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On the Mind/Body Problem: The Theory of Essence
Article exploring the classical mind/body problem using instances of the near-death experience (NDE) as experimental data. Comparison of the details of the NDE with predictions from theoretical cosmology shows strong similarities between the two and further strengthens the case for dualism. A theory of human nature is proposed that incorporates these similarities.
Date:
Autumn 1992
Creator:
Arnette, J. Kenneth
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Comments on "The Ketamine Model of the Near-Death Experience: A Central Role for the N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor"
Abstract: Although ketamine can induce a state similar to a near-death experience (NDE), there is a striking difference between experiences induced by ketamine used in a recreational context and in an operating room. Ketamine is a noncompetitive antagonist of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor, as is ibogaine, the main alkaloid of a shrub used in Central Africa to induce NDEs in a religious context. Ibogaine can also elicit different experiences when used in a hallucinatory context or in initiatic rituals, where a superficial state of coma is induced. These data raise the question of whether the chemically-induced NDE-like experience is related to the use of a particular kind of substance or to a genuine comatose state.
Date:
Autumn 1997
Creator:
Bianchi, Antonio
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Near-Death Experience by Proxy: A Case Study
Abstract: A recent interview with a 34-year-old man, currently serving a life sentence for murder, revealed a remarkable case of "near-death experience by proxy." The phenomenological features of the experience unfolded typically, with some slight variation in content. The immediate drastic changes in attitude and belief following the experience are described.
Date:
Summer 1990
Creator:
Sutherland, Cherie
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Near-Death Visions of Unborn Children: Indications of a Pre-Earth Life
Abstract: A limited number of accounts of near-death visions that include unborn children suggest a life before birth. The unborn children in these visions have been described as spirits, as children or children but full-grown, and as residing in another world, perhaps different from the realm of the afterlife. The arrival of these children into our earthly world is similar to the departure of near-death experiencers into the other world.
Date:
Winter 1992
Creator:
Lundahl, Craig R.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: Transformed by the Light: The Powerful Effect of Near-Death Experiences on People's Lives
Review of the book "Transformed by the Light: The Powerful Effect of Near-Death Experiences on People's Lives" by Dr. Melvin Morse with Paul Perry, about reports of near-death experiences.
Date:
Autumn 1993
Creator:
Kastenbaum, Robert
Object Type:
Review
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Guest Editorial: The Examination of Labels - A Beginning
Article addressing the problem of unclear terminology for the study of anomalies. Researchers have used the term "near-death experience" to describe four different kinds of incidents. To avoid confusion, new labels are needed for experiences that differ in their relationship to death and near-death and their transformative potential.
Date:
Summer 1991
Creator:
Smith, Robert P.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Letters to the Editor: Text, Consciousness, and Control: Who's Looking at Wisdom?
Letter from Susan C. Gunn to the editor responding to a previous article covering the topic of artificial intelligence, consciousness, and control.
Date:
Summer 1999
Creator:
Gunn, Susan C. & Blackmore, Susan
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Near-Death Experience: An Integration of Cultural, Spiritual, and Physical Perspectives
Article exploring two conflicting perspectives: that the near-death experience (NDE) is a glimpse into an after-death state and that it is the result of a dying brain, as well as a third perspective that NDEs are culturally determined. The author proposes an integrated model in which all three perspectives are viewed with equal weight.
Date:
Autumn 1999
Creator:
Paulson, Daryl S.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Near-Death Experiences and Dissociation: Two Cases
Article presenting two cases of near-death experiences (NDEs) that support the supposition that NDEs and out-of-body experiences (OBEs) may be a dissociative process.
Date:
Winter 1993
Creator:
Serdahely, William J.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: Glimpses of Eternity: New Near-Death Experiences Examined
Review of the book "Glimpses of Eternity: New Near-Death Experiences Examines" by scientist Arvin S. Gibson.
Date:
Spring 1995
Creator:
Widdison, Harold A.
Object Type:
Review
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Parallels Between Near-Death Experience Prophetic Visions and Prophecies from the Bible and Mormon Holy Writ
Article discussing a phenomenon identified by Kenneth Ring where some near-death experiencers (NDErs) were permitted to see a picture of the Earth's future as a "prophetic vision" (PV). A comparison of the events of NDE PVs of the Earth's future and prophecies from the Bible and the Mormons' "Doctrine and Covenants" shows nearly complete agreement.
Date:
Spring 1999
Creator:
Lundahl, Craig R.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Describing the Light: Attribution Theory as an Explanation of the Near-Death Experience
Article exploring near-death experiences and attribution theory, which focuses on how information is used to create causal inferences and answer causal questions. The finding that near-death experiencers (NDErs) rarely describe unknown events, characters, or objects suggests that NDErs make attributions to answer why these experiences occurred. Examining various descriptions of NDEs demonstrates how attribution theory explains individuals' descriptions of their NDEs.
