The Acute Dying Experience (open access)

The Acute Dying Experience

Article discussing the acute dying experience (ADE), which incorporates peritraumatic dissociation and hyperarousal into an experiential continuum lasting seconds to minutes. It is instantly triggered by the sudden, clear perception of threat of significant injury and/or death and followed, at times, by physical trauma, physiological derangement, and loss of consciousness. Results from this and other studies show that paradoxically the more terrifying and traumatic an accident may appear, the more peaceful and painless it may actually be experienced.
Date: Spring 2008
Creator: Sabom, Michael B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Response to Gracia Fay Ellwood's "Religious Experience, Religious Worldviews, and Near-Death Studies" (open access)

Response to Gracia Fay Ellwood's "Religious Experience, Religious Worldviews, and Near-Death Studies"

Article responding to Gracia Fay Ellwood's commentary on Light & Death, in which she alleges serious problems with the discussion of Raymond Moody's research, views on the psychic and the occult, and the use of the Bible as an authoritative document.
Date: Autumn 2000
Creator: Sabom, Michael
System: The UNT Digital Library
Psychomanteum Research: A Pilot Study (open access)

Psychomanteum Research: A Pilot Study

Study of 57 persons who participated in 31 workshops seeking visionary and other reunion experiences with departed loved ones by means of a mirror-gazing procedure developed by Raymond Moody. The study was an attempt to repeat Moody's findings, to alleviate the grief of the participants, and to explore psychological factors related to their experiences.
Date: Summer 2004
Creator: Roll, William G.
System: The UNT Digital Library