Threshold Terminal Lucidity and the Border of Life and Death 1st Edition by Alexander Batthyány ISBN 1250782287 9781250782281

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ISBN 10: 1250782287
ISBN 13: 9781250782281
Author: Alexander Batthyány

Terminal lucidity is a relatively common but poorly understood phenomenon. Near the end of life, many people–including those who have suffered brain injuries or strokes, or have been silenced by mental illness or deep dementia–experience what seems a miraculous return. They regain their clarity and energy, are able to talk with families and caregivers, recall their lives and often appear to be aware of their nearing death.

In this remarkable book, cognitive scientist and Director of the Viktor Frankl Institute Dr. Alexander Batthyány offers the first major account of terminal lucidity, utilizing hundreds of case studies and his research in the related field of near-death studies to explore the mind, the body, the nature of consciousness, and what the living can learn from those who are crossing the border from life to death.

Astonishing, authoritative, and deeply moving, Threshold opens a doorway into one of life’s–and death’s–most provocative mysteries

Threshold Terminal Lucidity and the Border of Life and Death 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part I. On Being Someone

1. On Being Someone, and Yet to Die

A Look Behind the Obvious

Stories and Data: Finding Light in Unlikely Places

Life Stories, Life Meanings, Life Endings

Life, Death, and Dignity

Being a Self

2. Death, Disease, and the Question of Who We Are

Dementia and the Self

Questions of Life and of Death

Socrates in the Giver’s Hand

Biology and the Self: “And What About the Soul?”

The Enchanted Loom

Mind and Materialism

“First You Take Away the Soul”

Seeing What the Eye Can’t See

3. The Return of the Self

“And Then, Something Unexpected Happened”

Lessons of Surprise: A Research Workshop at the National Institute on Aging

The Laurenz Case

The Case of Anna Katharina Ehmer, Known as Käthe

Contemporary Cases

A Gift Wrapped in Pain

4. Setting the Scene

Studying, but Above All: Listening

Encounters

Hearing the Call

Part II. Terminal Lucidity

5. Approaching Terminal Lucidity: The Pilot Study and Its Aftermath

Searching for a Phenomenon

IANDS

6. “We Need to Talk”: The Loneliness of Witnessing the Unexpected

Lifting the Veil

“Can This Be Real?”

“Is It Time to Say Farewell?”

7. Casting Out the Nets

Going Deeper

A Caveat

8. Witnesses

Who Experiences TL?

Age and Gender

Length of Episode

Cognitive State During Lucid Episode

Not Alone in Death

“But Can’t You Hear This Beautiful Music?”

Holding Their Hands

The Last Conversation

Proximity to Patient’s Death

Triggers and Causes

“A Lot of Peace and Acceptance”: Reactions

Hope in Hopeless Places

Part III. Mind at Death, Mind at Large

9. White Crows

What Is TL Trying to Tell Us?

Squaring a Circle

10. Mind and Brain in Extreme States

Mind and Brain near Death

At the Limits: Boundary Conditions

Greyson’s Proposal

11. Mind at Death

Mindsight

NDEs

12. Perception at the End of Life

When Do NDEs Take Place?

Are Perceptions near Death Accurate?

“A Genius When I Was Dead”

13. Mind, Memory, and Vision near Death

Thinking and Seeing near Death

Study Results

Seeing near Death

Thinking near Death

14. Relating the NDE and TL

Overlaps and Differences Between TL and the NDE

“What’s a Mistake but a Kind of Take?”: William James, Intoxicated

Memory and Vision and the NDE

Bridging the Gap

15. Making Sense of It

After the Eclipse

The Soul, Mind at Large

Part IV. Person, Death, and Meaning

16. A Sheltered Self

Incomprehensible Beauty, Unconditional Dignity

Care for the Soul

17. Why It Matters

Honoring a Legacy

Rehabilitating Hope

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