Near-Death Studies, 1981-82: A Review (open access)

Near-Death Studies, 1981-82: A Review

Abstract: Near-death studies published in major scientific journals during 1981-82 are grouped by subject matter and briefly reviewed.
Date: December 1982
Creator: Greyson, Bruce
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Moody's Versus Siegel's Interpretation of the Near-Death Experience: An Evaluation Based on Recent Research (open access)

Moody's Versus Siegel's Interpretation of the Near-Death Experience: An Evaluation Based on Recent Research

Article using recent research to evaluate Raymond Moody's versus Ronald Siegel's interpretations of the near-death experience (NDE). Whereas Moody had concluded that the NDE is ontologically valid, Siegel interpreted the NDE as a purely subjective hallucinatory phenomenon.
Date: 1986~
Creator: Gibbs, John C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: Recollections of Death: A Medical Perspective (open access)

Book Review: Recollections of Death: A Medical Perspective

Review of a book titled "Recollections of Death: A Medical Perspective" written by Michael Sabom, a cardiologist and professor of medicine at Emory University in Georgia.
Date: December 1981
Creator: Grosso, Michael
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: The Near-Death Experience: Problems, Prospects, Perspectives (open access)

Book Review: The Near-Death Experience: Problems, Prospects, Perspectives

Review of the book "The Near-Death Experience: Problems, Prospects, Perspectives," an anthology of articles that represent the most recent contributions covering the major issues in near-death studies, edited by Bruce Greyson and Charles P. Flynn.
Date: Spring 1985
Creator: Mickel, Howard A.
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: Heading Toward Omega: In Search of the Meaning of the Near-Death Experience (open access)

Book Review: Heading Toward Omega: In Search of the Meaning of the Near-Death Experience

Review of the book "Heading Toward Omega: In Search of the Meaning of the Near-Death Experience" written by researcher Kenneth Ring.
Date: Spring 1985
Creator: Grosso, Michael
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Near-Death Experiences, Altered States, and Psi Sensitivity (open access)

Near-Death Experiences, Altered States, and Psi Sensitivity

Article describing a study to compare the frequency of psi experiences, psi-related experiences, mystical states, dream experiences, and demographic variables for (1) persons who had never come close to death, (2) persons who claimed to have had a close call with death but no intense experience, and (3) persons who indicated that they had had a near-death experience.
Date: December 1983
Creator: Kohr, Richard L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences in a Melanesian Society (open access)

Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences in a Melanesian Society

Abstract: "The texts of three near-death experiences, one vision, and one dream by Melanesian villagers are presented and analyzed with regard to their cultural context. Comparison of these experiences with those reported from North America and India suggests that while they have common features (such as the appearance of apparitions, and visions of paradise), their interpretation is structured by cultural expectations."
Date: December 1983
Creator: Counts, Dorothy Ayers
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Near-Death Experience in Children: Shades of the Prison-House Reopening (open access)

The Near-Death Experience in Children: Shades of the Prison-House Reopening

Abstract: "Some critics have argued that the near-death experience (NDE) is merely a culturally conditioned response to a life crisis, a reflection of expectations engendered by education, religious training, social mores, and family traditions. A review of seventeen accounts of NDEs in children, including two youngsters still in childhood, indicates that NDEs that occur at early ages appear to be substantially similar in content to adult experiences. These accounts suggest that cultural conditioning is not a primary determinant of NDE contents."
Date: December 1983
Creator: Bush, Nancy Evans
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Parapsychological Reflections on Some Tunnel Experiences (open access)

Parapsychological Reflections on Some Tunnel Experiences

Partial Abstract: "This paper examines tunnel experiences, which have been discussed by Raymond Moody, Kenneth Ring, and Kevin Drab in the context of near-death experiences. It is argued that tunnel experiences, even when possibly triggered by psi cognition, are not always associated with near-death experiences or out-of-body experiences. A proposed definition of pseudo-hallucinations is adapted to possible psi-induced tunnel experiences." Six categories of tunnel experiences are outlined, a "transactional view of visual perception is accepted", and the hypothesis that the tunnel is a "subconsciously devised artifact for overcoming a spatial and/or temporal gap at the perceptual level" is proved true. This view is then compared with approaches from different writers on this topic. Additionally, a new solution for why tunnels are missing in cases of "clairvoyant travel" is given.
Date: December 1982
Creator: Chari, C. T. K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Multivariate Method for the Classification of Preexisting Near-Death Conditions (open access)

A Multivariate Method for the Classification of Preexisting Near-Death Conditions

Abstract: This study reports the results of a multivariate analysis of data from 33 subjects who had near-death experiences. The analysis examined the relationship between the phenomenology of the experience and preexisting conditions. Five clusters were derived: Low Stress, Emotional Stress, Intoxicant, Cardiac Arrest, and Anesthetic. The heuristic value of these clusters is discussed. The statistical technique used is also discussed in some detail since it is particularly suitable for category data of this type where small numbers of subjects and large numbers of variables are involved in the analysis.
Date: December 1982
Creator: Twemlow, Stuart W.; Gabbard, Glen O. & Coyne, Lolafayne
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Views from Tibet: NDEs and the Book of the Dead (open access)

Views from Tibet: NDEs and the Book of the Dead

Article discussing Tibetan perspectives on near-death experiences and comparing accounts from ancient times with those in modern reports.
Date: Spring 1985
Creator: Becker, Carl B.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Over Easy: A Cultural Anthropologist's Near-Death Experience (open access)

