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Pereira, Contzen and J. Shashi Kiran Reddy. "Near-Death Cases Desegregating Non-Locality/Disembodiment via Quantum Mediated Consciousness: An Extended Version of the Cell-Soul Pathway." Case 3: Al Sullivan.
Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research, Vol. 7, Issue 11, pp. 951-968, 2016
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Al Sullivan, a 55-year-old truck driver, underwent a triple bypass surgery during which he experienced a profound out-of-body experience. This was his first meeting with his cardiovascular surgeon, who introduced himself on the operating table just before the anesthesia took effect. The surgeon explained the surgical procedure, which would involve removing veins from his leg and arteries from his chest wall to perform the planned four to five bypasses. As the anesthesia began working, Sullivan suddenly felt he no longer needed to listen with his ears as he had left his body and could observe the entire procedure from above.
From his elevated vantage point above his body, Sullivan witnessed the surgical team covering his eyes with tape and placing various drapes and blankets around him in preparation for the operation. He observed his surgeon standing alone over his opened chest, which was being held apart by metal clamps. Meanwhile, two other surgeons were working on his leg. Though puzzled at the time about why they were operating on his leg when the problem was his heart, he later understood they were stripping the vein from his leg to create the bypass graft for his heart procedure. The most remarkable veridical observation occurred when Sullivan witnessed his surgeon performing an unusual gesture. The surgeon took a step back from the operating table, placed his arms near his armpits, and moved his folded hands in a distinctive flapping motion that appeared like he was flapping his arms. This peculiar behavior was later confirmed by both the surgeon and his surgical team as the surgeon's idiosyncratic habit of pointing with his elbows to avoid contaminating his sterile hands when not actively operating. This specific mannerism could not have been known to Sullivan beforehand as he had just met the surgeon. After the surgery, when Sullivan recounted his experience and described the arm-flapping behavior, the surgeon was startled by the accuracy of this observation. The ability to describe such specific surgical details and personal habits while under deep anesthesia with taped eyes provides compelling evidence for consciousness functioning independently of the physical body during the procedure.
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Deep general anesthesia during cardiac surgery with monitoring
Specific observation of surgeon's unique arm-flapping habit to maintain sterility, surgical details
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