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Researching the Out-of-Body Experience: The State of the Art
This paper discusses the out-of-body experience (OBE) as a common human experience that goes beyond psychopathology or mental imagery. The paper also discusses the possibility of OBE projectors being detectable outside of their body.
Date:
Spring 1984
Creator:
Rogo, D. Scott
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Self, Eternity, and the Mysteries: A Speculative Response to Kenneth Ring's Paper
"This response to a paper by Kenneth Ring (1984) deals with three issues of broad philosophical import: (1) near-death experiences (NDEs) and the expanded sense of self-identity; (2) the distinction between postmortem survival and the experience of premortem eternity; and (3) the relation between NDEs and the idea of mystery cults, ancient and modern" (abstract).
Date:
Autumn 1984
Creator:
Grosso, Michael
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Wave Among Waves: Katherine Anne Porter's Near-Death Experience
This paper discusses Katherine Anne Porter's near-death experience with influenza that influenced her book "Pale Horse, Pale Rider."
Date:
Autumn 1984
Creator:
Straight, Steve
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Pure Land Revisited: Sino-Japanese Meditations and Near-Death Experiences of the Next World
This paper examines Buddhist meditation techniques as they apply to Pure Land visions and deathbed visions, particularly with their parallelism to modern American near-death and deathbed visions.
Date:
Spring 1984
Creator:
Becker, Carl B.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Nature of Personal Identity in the Near-Death Experience: Paul Brunton and the Ancient Tradition
"In this paper the nature of personal identity is examined from two perspectives: observations reported by selected near-death experiencers (NDErs) and the viewpoint represented by the late English writer Paul Brunton (1898-1981)" (abstract). The paper explores the implications of these two perspectives.
Date:
Spring 1984
Creator:
Ring, Kenneth
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Combat-Related Near-Death Experiences: A Preliminary Investigation
"This paper reports on a continuing study of the near-death experience (NDE) occurring among those who were clinically dead or close to death as a result of combat operations" (abstract). Suggestions are made for the continued development of the study.
Date:
Autumn 1984
Creator:
Sullivan, Robert M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Hashish Near-Death Experiences
This paper discusses contrasting opinions about hashish-induced near-death experiences (NDEs) with an early French context. "Most researchers endorsed the view of French psychiatrist Jacques Joseph Moreau that these experiences were hallucinations. Others, including spiritualist Louis-Alphonese Cahagnet, believed that hashish NDEs revealed an underlying reality as described in the works of Emanuel Swedenborg" (abstract).
Date:
Spring 1984
Creator:
Siegel, Ronald K. & Hirschman, Ada E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Death and the Primacy of Love in Works of Dickens, Hugo, and Wilder
This paper compares the tendency of Charles Dickens, Thornton Wilder, and Victor Hugo who use near-death experiences (NDEs) to transform the experience of fictional characters. The fictional characters' experiences are similar to real positive experiences of people who go through NDEs.
Date:
Autumn 1984
Creator:
Flynn, Charles P.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Ketamine and the Near-Death Experience
This paper shows the connection between patients that receive the anesthetic ketamine and also experience near-death experiences (NDEs).
Date:
Spring 1984
Creator:
Rogo, D. Scott
System:
The UNT Digital Library