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Endogenous Ketamine-Like Compounds and the NDE: If So, So What?
Article offering commentary on Karl Jansen's ketamine model for the near-death experience, expanding upon and raising additional questions about several issues and hypotheses.
Date:
Autumn 1997
Creator:
Strassman, Rick J.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Evolution and the Relationship between Brain and Mind States
Article discussing the phylogenetic basis of states of consciousness, and presenting the central theses of monism and dualism, in which near-death experiences (NDEs) enjoy very different ontological statuses.
Date:
Summer 1996
Creator:
Gomez-Jeria, Juan S. & Madrid-Aliste, Carlos
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Expanding Grof's Concept of the Perinatal: Deepening the Inquiry into Frightening Near-Death Experiences
Study suggesting that in order to explain the phenomenology of perinatal experience, as described in the work of Stanislav Grof, we must hypothesize that the patient in these instances has expanded beyond the individual subject.
Date:
Winter 1996
Creator:
Bache, Christopher M.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Experiences of Anoxia: Do Reflex Anoxic Seizures Resemble Near-Death Experiences?
Article exploring the role of anoxia in near-death experiences (NDEs) through the use of a questionnaire.
Date:
Winter 1998
Creator:
Blackmore, Susan
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Extrasensory Perception, Near-Death Experiences, and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge
Article discussing the following issue: If mental state can influence the external world, or if alternate dimensions of reality are accessible only in certain mental states, then important aspects of the universe are unknowable with current scientific tools. Near-death studies suggest that both those conditions may occur. Thus the exploration of NDE-like phenomena requires a radically new scientific paradigm.
Date:
Autumn 1990
Creator:
Becker, Carl B.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Extrasomatic Emotions
Article describing an investigation carried out in Italy on 54 subjects, half of whom had out-of-body experiences (OBEs) in good health, and half of whom had OBEs in a coma or in a state of presumed death. The focus of this research was the emotions subjects reported having felt during their OBEs.
Date:
Spring 1993
Creator:
Tiberi, Emilio
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Family Reunions: Visionary Encounters with the Departed in a Modern-Day Psychomanteum
Article describing a modern attempt to recreate the psychomanteum. Like near-death experiences, visionary encounters in this modern psychomanteum are experienced as real and not as hallucinatory, and have profound personal aftereffects. This novel experimental technique may permit the scientific study of phenomena that previously occurred only spontaneously and under uncontrolled circumstances.
Date:
Winter 1992
Creator:
Moody, Raymond A., Jr.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Five Minutes After Death: A Study of Beliefs and Expectations
Abstract: This paper examines the beliefs and expectations that a sample of 508 people hold about the first five minutes after death. A substantial minority believed that they will experience the main elements of the near-death experience (NDE). In general these elements were cited more frequently than were Biblical images. Six percent of the sample said that postmortem survival for them will be a negative and disturbing experience. We discuss these results in terms of their methodological implications for other survey work and their theoretical contribution toward our understanding of negative NDEs.
Date:
Winter 1990
Creator:
Kellehear, Allan &
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Frightening Near-Death Experiences Revisited: A Commentary on Responses to My Paper
Abstract: In this commentary, I discuss the responses to my paper on frightening near-death experiences (NDEs) written by Christopher Bache and Nancy Evans Bush, and I try to show that there are many points of agreement among us all. While Bache and I saw the ontological status of frightening NDEs differently than did Bush, all of us agreed on the psychological reality and importance of these experiences. Research on frightening NDEs, long overdue, is encouraged and reasons for its urgency are briefly mentioned.
Date:
Autumn 1994
Creator:
Ring, Kenneth
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Further Evidence For Veridical Perception During Near-Death Experiences
Abstract: We briefly survey research designed to validate alleged out-of-body perceptions during near-death experiences. Most accounts of this kind that have surfaced since Michael Sabom's work are unsubstantiated self-reports or, as in claims of visual perception of blind persons, completely undocumented or fictional, but there have bee n some reports that were corroborated by witnesses. We briefly present and discuss three new cases of this kind.
Date:
Summer 1993
Creator:
Ring, Kenneth & Lawrence, Madelaine
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Gender and Trauma in the Near-Death Experience: An Epidemiological and Theoretical Analysis
Article exploring the nature of the "fear-death experience" (FDE) by way of an epidemiological analysis, and discussing the FDE as one of several causal theories of the near-death experience (NDE).
Date:
Autumn 1999
Creator:
Audain, Linz
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Glimpses of Utopia Near Death? A Rejoinder
Abstract: Five scholars have offered comments, suggestions, and criticisms of my paper "Near-Death Experiences and Pursuit of the Ideal Society." In this rejoinder, I reply to those comments and elaborate on aspects of my earlier paper. I discuss issues of methodology, epistemology, validity, logic, and other social considerations with respect to the plausibility of viewing some near-death imagery as utopian. I conclude with some reflections on the social character and study of the near-death experience.
