There is a fair amount of evidence that the brain indeed does produce a very powerful hallucination in some people, as they pass.
Near death experiences… do often result in a kind of passage through or into a tunnel of blinding white experience.
Many people who do die in the sense of their heart stopping, but not permanent brain death, or very nearly die… many other kinds of vivid hallucinations of people in their lives or who knows what, or out of body experiences, etc…
While I don’t think there is a beyond, there do seem to be genuine, extremely vivid last moments.
No explicit need to turn those into … well I guess literally the worst trip of that person’s life.
I remain convinced that these end of life hallucinations are the best frame for thinking about heaven and hell, rather than quasi-material spaces like they’re often discussed.
There is a fair amount of evidence that the brain indeed does produce a very powerful hallucination in some people, as they pass.
Near death experiences… do often result in a kind of passage through or into a tunnel of blinding white experience.
Many people who do die in the sense of their heart stopping, but not permanent brain death, or very nearly die… many other kinds of vivid hallucinations of people in their lives or who knows what, or out of body experiences, etc…
While I don’t think there is a beyond, there do seem to be genuine, extremely vivid last moments.
No explicit need to turn those into … well I guess literally the worst trip of that person’s life.
I remain convinced that these end of life hallucinations are the best frame for thinking about heaven and hell, rather than quasi-material spaces like they’re often discussed.
As with the rest of our lives… a very vivid, somewhat standardized and agreed upon hallucination.
We are dreaming sacks of meat.
But that can be miraculous and amazing, if you let it be.