Pim van Lommel

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

Career

After attending high school in Hilversum van Lommel graduated from 1961 to 1963 his military service. He then studied medicine until 1971 at the Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht. From 1971 to 1976 van Lommel worked at St. Anthony's Hospital in Utrecht, where he completed his training as a cardiologist. From 1977 he worked until 2003 as a cardiologist Rijnstate Hospital in Arnhem. Since 2003 he has worked mainly in the field of research into near-death experiences and related topics.

Scientific work and studies

In addition to working in the field of cardiology, van Lommel dedicated from the mid-1980s strengthened the research of near-death experiences and consciousness (see also Out of Body Experience ). The results of this work were included in both studies as well as in his lectures. In a variety of reports and interviews in the Dutch and international media van Lommel is mentioned.

International attention was in particular his published in 2001 in the medical journal The Lancet prospective study on near-death experiences of survivors who had suffered a cardiac arrest and had to be resuscitated. Van Lommel moved from this study concluded that the existing up to this point interpretations must be subjected to the emergence of near-death experiences and awareness of a profound re-evaluation.

Private

Van Lommel is married and has two children.

Writings

• Endless consciousness. Patmos, Dusseldorf 2009, ISBN 978-3-491-36022-8.
• The continuity of consciousness - A new approach, based on research on near-death experiences. In: Alois Serwaty, Joachim Nicolay (ed.): Near Death Experience - New avenues of research. Santiago, Goch 2009, ISBN 978-3-937212-33-3, pp. 19-40.