Near-Death Experiences and Kundalini Awakening: Exploring the Link (open access)

Near-Death Experiences and Kundalini Awakening: Exploring the Link

Article exploring the historical and research evidence that the awakening of latent spiritual energy is the biopsychospiritual basis of near-death experiences (NDEs).
Date: Spring 1994
Creator: Kason, Yvonne
System: The UNT Digital Library
Near Death Experiences and Gnostic Christianity: Parallels in Antiquity (open access)

Near Death Experiences and Gnostic Christianity: Parallels in Antiquity

Article examining ancient Gnostic Christian texts which display compelling similarities between Gnostic conceptions of life and death and modern NDEs.
Date: Spring 1999
Creator: Bain, Brian A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Endogenous Ketamine-Like Compounds and the NDE: If So, So What? (open access)

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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Divine Light and Ecstasy in Religious and Near-Death Experiences: A Retrospective Glance and a View for the Future (open access)

The Divine Light and Ecstasy in Religious and Near-Death Experiences: A Retrospective Glance and a View for the Future

Article discussing the interpretation and religious aspects of near-death experiences (NDEs). NDEs can be viewed as the latest stage in a long history of a phenomenon that transcends cultural and temporal boundaries. The article purports that by focusing on where such profound human experience shares common ground, we will be able to see humanity itself at perhaps its most sublime level.
Date: Summer 2006
Creator: Bain, Brian A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
ECT: TNT or TLC? A Near-Death Experience Triggered by Electroconvulsive Therapy (open access)

ECT: TNT or TLC? A Near-Death Experience Triggered by Electroconvulsive Therapy

Article reporting an experience in the course of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) that was indistinguishable from a near-death experience (NDE). Aspects of the experience that had been terrifying for the individual were counterbalanced by her immediate and complete recovery from a suicidal depression. Beyond the transpersonal aspects of her NDE-like experience, the ECT triggered a precognitive vision that materialized two years later.
Date: Spring 1996
Creator: Floyd, Keith
System: The UNT Digital Library
Guest Editorial: Nondualistic Experiences of Light in Near-Death Experiences and in The Tibetan Book of the Dead (open access)

Guest Editorial: Nondualistic Experiences of Light in Near-Death Experiences and in The Tibetan Book of the Dead

Editorial which brings together two forms of human understanding of disembodied consciousness: the light in the near-death experience (NDE), and the Clear Light in the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Date: Autumn 2006
Creator: Jorgensen, René
System: The UNT Digital Library