Quote from: Lauda on November 04, 2015, 09:59:35 PM

Quote from: 1aguar on November 04, 2015, 09:49:52 PM

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Perhaps atheists like YOU are simply refusing to acknowledge the scientific evidence for what it is?? This is not the first time that I have presented this evidence to you, RodeoX.

Scientific evidence supporting near-death experiences and the afterlife:
http://www.near-death.com/science/evidence.html

Actually it does not. You're part of the ignorant and deluded group of people who take everything they read for granted. There is always going to be an article or two opposing some idea. You should never believe stuff because of stories that people tell you or because of a few articles. Here's a nice example:
AWARE Results Finally Published No Evidence of NDE. It is quite easy to tell a random story to people so that you attract attention with a NDE. A quote from a scientific perspective:

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Whether you saw a divine being or your brain was merely pumping out chemicals, the experience is so intense that it forces you to rethink your place on Earth.

It's not a random story at all! Events witnessed and heard by NDErs while in an out-of-body state are almost always realistic and their observations are almost always confirmed as completely accurate.

Why is it that verification of seeing what a doctor that walks in a room wore, or seeing a shoe from a ledge, or other cases is not enough? A physical marker like audio stimuli is good enough to show that these experiences are not hallucinations and false memory. That is what happened in this study.

Also, you can see in point #52 on the near-death site another study that was done which showed that "Memories of Near-Death Experiences are More Real Than Normal Memories": not only were the NDEs not similar to the memories of imagined events, but the phenomenological characteristics inherent to the memories of real events (e.g. memories of sensorial details) are even more numerous in the memories of NDE than in the memories of real events.

Actually, NDEs cannot be explained by brain chemistry alone.

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your brain was merely pumping out chemicals

Even if NDE elements can be reduced to only a series of brain reactions, this does not negate the idea that NDEs are more than a brain thing. Actually, this AWARE research study certainly suggests that the brain does not generate consciousness; it provides an example of the many veridical cases which cannot be explained by the current mind-brain paradigm.