So you when to hell now what.

[pocaracas]

Thy wish is my command, master.

http://www.livescience.com/16019-death-e...ained.html

The problem with your article is that it's equating OBE's (out of body experience) with NDE's. These are two separate phenomena. I've experienced an OBE and many of you probably have also, or came close.

mostly, yes... but it's the parallels drawn between the two that matter, here.

If you ever lay in bed for instance, and felt the sensation of being paralyzed, that is the beginning stages of an OBE, most people freak out however and don't complete the process.
Test it for yourself, next time you feel the sensation of being paralyzed, don't freak out, just relax, and I guarantee you'll experience an OBE.

That has definitely never happened to me.

That being said NDE's are "claimed" to be a result of Cerebral hypoxia, but this has never been tested for obvious reasons, so therefore your article is speculation.

It is... correlation. Now we all know that correlation does not imply causation, but it hints in the general direction.

The only way to scientifically test an NDE is to observe someone actually having an NDE.

yeah... it may be kinda hard to have someone going through a NDE while they're inside the MRI scanner.... it may come to happen, one day, but it hasn't yet...


Now, back to the correlation business... if it is known that a specific drug or brain process, like hypoxia, leads to a the same kind of experience as particular type of NDE, why should I try to explain the NDE as something related to an altogether unsubstantiated concept, like the soul leaving the body and looking at the pearly gates, instead of the seemingly mundane one, like lack of oxygen delivery to parts of the brain?