I take the word of people who have had near death experiences. There’s no way it’s just a surge of DMT or hallucinations due to lack of oxygen or whatever reductionist horseshit “the science (tm)” theorizes. These people see and hear conversations around them. They can describe details they would have no way of knowing. They meet guides. They get knowledge they didn’t have previously. I’ve read/heard many accounts of people meeting dead relatives they had never seen before and didn’t even know they had that were later confirmed much to everyone’s amazement . Some meet the divine beings of whatever religion they subscribed to in life. Some were agnostic or atheist and still found themselves in a place of absolute peace, beauty and joy, surrounded by life. But above all they know they are loved beyond unconditionally by God/Creator/Source of Everything, who by most accounts doesn’t seem to be overly concerned with one’s religion or lack thereof, and pretty universally state that love is the single most important and impactful thing that exists, and make it their primary mission in life to increase the love on earth.

I still have trouble squaring all that with the absolutely horrific evil and the suffering it creates that is permitted to exist in this life, but it is comforting for me to know it’s all temporary and it truly does appear that we are eternal, spiritual beings who move on to a much better place when we leave this realm of reality.