DOES CONSCIOUSNESS EXIST OUTSIDE OF THE BRAIN

Is consciousness actually a property of the universe like gravity or light. The prevailing consensus in neuroscience is that consciousness is an emergent property of the brain and its metabolism. When the brain dies, the mind and consciousness of the being to whom that brain belonged ceases to exist. In other words, without a brain there can be no consciousness. But according to the decades long research of Dr. Peter Ferwick, a neuropsychiatrist, this view is incorrect. Ferwick believes his extensive research suggests that consciousness persists after death. In fact, Ferwick believes that consciousness actually exists independently and outside of the brain as an inherent property of the universe itself, like dark matter and dark energy or gravity. The brain does not create or produce consciousness, rather it filters it. The brain filters and perceives only an extremely small part of the cosmo's intrinsic consciousness. Our consciousness tricks us into perceiving a false duality of self and other, when in fact there is only one unity. We are not separate from other aspects of the universe, but an integral and inextricable part of them. And when we die, we transcend the human experience of consciousness and its illusion of duality, and merge with the universes entire and unified property of consciousness. So, ironically, only in death can we be fully conscious. Another theory proposes that the basic building block of the universe is not matter but consciousness itself. Some researchers are even saying that a person can remain conscious after being pronounced clinically deceased.