NDE's are really interesting. I can't say much for the "truth" contained in their message, though. By that I mean, there should be some questions we can answer to put us on a path to figuring out if NDE's are rooted in spirituality or the physical world.
Some questions:
Do members of other faiths besides Christianity experience NDE involving Christianity's Jesus?
Do Christians who experienced NDE's report meeting anyone besides what the Christian faith describes?
Do these NDE's describe an experience that 100%, or overwhelmingly, coincides with modern Christianity?
Has an Atheist ever had an NDE and experienced God or was there a different scenario?
Has a Muslim ever seen Mohammed in a NDE? Why not Jesus, if yes?
Do non-believers experience Aliens or a different higher power?
Can NDE's be replicated with drugs or some other manipulation of the way the brain works?
Has a Christian ever had a NDE and seen a different God?


There are many other questions, but it should be easy to ascertain first if NDE's follow along cultural and spiritual guidelines without needing an inter-dimensional spaceship. I would think one of the first things to do in order to prove NDE's as real would be to determine a singular reality for the experiences. Meaning that these NDE's are objective rather than subjective. Surely if you meet your friends and family in heaven, then there is only one heaven. If there is only one God and Jesus, why would there be infinite heavens? So there should be only one objective reality that their souls travel to, no? Science could certainly figure out what NDE's are, but NOT with the assumption that everything the bible says is true, Christianity is right, and God is real. It seems only religious people think NDE's are real, while everyone else considers the phenomenon real just not the idea these people have memories of heaven.

Originally posted by Eavel

How does that account for a blind person from birth, seeing the object and able to clearly describe it?

Skeptics always crack me up, must be lonely in your head since you believe it is all for not.

Well, I would say I would be completely shocked if he described an object as we all see it. I would be shocked because our eyes see only a narrow spectrum of light. Being that he was blind from birth, he would not know how we see things. (If he really was blind from birth.) So why would he describe an object like we see it and not some other way. On a side note: Boy, I bet when a blind man hallucinates, HE REALLY HALLUCINATES. lol Think about it. Turn off the lights. Now, what do you see? What does your cat see? Might not be 100% analogous, but I think you get my point. Why would a blind man, from birth mind you, when given the chance to see, only see in ways we see and not in different wavelengths? Why didn't he describe what the object looked like in infrared or x-rays? I dunno if this post makes any sense. lol

Anyone have a link to the study?

All I can find on the internet is speculation as to when the results of the Aware Study will be released, but no results.