THE BOOK
Searching for Soul
A Brain Surgeon’s Exploration of Near-Death Experiences and Afterlife
Does the soul exist—and can it survive the death of the brain?
Searching for Soul explores one of humanity’s oldest questions through the perspective of a neurosurgeon who has spent more than three decades treating the human brain. From near-death and out-of-body experiences to soul, consciousness, religion, philosophy, and neuroscience, the book asks what these extraordinary experiences can—and cannot—tell us about the existence of the soul and the possibility of an afterlife.
WHAT THE BOOK EXPLORES
NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES
What can extraordinary experiences near death tell us about the possibility of a soul?
THE IDEA OF THE SOUL
How did humanity's ideas about the soul develop—and what does modern neuroscience tell us about them?
THE AFTERLIFE
Does anything of us survive the death of the brain—and what evidence would be needed to establish an afterlife?
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An exploration of the soul, near-death experiences, and what may—or may not—survive the death of the brain.
A BRAIN SURGEON SEARCHES FOR THE SOUL
For more than three decades, neurosurgeon Vivekanand Palavali, MD, has treated patients confronting some of the most profound injuries and diseases of the human brain. Those experiences led him to a question that medicine alone could not answer: Does the soul exist independently of the brain—and can it survive death?
Searching for Soul follows that question across neuroscience, near-death experiences, philosophy, religion, and the long human search for an afterlife
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