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Commentary on "Psychophysiological and cultural correlates undermining a survivalist interpretation of near-death experiences".

2007; International Association for Near-Death Studies; Volume: 26; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.17514/jnds-2007-26-2-p127-145.

1573-3661

Bruce Greyson, Chester Carlson,

Jungian Analytical Psychology

Keith Augustine has provided a legitimate and cogent critique of a transcendental interpretation of near-death experiences, exposing weaknesses in the research methodology, paucity of the data, and gaps in the arguments. He offers evidence from psychophysiological and cultural correlates of NDEs that he interprets as favoring a hallucinatory understanding of these phenomena. however, his analysis relies on idiosyncratic definitions of psychological concepts, reads unidirectional causality into bivariate correlations, and underestimates the empirical predictions of the separation hypothesis. Despite less than compelling evidence for the transcendental hypothesis, it accounts for NDE phenomenology better than the materialist model.