It’s a sensation I can’t rationally explain, and with it came a certainty, absolute, that everything was more than okay. The Broken RadioFor more than a century, the dominant scientific view was, simply put, that the brain produces consciousness, and when the brain dies, consciousness ends. Researchers began asking, if the brain doesn’t produce consciousness, where does consciousness come from? Death is the ultimate removal of these neural filters and represents not the end of consciousness but its fullest expansion. And I, still here in filtered consciousness, felt her expanding consciousness, warm and immediate, arriving from inside.