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Michael, if you can point to me part of my post where I said that NDES are the result of psychosis - please do. Though frankly, I don't give shit if you do or if you will come up with some clever crap to hide your inability to understand the analogy. According to Alex, substances that open the...

Wasn't my intention. Wasn't my intention either. I am sorry if it came out this way.

Felt like a good metaphor at the time. Sorry if it came out offensive. "Holding someone responsible" is human concept. Can you hold water responsible for a drowning or lightning for someone's electrocution? I think God is outside these concepts. I might, if you tell me what the prize is.

If you speak to born-again Christians you will notice that for them reality is quite simple: good things are from God and bad are from the Satan. Why does god let children die of leukaemia? Why that nice guy snapped and killed a policeman? Why that guy who went to church every Sunday got cancer...

It fascinates me. In regards to its origins I am on the fence, hence my presence here. (Fence-hence-pres'ence). Long provided us with the statistical breakdown of what people report in NDE based on his religiously oriented questionnaire - from what I can gather from the interview. And what you...

Can you tell me why this is coming up, I mean the connection between NDE and mental illness? I never said or implied that NDE is the result of psychosis. What I was trying to demonstrate that the chain of evidence is Long's research may easily be flawed - using the example of schizophrenics who...

Is this your fantasy, to see me without my pants?

Yeah, that's what all doctors are, patronising jerks. No compassionate type among them, except for those who study NDE and come to survivalist conclusion, is that it? It's simply not possible to have an argument here, let alone win is, is it? All I did was to demonstrate the fallacy of Long's...

No, I am giving an example of massaging the data in order to get seemingly more meaningful result.

Before spitting sarcasm you should work on your comprehension: Mitchell-Yellin never questioned that people experienced NDE. He was arguing against the survivalist position. Here is the screenshot from the introduction to his book: To be honest, I am not sure what part of my post is your...

Let me give you an illustration of what Dr. Long has achieved in his study. When I was a medical student I did eight weeks rotation in psychiatry. It was very revealing and at times frightening. I was shocked to discover that what I thought is the subject of jokes - people imagining themselves...

Good point. Yet it seems that for dreaming we need a functional brain. Thank you.

It all depends if God is central or peripheral to the research (I am very tempted to take the word in quotes). If the conclusion of the work is waved as the evidence of God - the agenda is clear. Some are more abstract than others. Some are more testable than others. Check these out: Coronary...

I am used to the fact that lately interviews don't actually tell anything about the work done by the guest. I was waiting for the groundbreaking part of Dr Long's study, alas, it never came. What perfectly clear thought is that he has religious agenda, there could be no question about it...

Isn't NDE defined by Grayson's scale? SO if I had a dream that scored, say, an eight, and it din't change my life, what then? Depends how you're going to define this activity. EEG is present during general anaesthesia and during CPR. Is it good enough to convince survivalists that dreaming is...

In another thread I posted the case report of NDE under anaesthesia, with continuous monitoring and deviations from normal physiology. AT the time of the report EEG monitoring wasn't widespread, so it's impossible to say if that particular experience would be reflected on the strip. Given that...

What wee see quite often during anaesthesia is dreams. I had an anaesthetic couple of times, and every time I had pleasant dreams, once quite vivid. Here is the link to an ICU study of dreaming and awareness...

The term awareness under anaesthesia covers the range of possible experiences. It can be explicit or implicit. The former - the patient wakes up and says: "I woke up during the operation and heard what you said etc., etc.", the latter - recalling intra-operative events under persistent...

I think an interview with Bill Storr would be very timely. His book - Skeptics (incidentally) - talks about how we form points of view and how we process information in this light. And many more. The book is an artful mix of deeply personal and scientific. As to the mainstream (or other)...