Michael Egnor is an American pediatric neurosurgeon and professor of neurological surgery at
Stony Brook University. He is an advocate of intelligent design, a who presents a scientific argument for the existence of God. In 2025, he authored The Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeon’s Case for the Existence of the Soul amongst his other books.

Pam Reynolds Lowery from Atlanta, Georgia was an American singer-songwriter. In 1991, at the age of 35, she had a
near-death experience (NDE) during a brain operation. Her NDE is one of the most notable and best documented
in Near Death Experience research.

During "standstill" operation, Pam's brain was found "dead" by all three clinical tests - her electroencephalogram was silent,
her brain-stem response was absent, and no blood flowed through her brain which left her clinically dead. Interestingly,
while in this state, she encountered the "deepest" NDE of all.

She made several observations about the procedure which later were confirmed by medical personnel as surprisingly accurate.

This famous near-death experience is considered by many to be proof of the reality of the survival of consciousness after death,
and of a life after death. Her out-of-body recollection is "the single best instance we now have in the literature on
near-death experiences to confound the skeptics," according to Kenneth Ring, professor emeritus of psychology at the
University of Connecticut and a chronicler of these episodes.