The big metaphysical case for NDEs
Monika Judith Mandoki, PhD, frames near-death experiences through philosophical idealism — the view that consciousness, not matter, is the foundation of reality. Her argument cuts both ways: materialism fails because dismissing NDEs as hallucinations undermines the reality of all conscious experience, and dualism fails because it cannot explain how a non-physical mind interacts with a physical body. Her conclusion is clean — if consciousness comes first, NDEs are transitions between states of reality, and death becomes transformation rather than annihilation.
Gobble's Take: Philosophy finally shows up to the NDE conversation. About time someone brought the big toolkit.
Source: Coming Home | Substack
The chapter that quietly does the accessibility housekeeping
The near-death experiences chapter is built to be usable: WCAG 2.0 A compliance, table-of-contents and index navigation, a single logical reading order, short and full alternative textual descriptions, high-contrast text, and ARIA roles throughout.
Gobble's Take: Nobody writes the headline "great accessibility features," but somebody always notices when they're missing.
Source: General Review and Conclusions - Near-Death Experiences
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