• Alan Pearce (Coma Stories)

  • Feb 14 2025
  • Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
  • Podcast

Alan Pearce (Coma Stories)

Listen for free

View show details

  • Summary

  • Alan Pearce (Coma Stories)

    Alan Pearce is a journalist, broadcaster, former BBC correspondent, and author of several books. He has contributed to numerous publications, from Time Magazine to The Sunday Times of London.

    His wife Beverley, who cowrote the book with him, is a former private investigator who now works as an aromatherapist and a practitioner in yoga-based bodywork. Both Alan and Beverley live in Nouvelle Aquitaine, France.

    Their book 'Coma and Near-Death Experience (The Beautiful, Disturbing, and Dangerous World of the Unconscious)' explores the extraordinary states of expanded consciousness that arise during comas, both positive and negative.

    Every day around the world, thousands of people are placed in medically-induced comas. For some coma survivors, the experience is an utter blank. Others lay paralyzed, aware of everything around them but unable to move, speak, or even blink. Many experience alternate lives spanning decades, lives they grieve once awakened. Some encounter ultra-vivid nightmares, while others undergo a deep, spiritual oneness with the universe or say they have glimpsed the afterlife.

    Examining the beautiful and disturbing experiences of those who have survived comas, Alan and Beverley investigate the mysterious levels of consciousness this near-death experience unlocks. They demonstrate how a key element of the brain is switched off by coma-inducing sedatives, allowing the mind to break free from the body and experience a greater expansion of consciousness. Revealing the dangers of deep sedation and other intensive care procedures, the authors show how comas are unnecessary more often than not and that many coma survivors go on to suffer lasting cognitive and physical harm. Exploring proven alternatives to medically-induced coma, they share tried and tested protocols that are safer for critically ill patients and kinder for the patients and their families.

    Showing how we can avoid the suffering caused by comas, this book reveals the wide variety of conscious states that can arise during comas, both positive and negative, and how accepting the reality of these experiences is crucial not only to the recovery of coma survivors, but also to the field of consciousness and NDE studies.

    You can check out Alan's podcast and website here: https://alanpearce.com
    Podcast: http://www.comapodcast.com

    Check out Mick’s newsletter on Substack: https://themichaelgallagher.substack.com/
    Show More Show Less
Show More Show Less
activate_mytile_page_redirect_t1

What listeners say about Alan Pearce (Coma Stories)

Average Customer Ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Audible.com.au reviews

Amazon Reviews
No Reviews are Available
In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.