“The brain does not produce consciousness; “He probably uses it.”
— Dr. Luján Comas, The avant -garde, 2025
The doctor Luján Comas was recently invited by The Contra of The avant -garde to reflect on one of the greatest mysteries of existence: the conscience.
In this conversation, shares his vision resulting from more than 32 years of medical practice at the Vall d’Hebron Hospital, where he worked as a specialist in Anesthesiology and Resuscitation, and 18 of them dedicated to the heart surgery and lung transplant.
At the moment, Luján presides over theIcloby Foundation, an entity that promotes scientific projects, social and consciousness transformation. From this platform, He leads alongside Dr.Xavier Melo thelight project, the first prospective clinical study in Spanish that investigatesconsciousness during cardiac arrest.
In his interview, Comas explains how patients resuscitated after cardiac arrest describe lucid states of consciousness, broad and coherent at times when the brain shows no detectable activity.
These experiences, known as Near Death Experiences (NDE), include perception of the environment from outside the body, the review of one's own life and a feeling of unconditional love that is difficult to describe with words.
“Between a 10 and a 25% of people resuscitated after cardiac arrest report being more fully conscious than before the episode.”, explains Comas. “That forces us to rethink everything we knew about the brain and consciousness.”
Beyond the phenomenon, the doctor highlights thetransformative impact that these experiences have on those who experience them: a profound change in values, greater compassion, detachment from materialism and a new understanding of life and death.
His research is also collected in the book Life beyond life (Kairos Editorial, 2024), co-written with Dr. Xavier Melo, where both scientifically explore what happens beyond the threshold of death and present the preliminary results of the light project.
“The brain could be an interface between a universal consciousness and individual consciousness. Consciousness is prior to everything created.”
