The phrase kundalini buzz' is often used, especially if the experience is pleasant enough, and the experient has been exposed to new age' or Yoga concepts. A visiting angel says it has known you for many lives. One can be taken on a tour of the universe and feel that all the mysteries are revealed. These mysteries are seen to be truths which one had only forgotten, as their content is perceived through neural avenues that usually manifest memories. In western countries, NDEs that go through all stages include life reviews that can replay a whole lifetime.
Humans are a social species.
As we saw in the chapter on the amygdala, our sense of self responds as if it were threatened when a person's social status is threatened, as though one were one's social position. Our self esteem rises and falls in response to social interactions. The human sense of self, we will argue, is partly a social phenomenon. Whenever we are interacting with others, we are externalizing a part of our self onto them. Our experience of the person is largely egocentric, as we assume that their experiences are like our own.