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Development of the Near-Death Phenomena Knowledge and Attitudes Questionnaire
Article explaining a questionnaire used to study nurses' knowledge of and attitudes toward near-death phenomena and patients who have experienced them, as well as the development of a revised questionnaire that is more valid and reliable.
Date:
Summer 1988
Creator:
Thornburg, Nina R.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Hospice Nurses' Knowledge and Attitudes Toward the Near-Death Experience
Study surveying 60 hospice nurses regarding their knowledge and attitudes toward the near-death experience (NDE), using Thornburg's Near-Death Phenomena Knowledge and Attitudes Questionnaire.
Date:
Summer 1991
Creator:
Barnett, Linda
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Near-Death Experiences in Patients Undergoing Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Article describing the results of a two-phase descriptive study intended to document the frequency of near-death experiences (NDEs) in a nonprobability convenience sample of patients undergoing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), to describe the types of NDE experienced most commonly during CPR, and to describe the types of NDE experienced most commonly during CPR, and to describe views of helpful nursing responses to reports of NDEs.
Date:
Summer 1991
Creator:
Schoenbeck, Susan Boykoff & Hocutt, Gerald D.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Nature and Meaning of the Near-Death Experience for Patients and Critical Care Nurses
Study designed to develop a conceptual framework for the near-death experience (NDE), reflecting its nature and meaning for the patient and the critical care nurse. The study used naturalistic inquiry to examine the question: What is the nature and meaning of an NDE and how has it influenced the individual's view of the self, the future, and feelings and beliefs about life and death?
Date:
Spring 2003
Creator:
Morris, Linda L. & Knafl, Kathleen
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Unexpected Findings in a Study of Visual Perception During the Naturalistic Near-Death Out-of-Body Experience
Study of visual perception during the naturalistic near-death out-of-body experience (nND OBE), that aspect of the NDE in which the experiencer seems to view normal physical surroundings from a vantage point outside the physical body, which yielded some unexpected findings that contradicted or augmented previous research. Each of these findings is discussed relative to previous research and analyzed in light of the limitations of the current study.
Date:
Spring 1989
Creator:
Holden, Janice Miner
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Near-Death Verdicality Research in the Hospital Setting: Problems and Promise
Study of near-death verdicality in the hospital setting. The paper describes problems, both anticipated and unanticipated, that were encountered. Based on the successes and failures of this undertaking, recommendations for future research of this type are presented.
Date:
Autumn 1990
Creator:
Holden, Janice Miner & Joesten, Leroy
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Visual Perception During Naturalistic Near-Death Out-of-Body Experiences
Study attempting to ascertain the most appropriate content and placement of visual stimuli in a hospital-based study of the veridicality of out-of-body perception in the near-death experience (NDE), and the likelihood that a subject in such a study would notice, clearly perceive, and accurately recall a visual stimulus.
Date:
Winter 1988
Creator:
Holden, Janice Miner
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Electromagnetic Aftereffects of Near-Death Experiences
Study investigating electromagnetic effects among near-death experiencers (NDErs), people who reported a close brush with death without an NDE, and people who reported never having been close to death but who used their most life-changing event as a past reference point.
Date:
Winter 2008
Creator:
Mouri, Farnoosh M. & Holden, Janice Miner
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Does the Arousal System Contribute to Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences? A Summary and Response
Article acknowledging the viability and potential value of the hypothesis underlying articles suggesting a relationship between near-death experiences (NDEs) and the body's arousal system, but also identifying substantial weaknesses in both the presented lines of evidence and the studies.
Date:
Spring 2007
Creator:
Long, Jeffrey & Holden, Janice Miner
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
More Things in Heaven and Earth: A Response to "Near-Death Experiences with Hallucinatory Features"
Article offering alternative arguments and conclusions to those Keith Augustine offered regarding discrepancies between some near-death experiencers' (NDErs') reports of events they perceived during their NDEs and objective information available about those events.
Date:
Autumn 2007
Creator:
Holden, Janice Miner
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Field of Near-Death Studies Through 2001: An Analysis of the Periodical Literature
Article analyzing literature of the first quarter century of the field of near-death studies.
