A clear view of which claims are well-supported, which are suggestive, which are contested, and which remain speculative — ranked by checkable, methodologically constrained evidence.
The map ranks how much public, checkable, methodologically constrained evidence currently supports each research domain — not what is spiritually meaningful.
The score reflects the quantity, quality, and methodological rigor of directly relevant published evidence — not how plausible the phenomenon seems intuitively. A score of 70 means substantial evidence exists with open methodological questions; 40 means the evidence is real but contested.
Well-supported: controlled or prospective studies, cross-site replication.
Suggestive: evidence that strains ordinary explanations but lacks high-powered replication.
Contested: results exist but methods or interpretation are actively disputed.
Speculative: a coherent theory with thin direct evidence.
A strong evidence score for NDE phenomenology does not automatically imply survival of death. Each layer of claim — the experience, the anomaly, the mechanism, the metaphysics — requires separate evaluation. The map rates the first layer: the evidence that something real and interesting is happening.