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Commentary on "Does Paranormal Perception Occur in Near-Death Experiences?" [#2] (open access)

Commentary on "Does Paranormal Perception Occur in Near-Death Experiences?" [#2]

Abstract: Keith Augustine raises questions regarding Pam Reynolds's near-death experience (NDE) while undergoing cerebral aneurysm surgery using the hypothermic cardiac arrest ("standstill") procedure. I specifically address questions regarding anesthesia and brainstem auditory evoked response procedures; and the relation of Reynolds's NDE to "standstill" and life after death.
Date: Summer 2007
Creator: Sabom, Michael B.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
"Does Paranormal Perception Occur in Near-Death Experiences?" Defended (open access)

"Does Paranormal Perception Occur in Near-Death Experiences?" Defended

Article responding to criticisms of another article concerning paranormal perception in near-death experiences.
Date: Summer 2007
Creator: Augustine, Keith
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Commentary on "Does Paranormal Perception Occur in Near-Death Experiences?" [#1] (open access)

Commentary on "Does Paranormal Perception Occur in Near-Death Experiences?" [#1]

Editor's abstract and note: In this commentary, Charles Tart critiques Keith Augustine's deconstruction of Pam Reynolds's near-death experience (NDE) while undergoing cerebral aneurysm surgery using the hypothermic cardiac arrest ("standstill") procedure. However, after drafting this initial response to Augustine's paper, family medical problems prevented Tart from researching and polishing his comments as thoroughly as he would have wished. He has approved our publication of this commentary but regrets taht it is not up to his usual standard.
Date: Summer 2007
Creator: Tart, Charles T.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Near-Death Experiences in Suicide Attempters in Sri Lanka (open access)

Near-Death Experiences in Suicide Attempters in Sri Lanka

Study exploring near-death experiences (NDEs) among suicide attempters, using interviews of 77 consecutive suicide attempters admitted to a tertiary teaching hospital in Sri Lanka.
Date: Summer 2008
Creator: Kuruppuarchchi, K. A. L. A.; Gambheera, Harischandra; Padmasekara, Gayan & Perera, Mahendra
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Post Mortem Contact by Fatal Injury Victims with Emergency Service Workers at the Scenes of Their Death (open access)

Post Mortem Contact by Fatal Injury Victims with Emergency Service Workers at the Scenes of Their Death

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.
Date: Autumn 2002
Creator: Kelly, Richard E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Near-Death Experience and Christian Universalism (open access)

The Near-Death Experience and Christian Universalism

Article exploring the near-death experience (NDE) in the context of the theology of Christian Universalism. The article provides data on various models of Christian theology, and presents the model of Restorative Universalism as the one most compatible with reports of afterlife in the NDE.
Date: Autumn 2003
Creator: Vincent, Ken R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: The Division of Consciousness: The Secret Afterlife of the Human Psyche (open access)

Book Review: The Division of Consciousness: The Secret Afterlife of the Human Psyche

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.
Date: Spring 2001
Creator: Lanning, Bill
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Religious Wars or Healthy Competition in the NDE Movement? (open access)

Religious Wars or Healthy Competition in the NDE Movement?

Article pointing out some problems with Michael Sabom's recent work, and arguing that Kenneth Ring's statements that we might not now be headed toward "Omega" as he once thought may be premature.
Date: Summer 2000
Creator: Gibson, Arvin S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Response to Kenneth Ring's "Religious Wars in the NDE Movement: Some Personal Reflections on Michael Sabom's Light & Death" (open access)

Response to Kenneth Ring's "Religious Wars in the NDE Movement: Some Personal Reflections on Michael Sabom's Light & Death"

Abstract: This article responds to 15 excerpts from Kenneth Ring's paper that question the accuracy and integrity of Light & Death (Sabom, 1998).
Date: Summer 2000
Creator: Sabom, Michael
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: Alterations of Consciousness: An Empirical Analysis for Social Scientists (open access)

Book Review: Alterations of Consciousness: An Empirical Analysis for Social Scientists

Review of the book "Alterations of Consciousness: An Empirical Analysis for Social Scientists" by Imants Barušs, discussing different perspectives and definitions of consciousness or "altered states."
Date: Autumn 2004
Creator: Krippner, Stanley
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Letter to the Editor [Fall 2003] (open access)

Letter to the Editor [Fall 2003]

Letter from Janice Miner Holden to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies announcing the availability of a new electronic tool, the Near-Death Experience Research Bibliography, Part I.
Date: Autumn 2003
Creator: Holden, Janice Miner
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Refreshment and Reunion in Paradise: Near-Death Experiences in Early North African Christianity (open access)

Refreshment and Reunion in Paradise: Near-Death Experiences in Early North African Christianity

Article discussing the near-death experiences of Perpetua and Saturus, martyrs of early Christianity.
Date: Spring 2009
Creator: Potthoff, Stephen E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul (open access)

Book Review: The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul

Review of the book "The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul" by neuroscientist Mario Beauregard and journalist Denyse O'Leary.
Date: Autumn 2008
Creator: Punzak, Dan
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Commentary on "Psychophysiological and Cultural Correlates Undermining a Survivalist Interpretation of Near-Death Experiences" (open access)

Commentary on "Psychophysiological and Cultural Correlates Undermining a Survivalist Interpretation of Near-Death Experiences"

