Near-death experiences and consciousness

The article appears to mainly be reporting statistics on the frequency of occurence and reported effects. These are interesting, because such data had not been previously gathered. But they don't provide any evidence that ndes are caused by other than neural activity.There is one anecdotal report of an OBE. Such anecdotal reports are poor evidence. I don't see any basis for that conclusion.

I retyped the listed findings in that paper

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Findings 62 patients (18%) reported NDE, of whom 41 (12%) described a core experience. Occurrence of the experience was not associated with duration of cardiac arrest or unconsciousness, medication, or fear of death before cardiac arrest. Frequency of NDE was affected by how we defined NDE, the prospective nature of the research in older cardiac patients, age, surviving cardiac arrest in older cardiac patients, age, survivig cardiac arrest in first myocardial infarction, more than one cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) during stay in hospital, previouse NDE, and memory problems after prolonged CPR. Depth of the experience was affected by sex, surviving CPR outside hostpital, and fear before cardiac arrest. Significanatly more patients who had an NDE, especially a deep experience, died within 30 days of CPR (p<0.0001). The process of transformation after NDE took several years, and differed from those of patients who survived cardiac arrest without NDE.

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I don't see anything in those findings that would indicate the NDE occurs when the brain is not active.

Which author are we talking about here? Is it the reporter who wrote the ODE article, or is it the physician who wrote the lancet article?I don't see that claim in the lancet article.

LOLI thought it was clear in the OP, that randman thought he could prove the existence of a spiritual soul.