Pim van Lommel

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Pim van Lommel (2012)

Willem (Pim) van Lommel (born March 15, 1943 in Laren / North Holland ) is a Dutch cardiologist and scientist .

Career

After attending grammar school in Hilversum , van Lommel completed his military service from 1961 to 1963. He then studied medicine at the Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht until 1971 . From 1971 to 1976 van Lommel worked at the Antonius Hospital in Utrecht , where he completed his training as a cardiologist . From 1977 to 2003 he worked as a cardiologist at the Rijnstate Hospital in Arnhem .

From 2003 van Lommel devoted himself to scientific consciousness research and research into near-death experiences (see also out-of- body experience ). Since then he has given lectures and published over 20 articles on these topics.

Private

Van Lommel is married and has two children.

Scientific work and studies

The results of his work in the field of cardiology , near-death experience and consciousness research flowed into studies and his lectures. Van Lommel is mentioned in a large number of reports and interviews in the Dutch and international media.

His prospective study , published in 2001 in the medical journal The Lancet , on the near-death experiences of survivors who had suffered cardiac arrest and had to be resuscitated , received international attention . Van Lommel drew the conclusion from this study that the interpretations of the development of near-death experiences and consciousness that existed up to that point must be subjected to a profound reassessment.

In November 2007 he published his book Endless Consciousness (Eindeloos Bewustzijn) in the Netherlands , which became a bestseller with over 200,000 copies sold in Europe and the USA . The German translation was published by Patmos Verlag in 2009. In 2005 he received the Dr. Bruce Greyson Research Award from the International Society for Near Death Studies (IANDS). In 1988 he initiated the establishment of the Dutch branch of IANDS (Merkawah Foundation) and in 2015 he became an honorary member of Swiss-IANDS.

criticism

The Dutch neurobiologist Dick Swaab criticized van Lommel's book Endless Consciousness for neglecting scientific knowledge, including some conclusions from his own research. He does not refute any neurobiological explanations, has no scientific basis for his statements and borrows from quantum physics for no reason , thus practicing quantum mystics . His book can only be described as pseudoscientific . The Australian-Dutch anesthetist GM Woerlee made a similar statement in a detailed (chapter by chapter) review of the book by van Lommel.

Fonts

  • Endless awareness. New medical facts about the near-death experience. Patmos, Düsseldorf 2009, ISBN 978-3-491-36022-8 .
  • The Continuity of Consciousness - A New Concept Based on Research on Near Death Experiences. In: Alois Serwaty, Joachim Nicolay (Ed.): Near death experience - New ways of research. Santiago, Goch 2009, ISBN 978-3-937212-33-3 , pp. 19-40.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Van Lommel P, van Wees R, Meyers V, Elfferich I. (2001) "Near-Death Experience in Survivors of Cardiac Arrest: A prospective Study in the Netherlands", The Lancet , 358 (9298): 2039-45, doi : 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (01) 07100-8 .
  2. ↑ Honorary members of Swiss-IANDS  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / swiss-iands.ch  
  3. ↑ Dick Swaab: We are our brains: How we think, suffer and love . Knaur-Taschenbuch, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-426-78513-3 , p. 379ff.
  4. ↑ GM Woerlee: "Review of Consciousness Beyond Life by Pim van Lommel" , (2011). (Accessed June 20, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Lommel, Pim van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lommel, Willem van (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch doctor and scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Laren (North Holland)