Of all the phenomena I have encountered in my years of research into parapsychology, near-death experiences (NDEs) remain among the most profound, most personal, and most scientifically intriguing. They sit at the very crossroads of what we know and what we dare to wonder the intersection where medicine, consciousness, and spirituality all meet. In India, a land steeped in ancient wisdom about the soul, death, and rebirth, NDEs carry a particular depth of meaning. Yet they al