A campus doctor from the city of Sheffield was treating a student for a minor ailment when he noticed the students head was larger than normal and so the doctor referred the student to the professor of neurology Dr John Lorber.

 

The student in question was known to be academically bright and as well as possessing an IQ of 126 he possessed a PHD in mathematics but after undergoing a CAT scan, Doctor John Lorber discovered that the student possessed no brain.

 

Instead of two hemispheres filling a cranial cavity some 4.5 centimetres deep, the student had less than 1 millimetre of cerebral tissue covering the top of his spinal column, hence the student suffered from a condition known as 'hydrocephalus'.

 

 

'Hydrocephalus' means water ( hydro ) upon the brain ( cephalus ) is a condition in which the cerebrospinal fluid, instead of circulating around the brain and then entering within the bloodstream, instead becomes dammed up inside.

 

A condition which is normally fatal in the first few months of childhood and even if the child survives they are seriously handicapped yet somehow the student lived a perfectly normal life and achieve an honours degree in mathematics.

 

This case is not as rare as it seems as in 1970 a New Yorker died aged 35, having left school with no academic achievements he became a janitor and a popular figure and the autopsy revealed that he too had no brain.

 

 

Professor Lorber has studied and identified several hundred similar cases where some are described as having 'no detectable brain' yet amazing as it may seem they have gone on to score up to 120 on their IQ tests.

 

Dr Patrick Wall says "there are scores of similar cases littering medical journals going back a long way and Lorber, who has done a series of systematic scanning and gathering a remarkable set of data, challenges us to explain it".

 

Empirical science sees consciousness as an epiphenomenon of the brain, yet consciousness was fully present within those with no brains and one student went on to achieved an IQ of 126 and a PHD in mathematics.

 

 

Dr Allen Hamilton says "A technique used on awkward cases is they put the patient on a heart pump and as the heart stops there is no blood flow nor electrical activity to the brain so you can operate on a blood vessel"

 

"Sometime theres banter amongst staff and one nurse spoke of her wedding engagement and when the patient awoke she recalled the entire conversation, as her heart was stopped, her brain dead and no possibility of making a memory"

 

"I see an example of consciousness existing outside the body and this really changes how i view what happens when the functions we associate with life disappear" Dr Allen Hamilton  -  Scalpel And The Soul.

 

 

Dr Eben Alexander says "I woke up with the early symptoms of bacterial meningitis as my entire cerebral cortex shut down leaving that part of my brain responsible for all higher neurological function not working."

 

"Yet in spite of the complete absence of neural activity in all but the deepest, primitive parts of my brain, my identity, sense of self, did not go dark, instead i had the experience of my life as consciousness travelled to another dimension".

 

"Since telling my story i have attracted considerable criticism, appalled that a brain surgeon should make such claims as the consensus is its the body which creates the mind and when the body stops, so does the mind".

 

 

"Announcing that during seven days of coma i was not only fully conscious but journeyed to a world of beauty and love i knew i was stirring up the critics who described my near death experience as a brain based delusion"

 

"Yet my synapses which make the brain function had stopped with no broad networks capable of generating anything we call 'consciousness' and no possibility of vision, hearing, emotion or memory".

 

"And so it is i no longer doubt the existence of expanded consciousness and 'NDEs' 'mystics' 'meditators' i feel my experience adds something new and supplies a new form of evidence that consciousness can exist outside the body".

 

 

'When consciousness impresses itself upon matter, chaos is transformed into cosmos, order emerges from entropy and lifeless rock becomes living, organic matter" Plato.

 

“Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms, for consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else." Erwin Schrödinger .

 

"O son of Bharata, as the sun alone illuminates all of this universe, so does the soul, one within the body, illuminate the entire body by consciousness." Gita 13.34.