The Meaning and Intensity of the Near-Death Experience (open access)

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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Phenomenology of Near-Death Consciousness in Past-Life Regression Therapy: A Pilot Study (open access)

The Phenomenology of Near-Death Consciousness in Past-Life Regression Therapy: A Pilot Study

Article reporting the results of a pilot study exploring similarities between the phenomenology of post-death awareness reported by regressed subjects and the phenomenology of near-death experiences (NDE), as far as the therapeutic modality normally accommodates post-death phenomena. Similarities and differences between NDEs and post-death regression phenomena suggest new avenues of research.
Date: Autumn 1998
Creator: Wade, Jenny
System: The UNT Digital Library
Physically Transcendent Awareness: A Comparison of the Phenomenology of Consciousness Before Birth and After Death (open access)

Physically Transcendent Awareness: A Comparison of the Phenomenology of Consciousness Before Birth and After Death

Article discussing veridical evidence of a physically transcendent source of consciousness, which comes from both extremes of the life span when central nervous system functioning is compromised, suggesting that some form of personhood can exist independently of known cellular processes associated with the body.
Date: Summer 1998
Creator: Wade, Jenny
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lucid Dreams as One Method of Replicating Components of the Near-Death Experience in a Laboratory Setting (open access)

Lucid Dreams as One Method of Replicating Components of the Near-Death Experience in a Laboratory Setting

Article exploring a large phenomenological overlap among lucid dreams, out-of-body experiences, and near-death experiences, which suggests the possibility of developing a methodology of replicating components of the near-death experience using newly developed methods of inducing lucid dreams.
Date: Autumn 1995
Creator: Green, J. Timothy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Near-Death Utopias: Now or Later? (open access)

Near-Death Utopias: Now or Later?

Article suggesting that researchers look first for indications of ideal social order in near-death narratives, and only later compare them with types of utopias.
Date: Winter 1991
Creator: Charmaz, Kathy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Near-Death Experiences, Shamanism, and the Scientific Method (open access)

Near-Death Experiences, Shamanism, and the Scientific Method

Article discussing the overlap between shamanism and near-death experiences (NDEs) and suggesting that the study of shamanism would be helpful in more fully understanding this phenomena and beginning the development of an applied methodology. Although it may be difficult to verify subjective accounts of NDEs and shamanic journeys, from a clinical standpoint it may not be necessary to do so in order to develop a technique that passes the test of scientific scrutiny.
Date: Spring 1998
Creator: Green, J. Timothy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Response to the Twemlow Paper (open access)

Response to the Twemlow Paper

Article responding to Stuart Twemlow's discussion of UFO abduction experiences paralleled with near-death experiences.
Date: Summer 1994
Creator: Lawson, Alvin H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Distressing Near-Death Experiences as Photographic Negatives (open access)

Distressing Near-Death Experiences as Photographic Negatives

Article presenting various interpretative frameworks for painful near-death experiences (NDEs).
Date: Winter 1996
Creator: Ellwood, Gracia Fay
System: The UNT Digital Library
Describing the Light: Attribution Theory as an Explanation of the Near-Death Experience (open access)

Describing the Light: Attribution Theory as an Explanation of the Near-Death Experience

Article exploring near-death experiences and attribution theory, which focuses on how information is used to create causal inferences and answer causal questions. The finding that near-death experiencers (NDErs) rarely describe unknown events, characters, or objects suggests that NDErs make attributions to answer why these experiences occurred. Examining various descriptions of NDEs demonstrates how attribution theory explains individuals' descriptions of their NDEs.
Date: Spring 1995
Creator: Norton, Max C. & Sahlman, James M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Six Studies of Out-of-Body Experiences (open access)

Six Studies of Out-of-Body Experiences

Article reviewing six studies of a basic component of the near-death experience (NDE), the out-of body experience (OBE).
Date: Winter 1998
Creator: Tart, Charles T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Critique of Kellehear's Transcendent Society (open access)

A Critique of Kellehear's Transcendent Society

Article responding to Allen Kellehear's cultural analysis based on nine Mormon near-death experiences (NDEs) did not reflect the diversity of near-death visions from other cultures. It suggests that these Mormon NDEs were neither as utopian as Kellehear assumed nor representative of contemporary NDE reports, and that a more complete analysis would reveal a variety of NDEs and otherworld visions reflecting the experiencers' sociocultural background.
Date: Winter 1991
Creator: Mickel, Howard A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Projective Geometry for Separation Experiences (open access)

A Projective Geometry for Separation Experiences

Article presenting a projective geometry for out-of-body "separation experiences," built up out of a series of higher space analogies and resulting diagrams.
Date: Spring 1999
Creator: Greene, F. Gordon
System: The UNT Digital Library
Motifs of Passage into Worlds Imaginary and Fantastic (open access)

Motifs of Passage into Worlds Imaginary and Fantastic

Article matching phenomena associated with the passage into otherworlds as reported during out-of-body and near-death experiences, with imagery associated with the passage into otherworlds as depicted in classic modern fantasies and fairy tales.
Date: Summer 1992
Creator: Greene, F. Gordon
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homer's Odysseus as an Ecstatic Voyager (open access)

Homer's Odysseus as an Ecstatic Voyager

Article examining the events of Homer's Odyssey chronologically, identifying and analyzing specific instances where Homer's imagery suggests such a multifaceted relationship. In accounting for this relationship, the article introduces a psychospiritual evolutionary theory of symbolism and inspiration based upon the higher dimensional existence of the supernatural.
Date: Summer 1996
Creator: Greene, F. Gordon
System: The UNT Digital Library