As the year comes to an end, we review what has taken place, reflecting on whether the goals we set have been achieved, while also defining a new series of objectives for the year ahead and periodically asking ourselves how we are progressing toward them
Looking back on 2025
First and foremost, we express our gratitude to all the volunteers collaborating with the Icloby Foundation — from the organization’s advisory committee to the research advisory committee, as well as the physicians, nurses, and psychologists working on the Project Light initiative; to those who contribute to the newsletter; and to everyone who supports us in areas such as outreach, translation, training, interviews, accompaniment, and bereavement support.
We close the year with the wonderful news that, based on the number of documented cases, we are now the second-largest research project in the world in the study of consciousness and Near-Death Experiences—ahead of the studies conducted by Dr. بروس جريسون, دكتور. سامنيا وحدها, والدكتور. Penny Sartori.
لكن, I would like to highlight not only the quantity of achievements, but also their quality — the professionalism, rigor, and depth of awareness that continue to grow day by day. To illustrate this, I would like to share an excerpt from the official minutes of a hospital committee, describing how one of the doctors presented and defended our research project before a panel of medical professionals.
At the beginning, when the proposal was introduced, some members reacted somewhat lightly. It was not the kind of project they were used to — they typically reviewed studies on antibiotics, laboratory testing, and other conventional research topics — and a few joking remarks arose, as if it were difficult to take the subject entirely seriously.
Following his intervention, لكن, the hospital ultimately decided to join Project Light. I quote:
“Then the chair of the committee, دكتور. Eduardo Cazorla, Head of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, spoke up with great seriousness and said
اليوم, thanks to advances in medicine, many patients are able to reach that threshold and return. In the past, these situations were generally irreversible; now, they can come back and tell us something about that transition.
If this project can help us better understand these near-death experiences and obtain information that may benefit everyone — patients, عائلاتهم, and also ourselves — then it is not only relevant: it is valuable and necessary.”
By the end, the atmosphere had changed. The room shifted from skepticism to thoughtful reflection. What initially seemed unusual or outside the norm began to be seen for what it truly is: a scientific and human opportunity with meaningful impact.
We also celebrate the incorporation of another hospital into Project Light — our seventeenth — along with two additional hospitals currently submitting the protocol to their ethics committees.
What excites and inspires us most is that more and more department heads and researchers are reaching out, expressing their desire to join this great project through scientific volunteering — to study consciousness during documented cardiac arrest in hospitals and to help improve the world we live in by contributing knowledge, hope, values, والغرض, in alignment with the founding mission of Icloby. Change has arrived.
Thanks to these accomplishments, we can say that by the end of the year we have grown — as individuals, as professionals, and as a society.
Thank you all for being part of this reality, and happy 2026.
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