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Near-Death Experiences: A Critique of the Fischer and Mitchell-Yellin Physicalist Interpretation
Abstract: In "Near Death Experiences: Understanding Visions of the Afterlife," authors John Martin Fischer and Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin (2016) argued for purely physicalist explanations of near-death experiences (NDEs) and against "supernatural" explanations involving objects and events--out-of-body experiences, heavenly realms, meeting deceased relatives--that have no physical reality. In our critique, we identify two major weaknesses to their argument: heavy reliance on ad hoc hypotheses and frequent appeal to "promissory materialism." Fischer and Mitchell-Yellin applied the term "hallucination" to NDEs because, by definition, they "do not correspond to reality." We found use of this term problematic for several reasons: that NDE perceptions are phenomenologically different from hallucinations, that NDE perceptions of the physical realm are nearly always veridical, and that labelling NDEs "hallucinations" pathologizes a normal, subjective experience, with potentially harmful psychological outcomes. Although Fischer and Mitchell-Yellin argued a theory of NDEs that invokes only one explanatory factor, we argue for a likely common proximate cause for all NDEs and that the nonphysical "mind-entity theory" in which the nonmaterial mind separates from the physical body in an NDE, is a likely candidate theory with good explanatory power. We believe that ultimately the theory explaining NDEs will be corrected through the normal process of …
Date:
Winter 2017
Creator:
Mays, Robert G. & Mays, Suzanne B.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Editor's Foreword [Winter 2017]
Editorial statement introducing the contents of the journal issue and providing other relevant notes. This issue contains a review of "Near-Death Experiences: Understanding Visions of the Afterlife" by John Martin Fischer and Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin, Fischer's and Mitchell-Yellin's response to the critique, and a review of Francoise Tibika's book, "Molecular Consciousness: Why the Universe Is Aware of Our Presence."
Date:
Winter 2017
Creator:
Holden, Janice Miner
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 69, Number 7, March 2017
This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date:
March 2017
Creator:
American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 69, Number 9, February 2017
This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date:
February 2017
Creator:
American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 69, Number 8, April 2017
This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date:
April 2017
Creator:
American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 70, Number 4, December 2017
This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date:
December 2017
Creator:
American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Information Fluency Initiative: Curriculum Mapping Group Procedures and Timeline Report
This report documents the University of North Texas Libraries Curriculum Mapping Group's meetings, relevant annotated bibliography, the logic model for the project, and a sample curriculum map.
Date:
December 21, 2017
Creator:
Hardin, Gregory; Hargis, Carol & Henson, Brea
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Your healing is killing me
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"Your Healing is Killing Me is a performance manifesto based on lessons learned in San Antonio free health clinics and New York acupuncture schools; from the treatments and consejos of curanderas, abortion doctors, Marxist artists, community health workers, and bourgie dermatologists. One artist's reflections on living with post-traumatic stress disorder, ansia, and eczema in the new age of trigger warnings, the master cleanse, and crowd-funded self-care."--Back cover.
Date:
2017
Creator:
Grise, Virginia
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Nuestra Voz (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 42, Ed. 1, May 2017
Monthly newspaper providing news and information to the Tarrant, Dallas, and Denton County Latino communities along with advertising.
Date:
May 2017
Creator:
Alvarado, Felix
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nuestra Voz (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 43, Ed. 1, June 2017
Monthly newspaper providing news and information to the Tarrant, Dallas, and Denton County Latino communities along with advertising.
Date:
June 2017
Creator:
Alvarado, Felix
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nuestra Voz (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 44, Ed. 1, July 2017
Monthly newspaper providing news and information to the Tarrant, Dallas, and Denton County Latino communities along with advertising.
Date:
July 2017
Creator:
Alvarado, Felix
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nuestra Voz (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 45, Ed. 1, August 2017
Monthly newspaper providing news and information to the Tarrant, Dallas, and Denton County Latino communities along with advertising.
