Well...what he says matches Hindu philosophy very well... It is in fact Hindu philosophy!
And....?
Try this for scientific views.... A good interview...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH4VKrb2Bdc
This guy seems to be a True Believer. He, and others, have found evidence of
physical brain activity at the relevant times that explain even the solitary patient from the AWARE studies that seemed to recall actual details from a time when their heart was stopped:
Lifting the Veil on Near-Death Experiences"
In 2023 Borjigin and her colleagues published what they suspect could be a signature of NDEs in the dying brain. The researchers analyzed EEG data from four comatose patients before and after their ventilators were removed. As their brains became deprived of oxygen, two of the dying patients exhibited a paradoxical surge of gamma activity, a type of high-frequency brain wave linked to the formation of memory and the integration of information."
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A 2023 study led by Parnia and detailed in his 2024 book, Lucid Dying
, provides further evidence of brain activity after patients’ hearts have stopped. Parnia and his colleagues worked with 25 hospitals in the U.S., the U.K. and Bulgaria to review EEG and brain-oxygen data from 567 people who experienced an in-hospital cardiac arrest. Medical staff managed to collect interpretable EEG data from 53 of these patients. Most showed an electrical flatline during the crisis, but in around 40 percent of those cases, neurological activity consistent with that of conscious brains transiently reemerged—in some instances up to an hour into CPR."
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According to Parnia, this study presents “a coherent, mechanistic explanation” for how and why people have recalled experiences of death."
And yet he's still clinging to his beliefs:
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The purpose of this change, he suggests, is to prepare the person “for a new reality”—the transition from life to death, a condition in which, Parnia believes, consciousness endures."
Not surprisingly:
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Other scientists flatly disagree. “When you have an NDE, you must have a functioning brain to store the memory, and you have to survive with an intact brain so you can retrieve that memory and tell about it,” Kondziella says. “You can’t do that without a functioning brain, so all those arguments that NDEs prove that there’s consciousness outside the brain are simply nonsense.”"
The article also highlights a correlation between people who have NDEs and those who have "REM sleep intrusion", again suggesting a physical, brain based explanation, rather than woo.
What's more, to make this daft question make any sense, you need life before birth, not after death.
