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Death and Renewal in The Velveteen Rabbit: A Sociological Reading
Article providing a sociological interpretation of The Velveteen Rabbit critical of recent materialist and psychoanalytic readings, and arguing that this children's story exemplifies the use of a non-materialistic idea of death to suggest other themes about love and life, and discuss implications for near-death research.
Date:
Autumn 1993
Creator:
Kellehear, Allan
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Devil in Heaven: A Near-Death Experience with both Positive and Negative Facets
Article describing a near-death experience that is of interest because it began to unfold as a positive experience but then changed course to become a negatively toned one. The article presents the details of the case and notes its principal theoretical implications.
Date:
Autumn 1988
Creator:
Irwin, Harvey J. & Bramwell, Barbara A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Guest Editorial: Avoiding the Columbus Confusion: An Ockhamish View of Near-Death Research
Article exploring the theory that contemporary belief that near-death experiences (NDEs) are glimpses of an afterlife may prevent us from realizing their more profound nature. Belief in an afterlife has not historically brought humanity a high quality of life, but NDEs seem reliably to do so, and may offer important clues about why the expanded vitality, the "eternity-consciousness," of the mystics is commonly blocked.
Date:
Winter 1992
Creator:
Wren-Lewis, John
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Hawaiian Near-Death Experience
Article presenting a case report of an Hawaiian near-death experience (NDE) from the early 1900s, which was uncovered in a turn-of-the-century monograph of Hawaiian folk tales. The account differs from others in the same volume because it appears to be a real-life account rather than a folk tale. The article describes similarities and differences from other Polynesian NDE account in the literature, a Maori NDE reported by Michael King in 1985.
Date:
Autumn 2001
Creator:
Kellehear, Allan
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Mystery of Frightening Transcendent Experiences: A Rejoinder to Nancy Evans Bush and Christopher Bache
Article reviewing Christopher Bache's perinatal account of near-death experiences (NDEs) and suggesting that it does not go far enough. The author then presents a new model, bliss/abyss, derived from the study of mysticism; shows that pleasant and frightening NDEs can be accommodated within the model; and discusses the predictions that can be drawn from the new theoretical framework.
Date:
Winter 1997
Creator:
Jambor, Mishka
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Near-Death Experience as a Dissociative Phenomenon: An Empirical Assessment
Study seeking to assess the hypothesis that near-death experiencers are characterized by a dissociative response style engendered by severely traumatic childhood experiences.
Date:
Winter 1993
Creator:
Irwin, Harvey J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Near-Death Experiences and the Pursuit of the Ideal Society
Article arguing that the society so often mentioned by near-death experiencers is a unique type of utopian society. As stories from utopia, near-death experiences (NDEs) serve an inspirational narratives that help re-evaluate the social world and our place in it.
Date:
Winter 1991
Creator:
Kellehear, Allan
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Near-Death Experiences in Suicide Attempters in Sri Lanka
Study exploring near-death experiences (NDEs) among suicide attempters, using interviews of 77 consecutive suicide attempters admitted to a tertiary teaching hospital in Sri Lanka.
Date:
Summer 2008
Creator:
Kuruppuarchchi, K. A. L. A.; Gambheera, Harischandra; Padmasekara, Gayan & Perera, Mahendra
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Prevalence of Near-Death Experiences in Australia
Study assessing the prevalence of near-death experiences (NDEs) in Australia through the use of questionnaires.
Date:
Winter 2005
Creator:
Perera, Mahendra; Padmasekara, Gayan & Belanti, John
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
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Shared Near-Death and Related Illness Experiences: Steps on an Unscheduled Journey
Article discussing the key social features in shared journeys into near-death experiences (NDEs) and related illness experiences of other people.
Date:
Winter 2001
Creator:
Howarth, Glennys & Kellehear, Allan
System:
The UNT Digital Library