Editor's Foreword [Winter 2010] (open access)

Editor's Foreword [Winter 2010]

Editorial statement introducing the contents of the journal issue and providing other relevant notes.
Date: Winter 2010
Creator: Holden, Janice Miner
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Editor's Foreword [Summer 2010] (open access)

Editor's Foreword [Summer 2010]

Editorial statement introducing the contents of the journal issue and providing other relevant notes.
Date: Summer 2010
Creator: Holden, Janice Miner
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Letter to the Editor: Researching Sounds in Near-Death Experiences (open access)

Letter to the Editor: Researching Sounds in Near-Death Experiences

Letter written to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Experiences discussing four specific difficulties of researching sounds related to near-death experiences (NDEs) and soliciting suggestions.
Date: Summer 2010
Creator: Migliore, Vince
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Editor's Foreword [Spring 2010] (open access)

Editor's Foreword [Spring 2010]

Editorial statement introducing the contents of the journal issue and providing other relevant notes.
Date: Spring 2010
Creator: Holden, Janice Miner
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Editor's Foreword [Fall 2010] (open access)

Editor's Foreword [Fall 2010]

Editorial statement introducing the contents of the journal issue and providing other relevant notes.
Date: Autumn 2010
Creator: Holden, Janice Miner
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Response to "Corroboration of the Dentures Anecdote Involving Veridical Perception in a Near-Death Experience" (open access)

Response to "Corroboration of the Dentures Anecdote Involving Veridical Perception in a Near-Death Experience"

Abstract: In this article, I address some of what I consider the inaccuracies and false assumptions in a recent article in this Journal entitled "Corroboration of the Dentures Anecdote Involving Veridical Perception in a Near-Death Experience" (Smit, 2008). I provide a medical explanation of how it was possible for the man reporting this remarkable NDE to have survived his period of cardiac arrest and how it was possible for him to have undergone an NDE. More importantly, I discuss how it was possible for this man to have undergone the truly unusual perceptions of feeling pain in his chest due to cardiac massage at the same time as his consciousness was displaced out of his body during an out-of-body experience.
Date: Summer 2010
Creator: Woerlee, Gerald M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Near-Death Experiences, Deathbed Visions, and Past-Life Memories: A Convergence in Support of van Lommel's 'Consciousness Beyond Life' (open access)

Near-Death Experiences, Deathbed Visions, and Past-Life Memories: A Convergence in Support of van Lommel's 'Consciousness Beyond Life'

Abstract: This review supports cardiologist Pim van Lommel's continuity claim for human existence in his recently published book 'Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience' (2010). Van Lommel and colleagues (van Lommel, van Wees, Meyers, & Elfferich, 2001) studied NDEs among 344 Dutch hospital patients who had been resuscitated following cardiac arrest. From their and others' NDE research findings (e.g., accurate perceptions during the arrest period), van Lommel and colleagues concluded that mental activity can take place even in the absence of cerebral function. Extrapolating from this conclusion, van Lommel claimed in 'Consciousness Beyond Life' a fundamental continuity for individual human existence: that death and birth mark not final limits but instead the transition from one state of consciousness to another. In the course of making his continuity claim, van Lommel referred to other topics such as deathbed visions and past-life memories. In addition to reviewing NDE research, this article reviews research and illustrative responses pertaining to these related phenomena. A convergence of corroborative evidence is consistent with van Lommel's continuity claim.
Date: Winter 2010
Creator: Gibbs, John C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Online Resources for the History of Out-of-Body Experiences and Death-Related Phenomena (open access)

Online Resources for the History of Out-of-Body Experiences and Death-Related Phenomena

Abstract: Google Books is a digital library covering out of print publications about a variety of topics, among them materials relevant for a history of discussions, observations, and collections of cases of out-of-body experiences and death-related phenomena such as near-death experiences, deathbed visions, and apparitions. In this article, I provide examples of copyright-free and cost-free sources from Google Books that investigators of near-death and related phenomena can download and change into plain text; in many cases, I include passages that give readers a sense of the richness of these sources for both a historical and a contemporary understanding of near-death and related phenomena. Examples of books include Johann Engelbrecht's "The Divine Visions of John Engelbrecht" (1780), Augustine Calmet's "The Phantom World" (1850), Henri Roger Gougenot de Mousseaux's "Les hauts phénomènes de la magie" (1864), Edward H. Clarke's "Visions" (1878), William H. Harrison's "Spirits Before Our Eyes" (1879), and Frederic W. H. Myers's "Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death" (1903). Examples of articles include those written by such authors as Ernesto Bozzano, Francis Power Cobbe, James H. Hyslop, Duncan MacDougall, Frank Podmore, and A. S. Wiltse.
Date: Spring 2010
Creator: Alvarado, Carlos S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Guest Editorial: The Search for God and Afterlife in the Age of Science (open access)

