Dr. Long proves life after death or no?

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I'm just wondering how on earth some of these patients can recall certain things with such accuracy.

The mind is a funny thing. I've used this example before, but you probably haven't seen it since you're new.

I have very vivid memories of watching Jackie Joyner-Kersee win gold at the Summer Olympic games in New York City, 1998. There are two HUGE problems with this. First, there were no Summer Games in 1998. 1996 and 2000, yes. Not 1998. Second, New York City has never hosted the Olympic games. Lake Placid, yes. Not New York City, ever. So, how did I get such vivid memories of the event, and mind you, before I did the research I would have sworn under oath that Jackie Joyner-Kersee did indeed win at least one gold medal in the New York Summer Olympics in 1998, where they've never been held, in a year they weren't held.

Memory is fluid, not fixed and the stronger a memory is, the more likely you are to accept it as fact and report it as fact if questioned about the events. It gets even worse if you're given a bunch of leading questions (was the cloth pink, magenta or fuchsia [all shades of pink]).

Jackie Joyner-Kersee did indeed win gold in New York, in 1998, in an Olympic style event, the Goodwill Games. But, she was not competing in the Olympics no matter how much my brain was insisting she was, despite contrary evidence and I didn't even have to be near death to fuck that memory up.

So, how do "some of these patients can recall certain things with such accuracy"? Fuzzy memories and impressions sorted through after the fact by a brain that wants to make sense of the input would be my guess.

Have you ever seen one of the post-NDE interviews? The interviewer (in every case I've seen) asks leading question after leading question, directing the interviewee to all the details. There has been at least one legitimate scientific study of NDEs, but guess what, it's nothing proponents if NDEs being proof of the afterlife want to read.

NDE's have, it would seem, a variety of potential causes and sources, but there is, to date, no evidence that they are in any way evidence (let alone proof) of any soul or other spiritual medium.