Is this a joke?
I scoffed so much during the first episode that I nearly choked and had an NDE myself.
I came here to find some likeminded people who were also baffled that something so nonsensical could be funded, filmed and published. I was shocked that the closest I got was people who thought the mediums were stupid, and a few who seemed to agree that there wasn't enough opposition to the proponents of the NDEs, but they otherwise weren't bothered with the first episode. (Edit: I realised there were extra reviews that I hadn't seen and there were actually others who were as critical and far more articulate than me)
Uh, no. While there is plenty of evidence that people who experience near death report interesting psychological experiences, to go from something equivalent to a DMT trip, aspects of an acid trip, or even a very vivid dream to PhDs from Cambridge and the University of Virginia claiming this is irrefutable evidence of an afterlife and miracles? Hilarious.
There is a reason that these people have no platform in mainstream psychology... because their claims break down the moment they need to prove something. Doesn't it seem a bit convenient that all of these people who have ostensibly experienced an afterlife can report no novel information? The woman who was experiencing traumatic pre-natal anxiety and depression is supported by a practising doctor in believing that she has supernatural powers?! That she has legitimate premonitions about the future? I couldn't imagine being so self absorbed as to think that while infants starve to death overseas, middle class flop on a kayaking trip is protected by the universe because she has so many important things to contribute, that she is sent back from heaven.
Give me a break.
I came here to find some likeminded people who were also baffled that something so nonsensical could be funded, filmed and published. I was shocked that the closest I got was people who thought the mediums were stupid, and a few who seemed to agree that there wasn't enough opposition to the proponents of the NDEs, but they otherwise weren't bothered with the first episode. (Edit: I realised there were extra reviews that I hadn't seen and there were actually others who were as critical and far more articulate than me)
Uh, no. While there is plenty of evidence that people who experience near death report interesting psychological experiences, to go from something equivalent to a DMT trip, aspects of an acid trip, or even a very vivid dream to PhDs from Cambridge and the University of Virginia claiming this is irrefutable evidence of an afterlife and miracles? Hilarious.
There is a reason that these people have no platform in mainstream psychology... because their claims break down the moment they need to prove something. Doesn't it seem a bit convenient that all of these people who have ostensibly experienced an afterlife can report no novel information? The woman who was experiencing traumatic pre-natal anxiety and depression is supported by a practising doctor in believing that she has supernatural powers?! That she has legitimate premonitions about the future? I couldn't imagine being so self absorbed as to think that while infants starve to death overseas, middle class flop on a kayaking trip is protected by the universe because she has so many important things to contribute, that she is sent back from heaven.
Give me a break.
- a_peckham
- Jan 29, 2021