Guest Editorial: The Search for God and Afterlife in the Age of Science

Abstract: Near-death experiences (NDEs) and other transpersonal experiences -- those that transcend the usual personal experiential limits of space and/or time -- point to the existence and nature of God and ongoing personal consciousness following physical death. In this article, I review the history of these experiences prior to 1850 and of their study during three periods of scientific research between 1850 and the present. I conclude that (1) a large percentage of the population has experienced NDEs and other transpersonal experiences, (2) the overwhelming majority of these experiencers are mentally healthy, and (3) these experiences change people's lives for the better. I contend that although NDEs and other transpersonal experiences cannot prove the existence of a personal God and afterlife, they definitely point to them.
Date: Spring 2010
Creator: Vincent, Ken R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Letter to the Editor: Is it Rational to Extrapolate from the Presence of Consciousness During a Flat EEG to Survival of Consciousness After Death (open access)

Letter to the Editor: Is it Rational to Extrapolate from the Presence of Consciousness During a Flat EEG to Survival of Consciousness After Death

A letter from Titus Rivas to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies on the topic: "Is it Rational to Extrapolate from the Presence of Consciousness During a Flat EEG to Survival of Consciousness After Death?"
Date: Winter 2010
Creator: Rivas, Titus
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Reviews: The Art of Dying and Into the Light (open access)

Book Reviews: The Art of Dying and Into the Light

Review of two books titled "The Art of Dying" written by Peter Fenwick and Elizabeth Fenwick and "Into the Light" written by John Lerma.
Date: Summer 2010
Creator: Punzak, Dan
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation [#2] (open access)

Book Review: The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation [#2]

Review of a book titled "The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation" written by Janice Miner Holden, Bruce Greyson, and Debbie James (Eds.)
Date: Summer 2010
Creator: Vincent, Ken R.
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rejoinder to "Response to 'Corroboration of the Dentures Anecdote Involving Veridical Perception in a Near-Death Experience'" (open access)

Rejoinder to "Response to 'Corroboration of the Dentures Anecdote Involving Veridical Perception in a Near-Death Experience'"

Abstract: In this article we rejoin Gerald Woerlee's response in this issue to Smit's (2008) article, "Corroboration of the Dentures Anecdote Involving Veridical Perception in a Near-Death Experience." We show the untenability of his claim that the man whose dentures were lost before his resuscitation in the hospital was initiated had been conscious virtually all the way from the moment he was found in the meadow up to his transport to the hospital's cardiac care unit. Also, we question Woerlee's claim that the patient constructed an accurate mental picture of objects and persons in the resuscitation room simply by listening to the sounds caused by the actions around his body. In all, we question Woerlee's materialistic explanations of the out-of-body experience that occurred in this patient's near-death experience. Our conclusion is straightforward: We consider Woerlee's claims to be wrong.
Date: Summer 2010
Creator: Smit, Rudolf H. & Rivas, Titus
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
"The Dying Mother:" Historical Citations of Mary Goffe's Seventeenth-Century Near-Death Apparition (open access)

"The Dying Mother:" Historical Citations of Mary Goffe's Seventeenth-Century Near-Death Apparition

Abstract: Traditionally, certain cases have been of particular importance to students of near-death phenomena. Such cases are more than mere examples or research data; they are resources that are generally used to defend particular theoretical ideas, such as the projection of the spirit or of some subtle body from the physical body around the time of death. One such case was that of Mary Goffe, a seventeenth-century apparition of a dying woman that Richard Baxter reported in his book "The Certainty of the Worlds of Spirits" (1691). This paper includes a reprint of the original case report and a discussion of how later writers used the case to defend the idea that something may leave the body during near-death states.
Date: Autumn 2010
Creator: Alvarado, Carlos S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: Signs: A New Approach to Coincidence, Synchronicity, Guidance, Life Purpose, and God's Plan (open access)

