Max_B
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I'm not (constantly) bemoaning academia, I understand why "it" can't (in principle that is) recognise NDE as a mind brain separation. There's no mechanism for such. What NDE is pointing to (as difficult as it might be to accept) is that there is an invisible "something" residing in us which leaves the body at death (the commonest situation) That's what the data shows, that's what the people report.
That's the naive perspective. You have an OBE like mine around the time of puberty, and you wonder why the back yard gate that was banging in the wind that night, stayed open - as if held - as you went through it. Why you went across the yard at one height, and looked at the kitchen doorway across the yard, then began looking down at the kitchen step as you approached - just as if you would need to navigate over this threshold carefully in the dark. Why did I have to go through doorways? why did the gate get held open for me? why did I need to bother with navigating a step?
That's what I call a first person perspective OBE, it proved to be a real description of very unique circumstances that I could not have known about, and it was later verified by myself and three witnesses. The only way I can explain it, is that that there was a third party who had done the 'seeing'. All my research points to the sporadic explosions of network creation that occur throughout childhood and adolescence, and which are eroded by non-use, occasionally creating such a variety of new patterns, that one new one is so similar, that it is interfered with by another's quite similar network patterns.