Consciousness After Death with Imants Barušs

Here he explains how he teaches college students about the possibility of life after death.

00:00 Introduction
04:39 Academic materialism
09:13 Living agent psi
15:33 Skepticism
30:12 Personal experience
35:35 Reincarnation
41:30 Mysticism
45:30 Dreams
49:28 Psychopathology
57:56 Conclusion

Edited subtitles for this video are available in Russian, Portuguese, Italian, German, French, and Spanish.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death.

(Recorded on August 3, 2023)

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[NewThinkingAllowed]

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[JM-corf]

When I see Jeffrey's positive attitude it inspires me to be a better person. Negativity is a problem I need to overcome.

[sweeps]

Im only 25 years old and the first video i ever came across of Mr.Mishlove I felt like I had already known who he was. like I seen him before, after watching that first video, i was like omg im definitely supposed to be aware of his work. Thank you soo much Jeffrey your work has changed my life, your inspiring attitude towards life is very contagious❤❤

[impossiblevisits]

Most of the after-death reports I've read and heard stress the non-dreamlike quality of the afterlife. Spirits typically stress how "home" is more real than Earth life and how now, in retrospect, Earth life is what seems to have been the dream.

[davidsillars]

Very interesting interview. As with many NTA interviews it requires a second listen and please yes more woth Professor Imants.

[RobertTRhode]

Like heat lightning on the horizon, flashes of genius indicate where to look for truths in this entertaining, educational conversation. The gentle—often lighthearted—dialog avoids taking itself too seriously while flaring into topics of the utmost significance. Many thanks to both the guest and the host!

[trentriver]

Great interview - have him on again. Great job, Jeffery!

[BigJack]

Great interview. I want to take his classes!

[GeorgeThePorge-xhzo]

Thank you, Jeff. With the recent departure of our parents, this is comforting.

[spiritrealminvestigations]

I love your show so much! I’ve been listening to it every day and it’s so enlightening! Thank you very much for all that you do! 🙏💗

[tezzwk]

One small and brief statement made by Professor Baruss in the above, excellent video, claims that perhaps certain dreams and after death states of consciousness might be merged together during dreams. Judging by his words, it is obvious to me that the good professor has never had an NDE. I have. Does that make me special? NOT AT ALL!! I am only one amongst millions. On XMAS Eve 2015 at a few minutes to midnight whilst lying on a guerney in the emergency ward of the Robina Hospital on the Gold Coast Qld Australia, I underwent a myocardial infarction because a blood clot had formed and travelled to my brain blocking all blood supply to same. My awareness went from awareness of the moving ceiling relative to the guerney to a very acute state heightened Awareness of golden light in an instant. No tunnels, rellies, voices, nothing like that at all! The transition was non-existent in terms of time. In fact all time disappeared as did any sense of a self or the existence of a Reference Point(An Observer) of awareness. Dimensions of Space seemed also to disappear since any sense of a reference point to that awarenss was non-existent!!!! However the heightened awareness was undoubtedly the most impossible aspect to exaggerate. The love, warmth and total acceptance without any reference point, subject, or object for or emanating from whom, was most obvious - Universal is the closest adjective that now fits that experiencing that now springs to mind.

Is what I describe above anything like any dream that I have ever experienced, with lucid dreams thrown in for good measure??? I think not - not even in the ball park. What's more dream experiences are hard to hang onto! They fade quickly. My memory of my NDE is crystal clear today as it was upon resuscitation 7-8 years ago. What did fade after about a week was the Universal Love that oozed out of me for all and sundry, including cochroaches and all living things. One nurse was crying, as I recall, as I was being discharged! Why? I was an ugly old weather beaten 73 year old man then. It certainly wasn't love for my physical form with whom she felt she was losing contact!! Somehow I very TEMPORARILY channelled that UNIVERSAL LOVE for a few short days. What is more, I felt no pain at any stage after resuscitation. I had two broken ribs compliments of the Emergency Doctor and massive internal bleeding caused by the advice from the Cardiac specialist Professor in phone contact with the doctor who as a last resort recommended an infusion of a very powerful blood thinner. No pain??? On a scale of 1 to 10, I told the hospital staff ZERO!

