Question about Near Death Experiences

[The Valkyrie]

I'd say they were difficult to explain. Not impossible. But I'm not going to waste time trying to do that when we don't have enough information. The rational position is to withhold belief until the claims are demonstrated. I'll do that.


How do you know how a dying brain reacts in those circumstance? Not to mention that they weren't actually dying; otherwise they would be damaged upon resuscitation, or dead completely.


Then they are not of this world. That was easy.


Let's be generous and say that 5% of the stories are genuine. How could we set about finding out which is which?

Interesting, there is one case (Howard Storm) where he believes he saw hell, and converts from an atheist to a reverend. I doubt he was lying because that was such a dramatic change. What are the odds in your opinion that some of the stories on near-death.com were made up and fabricated?

Kirk Cameron claims to have been an atheist and then makes outrageous claims of what he thought when he was an "atheist".  None of which ANY atheist I know or have encountered have ever thought.

Ex "atheists", like ex smokers, are notorious for the length they'll go to in an attempt to distance themselves from their former habits.  And when they become Christian "again" they know there's a huge amount of money to be made.

Have you ever noticed, also, that NDEs have a cultural bias?  If you're brought up in the West, where Christianity dominates, you'll have a vision of the Abrahamic/Christian heaven or hell, not the Hindu afterlife.  And the reverse is true for people who live in other parts of the world where another religion is dominant, often even when that person is not religious at all.