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Letter to the Editor: The Archives of Scientists' Transcendent Experiences (TASTE)
Letter from Charles T. Tart to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies on the topic "The Archives of Scientists' Transcendent Experiences (TASTE)."
Date:
Winter 2000
Creator:
Tart, Charles T.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Unresolved Problems in the Study of Near-Death Experiences: Some Suggestions for Research and Theory
This paper means to progress the research of near-death experiences (NDEs) by analyzing potential methodology and addressing assumptions. It also analyzes different kinds of NDEs and the limitations that restrict the deriving of strong conclusions from data. The author makes it clear that their own assumption leans towards the existence of NDEs as a cognitive phenomenon until further research can be conducted.
Date:
July 1981
Creator:
Drab, Kevin J.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 7, Number 4, Summer 1989
Quarterly journal publishing papers related to near-death experiences, including research reports; theoretical or conceptual statements; expressions of a scientific, philosophic, religious, or historical perspective on the study of near-death experiences; cross-cultural studies; individual case histories; and personal accounts of experiences or related phenomena. Index to volume 7 starts on page 273.
Date:
Summer 1989
Creator:
Greyson, Bruce
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 26, Number 2, Winter 2007
Quarterly journal publishing papers related to near-death experiences, including research reports; theoretical or conceptual statements; expressions of a scientific, philosophic, religious, or historical perspective on the study of near-death experiences; cross-cultural studies; individual case histories; and personal accounts of experiences or related phenomena.
Date:
Winter 2007
Creator:
Greyson, Bruce
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Near-Death Experience in Children: Shades of the Prison-House Reopening
Abstract: "Some critics have argued that the near-death experience (NDE) is merely a culturally conditioned response to a life crisis, a reflection of expectations engendered by education, religious training, social mores, and family traditions. A review of seventeen accounts of NDEs in children, including two youngsters still in childhood, indicates that NDEs that occur at early ages appear to be substantially similar in content to adult experiences. These accounts suggest that cultural conditioning is not a primary determinant of NDE contents."
Date:
December 1983
Creator:
Bush, Nancy Evans
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 19, Number 2, Winter 2000
Quarterly journal publishing papers related to near-death experiences, including research reports; theoretical or conceptual statements; expressions of a scientific, philosophic, religious, or historical perspective on the study of near-death experiences; cross-cultural studies; individual case histories; and personal accounts of experiences or related phenomena.
Date:
Winter 2000
Creator:
Greyson, Bruce
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Psychophysiological and Cultural Correlates Undermining a Survivalist Interpretation of Near-Death Experiences
Third part of a critique of survivalist interpretations of near-death experiences (NDEs), which considers psychophysiological and cultural correlates of NDEs suggesting that such experiences are solely products of individuals' minds rather than windows into a transcendental realm.
Date:
Winter 2007
Creator:
Augustine, Keith
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Psychophysiologic Correlates of Unconsciousness and Near-Death Experiences
Article comparing the psychophysiologic symptoms of (+Gz)-induced loss of consciousness (G-LOC) episodes and NDEs, which may help identify those symptoms unique to near-death and the process of dying.
Date:
Summer 1997
Creator:
Whinnery, James E.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Failure of Saganomics: Why Birth Models Cannot Explain Near-Death Phenomena
This article refutes Carl Sagan's theory that near-death experiences (NDEs) are recollections of birth experiences based on three major reasons including the inability of newborn babies to perceive experiences and that there are differences between births and NDEs.
Date:
December 1982
Creator:
Becker, Carl B.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Psychic Phenomena Following Near-Death Experiences: An Australian Study
Study examining the incidence of reports of psychic phenomena and associated beliefs both before and after the near-death experience (NDE). The near-death experiencers interviewed reported no more psychic phenomena before the NDE than the general population. There was a statistically significant increase following the NDE in the incidence of 14 of 15 items examined.
Date:
Winter 1989
Creator:
Sutherland, Cherie
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Experiences of Anoxia: Do Reflex Anoxic Seizures Resemble Near-Death Experiences?
Article exploring the role of anoxia in near-death experiences (NDEs) through the use of a questionnaire.
Date:
Winter 1998
Creator:
Blackmore, Susan
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 15, Number 4, Summer 1997
Quarterly journal publishing papers related to near-death experiences, including research reports; theoretical or conceptual statements; expressions of a scientific, philosophic, religious, or historical perspective on the study of near-death experiences; cross-cultural studies; individual case histories; and personal accounts of experiences or related phenomena. Table of contents for all issues in volume 15 on page 279.
Date:
Summer 1997
Creator:
Greyson, Bruce
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Endogenous Ketamine-Like Compounds and the NDE: If So, So What?
Article offering commentary on Karl Jansen's ketamine model for the near-death experience, expanding upon and raising additional questions about several issues and hypotheses.
Date:
Autumn 1997
Creator:
Strassman, Rick J.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Reincarnation Beliefs Among Near-Death Experiencers
Study designed to examine the factors underlying an increase in belief in reincarnation following near-death experiences, using a questionnaire to compare the tendency toward belief in reincarnation among NDErs, individuals merely interested in NDEs, and a non-experiencer, non-interest control group.
