Beyond the Physical: The Greater Reality

In this 2023 conversation with Justine Willis Toms, award-winning documentary filmmaker Dan Drasin explores scientific findings of the continuity of human consciousness beyond the physical brain and body. Drasin suggests that the “greater reality” beyond physical life might be analogous to an ocean, and the soul to a surfer's wave that has form and endurance but is not separate from the ocean.

Many scientists posit that consciousness resides in the material brain, but Drasin explores the aft...