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Book Review: Children of the New Millenium: Children's Near-Death Experiences...
Reviews of the books "Children of the New Millennium: Children's Near-Death Experiences and the Evolution of Humankind" and "Subtext for Children of the New Millennium," both by researcher P. M. H....
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Book Review: Adventures in Immortality: A Look Beyond the Threshold of Death
This article summarizes and conveys the significance of the book Adventures in Immortality: A Look Beyond the Threshold of Death by George Gallup, Jr. with William Proctor. The author focuses on the...
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Book Review: The Final Entrance: Journeys Beyond Life
Review of the book "The Final Entrance: Journeys Beyond Life" by Susan L. Schoenbeck based on her experience as a nurse, researcher, and educator.
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Content Analysis of a Predominately African-American Near-Death Experience...
Study analyzing a sample of twenty-eight near-death experience (NDE) narratives from predominately African-American respondents in northeastern North Carolina, in order to test hypotheses regarding...
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The Paradox of Jonah: Response to "Solving the Riddle of Frightening...
Article contending that Kenneth Ring's arguments are the same that have been used by skeptics to question the validity of the radiant near-death experience (NDE); that as they have been found...
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Cardiac Arrest and Near-Death Experiences
Article which describes the process of cardiac resuscitation in some detail, explains how known data on cardiac resuscitation predict the incidence of these experiences, as well as how the functioning...
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Book Review: What Survives? Contemporary Explorations of Life After Death
Review of the book "What Survives? Contemporary Explorations of Life After Death," a compilation of papers regarding scientific, religious, psychological, and philosophical aspects of life after death,...
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Religious Wars in the NDE Movement: Some Personal Reflections on Michael...
Open letter to Michael Sabom in response to his book, Light & Death.
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Book Review: Dying to Live: Science and Near-Death Experience
Review of the book "Dying to Live: Science and Near-Death Experience" by English parapsychologist Susan Blackmore.
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Response to Commentaries on "The Ketamine Model of the Near-Death Experience..."
Article responding to commentaries on a paper discussing the ketamine model of the near-death experience.
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Book Review: Cosmic Cradle: Souls Waiting in the Wings for Birth
Review of the book "Cosmic Cradle: Souls Waiting in the Wings for Birth" by Elizabeth M. Carman and Neil J. Carman, which provides firsthand accounts as well as crosscultural documentation of...
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Letters to the Editor: Embellishment of Near-Death Experiences
Letter from P. M. H. Atwater to the editor discussing how memories of near-death experiences appear to be more stable over time than other traumatic memories.
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Guest Editorial: Nondualistic Experiences of Light in Near-Death Experiences...
Editorial which brings together two forms of human understanding of disembodied consciousness: the light in the near-death experience (NDE), and the Clear Light in the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
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Commentary on Stuart W. Twemlow's "Misidentified Flying Objects?"
Abstract: Stuart Twemlow's article has made an important dual contribution to our thinking about anomalous experiences: first in offering a heuristic psychodynamic model in terms of which to view them,...
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Otherworld Personal Future Revelations in Near-Death Experiences
Article describing a new kind of precognitive vision in the near-death experience (NDE): the otherworld personal future revelation (OPFR). Kenneth Ring previously described two kinds: the personal...
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Gender and Trauma in the Near-Death Experience: An Epidemiological and...
Article exploring the nature of the "fear-death experience" (FDE) by way of an epidemiological analysis, and discussing the FDE as one of several causal theories of the near-death experience (NDE).
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The Absence of Tunnel Sensations in Near-Death Experiences from India
Abstract: This article questions the recent report by Susan Blackmore (1993) of tunnel sensations in near-death experiences in India, and presents anthropological and methodological reasons for...
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Book Review: Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century
Review of the book " Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century" written by Edward F. Kelly, Emily W. Kelly, Adam Crabtree, Alan Gauld, Michael Grosso, and Bruce Greyson.
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Guest Editorial: The Luminous Experience and the Scientific Method
Article purporting that an encounter with the Light during a state of altered consciousness is a direct experience of God. The question of scientific proof is discussed.
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Letters to the Editor: An Experimentally Induced NDE
Letter from D. Scott Rogo to editor discussing the process of an experimentally induced near-death experience.
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Book Review: The Final Choice: Playing the Survival Game
Review of the book "The Final Choice: Playing the Survival Game" written by parapsychological philosopher Michael Grosso.
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Bozzano and the First Classification of Deathbed Visions: A Historical Note...
Abstract: "Ernest Bozzano was an Italian parapsychologist who published, in 1923, one of the most important historical studies on deathbed visions. The book, while influencing such scholars as Charles...
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Afterlife Research and the Shamanic Turn
Abstract: In Western culture, approaches to the afterlife have mutated throughout history, from shamanism and mythology to philosophy, spiritualism, and psychical research. For conceptual reasons,...
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Guest Editorial: Can Artificial Intelligence Have a Near-Death Experience? A...
Abstract: Since a computer model begins as an instance of writing, that is, a "text," it is appropriate to examine this kind of discourse through the perspective of literary criticism. I examine...
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Does Paranormal Perception Occur in Near-Death Experiences?
Article that serves as Part 1 of a critique of survivalist interpretations of near-death experiences (NDEs), reviews the quality of the evidence for veridical observations during NDEs, and finds the...