Date:
Spring 1995
Creator:
Norton, Max C. & Sahlman, James M.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Extrasomatic Emotions
Article describing an investigation carried out in Italy on 54 subjects, half of whom had out-of-body experiences (OBEs) in good health, and half of whom had OBEs in a coma or in a state of presumed death. The focus of this research was the emotions subjects reported having felt during their OBEs.
Date:
Spring 1993
Creator:
Tiberi, Emilio
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Letters to the Editor: On the Mind/Body Problem
Letter from V. Krishnan to editor replying to a previously published article to the potentially dualist nature of the mind and body.
Date:
Winter 1994
Creator:
Krishnan, V. & Arnette, J. Kenneth
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Over My Dead Body There Is an Ideal Utopia: Comments on Kellehear's Paper
Article examining the logical implications and philosophical possibilities of a utopian realm, and coming to three conclusions. First, the realms described by near-death experiencers (NDErs), if taken at face value, are far from utopian. Second, any truly utopian postmortem society is so far removed from our present world as to be morally irrelevant to our own. And third, only an ideational postmortem utopia, of the sort exemplified by Pure Land Buddhist theology, can avoid both the non-utopian nature of NDErs' descriptions and the irrelevance of postmortem utopias.
Date:
Winter 1991
Creator:
Becker, Carl B.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Letters to the Editor: Near-Death Experiences and Homo noeticus
Letter from John White to editor discussing the meaning of near-death experiences and the concept of Homo noeticus.
Date:
Spring 1990
Creator:
White, John & Punzak, Dan
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Which Comes First: Consciousness or Aspartate Receptors?
Abstract: This paper is a critique of Karl Jansen's hypothesis that near-death and ketamine experiences are caused by blockade of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors. An assumption that consciousness and its alterations are merely the product of neuronal activity is only one of many possible beliefs about reality. An alternative, which can be verified through one's own direct experiences, is that consciousness is always a subject and body is only its object. The objects come and go; consciousness remains.
Date:
Autumn 1997
Creator:
Kungurtseu, Igor
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Misidentified Flying Objects? A Critique
Critique reviewing Stuart Twemlow's paper and presenting some evidence for the existence of unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
Date:
Summer 1994
Creator:
Jones, Fowler C.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Guest Editorial: Lessons From Near-Death Experiences for Humanity
Article summarizing nine lessons consistently gleaned from near-death experiences (NDEs), which may help motivate humanity to live more in accordance with the messages from NDEs.
Date:
Autumn 1993
Creator:
Lundahl, Craig R.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Frightening Near-Death Experiences Revisited: A Commentary on Responses to My Paper
Abstract: In this commentary, I discuss the responses to my paper on frightening near-death experiences (NDEs) written by Christopher Bache and Nancy Evans Bush, and I try to show that there are many points of agreement among us all. While Bache and I saw the ontological status of frightening NDEs differently than did Bush, all of us agreed on the psychological reality and importance of these experiences. Research on frightening NDEs, long overdue, is encouraged and reasons for its urgency are briefly mentioned.
Date:
Autumn 1994
Creator:
Ring, Kenneth
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Guest Editorial: The Resurrection as Near-Death Experience
Article suggesting that Jesus Christ was not clinically dead but in a deep coma when he was taken down from the cross. He was revived by Joseph of Arimathea, who was permitted to take Jesus's body into his care. By Pentecost, seven weeks later, Jesus had finally recovered from his wounds, and his reappearance convinced his followers that he was the Son of God. The author suggests that the Resurrection was not a physical happening, but a near-death experience. As such, it was totally real to Christ himself, and it also confirmed his belief that he could, by proxy, discharge humanity's sins.
Date:
Summer 1992
Creator:
Cook, Roger B.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: To Hell and Back: Life After Death - Startling New Evidence
Review of the book "To Hell and Back: Life After Death--Startling New Evidence" by cardiologist Maurice S. Rawlings regarding distressing near-death experiences.
Date:
Spring 1996
Creator:
Saborn, Michael B.
Object Type:
Review
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Near-Death Experiences and the Theory of the Extraneuronal Hyperspace
Abstract: It is possible and desirable to supplement the traditional neurological and metaphysical explanatory models of the near-death experience (NDE) with yet a third type of explanatory model that links the neurological and the metaphysical. I set forth the rudiments of this model, the Theory of the Extraneuronal Hyperspace, with six propositions. I then use this theory to explain three of the pressing issues within NDE scholarship: the veridicality, precognition and "fear-death experience" phenomena.
Date:
Winter 1999
Creator:
Audain, Linz
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Near-Death and Transcendental Experiences: Neurophysiological Correlates of Mystical Traditions
Article exploring a theory that the first stages of transcendental experiences might be induced by blocking or saturating sensory input to the brain at the level of the hippocampus. Many accounts of kundalini awakenings are consistent with this theory, as is an extended version of Itzhak Bentov's physio-kundalini model.
Date:
Spring 1994
Creator:
Jourdan, Jean-Pierre
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library