Michael Patterson
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At least 90% of the hell NDE's I have found for example, to reside on the 'well I think I died, but I had this traumatic event or passed out when I was in a state of abject despair and there were demons on the other side' side of the story spectrum. Or they are related by fundamentalist Christians with a keen interest in pushing their sect's message. Situations where accounts are not trustworthy.
Jeff Kripal's 'Changed in a Flash' furthers his argument that what is experiences of NDEs is/must be filtered via the experiencer's consciousness/imagination. That is to say that we must not take the NDE description as being objectively real, but a reality 'projected' through the experiencer's consciousness/imagination. Kripal uses the movie projector as a metaphor - the light is real, but the image/film/filter/consciousness has only subjective reality in the same way that our perception of reality is not a representation of what is objectively true - even though our cultural discourse and habit of thought insists we say it is.
The only experience of 'reality' we can have is subjective. That applies to the NDE as well. That does not mean this diminishes the 'reality' of the experience. Our experience of reality is always subjective and unique - but sometimes it is shared. The fact is that what we call 'consensual reality' is a tiny part of our life experiences - but we are induced to switch the most part off, or invalidate it, so that we are left only with the 'shared' bit as being okay.