Ken wolf says he's been thinking about the utility of near death experiences as a means of advance ment to new level levels of sophistication. The more i read about long lived vilizations like the roman civilization, the more their history looks like a series of near collapse experiences. If you're king about actual academic work on this subject, i would recommend not calling what you're referrin to near death experiences. There is a whole community of people who study near death experiences in order to prove the existence of life after death.
Welcome to the June 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! We are inaugurating a slightly different publication schedule, in which these monthly AMA will take the place of one of the regular Monday episodes, rather than being in addition to all of them. A slight tweak that will hopefully make my obligations a little more manageable.
These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). I take the large number of questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable size — based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good — and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!
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