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[Succubus]

I agree with you about New Age crap, but I think you are making a mistake. How do you explain the testimonies of thousands of people that have had life after death experiences? These people where completely brain dead for brief periods of times, but they were conscious and had experiences outside of their bodies.

Testimonies are just that, testimonies/anecdotes no matter how much of it there is it amounts to nothing. The plural of anecdote is not data. Thousands of people, are you sure of this figure? Whenever these yarns crop up they tend to be the same old stories that have been picked apart for years, indeed do a search of this forum and you'll find plenty, all of which have been dismissed for various reasons. They cannot be replicated, we have no idea what protocols were used, there is no possible mechanism and finally the people who promote this nonsense usually have an agenda, ie, religious claptrap.