“Solving the Riddle of Near-Death Experiences”

An article in the current issue of The Atlantic provides a pretty good overview of the current issues:

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/03/the-science-of-near-death-experiences/386231/

I think I detect a bias toward an ultimately materialistic explanation in Gideon Lichfield’s writing — he tends to call it “scientific” — but he provides a reasonably fair summation.  And I’m inclined to think that, if he’s giving us the best the materialists can offer, they don’t have really have all that much.