Life's variety In the West, the mainstream scientific and medical communities have numerous doubts about NDEs. In the East, in contrast, there are long cultural traditions of inquiry into the intangible, extra-physical elements of life. Qigong, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), and Zen meditation all provide prominent cases in point.
相較於西方主流醫學和科學界對瀕死經驗的種種質疑，東方文化中對肉體之外摸不著、看不見的生命元素的探究向來不絕如縷，如氣功、中醫、打坐禪修等，因此瀕死的現象並不難理解。