After having seen various programs (asking questins, having no answers) I got interested, but I think we are discussing in east and west here, at least partially.

1) I have said nothing about afterlife or religion.

At least one researcher thinks that what people experience in these situations have to do with what they expect to experience, hence religious people see something religious, non-religious see something else.

Almost always something extremely good, though some have nightmares.

2) What I do say is that reason for these experiences is not known. Yes, there are many hypothesises (how do you spell that?) but no actual proof of anything. "We do not have have the neural correlate of consciousness."

3) I am very interested in the idea that consciousness is not actually restricted to the brain.
It is Pim Van Lommen who has come up with that idea, and obviously met with lots of criticism and skepticism.As far as I can follow this, the criticism is that it goes against what you know about the brain,. The reason it interests me even so is that he is a cardiologist who has researched these things for 20 years, by being a person who receives persons with a stroke and who resuscitates them if possible.
He has studied his patient's death symptoms (can you say that) people with no heart beat, and flat brain. And some of these people tell him things. I think that such a long period must count for more than people who argue out of their books.

http://profezie3m.altervista.org/arc...DE.htm#results


My own conclusion: something is going on, and the jury is out in what.