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Amazing Grace: The Healing Effects of Near-Death Experiences on Those Dying and Grieving
Study presenting evidence of seven categorical situations where participating in or knowledge of near-death experiences (NDEs) and nearing-death awareness experiences serve as healing agents in facing one's own death or the death of a significant other.
Date:
Winter 1997
Creator:
Horacek, Bruce J.
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
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.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Retrospective Accounts of Childhood Near-Death Experiences with Contemporary Pediatric Near-Death Experience Accounts
Study comparing five childhood near-death experiences (NDEs) reported by adults and another five NDEs reported by minors, in terms of Ring's five NDE stages, Greyson's four NDE components, Moody and Perry's 12 NDE traits, Sabom's 16 general characteristics, and Gallup and Proctor's 10 basic positive experiences.
Date:
Summer 1991
Creator:
Serdahely, William J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Contribution of Frankl's Logotherapy to the Interpretation of Near-Death Experiences
Article discussing Viktor Frankl's logotherapy, which resolves potential conflicting sources of meaning by the application of the Laws of Dimensional Ontology, which validate apparently conflicting viewpoints. The application of these laws to the interpretation of near-death experiences (NDEs) resolves the conflict between the orthodox scientific view of NDEs as hallucination and the experiential view of them as experiences of the afterlife to come.
Date:
Spring 1997
Creator:
Crumbaugh, James C.
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
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
Death of a Gedanken Creature
Paper describing a thought experiment in which a hypothetical creature created by a computer program inhabits a simple universe consisting of itself, food, and predators. As this creature "dies" it "internally" experiences these environmental features independent of their actual presence. More evolved hypothetical creatures generate novel forms of "inner" experiences as they "die." Applying these results to humans suggests an "internal" genesis of near-death experiences.
Date:
Spring 1995
Creator:
Thaler, Stephen L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
Disclosure Habits After Near-Death Experiences: Influences, Obstacles, and Listener Selection
Article describing habits of disclosure regarding near-death experiences (NDEs). Major influences and obstacles to disclosure are discussed, as well as issues involved in listener selection. Finally, some comments about secrecy emphasize the importance of discerning between appropriate, nourishing choices of secrecy and choices of beneficial disclosure.
Date:
Autumn 1995
Creator:
Hoffman, Regina M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Disclosure Needs and Motives After a Near-Death Experience
Article analyzing the communication processes used by 50 near-death experiencers and discussing their disclosure needs and motives, as well as influences and obstacles that affect disclosure habits. The findings suggest that disclosure needs evolve through stages after an experience, and reveal five distinct disclosure motives.
Date:
Summer 1995
Creator:
Hoffman, Regina M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
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
Family Reunions: Visionary Encounters with the Departed in a Modern-Day Psychomanteum
Article describing a modern attempt to recreate the psychomanteum. Like near-death experiences, visionary encounters in this modern psychomanteum are experienced as real and not as hallucinatory, and have profound personal aftereffects. This novel experimental technique may permit the scientific study of phenomena that previously occurred only spontaneously and under uncontrolled circumstances.
Date:
Winter 1992
Creator:
Moody, Raymond A., Jr.
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
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: 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.
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
Guest Editorial: Is Ten Years a Life Review?
Article looking back on the author's ten years of involvement with near-death studies and with the International Association for Near-Death Studies, reviewing some of the major questions and accomplishments of that decade both in understanding of the near-death experience and in service as an organization.
Date:
Autumn 1991
Creator:
Bush, Nancy Evans
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.
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
Guest Editorial: Lessons From Near-Death Experiences for Humanity
Article summarizing nine lessons consistently gleaned from near-death experiences (NDEs), which may help motivate humanity to live more in accordance with the messages from NDEs.
Date:
Autumn 1993
Creator:
Lundahl, Craig R.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Guest Editorial: Near-Death Experiences: A Speculative Neural Model
Article detailing a personal mystical experience that led the author to the belief that a little known structure in the center of the spinal cord, Reissner's fiber, is identical with the anatomical entity described by kundalini yoga. The author's struggles to understand the meaning of that experience have led him to believe that an understanding of the deeper realities underlying quantum phenomena can be integrated with an understanding of the mysterious realities of near-death and other mystical experiences, and that Reissner's fiber can serve as an empirical basis for a scientific investigation of these phenomena.
Date:
Spring 1994
Creator:
Wile, Lawrence C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Guest Editorial: The Examination of Labels - A Beginning
Article addressing the problem of unclear terminology for the study of anomalies. Researchers have used the term "near-death experience" to describe four different kinds of incidents. To avoid confusion, new labels are needed for experiences that differ in their relationship to death and near-death and their transformative potential.
Date:
Summer 1991
Creator:
Smith, Robert P.
System:
The UNT Digital Library