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Researchers at NYU Langone and the University of Southampton have been using AI to analyze thousands of near-death experience accounts — and the patterns emerging from machine learning analysis are forcing a theological conversation that neither scientists nor clergy were prepared for. The AI analysis identified consistent motifs across cultures and religions: a sense of separation from the body, a corridor or threshold, a being of light, a life review, and a return with a changed understanding of what matters. What is disrupting both scientific materialism and traditional theology is that the AI found no significant difference in core NDE structure between devout believers, atheists, and people with no religious framework at all. If the experience of encountering the divine at death is st...