I assure you that a person who decides to hate millions of people based on skin color or eye shape because of some personal experience has undergone a life change. For you to say otherwise is nothing more than sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting “LA LA LA.”
This is silly on every level. No scientist has claimed to have proven that NDEs do not occur, so your whole point is a straw man aimed at something you are making up so that you can cling to your beliefs.
Some scientists have proposed various physical causes to explain the memories of NDEs, but no scientist has claimed to have disproven NDEs. Why are you making the dishonest argument that “science is mistaken” when “science” (meaning the entire fields of neurobiology, neurology, psychology, and all the related disciplines) have not “said” anything on the subject?
You are trying to derail the discussion by making false claims.
A method is NOT a “series of beliefs.” The scientific method is a series of actions in which people who disagree with each other make and test observations. No one scientist can performn an experiment and declare that he or she has discovered “the truth.” That is not how it works. (And if you knew a tenth of what you claim to know about science, you would already be aware of this.)
Instead, a scientist makes an observation, designs a test to see whether his observation is accurate, then publishes the results of the test. The results will include the time and duration of the event, the physical conditions of the location of the event, etc. When he publishes his results, several oither scientists are asked to comment on whether they think his test will/would actually demonstrate his observation. Even when that happens, no one believes that anything has been proven. Instead, other people who agree with the tests and still other people who disagree with the tests try to replicate the test following the guidelines of the first scientist. To the extent that those who agree and those who disagree all come to the same conclusions following their various tests, the original scientist’s hypotheses are accepted as accurate (until a better hypothesis is put forward).
So far, we have one scientist who has noted that people who experience NDEs have similar life stories to people who are administered the drug ketamine. (He has not made any claim about the experience except to note the parallel.) We also have (so far) one single group of scientists who have actually attempted to verify that OBEs are not dreams–and they have not yet produced any results.
So when you attack “science” as being “mistaken,” what you are actually doing is saying that you are afraid that science might provide an alternative explanation than a link to the spirit world and would rather make a preemptive dismissal of science before it can produce any real evidence so that you can go on believing stuff even if, in the future, science does provide a physical explanation of NDEs.
As I and others have noted, you contiually attack science for being wrong, then turn around and try to appeal to science when you believe it supports you. That is blatant hypocrisy. If science is going to get it wrong, then you have no right to post that science has “shown” anything. Just post your beliefs as beliefs and cite your anecdotes as personal testimonies and leave science out of your posts.