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I assume this is the Parnia quote:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150303-what-its-really-like-to-die
People don't always see what they expect to see.
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/research22.html
http://pmhatwater.blogspot.com/2007/09/are-there-ndes-in-which-buddhist.html
NDEs cannot be explained by religious or cultural expectations:
http://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2013/07/materialist-explanations-of-ndes-fail.html#nde_explain_religion
NDErs meet God
http://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2012/09/evidence-that-god-exists-people-who.html
George Rodonaia
Many people have asked me what I believe in, how my NDE changed my life. All I can say is that I now believe in the God of the universe. Unlike many other people, however, I have never called God the light, because God is beyond our comprehension. God, I believe, is even more than the light, because God is also darkness. God is everything that exists, everything - and that is beyond our ability to comprehend at all. So I don't believe in the God of the Jews, or the Christians, or the Hindus, or in any one religion's idea of what God is or is not. It is all the same God, and that God showed me that the universe in which we live is a beautiful and marvelous mystery that is connected together forever and for always.
Anyone who has had such an experience of God, who has felt such a profound sense of connection with reality, knows that there is only one truly significant work to do in life, and that is love; to love nature, to love people, to love animals, to love creation itself, just because it is. To serve God's creation with a warm and loving hand of generosity and compassion - that is the only meaningful existence.
I enjoyed reading this, Only I want to point out an inconsistency with the reasoning, If George concludes everything is God, then you can not reject the God of the Hindus or The Christians or in any ones religion, as George concludes. He offers a description of God that is already fully offered by the religions mentioned.
I just find it irritating that people try to diminish the Gods of religions, when those same religions already explain God as the source of all creation who is infinite and has immense love, power, intelligence, and potency. Specifically, the God of the Vedas explains His different energies and incarnations in detail and that all religions are one.