Date:
Autumn 1993
Creator:
Wells, Amber D.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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 of the body during cardiac resuscitation explains the experiences undergone during NDEs.
Date:
Summer 2004
Creator:
Woerlee, G. M.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Near-Death Experiences and the Mind-Body Relationship: A Systems-Theoretical Perspective
Abstract: In this paper I support the view that NDEs provide empirical support for mind-body substance dualism and argue that a systems-theoretical analysis of the evidence is required to obtain valid insights into the nature of the mind as a substantial object existing in addition to the body. Without such an approach, systems phenomena such as property emergence and property masking could lead to mischaracterization of both the nature of the mind itself and the ways in which the mind and body work together holistically. Applying a systems-theoretical perspective, I show that some psychic abilities are emergent capacities of the mind-body system, that ordinary faculties such as emotional perceptiveness can be understood within the same framework as extraordinary faculties such as telepathy, and that NDE evidence favors a naturalistic form of Substance Dualism.
Date:
Spring 2011
Creator:
Rousseau, David
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Neurobiological Model for Near-Death Experiences
Article presenting a neurobiological model for near-death experiences (NDEs) in an attempt to correlate the biological and psychological domains. This model is based on temporal lobe dysfunction, hypoxia/ischemia, stress, and neuropeptide/neurotransmitter imbalance.
Date:
Summer 1989
Creator:
Saavedra-Aguilar, Juan C. & Gomez-Jeria, Juan S.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Commentary on "Psychophysiological and Cultural Correlates Undermining a Survivalist Interpretation of Near-Death Experiences"
Abstract: Keith Augustine has provided a legitimate and cogent critique of a transcendental interpretation of near-death experiences, exposing weaknesses in the research methodology, paucity of the data, and gaps in the arguments. He offers evidence from psychophysiological and cultural correlates of NDEs that he interprets as favoring a hallucinatory understanding of these phenomena. however, his analysis relies on idiosyncratic definitions of psychological concepts, reads unidirectional causality into bivariate correlations, and underestimates the empirical predictions of the separation hypothesis. Despite less than compelling evidence for the transcendental hypothesis, it accounts for NDE phenomenology better than the materialist model.
Date:
Winter 2007
Creator:
Greyson, Bruce
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Misidentified Flying Objects? An Integrated Psychodynamic Perspective on Near-Death Experiences and UFO Abductions
Article proposing an integrated psychodynamic perspective to account in part for a variety of similarities between near-death experiences and UFO abductions. The psychodynamic psychology of these experiences implies that their "realness" is mainly a function of that psychology, rather than primarily of an objectifiable external reality. Clinical and research examples highlight the theoretical and practical usefulness of this model.
Date:
Summer 1994
Creator:
Twemlow, Stuart W.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 16, Number 1, Fall 1997
Quarterly journal publishing papers related to near-death experiences, including research reports; theoretical or conceptual statements; expressions of a scientific, philosophic, religious, or historical perspective on the study of near-death experiences; cross-cultural studies; individual case histories; and personal accounts of experiences or related phenomena.
Date:
Autumn 1997
Creator:
Greyson, Bruce
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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 experiences, the transcendental environment, encounter with the higher self, possible temporal lobe involvement, and antecedent child abuse. Rather than being disparate and unrelated experiences, I suggest that the near-death experience and multiple personality disorder may be variants of the same basic phenomenological pattern.
Date:
Autumn 1992
Creator:
Serdahely, William J.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Does N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) Adequately Explain Near-Death Experiences?
Abstract: Some NDE researchers have suggested that because some users of psychedelic drugs have experiences purportedly similar to near-death experiences (NDEs), neural receptors and neurotransmitters affected by a particular drug may underlie out-of-body experiences and NDEs. One of the most recent psychedelic candidates that allegedly causes NDE-like experiences is N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a natural substance that the body produces in small amounts. If DMT experiences are phenomenologically similar to NDEs, then it is possible that the human body in extremis may produce larger amounts of DMT that reach psychedelic experience-causing levels in the blood. In this paper, I explore the issue of whether DMT might play a causal role in the production of NDEs. The first section summarizes basic information of about NDEs, focusing on their phenomenological aspects. The second section classifies theories of NDEs to place the DMT theory in some context of the history of the debate over the cause of NDEs. The following section discusses DMT's chemical composition, physical effects, and psychological effects. The final section explores whether NDE and DMT experiences have a sufficient degree of phenomenological similarity to justify a causal role for DMT in the production of NDEs and concludes that such similarity is lacking.
Date:
Autumn 2012
Creator:
Potts, Michael
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 8, Number 2, Winter 1989
Quarterly journal publishing papers related to near-death experiences, including research reports; theoretical or conceptual statements; expressions of a scientific, philosophic, religious, or historical perspective on the study of near-death experiences; cross-cultural studies; individual case histories; and personal accounts of experiences or related phenomena.
Date:
Winter 1989
Creator:
Greyson, Bruce
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Tunnel Experience: Reality or Hallucination?
Paper analyzing near-death experiences that involve a "tunnel experience" (TE) as a specific aspect of the phenomena.
Date:
December 1981
Creator:
Drab, Kevin J.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library