Om  (God):
all-knowing,    159–60
communicating   with,    48 ,   160–61
connection  to,  104 ,   148
empathy of,  86
as  God,     47 ;   see also    God
impersonal  nature  of, 85–86
universal,  156–57
On  Life    After   Death   (Kübler-Ross),   168
openness,   140–41,  146 ,   156
Orb,     47 ,    48 ,    102 ,   160
out-of-body experiences,     153 ,   158 ,   159 ,   161
parachute   jumps,  author’s    experiences with,   2–6,     85
particles,   150
pathos,  157
Pauli,  Wolfgang,    154
pineal  gland,   142
placebo effect, power   of,  155
Potter, Laura,  17–19,  21–22,   23
prayer,  24 ,    94 ,    103 ,   108 ,   158 ,   161
precognition,    153
protons,     150
psychokinesis,   153
punctuation marks,   157
quantum mechanics, 149–50, 154–56
rainbow,    appearance  of,  105
reality:
in  author’s    coma    experience, 9–10,    39 ,    78 ,   129–30,  185
brain   model   of,  80 ,    138
and consciousness,   150 ,   154