(2017-09-10, 12:00 PM)Brian Wrote: [ -> ]Good post, but wow, you are on a mission aren't you! 
What mission would that be? the one where I attempt offset the skeptical drivel that doesn't take into account the factual accounts that are out there?
Guilty as charged.
Need I remind you that this whole website is based on the premise of psi? It shouldn't be a surprise that people like me are here.
(2017-09-10, 04:22 PM)tim Wrote: [ -> ]If you have a look at this performance from Sue Blackmore, it will give you an idea what "heretics" like Alexander have to face.
She's saying things that aren't true here. She also states it's not good to spread 'tickle tackle' but does it anyway, making fanciful suggestions about Alex Malarkey the young paraplegic who for some reason retracted his NDE story.
The crux of the matter seems to be in her view, books by people who have had NDE's are always justifiably suspect and clearly motivated by material gain, whilst books by her and other NDE critics (which also make lots of money) are motivated only by the noble principle of standing up for science and exposing fraud etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls3aSTY7Wlc
She did "promise" that she wouldn't get involved in the NDE debate again but her new book seems to indicate otherwise.
I wonder if she will donate her royalties to a good cause, maybe the James Randi foundation 
How she argues that a successful brain surgeon wrote that book so he could get rich is beyond me. What a simpleton.
Then you have Robert Monroe, a multimillionaire, who apparently she thinks had his out of body experiences so he could get richer....
I'd say he's an interest data point and he gave NDEs a marketing boost.
However I really hope the proponent community goes past him in its presentation to the public, his case is rather sketchy IMO.