Stairway to Heaven: A First-Person Account of Noesis.
The Journal of nervous and mental disease November 1, 2022 Swaran P Singh
A personal account describes a mystical experience that occurred after anesthesia, characterized by noesis—a profound sense of revelation and complete understanding. The author argues that while such experiences have a neural basis, their subjective meaning cannot be reduced to mere brain dysfunction. Reconciling the mechanism and meaning of mystical experiences remains a challenge for neuroscience and philosophy.