[[This was not a NDE, but a personal experience that has left me believing that OBE is real, but accounts must be taken carefully.]]
I think the proper response should be “It leaves a person with the distinct impression that it may be real, however, there could be another explanation such as a medical reason why our brains perceive that we leave our body- I believe it was a real experience, however, I’m open to another explanation IF one exists”
You could have eaten some bad tunafish that day- (Not being a Smart Alec- just pointing out that some physical cause (doesn’t have to be bad tunafish- could be something like a cold coming on, nervousness, anxiety, perhaps an overload of some mineral or vitamin- I’m just suggesting there could be other causes that we don’t realize) could have produced a brief ‘blip’ In the brain- people that get too much nicotine can get hallucination-like episodes, too much caffeine- same thing- the brain gets overloaded with crap and reacts funny-
Yes, that is why I focus on discernment of each account/report of a NDE. And I note that Msgr. Pope uses this clause in his title: “phenomenon often don’t reflect what we know through Scripture,” which to me says that he permits room for there being cases that are within Scriptural bounds.