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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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Pediatric Near-Death Experiences
Article reviewing one previously reported and three new pediatric near-death experiences (NDEs), in which the experiencers were interviewed as children, and which suggests that the childhood core NDE as described by Melvin Morse and colleagues may be expanded to include feeling pain-free, seeing a light at the tunnel's end, entering the light, and time alteration.
Date:
Autumn 1990
Creator:
Serdahely, William J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Loving Help from the Other Side: A Mosaic of Some Near-Death, and Near-Death-Like, Experiences
Article purporting that persons who have Stage 5 or Transcendental near-death experience frequently report they were given a message that they should be more loving and helpful to others upon returning to their bodies. On the other hand, some persons who have had near-death, or near-death-like, experiences report receiving loving help from "the other side." The author proposes that these reports are evidence that the other side "practices what it preaches."
Date:
Spring 1992
Creator:
Serdahely, William J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Near-Death Experiences Precipitated by Suicide Attempt: Lack of Influence of Psychopathology, Religion, and Expectations
Article studying near-death experiences in persons who would be expected to have a high rate of both psychopathology and coming close to death, by interviewing sixty-one consecutive suicide attempters.
Date:
Spring 1991
Creator:
Greyson, Bruce
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Guest Editorial: A New Book of the Dead: Reflections on the Near-Death Experience and the Tibetan Buddhist Tradtion Regarding the Nature of Death
Article offering a comparison of historical cases of Tibetan near-death experiences (NDEs) and contemporary Western accounts. A tradition of NDEs in Tibetan culture, the das-log experience, affords such a comparison. Modern NDEs differ from das-log experiences in ways that reflect their cultural context and may provide the foundation for a new Book of the Dead especially fitted to the existential and planetary concerns of modern time.
Date:
Winter 1993
Creator:
Ring, Kenneth
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
The Omega Project: An Empirical Study of the NDE-Prone Personality
Article discussing a questionnaire given to near-death experiencers (NDErs) and persons interested in NDEs, assessing the role of psychological factors in influencing susceptibility to NDEs and to measure aftereffects stemming from such events.
Date:
Summer 1990
Creator:
Ring, Kenneth & Rosing, Christopher J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
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
Amazing Grace: The Near-Death Experience as a Compensatory Gift
Paper illustrating the apparently providential timing and the healing character of near-death experiences (NDEs) and NDE-like episodes, through four case histories of persons whose lives, prior to their experiences, were marked by deep anguish and a sense of hopelessness.
Date:
Autumn 1991
Creator:
Ring, Kenneth
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Contribution of Tipler's Omega Point Theory to Near-Death Studies
Article presenting Frank Tipler's concepts and arguments, and highlighting the value of his orientation for near-death studies. Tipler's work takes the steam out of scientific rejection of religious, spiritual, or noetic phenomena, and makes it possible to accept these phenomena while maintaining a strictly scientific posture.
Date:
Autumn 1999
Creator:
Crumbaugh, James C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Solving the Riddle of Frightening Near-Death Experiences: Some Testable Hypotheses and a Perspective Based on A Course in Miracles
Article discussing three varieties of frightening near-death experiences (NDEs), as distinguished in the typology of Bruce Greyson and Nancy Evans Bush.
Date:
Autumn 1994
Creator:
Ring, Kenneth
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Guest Editorial: The Near-Death Experience: An Ancient Truth, a Modern Mystery
Article discussing the near-death experience (NDE) as an experience of wholeness, an adventure in consciousness, and a metaphoric encounter with light. It links theoretical physics with the occult, the Primordial Tradition, and various religious belief systems. Where science sees mystery, religion sees metaphoric truth; the NDE as spiritual quest and physical encounter beckons to both disciplines for explanation.
Date:
Spring 1990
Creator:
Fenske, Elizabeth W.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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?
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