Abstract: In Western culture, approaches to the afterlife have mutated throughout history, from shamanism and mythology to philosophy, spiritualism, and psychical research. For conceptual reasons, however, survival research seems to many to be languishing, despite some remarkable recent advances. I urge a return to a more experience-based approach, modeled after features of the near-death experience, for its practical benefits; I intend that approach to complement other forms of research, not displace them. Finally, I underscore the unique status of survival research as a scientific pursuit.

Reviews of the books "Children of the New Millennium: Children's Near-Death Experiences and the Evolution of Humankind" and "Subtext for Children of the New Millennium," both by researcher P. M. H. Atwater.

Reviews of the books "Children of the New Millennium: Children's Near-Death Experiences and the Evolution of Humankind" and "Subtext for Children of the New Millennium," both by researcher P. M. H. Atwater.

Review of the book "Experiences Near Death: Beyond Medicine and Religion" by Australian sociologist Allan Kellehear.

Review of the book "The Division of Consciousness: The Secret Afterlife of the Human Psyche" written by Peter Novak discussing various religious and psychological perspectives on the afterlife.

Review of the book "The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead" by physics professor Frank J. Tipler.

Review of the book "Visitations from the Afterlife: True Stories of Love and Healing" by Lee Lawson, regarding accounts of after-death communications.

Abstract: I describe the near-death experience (NDE) of a 6-year-old boy who encountered both the devil and God following a near-fatal car accident, and compare recent recollections of the event with those made four years earlier. I discuss the aftereffects of this experience, and review the findings of earlier studies of frightening NDEs.

Article providing a short summary of a representative survey on near-death experiences (NDEs) in Germany, which is the first of its kind in Europe. The researchers tested several assumptions derived from previous research on NDEs, including the assumptions of a unified pattern of experience, the universality of the pattern, and the necessary link between NDEs and clinical death.

Article offering a feminist perspective of an article entitled "The Last Laugh: A New Philosophy of Near-Death Experiences, Apparitions, and the Paranormal," by Raymond A. Moody, Jr.

Article presenting a case report of an Hawaiian near-death experience (NDE) from the early 1900s, which was uncovered in a turn-of-the-century monograph of Hawaiian folk tales. The account differs from others in the same volume because it appears to be a real-life account rather than a folk tale. The article describes similarities and differences from other Polynesian NDE account in the literature, a Maori NDE reported by Michael King in 1985.

Quarterly journal publishing papers related to near-death experiences, including research reports; theoretical or conceptual statements; expressions of a scientific, philosophic, religious, or historical perspective on the study of near-death experiences; cross-cultural studies; individual case histories; and personal accounts of experiences or related phenomena.

Quarterly journal publishing papers related to near-death experiences, including research reports; theoretical or conceptual statements; expressions of a scientific, philosophic, religious, or historical perspective on the study of near-death experiences; cross-cultural studies; individual case histories; and personal accounts of experiences or related phenomena. Table of contents for each issue in volume 19 on page 272.

Quarterly journal publishing papers related to near-death experiences, including research reports; theoretical or conceptual statements; expressions of a scientific, philosophic, religious, or historical perspective on the study of near-death experiences; cross-cultural studies; individual case histories; and personal accounts of experiences or related phenomena.

Quarterly journal publishing papers related to near-death experiences, including research reports; theoretical or conceptual statements; expressions of a scientific, philosophic, religious, or historical perspective on the study of near-death experiences; cross-cultural studies; individual case histories; and personal accounts of experiences or related phenomena.

Study assessing the knowledge and attitudes of nurses in Italy toward near-death experiences (NDEs), through use of Nina Thornburg's Near-Death Phenomena Knowledge and Attitudes Questionnaire.

Letter from Allan L. Botkin to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies on the topic "Allan Botkin Responds."

Letter Beverly Brodsky to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies on the topic "Beverly Brodksy Responds."

Letter from J. Timothy Green to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies on the topic "Did NDEs Play a Seminal Role in the Formulation of Einstein's Theory of Relativity?"

Letter Brice J. Horacek to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies on the topic "EMDR, ADCs, NDEs, and the Resolution of Loss."

Letter from Neal Grossman to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies on the topic "Forgiveness and the Near-Death Experience."

Letter from Bogomir Golobic to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies on the topic "Marian Visionaries of Medjugorje."

Letter from Jenny Wade to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies on the topic "Religious Wars in the NDE Movement."

Letter from J. Kenneth Arnette to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies on the topic "Response to Krishnan."