Yes I clicked on this thinking it was Ben Carson.

on his brain function.

I'm sure he would have considered that before coming to another conclusion, especially since he had no belief in an afterlife prior to this experience.

about it.

prompted the book....Too bad it's just idle speculation on your part.

You seem incredibly invested in this, even to the extent of personalizing your rebuttals.

Actually, I find it's you who seems "incredibly invested in this".
You've yet to read the book, but feel comfortable ascribing dishonest, pecuniary motives to it's author.

I see it listed he was "near death" and "in a coma", but not clinically dead.

he claims what he experienced was clinically impossible

chance of staying alive" and he fell into a coma for a week. And you expect him that he was at this point in a good state to make rational, evidence-based observations and conclusions about the state he was in?

bit I'm not a neurosurgeon, and I suspect, you aren't either...Just sayin'.

it doesn't matter whether you are a brain surgeon or not, you are not functioning at 100%. He should know that. Even as a neurosurgeon, it is impossible for him to pinpoint the exact moment he had this experience. When this story is told, it's always stressed that it happened to a neurosurgeon as if that gives the story any additional credibility regarding the conclusions that were made about the experience. It doesn't even remotely.

...Some are more inclined to be open minded.

He claims a lot of weird shit, too.

and the "shit" he claims is of a more political nature.

You don't have to be one of those to be open to the possibility of an after.life.

I'd like some actual proof to go with it.

I'm open to the possibility. Hell, I WANT it to be true. But I've seen no evidence as to such yet.

That he's a neurosurgeon?.....Look up the book on Amazon...You should get all the information you need. Have a nice day.

I tend not to read books that make outrageous claims that can’t be measured with science.

but I don't throw out ALL anecdotal evidence either, especially when there's a very large body of it.
Strict empiricism has its weaknesses, especially when one considers that science can't yet explain everything and we have further to go and more to explore.

clinical death means his heart stopped and he wasn't breathing. Brain activity continues for a short while after that, and if he was hooked up to life support systems, indefinitely. It doesn't mean he was dead. It means his heart stopped.

Near death experiences are not death experiences. People claiming they are either are lying (to sell books for example) or confused.

I think you should alert the author to this glaring oversight on his part - .As q neurosurgeon, I'm sure he and his colleagues are in dire need of your expertise. . Buh bye now.

I am so glad you posted a link to Skeptic.

Way back in 1990 I got a subscription from my dad to Skeptical Inquirer and I kept stacks of them for about 12 years. The CSICOP literature was a fascinating trip into the analysis of the claimed paranormal.

I've got a lot of catching up to do.
Thanks again.

an Out Of Body experience.

I did go OOB several times during my time in 'Nam.
I can still do it from time to time.
The Monroe Institute teaches it.
If it is an "hallucination" of the brain, how is it able view itself
from across the room?

For me, post life was just like what I felt during pre life. NOTHING..

for others, it's not.

But don't get any sense of a heaven or what not.