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Near-Death Prophecies of Disaster and the New Age: Are They True?
Article examining long-range data and finding trend reversals in 1987-88: increases in religiosity, service, and United Nations peacekeeping efforts, and decreases in chlorofluorocarbon production, nuclear warhead stockpiles, arms exports, and interest in economic well-being.
Date:
Spring 1996
Creator:
Alschuler, Alfred S.
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
Neglected Near-Death Phenomena
Article suggesting several topics for further work in the area of near-death phenomena.
Date:
Spring 2006
Creator:
Alvarado, Carlos S.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Remarks on Ernesto Bozzano's La Psiche Domina la Materia
Article discussing Ernesto Bozzano's study on the subject of physical phenomena around the time of someone's death, including a critique of his dogmatic approach to the interpretation of the cases, and the use of cases lacking relevant information.
Date:
Spring 2007
Creator:
Alvarado, Carlos S.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
On the Mind/Body Problem: The Theory of Essence
Article exploring the classical mind/body problem using instances of the near-death experience (NDE) as experimental data. Comparison of the details of the NDE with predictions from theoretical cosmology shows strong similarities between the two and further strengthens the case for dualism. A theory of human nature is proposed that incorporates these similarities.
Date:
Autumn 1992
Creator:
Arnette, J. Kenneth
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Theory of Essence. [Part] 2. An Electromagnetic-Quantum Mechanical Model of Interactionism
Article discussing the theory of essence, based on the physics of electromagnetism and quantum mechanics, which solves the problem of interaction resulting from Descartes's dualistic conception of human nature. The theory is empirically based in phenomena consistently reported by near-death experiencers.
Date:
Winter 1995
Creator:
Arnette, J. Kenneth
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Theory of Essence. [Part] 3: Neuroanatomical and Neurophysiological Aspects of Interactionism
Article continuing the construction of a dualistic interactionist theory of the near-death experience (NDE), the theory of essence, which was begun in two previous articles. The present work represents an extension of the theory to the microscopic level of analysis, in order to specify in detail the mechanism of essence-brain interaction and to address some general and specific objections to interactionism and the theory of essence.
Date:
Winter 1999
Creator:
Arnette, J. Kenneth
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
Guest Editorial: Is There a Hell? Surprising Observations About the Near-Death Experience
Article discussing current research into what are now termed "distressing" or "unpleasant" near-death experiences (NDEs) and the author's findings from interviews of over a hundred such cases.The article compares this information with earlier reports from Maurice Rawlings, mythological traditions about the concept of hell, and renderings from The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Finally, it details four types of NDEs - initial, hell-like, heaven-like, and transcendental - and what seems to be an attitudinal profile characteristic of each type.
Date:
Spring 1992
Creator:
Atwater, P. M. H.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Guest Editorial: A Call to Reconsider the Field of Near-Death Studies
Commentary taking remarks previously made about frightening near-death experiences and the possibility of near-death being a kundalini breakthrough as license to ask for a reconsideration of near-death research.
Date:
Autumn 1995
Creator:
Atwater, Phyllis Marie H.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Gender and Trauma in the Near-Death Experience: An Epidemiological and Theoretical Analysis
Article exploring the nature of the "fear-death experience" (FDE) by way of an epidemiological analysis, and discussing the FDE as one of several causal theories of the near-death experience (NDE).
Date:
Autumn 1999
Creator:
Audain, Linz
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Does Paranormal Perception Occur in Near-Death Experiences?
Article that serves as Part 1 of a critique of survivalist interpretations of near-death experiences (NDEs), reviews the quality of the evidence for veridical observations during NDEs, and finds the case for veridical paranormal perception during NDEs wanting.
Date:
Summer 2007
Creator:
Augustine, Keith
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
"Does Paranormal Perception Occur in Near-Death Experiences?" Defended
Article responding to criticisms of another article concerning paranormal perception in near-death experiences.
Date:
Summer 2007
Creator:
Augustine, Keith
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Near-Death Experiences with Hallucinatory Features
Article surveying near-death experiences (NDEs) incorporating out-of-body discrepancies, bodily sensations, encounters with living persons and fictional characters, random or insignificant memories, returns from a point of no return, hallucinatory imagery, and unfulfilled predictions. Though attempts to accommodate hallucinatory NDEs within a survivalist framework are possible, they signal a failure to take the empirical evidence against a survivalist interpretation of NDEs seriously.
Date:
Autumn 2007
Creator:
Augustine, Keith
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
"Near-Death Experiences with Hallucinatory Features" Defended
Article purporting that near-death experience (NDE) reports are sometimes open to multiple interpretations, that different kinds of NDEs should be distinguished according to their diverse physiological mechanisms, and that transformations following NDEs but not other hallucinatory experiences require special explanation if NDEs are hallucinations.
Date:
Autumn 2007
Creator:
Augustine, Keith
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Psychophysiological and Cultural Correlates Undermining a Survivalist Interpretation of Near-Death Experiences
Third part of a critique of survivalist interpretations of near-death experiences (NDEs), which considers psychophysiological and cultural correlates of NDEs suggesting that such experiences are solely products of individuals' minds rather than windows into a transcendental realm.
Date:
Winter 2007
Creator:
Augustine, Keith
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
"Psychophysiological and Cultural Correlates Undermining a Survivalist Interpretation of Near-Death Experiences" Defended
Article responding to objections raised against another article. The author concedes some of the objections up to a point, but concludes that they neither strengthen the case for a survivalist interpretation of near-death experiences, nor weaken the case against one.
Date:
Winter 2007
Creator:
Augustine, Keith
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Perinatal Interpretation of Frightening Near-Death Experiences: A Dialogue with Kenneth Ring
Article proposing a more comprehensive interpretation of frightening near-death experiences (NDEs), in response to a paper by Kenneth Ring.
Date:
Autumn 1994
Creator:
Bache, Christopher
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A "Little Death": The Near-Death Experience and Tibetan Delogs
Article exploring a phenomenon remarkably like the near-death experience that has been uncovered in Tibetan culture. Anthropologists have gathered accounts of contemporary and historical cases of remarkable people called delogs. Seemingly dead for several hours or days, these people revive spontaneously and tell detailed accounts of otherworldly journeys. These delogs are a bridge between contemporary near-death experiences and ancient shamanic practices.
Date:
Spring 2001
Creator:
Bailey, Lee W.
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
The Popular Appeal of the Near-Death Experience
Article arguing that as scientific research provides an ever-more-complete physiological explanation of the near-death experience (NDE), popular interest in NDEs will wane, because the transcendental interpretation, which holds that the NDE provides proof of an immaterial soul, an afterlife, and assorted paranormal phenomena, has always been the magnet that has attracted widespread attention to the subject.
Date:
Autumn 1991
Creator:
Basil, Robert
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Assessment of Clergy Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Near-Death Experiences
Article discussing the results of a questionnaire distributed to clergy from Pennsylvania and Illinois, which showed the respondents had limited knowledge of the near-death experience (NDE) but had a moderately positive attitude toward the subject.
Date:
Spring 1992
Creator:
Bechtel, Lori J.; Chen, Alex; Pierce, Richard A. & Walker, Barbara A.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Quantum Biomechanical Basis for Near-Death Life Reviews
Article introducing the unifying paradigm of the quantum hologram as a non-local carrier of information, and investigating the interrelated phenomena of non-local communications and the electromagnetic zero-point field.
Date:
Spring 2003
Creator:
Beck, Thomas E. & Colli, Janet E.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library