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Refreshment and Reunion in Paradise: Near-Death Experiences in Early North African Christianity (open access)

Refreshment and Reunion in Paradise: Near-Death Experiences in Early North African Christianity

Article discussing the near-death experiences of Perpetua and Saturus, martyrs of early Christianity.
Date: Spring 2009
Creator: Potthoff, Stephen E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Did Emanuel Swedenborg Have Near-Death Experiences? Envisioning a Developmental Account of NDEs (open access)

Did Emanuel Swedenborg Have Near-Death Experiences? Envisioning a Developmental Account of NDEs

Article examining the phenomenological commonalities between Emanuel Swedenborg's experiences and near-death experiences (NDEs). It argues that a distal cause of Swedenborg's experiences was neural changes induced by his lifetime of unusual respiration, in conjunction with a predisposition to temporal lobe seizures. It concludes by proposing a number of empirically testable hypotheses emerging from the arguments, centered around a developmental approach to NDEs.
Date: Spring 2009
Creator: Jones, Simon R. & Fernyhough, Charles
System: The UNT Digital Library