This book refutes the popular belief that comatose people are unconscious. They are in an altered state of consciousness and experiencing important and meaningful experiences. “Why do I have this feeling that I urgently need to write this book? Perhaps because I am championing a new ethic, fighting to expand the modern medical understanding of brain death? Or do I need to study near-death experiences to discover my own eternal essence? The eternal religious experience, which has always been attributed to life after death, can certainly be experienced in this life. The dying helped me to love this world, to realize the unlimited potential of its meaning and depth. As a physicist, I was already familiar with the theoretical relativity of our world. Now the application of process work makes theoretical physics look like a dream come true. Space, time and locality pale before the colorful interweaving of a life lived to its full completion.” Arnold Mindell