How to effectively critique New Age ideas?

[Confused Ape]

There seem to be some kind of a spectacular show involving tunnels and beings of light just before people get to that point but it seems very similar to a DMT trip.

Andrew Newberg Questions And Answers.

Is God only in our brain?
Our research indicates that our only way of comprehending God, asking questions about God, and experiencing God is through the brain. But whether or not God exists "out there" is something that neuroscience cannot answer. For example, if we take a brain image of a person when she is looking at a picture, we will see various parts of the brain being activated, such as the visual cortex. But the brain image cannot tell us whether or not there actually is a picture “out there” or whether the person is creating the picture in her own mind. To a certain degree, we all create our own sense of reality. Getting at what is really real is the tricky part.

This could easily apply to NDEs. Nobody knows what, if anything, happens when people are dead past the point of no return because nobody has come back to tell us what it's like to be dead past the point of no return.

Amit Goswami, a physicist, came up with an idea about how quantum physics allows for survival after death - he won't know if he's right, though, unless he finds himself still existing once he's dead past the point of no return.