A somewhat unusual take on Near Death Experiences c/o Bernardo Kastrup (the Idealist philosopher). He seems to be suggesting two things.
First, that patients during NDEs acquire a kind of telepathy, which makes it possible for them to "read" other people´s minds. Second, that there is a kind of collective "memory" of the entire world - the "phantom world" of the title. When patients near death are having out-of-body experiences and (for instance) see the hospital room while their soul is "floating" in the air, they are really tapping into this collective memory bank, rather than experiencing the real world.
Kastrup finds it mystifying that we need physical sense-organs (such as eyes), which has taken millions of years of evolution to develop, if our immortal souls can see just as well without them! However, he doesn´t deny the objective reality of NDEs either, connecting it to his Idealist-derived conception that consciousness at death expands rather than dies. And hence can "see" without eyes. But what it sees is the Phantom World rather than the actual material world it left behind. The concept seems to be inspired by the Akashic Chronicle from occultist lore.
Pondering...
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