(January 26, 2015 at 8:32 am)Riketto Wrote: 2) If the NDEs are hallucinations how come that most people if not all after such an experience they now believe in God, they now have compassion for animals and become vegetarian, and how come that they are now not anymore afraid of dying and now believe in spirituality?
I can find ZERO evidence for these claims.
However, I did find an interesting study of NDE experiences in Southern India. Turns out that people in India who have NDEs have completely different hallucinations from those in North America. There are some superficial similarities, but the experiences all - without exception - incorporate details specific to the prevalent "afterlife" superstitions common in India, rather than those which are common in the West.
What's more, only 35% of people who reported NDEs in the U.K. reported having a belief in anything resembling "god" as a result of their experience.
It is, unfortunately, very difficult to find credible research on the subject. The field is crowded with nutjobs and woo-salespeople, all offering nonsense and hand-waving as if it somehow constituted research.
Here's what the Skeptic's Dictionary has to say on the subject.
Here's an article reporting that NDE's are likely due to electrical surges in the brain.
The only actual research on the topic (that is, research which follows scientific protocol) contradicts all your claims. Serious scientific research of NDEs is pretty thin on the ground, probably because the woo-meisters have inundated the field with so much BS that it's impossible to get a grant to do an actual rigorous study.