I think the philosophical consequences of 'leaving materialism behind' are quite severe. I think one of the biggest changes will be the removal of a, what I like to call, sphere of influence. Even though materialistically there is acceptance that everything is 'intrinsically linked', and these might seem quite profound like "we are all stardust". It is a mere shadow of what is meant by 'intrinsically linked' in a post materialistic
(from the skeptiko perspective of mind as independent entity) world. The limiting factors like the speed of light and other laws of nature, including time, are no longer applying to the concept. If all the evidence that we accumulated is correct. What you say, think and how you act are immediately felt everywhere. It will drastically change our psyche.
However we as Westerners have conditioned ourselves to not think about and not confront ourselves with the consequences of our actions. Our capitalism for instance is causing major poverty and pollution, it is extremely wasteful. We ban it from our mind, we have to. The philosophy of materialism allows us to put time and distance between us and our consequences. Besides that, it also allows us to think that morals, meaning and purpose are not extending beyond our own minds. Whatever they are, within materialism their value is limited and we get to pick and choose where we apply it. Which is another instance of where materialism is impacting our sphere of influence. Then there is the whole concept of hierarchy, which is not so clearly linked to our materialistic worldviews. But our concept of hierarchy is linked to how big the sphere of influence is. And in a world where one can't say, "my mind reaches further than yours", undoubtedly there will be an impact on how we hierarchically structure society and religion.
As such I don't see this happening at any point in the near future. Some cultures are much more acceptable to these views than others, but as human race we are currently busy with things like health, prosperity, and literacy. A lot of people on this planet are busy surviving instead of 'living'. We are just starting to feel the effects of our ideologies 'at home' and we are in the process of changing all these things. This is a slow process and we are making just small steps. Living in a post-materialist world is not something we are going to see in our lifetimes or in the lifetimes of our children. The ideas and views that we as proponents have are nothing but another ideology, a driving force behind our actions. One that for us overrules bigger and more powerful ideologies like religious or political ones. As it stands today, we have absolutely nothing to say nor have any representatives in these arenas. So, don't bet on it. [
This is basically where we are at.] We're trying to find ground in philosophy, which usually is the first step towards expanding ideas and ideologies. The NDE studies are the first 'paranormal' studies to find traction within mainstream and this has only really been going on for the last decennia or so. It has been mainly because of our concerns with health, finding new resuscitation techniques and getting a deeper understanding of the dying process. It was not a quest to prove that the afterlife existed, instead it was a 'materialistic' inquiry. This is all despite of the fact that 'paranormal' research has been going on for a century, it is not an extension of 'paranormal' results. We've put NDE logically as an extension of these results, but for most of the world the 'paranormal' research simply does not exist. Conclusions made from the NDE research in mainstream are made without any knowledge of the PSI-sciences. It's only after they made the 'right' conclusions that they might possibly consider looking at that data.
So we will not see much 'paranormal' conclusions being drawn from this. Even though it seems so obvious for the people familiar with the psi-sciences. This obviousness is not coming out of the NDE research and it's a consequence of the overview we as proponents have on all the aspects of the PSI-sciences. I'm certainly not expecting a snowball effect to come out of this venture into mainstream, it just barely started snowing. We have to appreciate how far at the forefront skeptiko actually is. Predicting the future of all this 'new' knowledge is maybe a bit premature. But that this knowledge is up against some major ideologies, and that these major ideologies have an enormous impact on our lives. It's pretty clear in my mind that moving into a post-materialistic world is a very slow, but also very drastic change.