Ketamine is sometimes used for surgical anesthesia when people are found after car crashes, and it definitely regularly causes hallucinations of precisely that sort, which is the reason it is not the most favored anesthetic. If your dad indeed received ketamine, I think that’s a very likely explanation. There is also a theory that near death experiences sometimes result from a release of natural DMT.
I am way more inclined to believe in the ultimate benevolence of the universe than most people here (which means that an afterlife or something like FAI resurrecting all dead is not as unlikely as the God of Abraham), but still think that most NDEs are explainable in terms of neural activity.
Not sure I’m parsing your parenthetical statement correctly, but a universe ruled by the Abrahamic God is a universe I definitely wouldn’t label as “ultimately benevolent”, rather the opposite in fact.
I was unfamiliar with ketamine. Here is what Wikipedia says about it’s side effects, which confirms the above re. hallucinations. The wiki article contains several journal references, if interested.
Ketamine is sometimes used for surgical anesthesia when people are found after car crashes, and it definitely regularly causes hallucinations of precisely that sort, which is the reason it is not the most favored anesthetic. If your dad indeed received ketamine, I think that’s a very likely explanation. There is also a theory that near death experiences sometimes result from a release of natural DMT.
I am way more inclined to believe in the ultimate benevolence of the universe than most people here (which means that an afterlife or something like FAI resurrecting all dead is not as unlikely as the God of Abraham), but still think that most NDEs are explainable in terms of neural activity.
Not sure I’m parsing your parenthetical statement correctly, but a universe ruled by the Abrahamic God is a universe I definitely wouldn’t label as “ultimately benevolent”, rather the opposite in fact.
The universe with a non-Abrahamic afterlife is both more benevolent and more probable than the type of afterlife preached by modern theists.
I was unfamiliar with ketamine. Here is what Wikipedia says about it’s side effects, which confirms the above re. hallucinations. The wiki article contains several journal references, if interested.