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Forever Now: How an Atheist Neuroscientist Lost Time and Found the Afterlife
A conversation with Dr. Peter Cummings
Hosted on Zoom by the Institute for Spirituality and Health
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In 2018, Peter Cummings was a husband, father and board-certified neuropathologist who spent his days teaching neuroanatomy. A student of philosophy and an atheist, thoughts of God and spirit rarely crossed his mind. Then he and his family went on a rafting trip in Costa Rica, where Peter fell into a Class IV rapid and drowned. But during the eight minutes his Apple Watch showed him to be in cardiac arrest, he had an extraordinary experience of peace, light, and love. Peter returned from his near-death experience with an altered experience of time, living in an eternal present with no sense of the past or future, and set out to discover the truth about what he had seen and felt. Was it real, or a trick of his dying brain? What he found contradicted everything his scientific training had taught him and left him convinced that the mind, the afterlife, and God are real.
SCHEDULE:
2-3:30 PM : INTERVIEW, Q&A
3:30-5 PM : NDE COMMUNITY CIRCLE
OUR SPEAKER:
Dr. Peter Cummings, MD
Dr. Cummings is board certified in anatomic pathology, neuropathology and forensic pathology. He earned his medical degree from the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland and completed his pathology training at the University of Virginia. He also earned a Masters degree in pathology from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and a B.A. from the University of Maine. Formally, Dr. Cummings worked as a medical examiner at the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. He was a member of the SwissAir Flight 111 identification team in 1998 .
He has authored two textbooks: ‘The Atlas of Forensic Histopathology’ (Cambridge University Press 2010) and ‘Pearls and Pitfalls of Pediatric Death Investigation’ (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
Dr. Cummings has appeared in two NOVA television programs ‘Can Science Stop Crime’ (October 2012) and ‘Cold Case JFK’ (November 2013) and has been featured in People Magazine ‘Cold Case Comes to Life’ (April 2009). He is to date, the only non-government appointed forensic neuropathologist given permission by the Kennedy family to review the original autopsy material related to the assassination of President Kennedy. He has been recognized as an expert in the courts of 27 states and 7 countries.
Houston IANDS (International Association for Near-Death Studies) at the Texas Medical Center serves as a safe space to support those who have had a near-death experience as they integrate their experience into their lives. Houston IANDS also serves to inform the public about NDEs and the lessons and messages that experiencers bring back, and to educate the medical community to recognize and appropriately treat people who have had an NDE.