Date:
Winter 1991
Creator:
Kellehear, Allan
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
God and the God-Image: An Extended Reflection
Abstract: This paper examines the parallels between my anesthetic-related near-death experience and Rudolph Otto's description of numinous states. I discuss Otto's arguments about such perceptions and their implications, and explore internal numinous processes such as they might be seen through Carl Jung's psychology.
Date:
Summer 1991
Creator:
Leighton, Sally M.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
God, Tragedy, and the Near-Death Experience: Evaluating Kushner's Perspectives on Theodicy
Article evaluating Harold Kushner's original and reconstructed perspectives on God and the theodicic problem on the basis of research on the near-death experience (NDE) and related phenomena.
Date:
Summer 1999
Creator:
Gibbs, John C.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Guest Editorial: A Call to Reconsider the Field of Near-Death Studies
Commentary taking remarks previously made about frightening near-death experiences and the possibility of near-death being a kundalini breakthrough as license to ask for a reconsideration of near-death research.
Date:
Autumn 1995
Creator:
Atwater, Phyllis Marie H.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Guest Editorial: A New Book of the Dead: Reflections on the Near-Death Experience and the Tibetan Buddhist Tradtion Regarding the Nature of Death
Article offering a comparison of historical cases of Tibetan near-death experiences (NDEs) and contemporary Western accounts. A tradition of NDEs in Tibetan culture, the das-log experience, affords such a comparison. Modern NDEs differ from das-log experiences in ways that reflect their cultural context and may provide the foundation for a new Book of the Dead especially fitted to the existential and planetary concerns of modern time.
Date:
Winter 1993
Creator:
Ring, Kenneth
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Guest Editorial: Avoiding the Columbus Confusion: An Ockhamish View of Near-Death Research
Article exploring the theory that contemporary belief that near-death experiences (NDEs) are glimpses of an afterlife may prevent us from realizing their more profound nature. Belief in an afterlife has not historically brought humanity a high quality of life, but NDEs seem reliably to do so, and may offer important clues about why the expanded vitality, the "eternity-consciousness," of the mystics is commonly blocked.
Date:
Winter 1992
Creator:
Wren-Lewis, John
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Guest Editorial: Can Artificial Intelligence Have a Near-Death Experience? A Critical Look at the Ultimate Text
Abstract: Since a computer model begins as an instance of writing, that is, a "text," it is appropriate to examine this kind of discourse through the perspective of literary criticism. I examine Stephen Thaler's (1995) "intelligent" computer program and conclude that the gedanken creatures are constructed upon a structuralist theory of the text, which cannot support a complete simulation of human intelligence of experience.
Date:
Autumn 1998
Creator:
Gunn, Susan C.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Guest Editorial: Children and the Near-Death Phenomenon: Another Viewpoint
"Children who brush death, nearly die, or who are pronounced clinically dead but later revive have a much higher incidence of near-death experiences (NDEs) than do adults. Although excellent research now exists on children's cases, there have been discrepancies. I suggest that we need to broaden the range of observations on children's NDEs and reconsider what is known about children and the near-death phenomenon" (abstract).
Date:
Autumn 1996
Creator:
Atwater, P. M. H.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Guest Editorial: Is Ten Years a Life Review?
Article looking back on the author's ten years of involvement with near-death studies and with the International Association for Near-Death Studies, reviewing some of the major questions and accomplishments of that decade both in understanding of the near-death experience and in service as an organization.
Date:
Autumn 1991
Creator:
Bush, Nancy Evans
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Guest Editorial: Is There a Hell? Surprising Observations About the Near-Death Experience
Article discussing current research into what are now termed "distressing" or "unpleasant" near-death experiences (NDEs) and the author's findings from interviews of over a hundred such cases.The article compares this information with earlier reports from Maurice Rawlings, mythological traditions about the concept of hell, and renderings from The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Finally, it details four types of NDEs - initial, hell-like, heaven-like, and transcendental - and what seems to be an attitudinal profile characteristic of each type.
Date:
Spring 1992
Creator:
Atwater, P. M. H.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Guest Editorial: Kundalini and Healing in the West
Article discussing kundalini rising, and associated profound physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual changes which are occurring with increasing frequency to uninitiated and unprepared Westerners, often as a result of near-death experiences. A new paradigm in health care, emerging as a complement to traditional Western medical science, incorporates a variety of body-based and psychological therapies that validate the role of the True Self in health and wholeness and work with energetic and experiential phenomena such as kundalini.
Date:
Winter 1994
Creator:
Harris, Barbara
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Guest Editorial: Lessons From Near-Death Experiences for Humanity
Article summarizing nine lessons consistently gleaned from near-death experiences (NDEs), which may help motivate humanity to live more in accordance with the messages from NDEs.
Date:
Autumn 1993
Creator:
Lundahl, Craig R.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Guest Editorial: Life After Life-After-Life
Abstract: This essay is a first-person account describing the profound impact of my near-death experience (NDE). I surrendered everything in response to a spiritual mandate to do something different with my new life after the NDE. Researchers may find that such intensive responses contain credible data of interest in evaluating the question of why we have NDEs.
Date:
Spring 1993
Creator:
Luciani, Vincent
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library