NDEs tend to be too moralistic

The life review doesn’t seem to explore structural forms of oppression and instead focuses solely on moral choices. The whole experience seems to be made to affect the experiencers behavior, not to cause any structural change.

Take into account Howard Storm’s NDE. When he speaks about the warnings he got from the experience, the solutions are shallow and don’t take into account history, systems of domination and exclusion. It reads as “if you don’t change, the world will burn.” It’s leaving all the responsibility to the individual without considering how complex human systemic evil is.

On the other hand, experiencers don’t tend to derive universal truths from the experience (other than “god is absolute love” which for some reason has to be relevant on this plane of existence?). It seems to be fabricated in order to impact on an individual level, always staying on liminality. It’s like giving a lab rat a life review so that the rat can conclude that her laboratory induced stress is all her fault.

I do understand that some NDEs have positive consequences in the experiencer’s life after they are revived, but I also think the experience is one of liminality and it excludes systemic, collective reasons for suffering. This makes it difficult to derive any philosophical sense from them. It stays on the theological side, and it seems to instill a suspension of critical thinking from the experiencer’s part during the event. The conclusions are surface level, related to the moral behavior of the experiencer, but don’t give any philosophical insight into the larger scale systems.