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"No one physiological or psychological model by itself explains all the common features of NDE. The paradoxical occurrence of heightened, lucid awareness and logical thought processes during a period of impaired cerebral perfusion raises particular perplexing questions for our current understanding of consciousness and its relation to brain function. A clear sensorium and complex perceptual processes during a period of apparent clinical death challenge the concept that consciousness is localized exclusively in the brain."

-- Greyson, B. (2001). Posttraumatic stress symptoms following near-death experiences. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 71, 368-373.

”Sabom had interviewed 32 patients who reported NDEs in which they seemed to be watching what was going on around their body. Most of these were cardiac patients who were undergoing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) at the time of their NDE. Sabom then interviewed 25 “control” patients, “seasoned cardiac patients” who had not had an NDE during their previous cardiac-related crises, and asked them to describe a cardiac resuscitation procedure as if they were watching from a third-person perspective. Among all these patients, 80% of the “control” patients made at least one major error in their descriptions, whereas none of the NDE patients made any. Moreover, six of 32 NDE patients related accurate details of idiosyncratic or unexpected (to them) events during their resuscitation. For example, one man, who developed ventricular fibrillation in the coronary care unit, said (among many other things) that the nurse picked up “them shocker things” and “touched them together” and then “everybody moved back away from it [the defibrillator]”. As Sabom explained, rubbing the defibrillator paddles together to lubricate them and standing back from the defibrillator to avoid being shocked are common procedures.
An even more difficult challenge to ordinary psychological or physiological theories of NDEs comes from cases in which experiencers report that, while out of the body, they became aware of events occurring at a distance or that in some other way would have been beyond the reach of their ordinary senses even if they had been fully and normally conscious. … Some of these accurate perceptions included unexpected or unlikely details, such as a woman in childbirth who reported being out of her body and seeing her mother in the waiting room smoking a cigarette; according to the daughter, the mother (a non-smoker) “admitted much later that she had ‘tried’ one or two because she was so nervous!””

-- Kelly, Edward F. & Emily (2006), Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century, sida 389, aktuell sida kan läsas här: http://books.google.se/books?id=2oV61CeDx-YC&pg=PA386&lpg=PA386&dq=nde+enhanced+mentation&so urce=bl&ots=cuBgE7Mu3i&sig=MYbubTnRfMCV5dnIRug-m19NvWE&hl=sv&ei=eX4hSu36KcONsAb2yYDQBg&sa=X&oi=bo ok_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPA372,M1

2. De flesta som har en NDE, och det är skitmånga som har haft en, anser sej veta att det finns liv efter döden och en andevärld där detta *liv* håller till. Det ger starkt empiriskt stöd för att så är fallet.

3. Jag har kunskap om denna andevärld eftersom jag har läst hundratals om inte tusentals rapporter, och även hundratalet summeringar av andra om vad NDE:are berättar vidare i statistiskt samklang.