What is the difference between near-death experience out-of-body experience and after-death experience?

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So what is the difference between near-death experience, out-of-body experience and after-death experience? Near-death, as I explained, anybody who is near-death, we can say that they have a near-death experience. But people who are near-death are often unconscious and they don’t have any experience.
But when people who are near-death, they have some experience in terms of they are conscious, they are aware of something. That is what is called as near-death experience, technically speaking. When people who are near-death, instead of being unconscious, they remain conscious and experience something extraordinary.
That is called as near-death experience. Now within the near-death experience, there is a, so you could say near-death experience is like a big set. Within that, another set is out-of-body experiences.
So some of the people who have near-death experiences, they perceive themselves from a perspective outside their body. And they look at themselves down and they say, oh this person is there. That’s me, but that’s not me because I am here.
So they see themselves from an out-of-body perspective. Now the out-of-body experience is at one level a subset of near-death experiences. But there are some mystics who may also have the capacity to project themselves out of the body.
So out-of-body experiences can happen in some cases outside near-death experience context also. That means we could say that near-death experience is one set, one circle. And out-of-body experience is another circle, when some are intersecting, some may be non-intersecting also.
Like two sets are there. Now as far as the after-death experience is concerned, that is entirely different. In this case, either in out-of-body experiences or near-death experiences, the soul’s connection with the body has not been terminated.
The soul may come out of the body temporarily, but the soul has not left the body irreversibly. And after-death experience means the soul leaves the body. And during that post-mortem journey of the soul, now the soul experiences existence in a disembodied state during the transition from this body to the next body.
And so after-death experience can refer either to the specific journey that the soul goes through after this body, or we could say in general, whatever the soul experiences after that, that all can be called as after-death experience.