He doesn’t believe patients who report near-death experiences get to a state where there’s no detectable brain response whatsoever. If that were true they would be classified as brain dead, “and I know of no case in the literature of a brain dead patient coming back.” Owen’s not saying they’re not almost dead. None of the nine who reported NDEs — and neither of the two who reported out-of-body experiences — reported seeing the hidden images. Last August, a team from Imperial College London reported that the psychedelic drug DMT mimics near-death experiences in the brain. Thirteen volunteers given intravenous DMT completed the Greyson scale — that standardized questionnaire that tries to quantify near-death experiences.

Source: National Post April 18, 2019 10:01 UTC