Evolution

[Angrboda]

More reasons to doubt that NDEs are evidence for karma and reincarnation.

According to IANDS, there are some commonalities to different people's NDEs, even though each NDE is unique. One such commonality is the reasons given for returning to life rather than continuing on into the unknown. According to IANDS, "A reluctance to return to the earthplane, but invariably realizing either their job on earth is not finished or a mission must yet be accomplished before they can return to stay." Nothing to do with Karma or reincarnation. The testimony that NDErs give is that they feel that they had unfinished business back in their life.

Another common theme which contradicts the notion of karma is that NDErs often see deceased loved ones during their NDE. Again according to IANDS, a common theme is, "Encounter with deceased loved ones, possibly sacred figures (the Judges, Jesus, a saint) or unrecognized beings, with whom communication is mind-to-mind; these figures may seem consoling, loving, or terrifying." Now if people are seeing deceased loved ones, obviously those loved ones haven't been reincarnated, otherwise they wouldn't be still deceased. Moreover the tendency to see Jesus in an NDE, which is quite common, would indicate that the Christian conception of life after death is the correct one, and Jesus did not teach karma and reincarnation, he taught that people would go on to live eternally in heaven or hell after death. Nothing about reincarnation into a life in an earthbound existence.

So contrary to your assertion that the theme of being sent back has to do with karma and reincarnation, actual people who have had NDEs tell a different story. You have no evidence from the NDEs themselves or the people who had them that their being sent back had to do with karma and reincarnation. That's simply a conclusion that you added onto the actual evidence for no other reason than that it's something you want to believe. Your wanting to believe in karma and reincarnation is not evidence that these NDE themes indicate karma and reincarnation, only that you want them to mean that. The evidence says that being sent back has an entirely different meaning for actual people who have had an NDE and it isn't karma and reincarnation.

So once again the evidence is against you, and the only thing you have in support of your view is your dogmatic belief that karma and reincarnation are real. But your beliefs aren't themselves evidence, and evidence is what you need to demonstrate your case.