Guest Editorial: Beginnings and Endings (open access)

Guest Editorial: Beginnings and Endings

Article asserting that the field of near-death studies needs to embrace other models and groups of professionals if it hopes to understand the near-death phenomenon. According to the author, no one can validate a near-death experience (NDE) except the experiencer; it is the aftereffects that impart real meaning to the experience and give it greater impact, and the "classical NDE model" that guides most near-death research can be limiting and misleading.
Date: Autumn 2004
Creator: Atwater, P. M. H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Life Changes Inventory - Revised (open access)

The Life Changes Inventory - Revised

Article presenting the Life Changes Inventory-Revised, a standardized version of the scale that embodies the accumulated knowledge culled from previous drafts of the LCI administered to disparate samples and from qualitative research into attitudinal changes reported by near-death experiencers.
Date: Autumn 2004
Creator: Greyson, Bruce & Ring, Kenneth
System: The UNT Digital Library
Introducing Near-Death Research Findings Into Psychotherapy (open access)

Introducing Near-Death Research Findings Into Psychotherapy

Article discussing the rationale for introducing issues of spirituality or religion into a psychotherapy session in cases of bereavement.
Date: Summer 2004
Creator: Mcdonagh, John M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cases of the Reincarnation Type with Memories from the Intermission Between Lives (open access)

Cases of the Reincarnation Type with Memories from the Intermission Between Lives

Article analyzing reports from Burmese subjects which indicate that intermission memories can be broken down into three parts, and comparing these reports to reports of near-death experiences (NDEs), indicating that they show features similar to the transcendental component of Western NDEs and have significant areas of overlap with Asian NDEs.
Date: Winter 2004
Creator: Sharma, Poonam & Tucker, Jim B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Jung's Synchronistic Interpretation of the Near-Death Experience: An Unnecessary Mystification (open access)

Jung's Synchronistic Interpretation of the Near-Death Experience: An Unnecessary Mystification

Article developing and defending an alternative epistemology involving causality: While paranormal knowledge is hard to explain, there is no good reason to remove it from cause-and-effect discourse.
Date: Summer 2004
Creator: Betty, L. Stafford
System: The UNT Digital Library
Psychomanteum Research: A Pilot Study (open access)

Psychomanteum Research: A Pilot Study

Study of 57 persons who participated in 31 workshops seeking visionary and other reunion experiences with departed loved ones by means of a mirror-gazing procedure developed by Raymond Moody. The study was an attempt to repeat Moody's findings, to alleviate the grief of the participants, and to explore psychological factors related to their experiences.
Date: Summer 2004
Creator: Roll, William G.
System: The UNT Digital Library