Can consciousness exist independently of the body? PLRT assumes the soul persists across incarnations. What philosophical frameworks—dualism, materialism—best engage with this claim?
As a therapist, I feel (K) that it can. What do others think about consciousness? Let’s have a discussion on this. is the question that is open to all to come up with different views. Thanks. 
Beautiful question, Dr. Nidhi.
If you had asked me this twenty years ago, I might have given you a very different answer.
Today, my answer has changed, not because I found the perfect philosophy or read a perfect book, but because I have spent years listening to human beings tell their stories.
We know dr.Nidhi, that a change in the brain can change memory, personality, emotions, even a person’s sense of identity. It would be difficult to deny how deeply consciousness appears connected to the body.
And yet…
My experience as a therapist keeps presenting me with questions that materialism alone has never fully answered for me.
I have sat with people who accessed memories, emotions, fears and patterns that seemed completely disconnected from anything they had consciously experienced in this lifetime.
I have watched lifelong phobias dissolve.
I have seen grief release.
I have witnessed people walk out of sessions lighter than they walked in.
Whether these experiences are literal past-life memories, symbolic stories created by the subconscious, archetypal journeys or something we do not yet fully understand is, for me, almost secondary.
What continues to fascinate me is the healing that follows.
The transformation is real.
And this reality deserves our curiosity.
Personally, I find myself drawn toward the Vedantic view…
Not necessarily the idea that mind and body are two separate things, but the possibility that consciousness itself may be fundamental, while the body is simply one way through which it expresses itself.
Our ancient sages explained…
That our body is like a light bulb and Consciousness is like electricity.
When the bulb breaks, the light disappears from that particular form.
But has the electricity ceased to exist?
Or
has it simply stopped expressing itself through that instrument?
I don’t know.
And perhaps this is the most honest part of my answer.
I don’t know with certainty.
I cannot prove the existence of a soul in a laboratory.
Nor can I conclusively prove that consciousness survives death.
But, after years of witnessing deep meditation, near-death experiences, regression sessions, mystical experiences and moments of profound inner knowing, I have become less certain that consciousness is produced by the brain and more open to the possibility that the brain may be receiving, filtering or expressing something far greater than itself.
Panpsychism interests me for a similar reason. It challenges the assumption that consciousness somehow emerges from completely unconscious matter and instead asks a provocative question…
What if consciousness is woven into the very fabric of existence?
Perhaps the real invitation is not to choose a side too quickly.
Perhaps it is to remain curious.
To keep exploring.
To keep questioning.
To keep listening.
The Upanishads remind us that some truths are not discovered at the end of an argument, they are discovered at the end of an experience.
I would genuinely love to hear how others have arrived at their views, not only through philosophy, but through their own lived experiences of consciousness, healing, spirituality and life itself.
I agree upon!!! 
That makes us unique and lucky that we can look forward to many lifetime experiences and lots of issues with the solutions. It makes us more generous and loving
Truly, being curious is more important than jumping to one side
True, I am eagerly waiting for responses and wanna to know that what people think about this matter 
the same question which Nachiketa asked the Yama, the same question every seeker finds and answers to I suppose.
Further to what our blessed Supu @kobrakulsh has shared, my take Dr. @nidhicl is I found my rock solid answer to this with my own two NDE experiences and later corroborated by Dr. Raymond Moody’s ground breaking book, “Life Afer Life (1975)”.