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Originally Posted by MattFYF  Taking into consideration what all of the scientific research says, my personal belief is that psychic phenomena are always misinterpreted normal events that have perfectly rational scientific bases. |
After-death communication can be clinically induced in more than 80% of subjects with certain sequences of eye movements. Others induce it with hypnosis (so-called past-life regressions).
People report experiences similar to NDE's and ADC's during various physical crises that fall short of clinical death.
True NDE's are however beyond the ability of science to explain currently. When the heart quits beating, the brain very quickly flatlines. There is no known way the brain can produce the sorts of awareness that people have of things going on around them while they are out of the body, and there is no physiological explanation for the lucidity and coherence of these visions, which should at the least be much more dreamlike if they could occur at all.
That isn't to say that science won't come up with an explanation, but I don't see the slam-dunk you do at this time.
To get back to the original poster's question, though, it's interesting to me that NDEs do include experiences that appear to be congruent with the person's belief system. Christians see Jesus or a heaven consistent with their belief in a linear afterlife. People of other persuasions see what they expect to see. This causes me to lose interest in the phenomenon as a potential source of reliable information about the afterlife.
--Bob