After reading the wikipedia definition, which is just wishy washy new age meaningless waffle about inner self and belief in realms and other such unempirically testable (just for frodo) stuff, then...
No, it can't.
No, it can't.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.