Since when does assigning a Latin name to a medical condition preclude it from having supernatural underpinnings? The curse of Tut's tomb can be "medically" explained as a toxic mold causing death to entrants but...does that eliminate the supernatural component of the curse? A NDE can be mapped to a limited extent by machinery but does that mean that there is no "other" world to which the spirit of the temporarily departed has travelled? Then how does one account for the information gleaned in such travels that were unknown to the NDE person before?
If you ever encounter anyone suffering from the "hag ridden" set of symptoms, rather than referring them to Wikipedia or any other physician ignorant of the supernatural, you can refer them to Haitian traditions which will actually protect them and stop the occurrences. The formulae are described in the book, "The Serpent and the Rainbow" (little to do with the film loosely based on the book of the same title.) Linear thinking only goes so far. If that is as far as you are comfortable going, that is fine. But people who have experienced or are experiencing something outside the linear logic are forced to look beyong linear thinking. Eliminate all of the "logical" observable causes first, by all means. The scientific method is a very good place to start. But, remember that one can be in over one's head and at that point, referring them to a Latin name or an ingorant physician will be of little comfort.
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