Reply #2: Well, I'd written a response earlier

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then decided maybe I don't know what I'm talking about :rofl:
Anyway, I was thinking that the term near-death experience is also used by those who've had that with no mystical encounter or feelings to bring back. Then, too, there are those who come back with abilities but no encounters, like one guy who became a medium after being struck by lightening. Maybe he just doesn't remember.

So what I'm saying is, and after listening to the NPR series on studies on Spirituality, it seems to me that without the encounter and/or the experience with Oneness, we may have a bunch of Heroes/X-Men like creatures with their own sensibilities, good or bad, about how the world should be. I guess, like us now but more of a mess.