours later, my two sons on each side of my bed holding my hands. For three days all I could speak was gobbledygook (That’s not what I heard, however.) After 3 days, my speech returned to normal. I was able to swallow, then transferred for a month of intense rehab. I have no feeling on the right side of my body after almost 5 years. I honestly don’t know how I survived it (I’m not sure the doctors do either!) or how I stayed conscious for so long. My family was so stressed, they actually don’t remember a lot of details either. It’s still a mystery to me, and when I was finally able to talk and ask questions, I was transferred to rehab. One point that I feel is important: I never felt fear that whole time. I should have been terrified, but I wasn’t!
I did have one other fairly minor day surgery where I was put under several years ago and well before my stroke, and I suffered panic attacks after I got home, as well as that feeling of unreality, and the actual taste in my mouth of… chemicals. (And a scratchy throat from the tube) After about 2 weeks I felt ‘normal’. That little surgery was much scarier than the stroke!
Life is…weird, and often makes no sense!
I wonder if our burgeoning disclosure process is reigniting a resurgence in attempts to understand consciousness itself? The research of Alan and Bev Pearce seems to point in that direction, and this show was interesting indeed.
I was intrigued by the account of the woman who found her consciousness in a mannequin (and I bet Whitley’s novel writing senses went off on this too). Apart from being an interesting, creepy story, I can’t help but relate it to an episode of The Experience where a comedian was interviewed who had taken an overly high dose of salvia and experienced an eighty year (?) lifetime as an orchard owner at another time in the US. He was unconscious for minutes, but he experienced decades of being away from his “normal” self.
Seth / Jane Roberts has something to say about these parallel states, particularly in The Unknown Reality, which I recommend.
Extra points to Alan at the end when he was enthusing about loving Whitley’s book. Most guests cite Communion as a seminal influence, so I felt some joy when he said The Hunger. Our creative and artistic abilities are an important part in uncovering this consciousness mystery, and this cannot be overstated.
So much was said that reminded me of books and talks by Anthony Peake. It may be time to have him back on ‘Dreamland’.
You’re pulling my leg, I know you remember going to the parallel world with the different size sun.
Wait maybe we switched Whits.
Oh, nevermind, he finally brought it up.
My son was in a coma for six months due to massive brain injury in a motorcycle accident. I was with him almost every day talking to him and so on. I was determined to “get him back”! At the four month time, he began to emerge very gradually although at first his voice was faint and gravelly due to tubes and no speech for all that time, eventually he spoke loud and clear……in fact he yelled, cursed and swore, saying he was being tortured in a war in Africa. He swore at his father and I, denying we were his parents and instead said we were “spies”!! He was seventeen and a half by this time and I had never heard him swear (at least he never did in front of his parents!) but the words that he yelled out constantly during this period was shocking to me, his mother! The medical people told me this was common from patients emerging from Coma. After more than two years in hospital, he learned to talk (normally), eat food by mouth, sit up, hold up his head, walk and in seven years reached a plateau of a miracle return to a high functioning life. We made sure he always had a very supportive environment, the best in medical care we could find and our family rallied around him in love and support. He ended up working at a job in a supportive environment, driving a car, having friends and living as independently as possible. His brave struggle to live a normal life ended a year ago when he was 67.
From a very bleak prognosis 51 years ago, he was victorious, I believe, in living as fully as humanly possible.
Hi DillyDally,
Thank you for sharing your story. It was good for my heart. 💚
I would like to share this insightful presentation and hoping it will touch those of you in a big or small way if you choose to watch it. Our interaction with angel guardians is discussed at length towards the end of this program and their close relationship with humankind.
Hebrews 13:2
King James Version
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Angels, Fairies and the Unseen Forces with John Van Auken.
“Know Thyself”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6V-kKpgLHI