How does the three-level model of the self explain near death experiences?

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experiences and out of body experiences can be explained with the yogic model of the self normal living condition is that the soul along with the mind are present in the body when there is any traumatic event in some cases the soul and the mind get separated from the body and when the soul and the mind are separated from the body the soul is the source of consciousness so normally the soul perceives through the mind through the body through the senses of the body so for example when we see we see with our eyes we hear with our ears but actually it is not the eyes and the ears that are hearing dead people have eyes and ears they don’t see and hear and even we ourselves we have eyes and ears but if we are absent minded we don’t hear we don’t see so when actually perception happens there are three factors involved there are the senses there is the perception of the senses there is the attention of the mind and there is the cognition or the consciousness of the soul when all three are in one line that is when this perception happens we see what is happening we see or hear now in the case of out of body experiences this last or outermost agent in perception that is the senses and from the data from the senses comes to the brain that is no longer involved the soul perceives through the mind as we say through the mind’s eye so the soul is the conscious being and normal condition the soul perceives through the body but in special conditions as an out of body experience the soul perceives directly through the mind without the body so for example if we have security window or a security monitor in our house then if some guest comes in our house we look at the window and that’s when we see who is at the door but if that security monitor is spoiled for some reason then we can ourselves still see appearing outside of the window or looking out through the door so that mechanism of looking through the security window a security monitor that is actually simply a technological mechanism which facilitates perception but that is not the essence of perception there is not a security monitor that is seen similarly the eyes and the brain they are the mechanism that facilitate perception for the soul it is not that the eyes in the mind are seen eyes in the brain are seen so in out of body experiences the eyes are closed when the brain is unconscious the brain is no longer channeling unconscious the brain is shut down that time it is the soul that is perceiving through the mind and this means that actually the consciousness is coming from the soul through the mind to the body and outside and this model also explains another extraordinary phenomena called as mind sight or neared experiences among the blind which has been described by Kenneth Ring and Sharon Cooper in their book so Vicky Oomipeg was a subject who had no vision throughout her life and during her two neared experiences that was the only time she saw herself and saw the world around her how? that is because she as a soul had the capacity to see but that capacity to see was blocked by the damage to her brain which had blocked her vision but during the out of body experience when the damage was removed then she could see so the neared experiences and the out of body experiences are not of people being out of their mind they are about we they are experiences that prompt all of us to raise our consciousness, to open our minds to explore the non material where we actually