What strikes me about this story is how, once again, it is the materialist who is the dogmatist insisting that it’s all due to to material causes because, well, it just *has* to be. Meanwhile the people who are actually attending to the evidence and not trying to force the evidence to fit the fundamentalist materialist dogma are no longer nearly so sure of that proposition.
I have no problem with the idea of NDEs. God, under carefully controlled laboratory conditions, can do whatever he likes.
HT: Rod Dreher, who has a little NDE tale of the unexplained his own self.