Near death experiences, of which there seems to be no dearth, apparently
always involve intense light. Peter Sellers, for example, quoted in The Near
Death Experience, edited by Lee Bailey and Jenny Yates (Routledge, £14.99,
ISBN 0 415 91431 0) saw a hand reaching for him out of dazzling light. Half the
book is about near-dying, the other and more interesting part is discussion of
NDEs’ causes and significance, ranging from hallucination by the oxygen-starved
brain to “no-thing-ness” and the beyond.
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