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>  Yes, it might be something similar, although I have the impression the
>  clear light (the azoth of the alchemists) is an indivisible experience ("I
>  am that I am"), not the complex hallucinations (or whatever) of NDE and
>  OOBE. I would like to point out the similarities with this and temporal 
>  lobe epilepsy (Dostoyevskian epilepsy), and Persinger's experiments:
>  
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hmm.... very intersting...
Anders , note cooincidence that ( the only) two people I know who have been
'brought back" - both - were in a highly agitated, angry state at being
revived ( my uncle actually punched the nurse).