[[” Why would evolution develop such a mechanism? What benefit is it unless there]]
Not that I beleive in evolution, but if we are arguing this, then it wou,d be the same benefit that animals have when they get predated upon and go into shock and are eaten alive and don’t struggle or apparently feel the pain. The body and brain especially fights furiously to protect itself through various mechanisms.
[[As for frightful NDEs, they seem to be a warning to change course in life]]
I was and am still on the right course- it was more the evil one trying to dissuade me from staying on the right path- thak,fully he didn’t succeed. (Although I later swerved severely all on my own, like a dummy)
As for the mediums, again, lying spirits- sure they get in touch with something, but not th3 dead- these spirits keep them blind- and just for the record, mediums are only Correct about 60 some odd percent of the time, not much better than random guesswork, although they are more skilled at “reading situations” and guessing facts because they train themselves to do so.
Not all spirits lie, and there are many examples of good spirits in the Bible. After all, angels are spirits. There are times in the Bible and elsewhere when spirits protect against harm and save lives.
As for mediums, caution and skepticism are always in order, but to give one good example, there is a medium in Long Island named George Anderson who have submitted to testing and conducts regular public sessions in a way that makes fraud virtually impossible. Unusually, Anderson is also a devout Catholic and has the approval of the local diocese.
There is also an organization that tests and credentials mediums based on a rigorous test protocol. More broadly, the phenomena of NDEs and past life regressions is consistent with out of body experiences (OBEs). Extensive study has given them a credibility that is hard to dispute.