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ment of our imagination. “This suggests a more spiritual explanation to the NDE’s.”. must simply remain unanswered. In the meantime, I believe that the weight of existing evidence supports the hypothesis that veridical perception exists but is difficult to capture under controlled conditions.” This conclusion suggests that it is unclear whether Near Death Experiences are merely imagined, and it is difficult to define the boundary between hallucination and reality. Jan Holden suggests that the conditions are so rare in which we can see these phenomenon’s that knowledge on the subject is limited. However, there is reason to argue that in Near Death Experiences the hallucinations’ or imagined events are not veridical perceptions, and are merely a fig- There is also wide debate as to whether near death experiences give evidence towards an afterlife, Jan Holden tells us more on this subject “Regarding the question of an afterlife, even if NDEs are transce