Study evaluating whether changes following heart transplant surgery parallel the history of the donors, based on the systemic memory hypothesis which predicts that all dynamical systems that contain recurrent feedback loops store information and energy to various degrees.

Study assessing prospectively the frequency of near-death experiences (NDEs) in patients suffering a cardiac arrest, characterizing these experiences, and assessing their impact on psychosocial and spiritual attitudes.

Study of ninety selected emergency service workers, which were interviewed or completed questionnaires to determine if they had experienced a sense or feeling of "communication, presence, or attachment" from victims of fatal injury whom they had attended at death.

Article discussing the belief in two souls, the conscious and unconscious minds, and the relation to the two stages of near-death experiences.

Article exploring the issue of what evidential value near-death experiences (NDEs) offer for belief in life and death, including a survey of major positions on the issue.

Article discussing the academy's refusal to examine the evidence for an afterlife, and tendency to cling to materialism as if it were a priori true, instead of a posteriori false. The author suggests several explanations for the monumental failure of curiosity on the part of academia.

Article exploring situations, using a recent near-death experience (NDE) example, in which there are reasonable evidence and logic, and yet belief seems to be withheld. The author postulates and discusses nonrational influences producing resistance to belief, including the fear of being in error, the fear of rejection from the scientific community, irrational requirements of logicality, avoidance of consequences, and paradigm fixation, as well as discussing issues in philosophy of science and epistemology in regard to proof.