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.

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