Abstract: Keith Augustine has provided a legitimate and cogent critique of a transcendental interpretation of near-death experiences, exposing weaknesses in the research methodology, paucity of the data, and gaps in the arguments. He offers evidence from psychophysiological and cultural correlates of NDEs that he interprets as favoring a hallucinatory understanding of these phenomena. however, his analysis relies on idiosyncratic definitions of psychological concepts, reads unidirectional causality into bivariate correlations, and underestimates the empirical predictions of the separation hypothesis. Despite less than compelling evidence for the transcendental hypothesis, it accounts for NDE phenomenology better than the materialist model.
Date: Winter 2007
Creator: Greyson, Bruce
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Universal, Multiple, and Exclusive Experiences of After-Death Communication (open access)

The Universal, Multiple, and Exclusive Experiences of After-Death Communication

Study on grief reaction and religious or spiritual coping methods in bereavement, in which the researcher asked bereft people to report if they have experienced specific types of after-death communication (ADC), as it related to their most recent death of a loved one.
Date: Winter 2005
Creator: Houck, James A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Remarks on Ernesto Bozzano's La Psiche Domina la Materia (open access)

Remarks on Ernesto Bozzano's La Psiche Domina la Materia

Article discussing Ernesto Bozzano's study on the subject of physical phenomena around the time of someone's death, including a critique of his dogmatic approach to the interpretation of the cases, and the use of cases lacking relevant information.
Date: Spring 2007
Creator: Alvarado, Carlos S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: On the Other Side of Life: Exploring the Phenomenon of the Near-Death Experience (open access)

Book Review: On the Other Side of Life: Exploring the Phenomenon of the Near-Death Experience

Review of the book "On the Other Side of Life: Exploring the Phenomenon of the Near-Death Experience" written by Evelyn Elsaesser Valarino as a theoretical and philosophical discussion of NDEs.
Date: Winter 2000
Creator: Kelly, Emily Williams
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Letters to the Editor: William James and Near-Death Experiences (open access)

Letters to the Editor: William James and Near-Death Experiences

Letter from Philip B. Reinhart to editor exploring the relevancy of the insights discussed in William James' "The varieties of Religious Experience" in relation to Near-Death Experiences.
Date: Summer 2003
Creator: Reinhart, Philip B. & Lester, David
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Letters to the Editor: Near- Death Experiences Before and After 1975 (open access)

Letters to the Editor: Near- Death Experiences Before and After 1975

Letter from P. M. H. Atwater to editor discussing the varying climate of research surrounding NDEs from the 1970s until present day.
Date: Summer 2004
Creator: Atwater, P. M. H. & Tart, Charles T.
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Corroboration of the Dentures Anecdote Involing Veridical Perception in a Near-Death Experience (open access)

Corroboration of the Dentures Anecdote Involing Veridical Perception in a Near-Death Experience

Abstract: One of the most striking examples of near-death experience stories is the account of a clinically dead patient whose dentures were removed from his mouth prior to resuscitation, and which dentures were then lost. Days later the patient saw a nurse and told him that it was he who had removed those dentures. The patient was right, but he should not have known this information, because tat the time the nurse had removed his dentures, the patient was clinically dead. Since publication of this account in a prestigious mainstream medical journal, speculations have abounded. In this article I describe the investigation I undertook to put these speculations to rest and the outcome of that investigation.
Date: Autumn 2008
Creator: Smit, Rudolf H.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comments on "Does Paranormal Perception Occur in Near-Death Experiences?" (open access)

Comments on "Does Paranormal Perception Occur in Near-Death Experiences?"

Abstract: Keith Augustine's critique of studies of veridical perception in near-death experiences is based on unsubstantiated speculation from the popular media, rather than on supportive data or peer-reviewed literature. Nevertheless, addressing the issues he raises would improve the methodology of near-death research and strengthen the evidential database for veridical perception.
Date: Summer 2007
Creator: Greyson, Bruce
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Silent Journey: The Discovery of the Near-Death Experience of a Nonverbal Adolescent (open access)

Silent Journey: The Discovery of the Near-Death Experience of a Nonverbal Adolescent

Abstract: This article relates to the story of a boy who had a near-death experience at the age of 8, but who, because brain trauma left him quadriplegic and nonverbal, was unable to talk about his experience until I discovered it serendipitously 6 years later. Being able to tell his story and have his experience validated brought about significant changes in his emotional state, helped return personal control over his life, and ultimately led to his peaceful and fulfilling death.
Date: Spring 2004
Creator: Enright, Rick
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Three Fictional Deaths Compared with the Near-Death Experience (open access)

Three Fictional Deaths Compared with the Near-Death Experience

Study looking at three popular works of short fiction, by Leo Tolstoy, Ambrose Bierce, and Katherine Anne Porter, in which the main character dies at the end. There are similarities and differences between these deaths and recent near-death experience (NDE) accounts. The comparison helps define the modern sensibility about dying that is part of the cultural context for interest in NDEs.
Date: Winter 2000
Creator: Haussamen, Brock
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Near-Death Experience Followed by the Visitation of an "Angel-Like" Being (open access)

A Near-Death Experience Followed by the Visitation of an "Angel-Like" Being

Abstract: I describe a near-death experience (NDE) followed by a religious experience 15 years later in which the subject was visited by the same "angel-like" figure that she saw in the NDE. I describe details of the NDE and of the subsequent visitation; note transformational changes in behavior and associated aftereffects; examine childhood experiences possibly related to the NDE; review the presence of angels in Biblical and mystical literature and in contemporary media; and suggest a possible relationship between latent paranormal abilities and the occurrence of a variety of exceptional experiences.
Date: Winter 2000
Creator: Bonenfant, Richard J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library