“…This viewpoint has been challenged by research findings on PSI (Achterberg et al, 2005;Sidorov et al, 2013;Scott et al, 2015;Radin et al, 2015;Radin et al, 2016;Walach et al, 2016;Jr. Daher et al, 2017;Schwartz, 2017) and near death experiences (NDEs) (Fracasso and Friedman, 2011;van Lommel, 2011;Fracasso, 2012;Haesler and Beauregard, 2013;Parnia, 2014;Craffert, 2015;Lake, 2016;Gaiseanu, 2017;, which suggest that consciousness may exist independently of one's body and function in a non-local way.…”