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Nonlocal Consciousness: A concept based on scientific studies on Near-Death Experience Dr. Pim van Lommel, May 21. Jelgava Castle, HELSUS festivāl 2016. According to our current medical concepts, it is not possible to experience consciousness during a cardiac arrest, when circulation and breathing have ceased. But during the period of unconsciousness due to a life-threatening crisis like cardiac arrest patients may report the paradoxical occurrence of enhanced consciousness experienced in a dimension without our conventional concept of time and space, with cognitive functions, with emotions, with self-identity, with memories from early childhood and sometimes with (non-sensory) perception out and above their lifeless body. The subject of the lecture is the prospective design and the results of our prospective and longitudinal Dutch study on near-death experience (NDE) in 344 survivors of cardiac arrest, as was published in The Lancet in 2001. Dr. P.V. Lommel discussed into detail several universal elements that can be experienced during NDE, and their implication for our concept, how consciousness and memories could be experienced outside the body during a temporarily non-functioning brain. In four prospective studies with a total of 562 survivors of cardiac arrest between 11% and 18% of the patients reported a near-death experience (NDE), and in these studies it could not be shown that physiological, psychological, pharmacological or demographic factors could explain the cause and content of these experiences. More information: www.helsus.org