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It is generally supposed by psychical researchers that evidence suggestive of consciousness surviving bodily death would always be compatible with the so-called 'super-psi hypothesis', according to which living-agent psi is wholly responsible for the evidence.  In this paper, I argue that, granted how super-psi is supposed to work, a case can be made for certain near-death experience cases to be incompatible with the super-psi hypothesis.  From such a base, the explanatory impasse between the super-psi hypothesis and the survival hypothesis can be broken.   Keywords:  near-death experiences, NDEs, super-psi, mind-body dualism, survival, consciousness