Near death experiences. What causes that?

ryokan

I have read the Moody's book. It is only a descriptive book, although interesting, entitled with the conclusion: There is life after death.

With independence of personal conclusions on life after death, I think interesting the study of the biological substrates of the near death experience. Ia agree: the topic most difficult to be explained is the out-of-body experience. Nevertheless, it was recorded a similar experience with electrode stimulation. Autoscopy is a rare phenomenon with some analogies to the out-of-body experience.

ryokan

NDE: Near Death Experience

DMT: N,N-Dimethyltryptamine

EEG: Electroencephalogram

ryokan

I have just read this abstract http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q..._uids=15002845

Do you have more information from peer-review jorunals on DMT and NDE?

ryokan

It is currently admitted that death equals to brain death.
Antoine Lavoisier was caught up in the revolution and faced beheading. He asked friends to observe closely as he would continue blinking as long as possible after being killed. He was reported to have blinked for 15 seconds after decapitation
I don’t know if the story is apocryphal, but it would be a terrible case of NDE manifestation (very near)

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ryokan

It seems interesting.
I see two curious associations. One with the role of pineal gland in Descartes (as well as the "third" eye of some philosophies).
I find other association with a recent science fiction book: "Passage" by Connie Willis (too boring for me).