I know someone who had a NDE who had plenty of strange experiences with spirits and visions as he grew up. I don't have the patience to describe it, so I'll just sum up his NDE.He was still a toddler (he remembers this all clearly, but almost nothing else of that time of his life) and he was playing "plug" (sticking things into electrical sockets) which went about as well as you'd expect.
He doesn't remember screaming (as he did), just suddenly being in the hall instead of his room and seeing his mother rush forward, and then through him before going into his room. She then came out gibbering and pulling her hair to the breaker box where she switched off the power (his mother confirms this) before going back to perform CPR on his body.
He didn't see his body nor sense his mother doing CPR on him. Instead, as the power went off he instinctively looked to a fluorescent clock that glowed in the dark which normally scared him (probably perceiving it instinctively as animal eyes in the dark), but realized he was not afraid. And that's all he remembers.
In ancient times, plenty of shamans around the world were set on that path by a near death experience. In some cases, it was induced.
You can find many NDE experiences here:
http://iands.org/
I loved this one, and it reminded me of a very strange paranormal experience of mine (which is a long story I've shared elsewhere on LL and won't again) with the music everywhere:
http://iands.org/research/nde-re search/nde-archives31/newest-accounts/1289-love-was-what-everything-was-made-of-came-from-and-returned-to.html
I have to admit that with all the star seeds and what have you on LL, I'm surprised this got no responses.