Proof of Heaven

clairvoyance, 153
coma:
and arrival at the hospital, 17–19, 183
author as N of 1 in, 89–92
author’s APACHE II score, 25
author’s consciousness in, 29 , 30–31, 76–78, 95 , 155 , 160 , 162
author’s CSF glucose level, 25
author’s Glasgow Coma Scale, 25
and feeling of powerlessness, 90
and ICU psychosis, 118 , 120
images gathered in, 38–41, 45–49, 68–73, 103 , 108–10, 141 , 143 ,
147 , 154 , 159–61
implications of, 9
as in-between state, 87 , 106–7
language bypassed in, 46
medical records of, 25 , 132 , 135
messages to author in, 40–41
neocortex shut down in, 8 , 9 , 133 , 141–42, 144 , 186 , 188
onset of, 13–16, 24 , 149 , 183
and patient’s family, 33–34, 90 , 105–7
patient’s hands and feet in, 98
patient’s physical appearance in, 74–75
reality of, 9–10, 39 , 78 , 129–30, 185
recovery from, 98 , 144 , 184
and risk of dying, 26 , 106 , 183
sounds heard by author in, 29 , 38–39, 45 , 70 , 102 , 131 , 147
telepathic communication with patients in, 88
and termination of antibiotics, 105–7
underworld existence in, 29–32
and vegetative state, 26 , 105–6
coma vigile state, 107
compassion, 85
Conscious Mind, The (Chalmers), 151–52
consciousness: