The neuroscientist who had a near-death experience and now investigates the afterlife: There's no evidence it doesn't exist'

"Now, there is no one in his laboratory, and he is the only member of the team; he receives almost no funding, and none through the usual channels. Gomez Marin was never satisfied with the answers provided by the worms, flies and mice that he worked with, nor with the narrow, constrained questions that science typically demands to produce reliable results."

"I saw three figures waiting for me lovingly in the light, this light was yellow (similar to the light of mythological animals of the inner encounter). The contours of each of these figures' faces and hair were perfectly outlined against the light. Their heads formed a perfect triangle in the circle of the opening. I knew who each of them was; they weren't deceased relatives, but spirit guides. I felt no fear."

Alex Gomez Marin combines an extensive scientific career with a shift toward spiritual inquiry. He holds a PhD in physics, published over 100 articles across theoretical physics, neurobiology, cognition, and consciousness, rose to senior scientist at Spain's CSIC, and directed the Behavior of Organisms Lab at the Alicante Institute of Neurosciences. He now works alone with almost no funding. Dissatisfaction with animal models and constrained scientific questions, and a severe 2021 bleeding episode that brought a vivid visionary experience, led him to pursue life, death, and consciousness through nonconventional means, endorsing family constellation therapy, mediumship, and indications of reincarnation.

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