> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.withrealityinmind.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Death, Near Death Experiences & Reincarnation - URL: https://www.withrealityinmind.com/recording-death-near-death-experiences-reincarnation/ - Published: 2025-03-18T21:07:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-21T07:31:13.000Z - Description: What can we learn from near death experiences? What is the nature of death? - Author: Amir Giles - Tags: recording Recording details Date: 18 March 2025 Duration: 2h 15m Free preview Chapters 0:00:00 Death, NDEs and what might continue 0:05:14 Could contemplating death enrich life? 0:10:35 A dream ends—but its memory remains 0:15:12 **Continuing memories versus continuing personal agency** 0:20:35 Could death reveal another level of dissociation? 0:25:17 How should we interpret reports of **astral bodies**? 0:30:13 Death as a process, not a switch 0:35:05 Why the body can remain after the process ends 0:40:40 Bernardo’s questions about death and **organ donation** 0:50:35 The reported feeling of returning somewhere familiar 0:55:10 Could an NDE reveal unfamiliar abilities? 1:00:20 Where might the point of no return lie? 1:10:06 **Acquired savant abilities** as a weakened boundary? 1:15:21 Why new abilities tend to be recognisably human 1:20:06 Wellbeing, recovery and the image of the psyche 1:25:14 What could **reincarnation** mean under idealism? 1:30:09 One subject—and many lives already happening 1:40:28 What would justify believing in **parallel universes**? 1:45:31 Taking a report seriously without fixing its interpretation 1:50:39 Imagined alternatives and the choices we make 1:55:53 Can something exist in a state of non-being? 2:00:01 No experience—or no existence? 2:05:35 **No thing is not the same as nothing** In this session we discussed what happens when we die. What can we learn from Near Death Experiences? How does Analytic Idealism make sense of the many reports of reincarnation from around the world? - Understanding death as a process, not a light switch - Acquired Savant - an evolutionary miss? - Spontaneous healings from near death experiences - Can Mind at Large die? Thanks Gustavo and Ines for suggesting this topic during the initial scheduling [whiteboard](https://zoom.us/wb/doc/dDLQZhspR6qe%5Ft2Trp6OiA/p/165079353982976?ref=withrealityinmind.com), to Ron, Muriel and Byron for engaging in this topic on Telegram, and the many people contributing to the discussion in the comments. Recording links are below, and here are some questions asked during the session: #### WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE DIE? - Muriel Okay it's the end of the dissociation process, but is there still something of our individuality that continues as seems to be suggested by near death experiences ? What would be at the base of this individual consciousness as separated from the mind at large when the body is no more ? Does the dissociation really stops or does it only seems to stop to the physical dissociated selves left behind...? In other words, is there something as a individual soul when the body is no more ? Something still individual, not yet merged into the "all there is" ? #### DOES RE-INCARNATION FIT INTO ANALYTIC IDEALISM? - Ines In Buddhism, the idea of **Rebirth/Re-incarnation** is considered to be right view, however, it is an impersonal process with no entity/soul going from one birth to the next. How does Analytical Idealism view ****death** and what happens after the dissociating boundaries of an alter dissolve? Is there any kind of **"continuity"**, meaning : would the content of the "dying" alter be the exact content of a new dissociation? Or is there a random mixing of the mind contents in mind at large, hence no continuity? I would like to think that there are degrees of dissociation/association and that, during the death process, the alter does not dissolve completely in core subjectivity unless it is enlightened. Any comments? #### IS A NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE LIKE A 'RECOVERED' WHIRLPOOL THAT HAS DISSIPATED IN A LAKE? - Gustavo Background of the question is the metaphor of life - individuated - being a whirlpool in a larger lake (M@L). In this context, as Bernardo explains, death would be the 'dissolution' of the whirlpool back into the lake. Such dissolution would entail the lake absorbing the experiences from the whirlpool. Keeping this metaphor, NDEs seem to be the interruption of this 'dissolution' mechanism. In some rare cases, this idea would align with cases of people who come back from coma with skills they didn't have before and didn't have any means of learning them (i.e. playing certain instruments, knowing about events they couldn't have learned before, performing highly in tasks they didn't perform so well before - i.e. calculations). From this, two questions unfold: 1) although hard to explain with concrete cases, is it possible to infer parsimoniously the limits of this 'yank back' in the dissolution process? In other words, when is the whirlpool not 'recoverable' anymore 2) what prevents this view from being anthropomorphised (humans acquiring human related skills)? In other words, what in this context prevents my dog coming back from cardiac arrest during a surgery to acquire human-like skills (or from any other species), since all the 'knowledge' becomes part of the same lake we are all a part of (or humans acquiring non-human skills)? Speakers ![CTA Image](https://storage.ghost.io/c/c5/20/c520bbe6-927b-460d-bf38-d4f48d5dc338/content/images/2026/09/Bernardo-Kastrup-profile.jpg) Bernardo Kastrup Analytic idealism Bernardo Kastrup is the Executive Director of Essentia Foundation and Founder/CEO at AI systems company Euclyd BV. His work has set off the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, he has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the ‘Casimir Effect’ of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). He has also been creatively active in the high-tech industry for almost 30 years, having founded parallel processor company Silicon Hive (acquired by Intel in 2011) and worked as a technology strategist for the geopolitically significant company ASML. Most recently, he has founded AI company Euclyd BV. Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books, his ideas have been featured in *Scientific American*, the magazine of *The Institute of Art and Ideas*, the *Blog of the American Philosophical Association* and *Big Think*, among others. His most defining book is *Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell: A straightforward summary of the 21st-century’s only plausible metaphysics.* [Explore Bernardo’s work →](https://www.bernardokastrup.com/?ref=withrealityinmind.com)