Dualism or idealist monism as the best model for survival after death data

I've been Googling nonduality and near-death experiences and came up with this very interesting find:

It's a full, 300+ page doctoral thesis (2021) by Monika J. Mandoki in Canada called Are Near-Death Experiences Veridical? A Philosophical Inquiry that is fully available to read as well as downloadable.

It's a study of veridicality in NDEs in the light of idealism. I've just perused it and it appears to have loads of interesting commentary and analysis that relate directly to this thread. At first glance, she seems to have keen insights into the key features of NDEs and how they fit or don't fit various idealist philosophies.

Here's the abstract:


She seems very knowledgeable, in detail, about the the field of NDE research, and she's got great analysis in the last section of several idealist philosophies, from ancient times (Advaita Vedanta, Plotinus) to recent/contemporary idealists that I wasn't aware of, like John Foster and Imants Baruss (her thesis supervisor). (No mention of Bernardo .)

Here's just a sample:


I'd say this sounds like a key read even for committed dualists who are interested in studying philosophical approaches to NDEs.

It's a little late for this topic, but it just came to my attention, and I am annoyed, amazed and puzzled. The author says in her introduction,

...This project is a philosophical investigation into near-death experiences (NDEs). It attempts to

answer the central question: Are near-death experiences veridical?

This doctoral thesis looks at least on the surface to be an incredible flight of academic arrogance. Mandoki apparently is gratuitously assuming that only philosophy can decide the veridicality of NDEs, and inherently dismisses and ignores the painstaking, careful and thorough actual physical investigations by many NDE researchers over the years that have conclusively verified that many elements in NDE accounts closely correspond with what actually happened in the physical world, while the NDEer was completely incapacitated, often even with a nonfunctioning physical brain. Information about the actions and identities of the doctors treating the NDEer's body (and other goings-on) that was completely unavailable to the NDEers through their normal senses. And this is also the case for other areas of NDEs, such as Mandoki's inherent dismissal of the similarly researched and investigated NDEer accounts of having met and communicated with the spirits of deceased loved ones that they (the NDEers) didn't know had passed. 

This research and these investigations in themselves prove the veridicality (that is, the truth or the correspondence with reality) of many NDEs. We don't need Idealist philosophy to decide on the veridicality of NDEs - just careful investigation in the physical world.