Guest Editorial: Kundalini and Healing in the West (open access)

Guest Editorial: Kundalini and Healing in the West

Article discussing kundalini rising, and associated profound physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual changes which are occurring with increasing frequency to uninitiated and unprepared Westerners, often as a result of near-death experiences. A new paradigm in health care, emerging as a complement to traditional Western medical science, incorporates a variety of body-based and psychological therapies that validate the role of the True Self in health and wholeness and work with energetic and experiential phenomena such as kundalini.
Date: Winter 1994
Creator: Harris, Barbara
System: The UNT Digital Library
Near-Death Experiences and Satisfaction with Life (open access)

Near-Death Experiences and Satisfaction with Life

Article discussing the relationship between near-death experiences (NDEs) and positive changes in attitudes, beliefs, and values that might be expected to enhance the experiencers' satisfaction with life.
Date: Winter 1994
Creator: Greyson, Bruce
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Assessment of Physicians' Knowledge of and Attitudes Toward the Near-Death Experience (open access)

An Assessment of Physicians' Knowledge of and Attitudes Toward the Near-Death Experience

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate physicians' knowledge of and attitudes toward near-death experiences (NDEs). The study population consisted of 143 staff physicians in the Baptist Memorial Hospital System. Participants completed by mail a modified version of Thornburg's (1988) Near-Death Phenomena Knowledge and Attitudes Questionnaire. Less than one-fourth of the physicians had a well-grounded knowledge base regarding NDEs, while two-thirds had a positive attitude toward NDEs. These data suggest the need for inservice programs for medical and nursing staff regarding near-death phenomena. Further studies assessing physicians' knowledge of and attitudes toward NDEs are recommended utilizing a larger population from a wider geographical region.
Date: Winter 1994
Creator: Moore, Linda Hutton
System: The UNT Digital Library
Near-Death Experience Patterns From Research in the Salt Lake City Region (open access)

Near-Death Experience Patterns From Research in the Salt Lake City Region

Article examining interviews of 100 subjects in the Salt Lake City, Utah, region who claimed to have had a near-death experience (NDE) or analogous spiritual event.
Date: Winter 1994
Creator: Gibson, Arvin S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Neurobiological Model for Near-Death Experiences. [Part] 2: The Problem of Recall of Real Events (open access)

A Neurobiological Model for Near-Death Experiences. [Part] 2: The Problem of Recall of Real Events

Article proposing a scientific approach to explain the fact that some near-death experiencers (NDErs) are able to recollect and verbalize real events occurring in the environment during the experience.
Date: Winter 1994
Creator: Gómez-Jeria, Juan Sebastian & Saavedra-Aguilar, Juan Carlos
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Absence of Tunnel Sensations in Near-Death Experiences from India (open access)

The Absence of Tunnel Sensations in Near-Death Experiences from India

Abstract: This article questions the recent report by Susan Blackmore (1993) of tunnel sensations in near-death experiences in India, and presents anthropological and methodological reasons for doubting the validity of that finding.
Date: Winter 1994
Creator: Kellehear, Allan; Stevenson, Ian; Pasricha, Satwant & Cook, Emily
System: The UNT Digital Library