Bilocation: Dr. Scott Taylor does Ph.D. thesis at Minnesota University of St. Thomas in Near Death Experiences ties to OBEs

Dr. Scott Taylor gives NDE talk at Monroe Institute - relating to OBEs

https://neardeathmeditations.com/resources/

His website - lots of his podcast talks plus books he recommends.

Reviews of one of his book recommendations

As a cardiologist, Pim van Lommel was struck by the number of his patients who claimed to have near-death experiences as a result of their heart attacks. As a scientist, this was difficult for him to accept: Wouldn't it be scientifically irresponsible of him to ignore the evidence of these stories? Faced with this dilemma, van Lommel decided to design a research study to investigate the phenomenon under the controlled environment of a cluster of hospitals with a medically trained staff.
For more than twenty years van Lommel systematically studied such near-death experiences in a wide variety of hospital patients who survived a cardiac arrest.

In 2001, he and his fellow researchers published his study on near-death experiences in the renowned medical journal The Lancet. The article caused an international sensation as it was the first scientifically rigorous study of this phenomenon. Now available for the first time in English, van Lommel offers an in-depth presentation of his results and theories in this book that has already sold over 125,000 copies in Europe.

Van Lommel provides scientific evidence that the near-death phenomenon is an authentic experience that cannot be attributed to imagination, psychosis, or oxygen deprivation. He further reveals that after such a profound experience, most patients' personalities undergo a permanent change. In van Lommel's opinion, the current views on the relationship between the brain and consciousness held by most physicians, philosophers, and psychologists are too narrow for a proper understanding of the phenomenon. In Consciousness Beyond Life, van Lommel shows that our consciousness does not always coincide with brain functions and that, remarkably and significantly, consciousness can even be experienced separate from the body.

 This book goes into detail describing some amazing cases, such as a case where a woman who was clinically dead (she was hooked up to an EEG and EKG machine and both were flat) remembers specific details, comments and medical procedures during a time when her brain registered NO brain wave activity. Her descriptions were later verified by nurses and doctors who were in the operating room during the time this woman was- according to modern science- clinically dead and incapable of witnessing anything. Because her heart was deliberately stopped for the procedure, every second she was dead was accounted for and the details she described definitely took place during her "death". The book tackles some common misconceptions about NDEs (such as they are all the result of oxygen deprivation) and debunks the debunkers (such as mentioning that during NDEs, experiencers report heightened visual acuity, heightened senses, increased logical abilities and more and a sense of moving quickly at incredible speeds and hearing music... none of these symptoms are associated with oxygen deprivation). It looks at more than a quarter century of NDE information and discusses why mainstream scientists shun the phenomenon (in short, they are materialists and accepting the data would require a complete paradigm shift and invalidate a lot of commonly held beliefs about the nature of our consciousness and reality)

 He demonstrates that consciousness is dependent on the cerebral cortex, brain stem, and communication between the hippocampus and thalamus and that these are the first parts of the brain to go during a cardiac arrest. Thus, many "skeptic" explanations such as oxygen deficiency, chemical reactions in the brain, and electrical activity in the brain are unwarranted and cannot account for experiences during an NDE.

  As Van Lommel is keen to point out in his book, 97% of the governing body of scientists - i.e., those that oversee the dispersal of research grants, review scientific papers etc. - are of the materialist/reductionist variety.

 In 2001 Dr. van Lommel reported in the British journal Lancet the results of his prospective study of 344 cardiac arrest patients who had undergone 599 resuscitations from 1988-1992, in regard to what is commonly referred to as near-death experiences (NDE). What struck me in that paper was the relative paucity of patients who had reported a "definite" NDE: 12 per cent! When he added other patients who claimed to have had some less specific memories the total reached 18 per cent.

 the book did provide data on three additional studies where NDE's had occurred at a rate of 11, 15 and 23% respectively. The highest number was based on a small sample of 39 cardiac arrest patients of whom 18 per cent reported an NDE while 5 per cent had only an out of body experience (OBE) without other concomitants. The 15% value came from a study by Drs. Parnia and Fenwick which provided the basis for Parnia's subsequent AWARE project which was presented in his recent book "Erasing Death." The results of this study, which I also reviewed for amazon, were even more revealing. Of 100 patients only five had a NDE and two a pure OBE. I am presenting these data here because the subtitle of van Lommel's book is "The Science of the Near-Death Experience." These data show not only that the phenomenon exists but that is quite rare and in addition that we have no scientific explanation for it.

 Indeed, the fighter pilots also experience
a tunnel vision, a sensation of light and brief fragmented images from
the past. But according to van Lommel this cannot be compared to
the reports of life reviews, or out of body experiences seen in the
near-death experiences.
Electrical stimulation (or dysfunction/impairment) of the temporal
and parietal lobes have been said to cause out-of-body experiences.
But according to Lommel these experiments only gave atypical and
incomplete out-of-body experiences, where near-death experiences
involves a verifiable perception - from a position outside and
above the body.

Lessons from the Light: What We Can Learn from the Near-Death Experience

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