Near-Death Experiences Change the Brain

On Aug. 24, 2001, Air Transat Flight 236, bound for Lisbon from Toronto, rain out of fuel over the ocean. For 30 minutes, the 306 passengers and crew on board lived with the realization that their plane could crash — and they could all die. The plane eventually crash-landed in the Azores and all survived (80 were hospitalized), but the experience became seared in the survivors' brains.  Now brain imaging shows the trauma literally changed the survivors' brains. Brain imaging of eight of those passengers, conducted nine years later, revealed the memories of that terrifying experience remained crystal clear and lit up distinct areas of the brain related to memory, emotion and visual processing. The event also appears to have heightened their reactions to other negative life events. This traumatic incident still haunts passengers regardless of whether they have PTSD or not," lead researcher Daniela Palombo, a post-doctoral researcher at the Boston University School of Medicine, told the Toronto Star.

http://news.discovery.com/human/psychology/near-death-experiences-change-the-brain-150625.htm

 A chart for the last lunar eclipse at Toronto, Canada is shown here. In previous post on the eclipse we wrote:

Have you noticed how much scientific research is being published recently on understanding how  the brain works?  In our previous posts [1][2][3][4] we have related all of them to the lunar eclipse of April 4 which took place with the Sun conjunct Uranus and the asteroid Psyche (mental states) amidst the stars in King Cepheus’ head.

Since the Uranus-Pluto square aligns with the eclipse axis we can expect major scientific breakthroughs at this place. But does the eclipse chart give us a hint of a possible nature of the breakthrough? Yes, it does. The Sun is conjunct Uranus and the asteroid Psyche . The stars in the backdrop of this conjunction are those in King Cepheus' head!

PSYCHE: raw wounds psychologically; vulnerability; memories; insight; psychic impressionability; psychological recovery; the state of your “mental health;” head wounds; brain states.

Therefore, that one of major areas linked to this eclipse is connected with brain trauma is fairly clear. If we now progress the eclipse to June 25,the date of the news, we can see that the progressed meridian conjoins the eclipse axis thereby triggering it.

[1] Our deep need for monsters that lurk in the dark

[2] Emotional brains 'physically different' from rational ones

[3] Brain waves: The developing relationship between psychiatry and electrophysiology

[4] Scientists gain first glimpse of new concepts developing in the brain