Date:
August 2017
Creator:
Alvarado, Felix
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nuestra Voz (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 38, Ed. 1, January 2017
Monthly newspaper providing news and information to the Tarrant, Dallas, and Denton County Latino communities along with advertising.
Date:
January 2017
Creator:
Alvarado, Felix
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nuestra Voz (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 39, Ed. 1, February 2017
Monthly newspaper providing news and information to the Tarrant, Dallas, and Denton County Latino communities along with advertising.
Date:
February 2017
Creator:
Alvarado, Felix
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nuestra Voz (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 40, Ed. 1, March 2017
Monthly newspaper providing news and information to the Tarrant, Dallas, and Denton County Latino communities along with advertising.
Date:
March 2017
Creator:
Alvarado, Felix
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nuestra Voz (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 41, Ed. 1, April 2017
Monthly newspaper providing news and information to the Tarrant, Dallas, and Denton County Latino communities along with advertising.
Date:
April 2017
Creator:
Alvarado, Felix
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Impact of an Online Education Program on Counselors' Knowledge and Attitudes About Near-Death Experiences
Results of a study to test knowledge and attitudes among licensed U.S. counselors regarding near-death experiences (NDEs) through surveys administered before and after the counselors completed an online course.
Date:
Autumn 2017
Creator:
Loseu, Saharnaz & Holden, Janice Miner
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Editor's Foreword [Fall 2017]
Editorial statement introducing the contents of the journal issue and providing other relevant notes.
Date:
Autumn 2017
Creator:
Holden, Janice Miner
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Undergraduate Psychology Students' Knowledge and Attitudes About Near-Death Experiences: Does Educaiton about NDEs Make a Difference
Article discussing the results of research to measure the impact of intervention in undergraduate psychology classes that provided education about near-death experiences (NDEs) and determine whether curricula should be changed.
Date:
Autumn 2017
Creator:
Tassell-Matamua, Natasha & Lindsay, Nicole
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Editor's Foreword [Summer 2017]
Editorial statement introducing the contents of the journal issue and providing other relevant notes.
Date:
Summer 2017
Creator:
Holden, Janice Miner
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
"He should stay in the grave": Cultural Patterns in the Interpretation of Near-Death Experiences in African Traditional Religions
Abstract: A wide-ranging survey of ethnographic, explorer, and missionary literature demonstrates that although historical accounts of near-death experiences (NDEs) are attested in indigenous African societies, they are comparatively rare. Correspondingly, there is also a scarcity of mythological narratives of journeys to afterlife realms and a comparative lack of concern with afterlife speculation per se. Instead the literature reveals that many African peoples had marked concerns about potentially malevolent influences of ancestral spirits, shamanistic focus on spirit possession and sorcery, and precipitous burial practices limiting the occurrence of NDEs. NDEs were sometimes seen as aberrational, suggesting that individuals would have been reluctant to relate them. In such cultural environments, NDEs could scarcely have played a significant role in contributing to afterlife conceptions.
Date:
Summer 2017
Creator:
Sushan, Gregory
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Editor's Foreword [Spring 2017]
Editorial statement introducing the contents of the journal issue and providing other relevant notes.
Date:
Spring 2017
Creator:
Holden, Janice Miner
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: A Call From Heaven: Personal Accounts of Deathbed Visits, Angelic Visions, and Crossings to the Other Side
Review of a book titled "A Call From Heaven: Personal Accounts of Deathbed Visits, Angelic Visions, and Crossings to the Other Side" written by Josie Varga, which describes the author's experiences with survival of consciousness after death.
Date:
Autumn 2017
Creator:
Smith, Linda L.
Object Type:
Review
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Historical Near-Death and Reincarnation-Intermission Experiences of the Tlingit Indians: Case Studies and Theoretical Reflection
Article discussing historical accounts of six near-death experiences (NDEs) and three reincarnation-intermission experiences (IEs) among Tlingit Indians in Alaska and comparing those experiences to accounts from similar populations elsewhere to draw general conclusions regarding similarities.
Date:
Summer 2017
Creator:
Matlock, James G.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library