Near death experience of Howard Storm

[Bunburryist]

I think a mistake that can be made on either side of the atheist/spiritualist aisle is the give in to the temptation to interpret religious content into the experience.  Just as a religious person might automatically assume that (I'm simplifying here) if he experiences seeing a guy that looks like it is Jesus that it really is Jesus (and so the Wisconsin Synod Lutherans are right), so an materialist atheist might assume that just because someone has had an experience that leads them to believe in life after death it has to have been some kind of hallucination, and therefor can have no "real" meaning.  We don't understand the relationship between brains in our experience and this "world" experience as a whole.  Neither do we understand the "physical reality" underlying this experience.  I had an out of body experience as a child (nothing special - just the garden variety floating to the ceiling), but don't attribute any particular meaning or explanation to it.  I feel the same way about OBEs.  People have these experiences, and I don't know what they are.