Skeptic Claims about NDEs

I decided to post a list of things that skeptics claim cause near death experiences, or can duplicate a near death experience. These “causes” were taken directly from skeptical articles and writings. In truth, skeptics know very little about near death experiences, I have never met one that did. The one important fact that they ignore is that NDEs are really caused by clinical death. We have good, solid research on this, showing that consciousness continues after the death of the brain and body. Nothing physical can cause a classical near death experience. But on the list below are only physical causes because skeptics still falsely believe that the spiritual world is nonsense. That is their loss.

Hallucinations caused by trauma

Ketamine, a general anaesthetic and tranquilizer

Anecdotal nonsense

Fizzing neurons in my oxygen-starved brain

Anesthesia awareness, in which a person is conscious but can’t move

Fighter pilots experiencing rapid acceleration in a centrifuge

Psychosis, due to severe neurochemical imbalance

Sluggish brain activity

Sound transmission through the operating table itself (love this one)

Dimethyltryptamine, (DMT) a naturally-occurring tryptamine and psychedelic drug

Electrical stimulation of the temporal lobe

High levels of carbon dioxide (hypercarbia)

REM intrusion

Cascade of electrical activity in a dying brain

LSD, psilocarpine, and/or mescaline

Altered blood levels of carbon dioxide and potassium

Pineal gland, home to this “spirit molecule.”

Recollections, consisting of fragmented and random memories

Delusions while using drugs or alcohol

Tricks of the mind

False memories

Brain states that occur due to a dying

Neural noise, the effect would be a light at the center

Cerebral anoxia, the lack of oxygen to the brain

Dissociation, a typical reaction to stress

Rapid firing of neuronal mechanisms

NDE accounts may have been contaminated

NDEs are the work of Satan

Telepathic communications from doctors, nurses

Overheard while in a groggy state

Use of Ouija board while stoned on marijuana

Septic shock, from myocardial ischemia (Cardiogenic shock)

Temporolimbic epilepsy

Dreams, just dreams

Near-Death Experiences are in the Mind

Nothing more than neuronal events

(Now which one is it, or it is all of them, or part of them, that a rational person is supposed to believe. Skeptics speak nonsense.)

After looking through this list if you see anything I have missed, please add it as a comment to this post. I will thank you for it.

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