NDEs and OBEs are Not Experiences, They are Hallucinations So Should Correctly Be NDHs and OBHs.

Thanks Con for your Input: Which may be quite valuable as this debate progresses.Con states: An event however is: a thing that happens, esp. one of importance.Yes, though an actual "Event" as used in the definition of an Experience, is an objective (tangible) entity, yet the imaginary events of Hallucinations are Subjective entities, and Subjective entities do not actually exist, so call an unreal, imaginary, subjective event an experience is not accurate, a more accurate term is Hallucination, thus a Near Death Hallucination makes far more rational sense than the term Near Death Experience, as to call them experiences is misleading and leads to individuals, such as others I have had similar debates with, into thinking of NDHs as being proof of subjective reality, like afterlife, which in fact they are not. Firstly: Buddhism has taught that our sense of Self is an Illusion, made up of many Components. Neurology has found much agreement with this teaching of Buddhism.Here is a Youtube clip where V.S. Ramachandran, discussing the workings of the human mind with a Buddhist Researcher B. Allan Wallace.Their topic is "The brain, the mind and its potential "http://www.youtube.com...Ramachandran stated that the big difference between humans is that humans are not happy just being human, humans want to transcend their mortal frame and reach for the stars. I translate this to: Humans are essentially Ego driven our human ego is not happy with just being an extended upright ape. This is one of the essential driving forces for subjective, artificial reality and religious concepts in humans. Some modern humans, like myself are happy with just being an upright, very clever ape. Here is a statement from Oliver Sacks who has been researching Neuro-Psychology, NDHs, OBHs and Hallucinations.Sacks is regarded as the world's leading authority on Hallucinations.His book entitled "Hallucinations" is well worth reading."Sooner or later, with this intensive practice, for some of the congregants, the mind may leap from imagination to hallucination, and the congregant hears God, sees God, feelsGod walking beside them. These yearned-for voices and visions have the reality of perception, and this is because they activate the perceptual systems of the brain, as all hallucinations do. These visions, voices, and feelings of “presence” are accompanied by intense emotion — emotions of joy, peace, awe, revelation. Some evangelicals may have many such experiences; others only a single one — but even a single experience of God, imbued with the overwhelming force of actual perception, can be enough to sustain a lifetime of faith. (For those who are not religiously inclined, such experiences may occur with meditation or intense concentration on an artistic or intellectual or emotional plane, whether this is falling in love or listening to Bach, observing the intricacies of a fern, or cracking a scientific problem.) In the last decade or two, there has been increasingly active research in the field of “spiritual neurosciences.” There are special difficulties in this research, for religious experiences cannot be summoned at will; they come, if at all, in their own time and way — the religious would say in God’s time and way. Nonetheless, researchers have been able to demonstrate physiological changes not only in pathological states like seizures, OBEs, and NDEs, but also in positive states like prayer and meditation. Typically these changes are quite widespread, involving not only primary sensory areas in the brain, but limbic (emotional) systems, hippocampal (memory) systems, and the prefrontal cortex, where intentionality and judgement reside. Hallucinations, whether revelatory or banal, are not of supernatural origin; they are part of the normal range of human consciousness and experience." From: http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com...Essentially, Sacks sums up much of my case in this.CON also stated: " NDE is widely considered and accepted as a real event and in no way is simply a hallucination. In fact, there are even characteristics that are common for this. A sense/awareness of being dead. A sense of peace, well-being and painlessness. Positive emotions. A sense of removal from the world. An out of body experience. A perception of one's body from an outside position. Sometimes observing doctors and nurses performing medical resuscitation efforts. A "tunnel experience". A sense of moving up, or through, a passageway or staircase. A rapid movement toward and/or sudden immersion in a powerful light. Communication with the light. An intense feeling of unconditional love. Encountering "Beings of Light", "Beings dressed in white", or similar. Also, the possibility of being reunited with deceased loved ones." Problem for Con is, all these and much more, can also be products of Hallucinations.1: They don't really have any sense of being dead, because, brain wise, they are not really dead, as they have neuron function at least, likely a lot more is still working, in order for them to recover as they do. 2: Hallucinations often bring a sense of surreal calmness, even my own experiences of Hallucinations have all been peaceful and I too have had OBHs where I actually floated above myself and watched myself grow old.3: The tunnel experience is extremely common in Hallucinations, and Hallucinations are often far more vivid than reality. 4: A feeling on unconditional Love is a chemical inbalance, likely Oxytocin and Dopamine are being released or present which gives humans that feeling of being carressed and loved. Also present in Hallucinations.5: The sense of light, is also common in Hallucinations, Sacks covers this in his book, "Hallucinations".Both Ramachandran and Sacks have separately stated that there is nothing in NDE and OBE experiences that do not occur in Hallucinations. Hallucinations were the reason for much of my experimentation with drugs in the 70s, I was a seeker of Hallucinations, Oliver Sacks experimented on himself in similar ways, yet he had more medical knowledge about what he was doing.One cough mixture that we would use to generate hallucinations, often had the person surrounded by people, deceased and not deceased as if they were really with them. In one deliberately induced Hallucination, I had many of my friends telling me jokes that I had never heard before and my grandfather who died two years before was with them, though his voice did not match and when asking one of those I met a year later which told me the very funny joke, he did not know it.So I realized from the start that it was a hallucination, with real people in it.My brain created the whole party scene and filled that party with familiar faces. Yes, the brain is an amazing organ.Yet it can also be incredibly Deceptive, which is likely what NDHs and OBHs are, brain based illusions, that are so real that they become delusional.We are being deceived by our brains 24/7, Buddhism agrees with this as the Buddhist hints on that clip I started this post with.Enjoy the clip! It's very though provoking! :-D~