by Kalendaine » April 30th, 2007, 10:08 pm
The problem, loony, is that for any body-switching experience to work from NDE's, they would have to be studied, examined, brought under conscious control, and then used by at least two people to attempt such an act.
Since study and examination are the province of science, and science views NDE's as the brain's last halluicinatory gasp before death, it isn't likely to be done without a MAJOR paradigm shift throughout the whole scientific community.
Now, scientific reductionism is all good and great, but it still hasn't found out what causes people to *experience.* If you look at all the research, you find a great massive load about how you can make people feel this or remember that by stimulating parts of the brain - but never have you found anything that diminishes, modifies, or changes in any way the concept of 'selfness' in a person. The brain interprets. The soul is the observer, the experiencer. The mingling of those two - the animal, and the... well, i hate to say divine, but something trancendent - are what makes up our greatest weaknesses and our greatest strengths as living things.
Now, in that light, i'd say it is possible to switch bodies. In that sense, it would be like tranferring your old files from an old computer to a new. It would require - at least for a while - continous contact, say, by the body-cord entanglement theory expressed on the previous page, but after that, it should run smoothly.
Just my two cents.