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Disclosure Needs and Motives After a Near-Death Experience
Article analyzing the communication processes used by 50 near-death experiencers and discussing their disclosure needs and motives, as well as influences and obstacles that affect disclosure habits....
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The Emerging Intelligence and Its Critical Look at Us
Abstract: In response to Susan Gunn's editorial, I offer a less comforting but more utilitarian perspective on the life and death of artificial consciousness. Admittedly an unpopular view, it suggests...
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Comments on "A Neurobiological Model for Near-Death Experiences" [#9]
Article outlining the author's opinions and comments regarding a paper written by Juan C. Saavedra-Aguilar and Juan S. Gómez-Jeria, which approaches near-death experiences from a...
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Book Review: Conscious Dreaming: A Spiritual Path for Everyday Life
Review of the book "Conscious Dreaming: A Spiritual Path for Everyday Life" by Robert Moss, related to shamanic dreaming.
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Dissociation: Normal or Abnormal?
Abstract: Recent articles have addressed the question of whether or not the out-of-body experience reported by many people near death is a form of dissociative behavior. If so, is it related to other...
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Obituary: Raymond G. Bayless
Obituary for Raymond G. Bayless, noted field investigator in the area of survival of death, writer, and landscape painter.
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Book Review: The Return from Silence: A Study of Near-Death Experiences
Review of the book "The Return from Silence: A Study of Near-Death Experiences" by D. Scott Rogo, which gives an overview of near-death experiences.
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Letters to the Editor: More on Psychomanteum Experimentation
Letter from Carla Wills-Brandon reviewing the potential errors in the findings of a previously published article, "Risks of Psychomanteum Experimentation" (Brodsky, 1988).
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"Psychophysiological and Cultural Correlates Undermining a Survivalist...
Article responding to objections raised against another article. The author concedes some of the objections up to a point, but concludes that they neither strengthen the case for a survivalist...
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Letters to the Editor: "Real" and "Unreal" NDEs
Letter from Barbro Österman to editor discussing what constitutes as a real and unreal Near-Death Experience.
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A Near-Death Experience in Pu Songling's Strange Stories from Liaozhai's Studio
Abstract: I present in this paper a tale from Pu Songling's "Strange Stories from Liaozhai's Studio." This story seems to contain the following key elements of a near-death experience: the life review,...
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Guest Editorial: Why Near-Death Experiences Intrigue Us
Article discussing the author's fascination with the topic of near-death experiences.
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Comments on "A Neurobiological Model for Near-Death Experiences" [#4]
Article outlining the author's opinions and comments regarding a paper written by Juan C. Saavedra-Aguilar and Juan S. Gómez-Jeria, which approaches near-death experiences from a...
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Book Review: Fingerprints of God: Evidences from Near-Death Studies,...
Review of the book "Fingerprints of God: Evidences from Near-Death Studies, Scientific Research on Creation, and Mormon Theology" by Arvin S. Gibson, written from the viewpoint of Mormon theology.
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Near-Death Experiences and Attitude Change
Article describing a study that used the Life Attitude Profile (LAP) questionnaire to evaluate positive changes in life attitudes reported by near-death experiencers.
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Book Review: Ketamine: Dreams and Realities
Review of the book "Ketamine: Dreams and Realities" written by Karl L. R. Jansen, regarding clinical data about ketamine.
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The Death and Posthumous Life of Tom Sawyer: A Case Study of Apparent...
Article exploring the near-death experience of Tom Sawyer, as well as the question of whether he actually died in April of 2007.
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Similarities Between Near-Death Experiences and Multiple Personality Disorder
Abstract: In this paper I compare the phenomenology of near-death experiences to that of multiple personality disorder. The comparison reveals a number of similarities, including out-of-body...
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Commentary on Keith Augustine's Paper [#2]
Abstract: Keith Augustine has provided a useful survey of the psychological and neurological correlates of near-death experiences and out-of-body experiences. The empirical findings he cites may prove...
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A Contribution of Frankl's Logotherapy to the Interpretation of Near-Death...
Article discussing Viktor Frankl's logotherapy, which resolves potential conflicting sources of meaning by the application of the Laws of Dimensional Ontology, which validate apparently conflicting...
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A Comparison of UFO and Near-Death Experiences as Vehicles for the Evolution...
Abstract: This study compares unidentified flying object experiencers (UFOErs) with near-death experiencers (NDErs) in regard to changes in attitudes toward self, others, and life in general, toward...
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The Incidence of Out-Of-Body Experiences in Hospitalized Patients
Study exploring out-of-body experiences (OBEs), cultural differences in reporting those OBEs, and associations between OBEs and frequency of dream recall in 100 white and 100 black adults hospitalized...
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The Nature and Therapeutic Implications of the Extraordinary Experiences of...
Article highlighting the types of contacts from a deceased loved on or a divine being reported, messages claimants believe are received, changes in death perceptions, and the therapeutic potential of...
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A Philosopher's View of Near-Death Research
Article summarizing some trends and issues raised by a review of recent articles in the Journal of Near-Death Studies
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Response to "A New Perspective on the Afterlife Issue"
Article responding to V. Krishnan's argument that the phenomenon of children who claim to remember previous lives indicates that an inanimate recording of a person's mental activity at the time of...
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