Surprise - and Discovery? - in the Near-Death Experience (open access)

Surprise - and Discovery? - in the Near-Death Experience

Article exploring expressions of surprise and puzzlement that lend a ring of authenticity to self-reports of near-death experiences (NDEs). Surprise typically indicates the discovery of novel features of reality during the cognition-reality interplay that makes learning possible. If at least some NDE surprises are discoveries in a nonsubjective sense, then that cognition-reality interplay can continue during moments near death as subject learn that self and reality must be understood to include a nonmaterial realm.
Date: Summer 1997
Creator: Gibbs, John C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
God, Tragedy, and the Near-Death Experience: Evaluating Kushner's Perspectives on Theodicy (open access)

God, Tragedy, and the Near-Death Experience: Evaluating Kushner's Perspectives on Theodicy

Article evaluating Harold Kushner's original and reconstructed perspectives on God and the theodicic problem on the basis of research on the near-death experience (NDE) and related phenomena.
Date: Summer 1999
Creator: Gibbs, John C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Perinatal Interpretation of Frightening Near-Death Experiences: A Dialogue with Kenneth Ring (open access)

A Perinatal Interpretation of Frightening Near-Death Experiences: A Dialogue with Kenneth Ring

Article proposing a more comprehensive interpretation of frightening near-death experiences (NDEs), in response to a paper by Kenneth Ring.
Date: Autumn 1994
Creator: Bache, Christopher
System: The UNT Digital Library