The living dead -Times Online
But a bucket of iced water is necessary at this point. Few scientists think any of this is going to happen. Believers in a new dualism -- or, indeed, believers that there is anything more to NDEs than a psychologically interesting hallucination -- are still in a small minority. The problem is that all the evidence remains anecdotal, and even the most impressive stories, like Reynolds's, tend to look less convincing on closer examination. "There are many claims of this kind," writes the prominent psychologist Susan Blackmore, "but in my long decades of research into NDEs I never met any convincing evidence that they are true."
But a bucket of iced water is necessary at this point. Few scientists think any of this is going to happen. Believers in a new dualism -- or, indeed, believers that there is anything more to NDEs than a psychologically interesting hallucination -- are still in a small minority. The problem is that all the evidence remains anecdotal, and even the most impressive stories, like Reynolds's, tend to look less convincing on closer examination. "There are many claims of this kind," writes the prominent psychologist Susan Blackmore, "but in my long decades of research into NDEs I never met any convincing evidence that they are true."
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