by Mark Pitstick MA, DC

If you’ve not already, please read . . .

  1. ‘The Great News‘ (article #19 at SoulProof.com/Articles)
  2. ‘Eight Developments for Widespread Conscious Living Now’ (#125)
  3. Greater Reality LIVING Program: Integrating ‘The 8 Developments’ Into Your Daily Life (#72)
  4. Greater Reality HEALING Program: Journeying FROM Deeply Grieving TO Brightly Shining (#82)

The evidence-based information and holistic resources outlined in these articles will help you to:

  • realize your true nature as an eternal being of consciousness / life-force / energy 
  • receive guidance and assistance from highly evolved energies and Source / The Light
  • heal old wounds, release lower energies, and update erroneous teachings
  • create the greatest life YOU have envisioned (YOU = your higher self / soul)
  • help others by sharing your greatest gifts
  • make our world a better place

As enough people do this, widespread personal and planetary change will naturally unfold. 

 

Terminal Lucidity

Terminal lucidity refers to a return to mental clarity in a person with profound memory loss or mental disorder.  This occurrence during the days or hours before bodily death has been noted in patients with severe Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, psychosis, and mental disability.  Terminal lucidity events have been reported for over 250 years by doctors across the world.

German biologist Michael Nahm, PhD stated: “The literature concerned with experiences of the dying contains numerous accounts reporting the sudden return of mental clarity shortly before death.  These experiences can be described as Terminal Lucidity.  The most peculiar cases concern patients suffering from mental disability including mental illness or dementia.”

In the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Nahm and Bruce Greyson, MD stated that, out of 49 case studies of terminal lucidity, 84 percent occurred within a week of bodily death.  In addition, 43 percent occurred on the final day of life on earth.  They and other researchers also published a related article in the July 2012 Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics.

Stafford Betty, PhD, professor at California State University, wrote a Huffington Post blog entitled When Alzheimer’s Victims Suddenly ‘Perk Up’ Just Before Death – What’s Going On?  Of one case, Dr. Betty stated: “An elderly woman never speaks; no longer recognizes her loved ones when they come to visit and shows no expression.  By the looks of her, she is a human vegetable.  And she’s been this way for over a year.  Her brain’s cerebral cortex and hippocampus, necessary for memory, thought, language, and normal consciousness, are severely shrunken.  Her brain bears little resemblance to a healthy one.”

He continued, “Yet something utterly astonishing is about to happen.  As reported by both the nursing staff of her care unit and her family members: unexpectedly, she calls her daughter and thanks her for everything.  She has a phone conversation with her grandchildren, exchanges kindness and warmth.  She says farewell and shortly thereafter dies.”

Using the term ‘mind’ to describe consciousness, Dr. Betty stated: “Conventional brain science has no explanation.  It has long been assumed that as the brain goes, so goes the mind, for the brain is what gives rise to the mind.  Could it be that the conventional wisdom is wrong?  Is it possible that the mind’s sudden and short-lived return to normalcy just before death is brought about, not by some inexplicable surge in brain functioning, but by the mind’s distancing itself from the brain?  What if the brain does not give rise to the mind, as commonly thought?  What if the mind uses the brain as its organ?”

Jesse Bering wrote an article One Last Goodbye: The Strange Case of Terminal Lucidity in a Scientific American blog: “A 92-year-old woman with advanced Alzheimer’s disease, for instance, hadn’t recognized her family for years, but the day before her death, she had a pleasantly bright conversation with them, recalling everyone’s name.  She was even aware of her own age and where she’d been living all this time.”

Bering stated that Alexander Batthyany, PhD, professor of cognitive science at the University of Vienna, conducted the first large-scale study on terminal lucidity.  Dr. Bethany sent detailed questionnaires to caregivers – mostly nurses and medical doctors – of Alzheimer’s victims.  One of his respondents described how she used to consider advanced Alzheimer’s patients as ‘human vegetables.’  However, a single instance of seeing terminal lucidity changed her outlook completely: “Had you seen what I saw, you could understand that dementia can affect the soul, but not destroy it.”

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Hugs, love, blessings, and let it shine!
Mark

Mark Pitstick, MA, DC
author, lecturer, counselor, and holistic chiropractic physician; spokesperson, research assistant, and strategic planner for the SoulPhone Project; founder of Greater Reality Living, Healing, Helping, and Sharing Programs

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Mark Pitstick, MA, DC is a master’s clinical psychologist, holistic chiropractic physician, and clinical nutritionist.  He has also helped others in pastoral counseling and suicide prevention / education settings.  His goal is to help you know and show that this earthly experience is a totally safe, meaningful, and magnificent adventure amidst eternity. 

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Note: This article is intended as a reference source, not to replace professional treatment for physical, emotional, or mental problems.  The author disclaims any liability arising directly or indirectly from the voluntary use of action steps discussed in article. 

I created this article while ‘wearing the hat’ of a clinician, counselor, and educator.  My statements are based upon some scientific research; much clinical and experiential evidence; my personal experiences; and my best current understandings.  This program does not reflect my roles with the SoulPhone Project since those require solid scientific data for all statements.