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[Astreja]

Nobody so far has ever come up with solid evidence that a brain devoid of oxygen and blood can generate clear and sharp experiences as the NDEs.

I am not yet able to post links due to the 30/30 rule, Little Rik, but please Google and read these two articles:

"Near death experiences: a multidisciplinary hypothesis"

and

"Near-Death Experiences in patients with locked-in syndrome: Not always a blissful journey"


You seem to be very fond of telling people how wrong they are, and using words like "never" a lot, while not exhibiting due diligence regarding the existence of your purported god-thing.

From My perspective as a medical professional with a particular interest in neurology, I am strongly of the belief that there is almost certainly a physiological explanation for NDEs.  One of the reasons this is so hard to demonstrate is that when someone is in medical or surgical crisis, only an irresponsible idiot would use that crisis as an opportunity to set up a proper experimental environment.  The first priority is always the patient's welfare.  Always.  As a result, all NDEs are anecdotal rather than based on peer-reviewed, double-blind trials and at best neuroscience can currently only attempt to replicate elements that may or may not have caused the NDE experience.

It is indeed possible to induce NDE-like sensory phenomena in a laboratory setting in a non-emergent environment, using a fMRI (functional MRI) machine.  Your god, on the other hand, remains a weak hypothesis with only anecdotal evidence that varies wildly from one culture to another.