Like a dream state???? Nothing like a dream state both in clarity of recall after 7-8 years or the level of acute awareness that was(is) orders of magnitude above that experienced in dreams, even lucid ones which I have had and in the highest awakened states of consciousness experienced in normal life.

[julieanncollie]

I had a most disconcerting experience w/ my brother on a family vacation one summer. We finally reached Seven Mile Reservoir & excitedly asked permission to scale a "mountain" which it seemed to be to two kids from Texas. We decided to race to the top. The route I took grew increasingly terrifying, yet I pushed on but came to a point where it was scarier to go back down than forward. In this last push, I became aware that I was actually hanging from the rocky surface upside down, but was able to hold on somehow. Since I was half out of my mind w/ fright as it was, I was more intent on reaching safety & came to a vertical position & then came out at the top where my brother waited triumphantly. It took me years to accept that what happened was real though I told few ppl about it.

[littlelion]

Peace be upon you, Dr. Mishlove! I've enjoyed your videos since the originals, and I wanted to respectfully invite you to discuss theology with Hamza Andreas Tzortzis, author of the book The Divine Reality: God, Islam & The Mirage Of Atheism. I'm certain he would love to be on your program! He has a popular debate with the atheist Dr. Lawrence Krauss here on YouTube. I believe you two would make for a truly profound & beneficial discussion. Take care, and all the best to yourself & loved ones.

[RosssRoyce]

29:10 the problem with the “temporal ancre” materialistic “explanation” is that the person’s energy field often goes through a wall and perceives his relatives in the waiting room and is being able to describe what they did and said… as in the example of the French Nicole Dron and many others.

[naomidoner]

Thank you for sharing your personal experience. Baruss researches other peoples experiences and ive listened to many try to describe their's also... which vary in detsils including the light...some are even absent of the love you describe... could be that people dont like to share those without the love and light but that's just my own speculation...i suspect that just like in our physical experiences here that "non physical" experiences may have similarities but no two will be exactly the same....some babies here are born into loving families others are not 😢 but the longer we stay here, the more we'll experiences all sides and angles of "that coin" Darius J Wright says that NDEs and OBEs are the same "thing" but that people can learn to controll OBEs and even eventually have them at will...kinda like Robert Monroe did his explorations repeatedly and experienced more and more and more...forgive Baruss his short comings...he did say he tries to explain in terms people with no experience can understand. And please will you check out Darius....he says he has controlled OBEs and through his explorations has mapped what people call the matrix as well as has knowledge of its borders and the void outside...

[LegendaryDesu]

After some deep vested interests in the Gateway Process by Robert Monroe...I'm now at an impasse.

I'm completely incapable of the focus system, I'm no longer able to dream. I used to do both with ease, remembering my experiences vividly.

This is no longer the case and I have no logical or quantifiable reasoning to apply to the scenario.

Truly boggles the mind

[scott-qksm]

The evidence is compelling; I do worry that being conscious for an eternity might be too much to handle, what keeps a person busy forever?

[wellnessandnature]

😊
I would love to talk with you. I have been table tilting for years with a group of mediums.

[doctorcofrin]

There is no End. My departed fiancé left 8 years ago. He makes himself known especially when I’m driving. The passenger seat heat goes on. I ask him for a sign and I SEE. I hope that I can get off this wheel of karma. Earth school is a hard school. My departed Aunt is extremely loud some days asking me to do this or that bc my GM will be looking at the screens. Meaning getting upset if she’s seeing us struggle here. They are on another planet. Reincarnation is real.
WE ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS MULTIVERSE! No way. Trained under Dolores Cannon. ❤ Shout out to Art Bell! I love Whitley and I’m a Whistleblower. I at times feel a deep connection to the grays. Jesus Christ was not of nor from this world. Now is the Time. The third secret of our Lady of Fatima is upon us. The Quickening! Spread light and love while knowing that it’s only in the Dark that we can see the stars! ✨ 🌟 ✨ ✌️ ❤

[impossiblevisits]

Why even entertain the LAP hypothesis if we credit veridical NDE experiences? Shouldn't we stop being dutifully even-handed after even one otherwise unexplainable such event? After brain death, how is LAP remotely possible?