Are NDEs merely hallucinations?

Yet in an era of ubiquitous smart phones and internet access, the crack investigators of IANDS can't be bothered to go beyond a "trust me" from a claimant highly invested in the paranormality of her experience. That's where we're at. Let that sink in.

@sbu @Brian

First off, I’m impressed with how quickly you were able to dismantle these cases. I should, of course, double-check the information you have provided, but I will take your word for it since I consider all anecdotal evidence to be only hypothesis-generating. In other words, that book would never convince me of anything. Therefore, it’s not on my reading list.

IANDS has been taken over by the self-help billion-dollar industry and hasn’t produced anything serious for at least 15 years. I never visit their website anymore. I'm even a bit worried about Sam Parnia, to be honest, if his celebrity status is starting to cloud his conclusions. I would love to see one of his peers among the several thousand in the western world who have revived a patient from cardiac arrest come forward with similar profound conclusions.

There’s an enormous hype associated with NDEs, and one has to be very skeptical of any claimants in this space. Additionally, people often cannot relay NDE information in an objective manner and instead exaggerate it enormously, as we have seen in a number of threads here.