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The Brain's Last Story
DMT and the Unproved Science of Near-Death Visions
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Independently Published Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35290758
EAN: 9798188341909
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Zustellung: Di, 01.09.2026
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Beschreibung
The world's most famous explanation for the light at the end has never been proved in a dying human brain. DMT can produce visions of impossible worlds. Mammalian brains possess the chemistry to make it. In a landmark rat experiment, extracellular DMT rose significantly in visual cortex after cardiac arrest-even after the pineal gland had been removed. The result made the dying-brain hypothesis more interesting. It did not show that humans receive a hallucinogenic DMT surge when they die, or that DMT causes near-death experience. In The Brain's Last Story. , Scott Gamble follows the claim from resuscitation rooms and animal laboratories into controlled psychedelic sessions, thousands of reported visions, and the cultural machinery that turned fragments of plausibility into apparent fact. Rival explanations-oxygen loss, electrical surges, memory construction, DMT, and nonmaterial consciousness-produce reversals as scientists confront a nearly impossible task: measuring a conscious experience during death. Propulsive, humane, and exacting, this is a high-concept investigation for readers of neuroscience, medical mysteries, consciousness, psychedelics, and near-death testimony. It asks not only what the brain may do as life stops, but how any of us can know when the final story begins.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Scott Gamble
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 374