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Experiments and reasoning that are explained in the link I provided earlier on why NDE's are not evidence for an afterlife. The link that you refused to read.

You surely in your life must have gone through a border so you must know that when you try to enter a different country you must present your passport to the border post or to the custom at the airport.
The same thing happen when the physical science try to enter a different arena of consciousness.
Physical science need more than a passport to enter a place where there is no physicality.
So far this physical science has not really work out how to get the right passport to enter this arena.
But nothing is really impossible.
One day when physical science will work on subconscious as well a lot of progress will be made.
At the moment it is quite early to pretend that this physical science may be able to penetrate the higher layers of consciousness and to understand the science behind the NDEs.

First, you need proof of another country existing before you can talk about passports. You have not demonstrated the existence of an afterlife. So all this talk about passports is pointless. Demonstrate that there exist an afterlife.

How popular or how seriously a majority of people take someone has nothing to do with the validity of the religion.

Correct.
That is why i early said that Buddhism is royal cream.

It's amazing how you 'know' whether someone is really a buddhist or just calls themselves a buddhist.

Buddhism can be a lot more than a religion provided that those who follow Buddha teaching stick to spirituality and not to external worship.
Only a tiny number of people really follow Buddha teaching, all the rest follow external worship which is worth next to nothing.

Buddhist do not worship anything external. They don't worship Buddha. There are no gods in buddhism. You're trying to draw this imaginary line between spiritulity and religion where you defined spirituality as all internal worship, and religion external worship. Such a line doesn't exist. Buddhism is an example that such a line doesn't exist. The difference between a religion and spiritualism (in today's time) is religion has a written doctrine and spiritualism is all touchy-feely.