“Soul” is one of the most-used words in the English language and one of the least defined. Plato, Aristotle, Hindu Vedanta, Buddhism, and modern neuroscience all give genuinely different answers to what persists in a person. Here’s an honest comparison of what each tradition actually claims — and where, remarkably, they converge.
Millions of people have reported them. The experiences are strikingly similar across cultures and backgrounds. And science still doesn’t have a clean explanation. Here’s the honest state of the NDE research.