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 The brain in crisis floods with endorphins, gamma waves, and possibly its own DMT,  but does that explain everything? In episode four of the Altered States series, Mike Porter examines near-death and out-of-body experiences, starting with the strongest neurochemical explanations science has to offer. 

Then he digs into the cases that explanation struggles with: Pim van Lommel's Lancet-published research on verified perception during documented brain inactivity, Charles Tart's lab-tested OBE subject who read a hidden number from the ceiling, and survivor accounts, including Anita Moorjani's, describing consciousness becoming more vivid, not less, once it left the body. 

If the body is a filter rather than the source, what happens when that filter drops away? 

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