at the end of chapter six, dr. egnor makes the following comments concerning Nde’s:
“from a research perspective, we could say that the retrospective evidence for nde’s is massive. . . . it’s also significant that religious beliefs and previous knowledge do not necessarily predispose a person to a near-death experience. . . . there isn’t even a remotely plausible physical explanation for this phenomenon. . . . verified nde’s confirm that there is an immaterial aspect to the human person - call it mind or soul - that survives the death of the brain. . . . as bruce greyson has said, ‘far from leading us away from science and into superstition, nde research actually shows that by applying the methods of science to the nonphysical aspects of our world, we can describe reality much more accurately than if we limit our science to nothing but physical matter and energy. . . . near-death experiences catch the mind, the human soul, in the act of surviving the death of the brain. . . . we must demonstrate that the soul belongs to a class of things that are, by their very nature, immortal. there are, we will show, some pretty good reasons to think that the soul, unlike the body, not only does not die, but cannot die.”