I completely understand. I started reading this book because I was recently diagnosed with PTSD due to a really bad depressive episode. His book is giving me so much peace and joy.

Why is it a poor joke ?

@dellwright1407 So what? I don't believe in all that stuff about a life before or after death and all sorts of gods that is associated with "near-death experiences" as you can see in the comments. There is no convincing evidence for that. In fact, there is plenty of evidence that a degenerating brain loses its abilities step by step and in the end there is nothing left. This sounds so gruesome to many that they can't digest it and resort to collective wishful defense fantasies that they defend "to the death."

Proof? They also said UFO's were nonsense too. There is SO much that we do not know.

5% might not sound “common”, but that’s 5 out of every 100 people. That’s A LOT of people. We don’t know why most people don’t report experiences, it’s possible they really didn’t experience anything, it’s also possible they did, but forgot (or were made to forget for some reason).

Dr. Greyson has explained in his lectures that the medications administered in the hospital can interfere with the memory of the NDE. This at least partially explains why they are less common.

Maybe either they do have a experience but not remember it or they don't share it.

Well, since we are all one I think eating plants or animals maybe the same?

I’m sure you could find some, but the sense from most of them I think would be that it’s ultimately not an issue in the big picture what you eat. Maybe some become more conscious of “humane” farming, I don’t know.

If that’s the case then why would a brain be necessary at all. There’s no reason to believe the brain is that powerful that it can condense eternity into a matter of seconds. There’s more reason to believe simply that the mind can persist apart from the brain, since people are able to perceive things happening in reality that are later verified, that there is no way their brain could have perceived

@CampingforCool41 I am not sure I can follow what you are saying or referring to in your suggestions. - Why would the brain be necessary? Some say it seems to act like a filter for the mind, tuning us to an evolutionary fitness paradigm. - The brain condensing is your own suggestion not mine. What I was talking about was more like a ratio for time passing through bigger loops on the other side, while only a few seconds seemed to pass here on earth. It like the ratio of the big sprocket to the little sprocket on a bicycle, connected by a chain... - You are saying there is "more reason to believe" the mind and brain are separate. This is already what I have experienced, and I am suggesting that the experience it's self doesn't need any extra time for a never-ending afterlife to proceed. That is the best I can answer your question. See you on the other side.

I wonder if you have ever been interviewed by someone, your nde sounds fascinating!

@@lilianamendive6222 No I have not been interviewed. I wanted to share my experiences for years and years, but I don't believe it would necessarily do any good. * part of my experience was me being shown how popular this subject would be in the future like it is now and how corrupt players would be involved in misleading people. This was in the context of looking at the evolution of our species from thousands of years earlier and how it could easily take more than another thousand years before this species catches up with the sort of paradigm of consciousness associated with NDE's. I was being shown how completely not ready our species is for any kind of spirtual advancement and how easily mislead we are. I was being shown this scale of perspective and at the same time I was being told to be patient with this species because the understanding and perspectives of this species are nowhere near ready to accept any of this. Then I was being shown the minority culture that was interested in the subject matter that would develop in my time, like "the NDE community" and so forth. This minority culture was developing and misleading people. They had some awareness of the profundity of the phenomenon but they did not at all appreciate the reality being presented. The NDE community is principally lost in attempting to treat the subject like other earthly matters. This is identical to how all other religions developed before. The only difference is the species has collected more historical knowledge and become more technologically advanced, but the sophists haven't changed much at all.

He does have a very in-depth non bias experience..

You heard that?

Hamunculous

100% agree!

His comments are definitely educational, but you are walking a thin line when you have a host or interviewer format.

Well, it’s not a blanket that every person who is under hallucinogenic drugs won’t have an experience. It’s just that the occurrences of near death experiences in patients under hallucinogenic drugs have statistically less of them. It’s just a way to eliminate hallucinogenic drugs as a causative hypothesis for the near death experience.

At time-marker 5:08ff he says that he did not know what the patient had overdosed on. Perhaps he made reference to your point later on and perhaps I missed it.

@@michaeldecarli5243 Ahh, I see. Thank you for the clarification!

Ya, he is referring to a statistical difference more than making a rule. It is helpful in ruling out erroneous dismissive narratives, like it just a trick of the brain etc.

What the patient told him could not have been caused by a mere drug trip though, because he was able to verify what she told him that she saw. So that part was after whatever the drug trip had been.