Highest good. The term is bandied about by lightworkers all the time. Often they pray for a healing or action to be performed so they can be served "in their highest good."

Did you ever hear the expression, "Be careful what you ask for, because you just might get it?"

Well, praying for a change in circumstance to serve your highest good is one of those instances where such an admonishment might be kept firmly in mind.

Let's take a specific example that affects many who travel the path of awakening service.

The following is an excerpt and link to a Time Magazine article on studies now underway on the biology of Out-of-Body (Near Death) Experiences. Death is, after all, the final act of going our way (at least in this life).

A fellow at New York City's Weill Cornell Medical Center, Dr. Sam Parnia is one of the world's leading experts on the scientific study of death. Last week Parnia and his colleagues at the Human Consciousness Project announced their first major undertaking: a 3-year exploration of the biology behind "out-of-body" experiences. The study, known as AWARE (AWAreness during REsuscitation), involves the collaboration of 25 major medical centers through Europe, Canada and the U.S. and will examine some 1,500 survivors of cardiac arrest. TIME spoke with Parnia about the project's origins, its skeptics and the difference between the mind and the brain.

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