jmsmistral

There's some good material in there.

> I don't know what a proof would look like, but often the experiences involve being disembodied, so a reproduced and reproducible experiment where someone having a near death experience can accurately describe something they couldn't have had prior knowledge of, or guessed, or sensed (heard) in a coma, or found out after waking but before describing, that would be proof. Anecdote is not enough.

There are indeed multiple cases that follow that pattern that have been recorded and in papers (see an example below) - I think they're called "Peak in Darien" cases. The pattern is:

- Person has a near-death experience whilst unconscious - Something happens whilst they are unconscious that they would have no natural means of knowing - Same person comes back and has knowledge of what happened

Here's a paper from Bruce Greyson - https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/wp-content/uploa...

- Proof of Life After Life - https://tinyurl.com/proof-of-life-after-life-moody

- After - https://tinyurl.com/after-bruce-greyson

On the one side I am happy to see more scientifically-minded people attracted to these topics. At the same time, I am also dismayed at the block a lot of people have at any phenomena that doesn't seem to be physically-based.