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I listened to the video, skeptic that I am, and then looked up the three names mentioned, as well as Swart.

I do not deny there are "near death" experiences. There are. to date, precious few "fully dead experiences" in our culture save the one central to Christian faith.

As to those who have something to say about NDEs, oddly they all also have something to sell, about their NDEs. And some, like Swart, seem to be using it as a part of their grieving process.

'I'm a neurologist who talks with my dead husband daily — here's how I do it' Express UK, 17 September 2025

And .... "Now she asks Bieber [ her deceased husband ] for signs and believes that he delivers. Even that morning, she says, her friend told her she'd matched with a man on a dating app also called Robin Bieber. 'So I looked him up and tapped on a random picture and the caption was ‘Eye [sic] love you’ and the date was Valentine's Day. I was like, this is a bit too good to be true!' ”

Source: The neuroscientist who talks with her dead husband The Times, 15 September 2025 "Tara Swart -- Neuroscientist, leadership coach, award-winning author and a medical doctor, Dr Tara Swart speaks on how global leaders can achieve mental resilience and peak brain performance"

Tara Swart Keynote Speaker Books, videos and speaker offerings.

Swart says, without disagreement from me, "The mind and body can operate independent of each other."

The incontestable issue for all cognitive scientists, connectionists as symbolic representationist, who purport so much is to explain how matter becomes conscious. Using many approaches, it still comes down to the brain science version of the missing link. Where is that moment when consciousness erupts?

Scripture and subsequent theology all comes to the notion of something "in" + "carnate." Incarnate. We don't vocabulary for the inverse, the ex-carnate. But Swart speaks to her dead husband now for many years. She speaks to that which is 'ex-carnate'. But she will also sell you a book and deliver a speech for a fee. Oddly, the "book" which is millennia older has already been written. I'd lean on that, though speaking to and through robins can be quite fine and necessary in the process of living with grief.

We're all on that one-way road, with perhaps an NDE for some and none for others. As one recalls, "for it is in dying, that we are born to eternal life."

In the interim, I'll think on older notions as we were warned of some who "will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive...."

I's weigh two simple statements. Trust Swart, or Neal, or.....

Or trust God. As a skeptic in reading articles and listening to videos, I'll go with "trust God."

Best wishes.