Book Review: Signs: A New Approach to Coincidence, Synchronicity, Guidance, Life Purpose, and God's Plan

Review of a book titled "Signs: A New Approach to Coincidence, Synchronicity, Guidance, Life Purpose, and God's Plan" written by Robert Perry.
Date: Spring 2010
Creator: Greyson, Bruce
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Essential Features of Eight Published Muslim Near-Death Experiences: An Addendum to Joel Ibrahim Krep's "The Search for Muslim Near-Death Experiences" (open access)

Essential Features of Eight Published Muslim Near-Death Experiences: An Addendum to Joel Ibrahim Krep's "The Search for Muslim Near-Death Experiences"

Abstract: Among other authors, Joel Ibrahim Kreps (2009) has recently published accounts of Muslim near-death experiences (NDEs). With the present paper, we aim to contribute to the growing number of non-Western NDE reports by providing summaries of eight additional Muslim NDEs, seven translated from the original Italian source (Giovetta, 2007) and one from an English source (Lerma, 2009), and to provide references for further reading. In addition, we highlighted noteworthy features of these eight summarized NDE accounts. Although the documentation standard of the available cases is generally low, these accounts indicate that the structure and contents of NDEs from many non-Western Muslim communities are largely similar to those reported in the Western NDE literature. In his report, Kreps concluded that Muslim NDEs are rare and that Muslims have fewer NDEs than do non-Muslim Westerners and non-Muslim non-Westerners such as the Chinese. However, we found that the number of Muslim NDE accounts available today seem to indicate that Muslim NDEs are not as rare as Kreps concluded.
Date: Autumn 2010
Creator: Nahm, Michael & Nicolay, Joachim
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience (open access)

Book Review: Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience

Review of a book titled "Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience" written by Pam van Lommel.
Date: Winter 2010
Creator: Punzak, Dan
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences (open access)

Book Review: Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences

Review of a book titled "Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences" written by Jeffrey Long, M.D., with Paul Perry.
Date: Autumn 2010
Creator: Arnette, J. Kenneth
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation [#1] (open access)

Book Review: The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation [#1]

Review of a book titled "The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation" written by Janice Miner Holden, Bruce Greyson, and Debbie James (Eds.).
Date: Summer 2010
Creator: Grossman, Neal
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Brief Report: Psychologists' Knowledge of and Attitudes about Near-Death Experiences: Changes over Time and Relationship to Transpersonl Self-Concept (open access)

Brief Report: Psychologists' Knowledge of and Attitudes about Near-Death Experiences: Changes over Time and Relationship to Transpersonl Self-Concept

Results of a study to compare and extend Walker and Russell's (1989) study of psychologists' knowledge of and attitudes about near-death experiences (NDEs), using their Near-Death Phenomena Knowledge and Attitudes Questionnaire (NDPKAQ).
Date: Autumn 2010
Creator: Fracasso, Cheryl; Friedman, Harris & Young, M. Scott
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Brief Report: Near-Death Experiences among a Sample of Iranian Muslims (open access)

Brief Report: Near-Death Experiences among a Sample of Iranian Muslims

Brief report describing data collected about Iranian Muslims who had near-death experiences (NDEs). It outlines various information collected including demographics of participants and characteristics of the NDEs.
Date: Autumn 2010
Creator: Fracasso, Cheryl; Aleyasin, Seyed Ali; Friedman, Harris & Young, M. Scott
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Letter to the Editor: Response to "Is it Rational to Extrapolate from the Presence of Consciousness during a Flat EEG to Survival of Consciousness After Death?" (open access)

Letter to the Editor: Response to "Is it Rational to Extrapolate from the Presence of Consciousness during a Flat EEG to Survival of Consciousness After Death?"

A letter from Janice Miner Holden to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies on the topic: "Response to 'Is it Rational to Extrapolate from the Presence of Consciousness during a Flat EEG to Survival of Consciousness After Death?'"
Date: Winter 2010
Creator: Holden, Janice Miner
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library