Wenn die Dunkelheit ein Ende Findet: Terminale Geistesklarheit und andere Phänomene in Todesnähe [When Darkness Comes to an End: Terminal Lucidity and Other Phenomena around Death] by Michael Nahm

Abstract

Michael Nahm, biologist and forestry scientist, is also known as a researcher and author of many publications about spontaneous paranormal experiences in current and past times. His current book When the Darkness Comes to an End is valuable, not only because it is an impressive case collection of the wide range of phenomena before and at death, but because it is much more than that. It discusses possible approaches to explanations for as-yet-unexplained phenomena. This concerns light, which has a double focus, one meaning a clarity of mind and the other meaning the unusual lights observed around a death. The terminal lucidity part of the subtitle (discussed in Chapters 1–4) refers to the first group of experiences, a sudden mental clarity shortly before death. The second part of the subtitle (discussed in Chapters 5–8) covers OBEs, NDEs, deathbed visions, and mysteriously acoustic and visual phenomena such as unusually beautiful music, lights, and fog. Further attention is given in the book to the aftereffects of those experiences on the mind and body. They can affect the personal worldview and attitude to life, but also lead to unusual bodily changes, spontaneous healing, and even healing in the context of hypnosis. The emphasis of the book is on cases of persons with serious psychological diseases and organic brain damage who have a sudden remarkable comeback of mental alertness shortly before the end of their life.