On this episode, Frank and Megan discuss near death experiences (NDEs). Are NDEs evidence that the mind is separate from the body? Are there any plausible skeptical explanations that explain the data? What might NDEs tell us about particular spiritual and religious worldviews? And could NDEs have something to teach us about humanity's deepest hopes and fears? ----------------------- Hosts' Websites: Megan J Fritts (google.com) [https://sites.google.com/view/meganjfritts/home?authuser=0] Frank J. Cabrera (google.com) [https://sites.google.com/view/frank-j-cabrera/research?pli=1] Email: [email protected] ----------------------- Bibliography: Near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest: a prospective study in the Netherlands - The Lancet [https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673601071008/fulltext] Near-Death Experiences Evidence for Their Reality - PMC (nih.gov) [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6172100/?fbclid=IwAR3FPiiJbvQSk4m737W6t1H0QfbJaYKcWnJyEs0ybcHcgDDRZYPn0OE7NZc] Dell'Olio, Do near-death experiences provide a rational basis for belief in life after death?  [https://philpapers.org/rec/DELDNE] B. Mitchell-Yellin & J. M. Fischer, The Near-Death Experience Argument Against Physicalism: A Critique  [https://philarchive.org/rec/MITTNE-2] R. G. Mays & S. B. Mays, Near-Death Experiences: Extended Naturalism or Promissory Physicalism? A Response to Fischer's Article [https://philpapers.org/rec/MAYNEE] J.M. Fischer, University Professor Lecture: Near-Death Experiences: The Stories They Tell [https://philpapers.org/rec/FISUPL] G.R. Habermas, Evidential Near‐Death Experiences [https://philpapers.org/rec/HABENE] A. J. Ayer – 'What I Saw When I Was Dead'  [https://www.philosopher.eu/others-writings/a-j-ayer-what-i-saw-when-i-was-dead/] Afterlife (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/afterlife/#ParNeaDeaExp] K. Augustine - Hallucinatory Near-Death Experiences » Internet Infidels [https://infidels.org/library/modern/keith-augustine-hndes/] Susan Blackmore Near-Death Experiences: In or out of the body? [https://www.susanblackmore.uk/articles/near-death-experiences-in-or-out-of-the-body-2/] (discussion of Sagan's explanation) Lehoux - The Trouble with Taxa | What Did the Romans Know? An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking [https://academic.oup.com/chicago-scholarship-online/book/12945/chapter-abstract/166100920?redirectedFrom=fulltext](discussion of garlic and magnets) ----------------------- Cover Artwork by Logan Fritts ------------------------- Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/simon-folwar/neon-signs License code: I0NNKBBUOCKXBD02