Hello Haruhi. I am well acquainted with NDE research and once had an article published in the Journal of Near Death Studies. Veridical experiences, lucidity, etc, are evidence of a state, not a culture.
Kay, you had once an article published in JNDS? Just tell me: which one and under what name? I have virtually all issues from the early eighties onwards, so I can check it out
Question - if you are so well acquainted with the NDE, then why are you so negative about them? Why are you trying - in a "friendly" way, so it seems - to explain them away? Why do you play down those encounters with dead relatives, even if there are many cases of relatives the NDE'r in question had never heard of?
Your stance is a big enigma to me, Kay. I hope that friendly face of yours is not of someone who is playing the typical wolf in sheep clothing...;)