Date:
Autumn 2005
Creator:
Holden, Janice Miner & Christian, Rozan
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Failure to Elicit Near-Death Experiences in Induced Cardiac Arrest
Article exploring the reasons why near-death experiences may not occur during induced cardiac arrest.
Date:
Winter 2006
Creator:
Greyson, Bruce; Holden, Janice Miner & Mounsey, J. Paul
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Out-of-Body Experiences: All in the Brain?
Article presenting arguments supporting the conclusion that the subtitle claims of an article published in "Nature" were not well-founded and that much research remains to be conducted to unravel the mystery of out-of-body experiences.
Date:
Winter 2006
Creator:
Holden, Janice Miner; Long, Jeffrey & MacLurg, Jason
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Effect on Emotional Well-Being of Hypnotic Recall of the Near-Death Experience
Article reporting the preliminary finding of overwhelming psychological benefit of hypnotic recall of near-death experiences, and discussing implications for future research.
Date:
Summer 1996
Creator:
Holden, Janice Miner
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Impact of a Near-Death Experience on Family Relationships
Study exploring the influence that a near-death experience (NDE) had on the family relationships of eleven NDErs, based on in-depth interviews, detailing the changes in relationships with extensive quotes providing data on family interactions.
Date:
Spring 1991
Creator:
Insinger, Mori
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Surprise - and Discovery? - in the Near-Death Experience
Article exploring expressions of surprise and puzzlement that lend a ring of authenticity to self-reports of near-death experiences (NDEs). Surprise typically indicates the discovery of novel features of reality during the cognition-reality interplay that makes learning possible. If at least some NDE surprises are discoveries in a nonsubjective sense, then that cognition-reality interplay can continue during moments near death as subject learn that self and reality must be understood to include a nonmaterial realm.
Date:
Summer 1997
Creator:
Gibbs, John C.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Variations from the Prototypic Near-Death Experience: The "Individually Tailored" Hypothesis
Study of firsthand accounts of near-death experiences (NDEs), which revealed a number of variations from the prototypic NDE description, including feeling judged during a life review, seeing a nondeceased friend in the tunnel, experiencing no pain upon returning to the physical body, and crossing a barrier before being sent back.
Date:
Spring 1995
Creator:
Serdahely, William J.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Meaning and Intensity of the Near-Death Experience
Article exploring the hypothesis that near-death experiencers (NDErs) assign the meaning of the NDE by using causal (effect) and semantic (affect) attributions. To test this hypothesis, 32 spontaneous verbal accounts of NDEs were analyzed.
Date:
Winter 1998
Creator:
Sahlman, James M. & Norton, Max C.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
God, Tragedy, and the Near-Death Experience: Evaluating Kushner's Perspectives on Theodicy
Article evaluating Harold Kushner's original and reconstructed perspectives on God and the theodicic problem on the basis of research on the near-death experience (NDE) and related phenomena.
Date:
Summer 1999
Creator:
Gibbs, John C.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Changes in Heart Transplant Recipients That Parallel the Personalities of Their Donors
Study evaluating whether changes following heart transplant surgery parallel the history of the donors, based on the systemic memory hypothesis which predicts that all dynamical systems that contain recurrent feedback loops store information and energy to various degrees.
Date:
Spring 2002
Creator:
Pearsall, Paul; Schwartz, Gary E. R. & Russek, Linda G. S.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Ernesto Bozzano and the Phenomena of Bilocation
Italian psychical researcher Ernesto Bozzano was a well-known student of parapsychological phenomena and a strong defender of the concept of survival of bodily death. This paper includes an excerpt of what Bozzano referred to as the phenomena of bilocation.
Date:
Summer 2005
Creator:
Alvarado, Carlos S.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Moody's Versus Siegel's Interpretation of the Near-Death Experience: An Evaluation Based on Recent Research
Article using recent research to evaluate Raymond Moody's versus Ronald Siegel's interpretations of the near-death experience (NDE). Whereas Moody had concluded that the NDE is ontologically valid, Siegel interpreted the NDE as a purely subjective hallucinatory phenomenon.
Date:
1986~
Creator:
Gibbs, John C.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library