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37: OA – Show Notes

First Segment

  • Definition of a Near Death Experience
    • Separation of spirit and body
    • Compared to a ‘Hero’s Journey’
  • After an NDE
  • The First NDE in Western Literature
    • Plato and Book 10 of his Republic
    • The Story of Er
  • The Oldest Medical Description of an NDE
    • Pierre-Jean du Monchaux and Anecdotes de Medecine
  • Modern Research on NDEs
    • Raymond A. Moody Jr. and Life After Life
  • Bruce Greyson and the Greyson Scale
  • Problems with Studying NDEs
  • Scientific Explanations for NDEs
    • Oxygen shortage
    • Glitch at the temporoparietal junction
    • Too much carbon dioxide
    • Neurochemicals
  • Results of NDEs
  • NDE Controversy
    • Heaven is Real based on The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven

Second Segment

    • Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij
      • Georgetown University
      • Neither study film
      • Goldman Sachs
      • American Film Institute Conservatory

 

  • Boxers and Ballerinas 2004
  • Sounds of my Voice 2011

 

      • Multiple similarities to The OA
  • The O. A.
    • Brad Pitt’s, Plan B Entertainment
    • Written as a play
    • “Life After Life” by Raymond Moody (1975)