How Can We Prove That Clinical Death is a Real Phenomenon?

From testimonies I have heard, the experience of the afterlife in clinical death depends on one's religion. A Christian sees Jesus, and a Jew sees a type of judgment; I've heard of Japanese, Buddhists, and others experiencing different things. Why doesn't everyone see the same truth?

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Greetings,

Clinical death is a phenomenon studied by leading psychiatrists and neurologists (brain researchers) who have concluded that the phenomenon is real and cannot be explained by the nature of the brain. Among them are Dr. Kubler Ross and Dr. Raymond Moody.

Regarding your question about seeing Jesus or Muhammad, I inquired about this subject, and it turns out that only a few claimed to have seen figures during clinical death.

In serious research books on this subject, there is no mention of talking to Jesus or angels. The vast majority of clinically dead individuals reported a divine entity asking if they wished to return to their bodies; they all described seeing the tunnel leading to the afterlife, and often they encountered deceased relatives. However, only a few claimed to have seen religious figures during that time. As known, one cannot learn a scientific phenomenon from the testimonies of a few people (limited testimonies can naturally be distorted or mistaken). A scientific phenomenon is learned only from extensive testimonies that cannot be denied.

The phenomenon of clinical death has been documented in over 10 million cases worldwide, with statistics indicating more than 30 million clinically dead individuals, and it appears that many more exist globally. This is a worldwide scientific phenomenon, not just a personal experience of this or that person. When we seek to learn about the phenomenon, we must approach the general and see what most people who have experienced clinical death report. Indeed, everyone describes an out-of-body experience, a tunnel fixed in the ceiling leading to a final disconnection from the body, a divine entity of light that communicated with them through thought, and often deceased relatives. This is the classic near-death experience that recurs repeatedly.

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Now, regarding the few cases where people reported seeing a religious figure, I propose the following interpretation -

First, we must remember that no one knows what Jesus actually looked like, or Muhammad, or, on a different note, Elijah the Prophet, and no one can testify that they recognized with certainty the person they saw. We can always speculate that those clinically dead saw an angel or an important righteous figure, and while the Christian interpreted it as seeing Jesus, the Muslim interpreted it as seeing Muhammad, and on a different note, some Jew thought they saw Elijah the Prophet.

Additionally, we must acknowledge that there are degrees in leaving the body, and there are degrees in dying (hence clinical death is professionally called "near-death experience"), and thus, it is very likely that some of those experiencing clinical death were still connected to their bodies at that time, and their true experience was interfered with or disrupted by the brain.

In simpler terms - not all clinically dead individuals completely left the body and disconnected from the brain. There are situations where the brain was still alert, or partially alert. Therefore, in a few cases, it happens occasionally that the true experience outside of their body got intermingled with thoughts coming from the brain just like in a true dream, about which the sages have said there is no true dream "without idle things," meaning there is a state where even a spiritual experience where the soul sees the absolute truth in higher worlds can sometimes be interpreted by the person's brain. The sages revealed to us that even righteous ones whose souls leave their bodies and visit higher worlds, and receive true messages in the world of truth, despite all this, their experience may be mixed with memories and imaginations from the brain in a partial state of consciousness during sleep. Therefore, the sages said they show a person only from the thoughts of his heart".

For this reason, it seems that scientifically a single person cannot prove with their clinical death the existence of the afterlife. Clinical death proves life after death not because of a single story experienced by a specific person, but precisely because we have millions of identical stories, and we discover here a scientific phenomenon that exists in all humans reaching the brink of death. It is impossible to claim that millions of people "imagined" the same out-of-body experience, floating, tunnel, conversations with a mysterious light through thought, and return to the body.

The very fact that thirty million clinically dead people worldwide and more reported the same experience, proves that the experience is real, and this is the first process of the soul's exit from the body upon the person's death.

The booklet "Critical Conversation" is dedicated to also dealing with the subject of clinical death.
I recommend reading this booklet (on the existence of the Creator, religions, oral Torah, free will, why Hashem created us, and more). It is advisable to read until the surprising end, and not to skip any topic. To read the booklet - search on Google for the words "Critical Conversation".
Best regards,
Daniel Blass