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Originally Posted by *whitefeather
.... we make choices every day but these aren't usually associated with a severe brain injury and/or 'possible' NDE. So on the contrary, his choices are not 'natural' in the strict definition of that word. Some organ transplant patients have been shown to experience a similar thing, where they suddenly choose to take on new hobbies and food loves that were previously associated with the donor of their new organ. Natural choice here too eh?
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If we make "the effect" a curiosity which only occurs under certain conditions we lose the meaning and the potential behind it. This potential is the realization that while we make choices every day we are not limited in our choices.
We can be anything we want to be, subject to physical and biological constraints. A male may be as kind and mothering to a child as any good mother is, a female may be as ferociously aggressive and competitive as some men are.
There is a tribe on one of the Polynesian islands where this actually happens and mother's are reported to be so aggressive that they sometimes kill their own children. (If necessary I can dig up the reference)
Our behavior is learned, we can unlearn and relearn, and in the process become anything we want to be. That is the message I see in the reported phenomena.