Your experiences are valid. They are your own and whether you understand them or not, nobody else can take your experiences away from you.

While I don't believe that I've ever had a NDE, the little experimentation that I've indulged in has indicated that there exist more than two states of awareness. Thus your black outs (provoked?) 'could' either be a limited form of such, or they could simply be sleep-like states (and possibly medical rather than spiritual in nature).

I am glad to hear that you enjoyed the article. Yes it would be a quite a diversion to comment on it here. Thanks for the look through. ^_^