Draft:Manuel Sans Segarra

Draft:Manuel Sans Segarra
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Manuel Sans Segarra (born April 25, 1943) is a Spanish physician, former Head of Digestive Surgery at Bellvitge University Hospital. He was a pioneer in the use of laparoscopic surgery in Spain.

Professional career

Early years and professional career

Sans Segarra holds a degree in medicine and surgery from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona, and earned a PhD cum laude for his doctoral thesis on esophageal cancer.

He served as Head of Digestive Surgery at Bellvitge University Hospital and is president of the Senior Section of the Medical Association of Barcelona, as well as founder of the Senior Physicians Association of Bellvitge Hospital. He was an Associate Professor of General and Digestive Surgery at the University of Barcelona. In 2014, he received the Award for Professional Excellence from the Official College of Physicians of Barcelona.

On May 6, 2025, Sans Segarra was admitted as a Numerary Member of the Royal European Academy of Doctors (RAED). His inaugural address was titled “Supraconsciousness: Our Existential Reality”.

Research on near-death experiences

He began researching near-death experiences (NDEs) following an experience involving one of his patients who was successfully resuscitated after being in a state of clinical death while Sans Segarra was on duty in the emergency department.

Following this event, he documented five clinical cases of patients in collaboration with his medical team at the Barcelona hospital.

Sans Segarra argues that the paradigm of quantum mechanics applied to the human being presents strong parallels with the phenomena reported by patients during NDEs. According to his hypotheses, there would be a form of consciousness that continues beyond the brain and persists after physical death, which he terms non-local consciousness or “supraconsciousness”.

Ego theory as a pathological trigger

Sans Segarra has proposed that chronic stress and the ego constitute key triggering factors in the development of multiple contemporary diseases. According to his approach, persistent stress activates the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis, leading to sustained release of cortisol and catecholamines, thereby impairing cardiovascular, immune, cognitive and emotional functions.

Criticism

From within parts of the scientific community, the author has been cited as an example of how disciplines outside physics have appropriated terminology from quantum mechanics, speculating using such vocabulary and presenting personal conclusions as scientific truths. Critics describe this as a form of quantum mysticism lacking scientific rigor.

Media coverage

Sans Segarra’s views on near-death experiences and consciousness have been reported in several British media outlets. In April 2025, The Mirror published an article describing his conviction that consciousness may persist after physical death, based on accounts from his clinical experience.

Similar coverage appeared in regional British outlets, including Get Surrey and Gloucestershire Live, which echoed his statements regarding patient reports during near-death experiences.

His claims were also reported by the Daily Express within the context of public debate about near-death experiences and consciousness studies.

Works

In addition to 92 medical articles, his books include:

• Ego and Supraconsciousness: Searching for the Meaning of Life (2025)
• Supraconsciousness Exists: Life After Life (2024)
• Diagnosis and Surgical Treatment of Exocrine Pancreatic Cancer (1988)

An English-language edition of his work on supraconsciousness, titled The Life Beyond: How Supraconsciousness Is the Secret of the Afterlife, is scheduled for publication by Octopus Publishing Group in 2026.

See also

• Near-death studies