Consciousness at the Edge of Death: Dark Retreat, Near-Death Experience, and Generative Brain Dynamics
Mark Miller, Zach Buck, Alex Zhu et al. preprint
Near-death experiences (NDEs) and advanced contemplative practices such as dark retreat are frequently reported to involve vivid inner imagery, encounters with non-ordinary agents, moral insight, and panoramic life reviews. Despite growing empirical interest, these experiences remain theoretically fragmented across neuroscience, psychology, and religious studies. In this paper, we develop a...