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> The final section explores whether NDE and DMT experiences have a sufficient degree of phenomenological similarity to justify a causal role for DMT in the production of NDEs and concludes that such similarity is lacking.

From me reading the abstract, doesn't seem like it. But I haven't read the paper, and don't know what "phenomenological similarity" is either.

It would be cool to think that we could trick our brains to do that on demand, without having to experience a near death situation!

I can already imagine the headlines, "Shamans hate him! Learn this one trick how you can too..."




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