Over Easy: A Cultural Anthropologist's Near-Death Experience

The author details a near-death experience which has caused him to find a new reality "replete with symbolic meanings that altered his view of life, death, and their intermediate cultural patterns." After his near-death experience (NDE), he faced NDE visions while unconscious and partially paralyzed for weeks, encountering "radiant knowledge and total love" and feeling no need to eat, drink or sleep. His visions have caused him to "abandon many typical cultural patterns." He replaces these patterns with "the recognition of the eternity granted by adherence to the present moment and of the remarkable worth and interest of everyone he encounters."
Date: December 1982
Creator: Gallagher, Patrick
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Darkness of God: An Account of Lasting Mystical Consciousness Resulting from an NDE (open access)

The Darkness of God: An Account of Lasting Mystical Consciousness Resulting from an NDE

Article describing the author's near-death experience (NDE) in 1983 as a result of poisoning. Almost every feature of the experience has been antithetical to the author's prior background, both in childhood and in adult life, thereby providing evidence against reductionist explanations of NDE. An account is given of how the new consciousness is affected by various life-circumstances, and of its practical impact on the quality of living.
Date: 1986~
Creator: Wren-Lewis, John
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Failure of Saganomics: Why Birth Models Cannot Explain Near-Death Phenomena (open access)

The Failure of Saganomics: Why Birth Models Cannot Explain Near-Death Phenomena

This article refutes Carl Sagan's theory that near-death experiences (NDEs) are recollections of birth experiences based on three major reasons including the inability of newborn babies to perceive experiences and that there are differences between births and NDEs.
Date: December 1982
Creator: Becker, Carl B.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Toward a Psychological Explanation of Near-Death Experiences: A Response to Dr. Grosso's Paper (open access)

Toward a Psychological Explanation of Near-Death Experiences: A Response to Dr. Grosso's Paper

From introduction: "Michael Grosso, in his elegant review of various hypotheses intended to explain near-death experiences as reductionistic and unable to account adequately for the NDE. The present paper is a restatement of the case for psychological interpretations of the NDE; it is intended to forestall the premature rejection of psychodynamic approaches to the study of NDEs."
Date: December 1981
Creator: Greyson, Bruce
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
From Alpha to Omega: Ancient Mysteries and the Near-Death Experience (open access)

From Alpha to Omega: Ancient Mysteries and the Near-Death Experience

Article discussing Osirian temple rites of ancient Egypt, which may have involved ceremonial procedures deliberately calculated to induce an experience that was functionally identical to modern near-death experiences.
Date: 1986~
Creator: Ring, Kenneth
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluating Near-Death Testimony: A Challenge for Theology (open access)

Evaluating Near-Death Testimony: A Challenge for Theology

Article proposing a nonreductionist interpretation of near-death experiences (NDEs), showing that it is possible to give credit to individual testimony while still taking into account the physiological, psychological, and cultural conditions that influence visionary experience in the face of death.
Date: 1986~
Creator: Zaleski, Carol G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Near Death Experiences in a Pacific Northwest American Population: The Evergreen Study (open access)

Near Death Experiences in a Pacific Northwest American Population: The Evergreen Study

From introduction: "With the refinement of modern resuscitation procedures increasing numbers of people have 'died' and then returned to life. Many individuals report that during the time of clinical death extraordinary phenomena occur, which challenge accepted ideas of what happens when we die. A remarkable degree of correlation in these reports demands serious consideration. This paper will address pertinent questions raised by these reports."
Date: December 1981
Creator: Lindley, James H.; Bryan, Sethyn & Conley, Bob
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Letter to the Editor: The Life Review in Childhood NDEs (open access)

Letter to the Editor: The Life Review in Childhood NDEs

Letter written to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies discussing research on childhood near-death experiences (NDEs) and the extent to which they include a "life review."
Date: Spring 1985
Creator: Henderson, Leigh
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Are Out-of-Body Experiences Evidence for Survival? (open access)

Are Out-of-Body Experiences Evidence for Survival?

Article that seeks to define out-of-body experiences (OBEs) and argues that both theoretical and empirical reasons prove that OBEs cannot provide evidence for survival of death.
Date: December 1983
Creator: Blackmore, Susan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: Easy Death (open access)

Book Review: Easy Death

Book review of "Easy Death" written by religious teacher Da Free John, including the author's perspectives on near-death experiences.
Date: December 1983
Creator: White, John
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Letters to the Editor: Grosso's Review of Ring's Healing Toward Omega (open access)

Letters to the Editor: Grosso's Review of Ring's Healing Toward Omega

Letter from Barbara Harris written to the editor of Anabiosis regarding "Grosso's Review of Ring's Heading Toward Omega."
Date: 1986~
Creator: Harris, Barbara & Kincaid, W. M.
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Near-Death Experiences and Attitude Change (open access)

Near-Death Experiences and Attitude Change

Article describing a study that used the Life Attitude Profile (LAP) questionnaire to evaluate positive changes in life attitudes reported by near-death experiencers.
Date: Spring 1985
Creator: Bauer, Martin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bozzano and the First Classification of Deathbed Visions: A Historical Note and Translation (open access)

Bozzano and the First Classification of Deathbed Visions: A Historical Note and Translation

Abstract: "Ernest Bozzano was an Italian parapsychologist who published, in 1923, one of the most important historical studies on deathbed visions. The book, while influencing such scholars as Charles Richet and Sir William Barrett, remained largely forgotten and untranslated. This paper provides a translation of selections from Bozzano's monograph illustrating his unique classification of death visions."
Date: December 1983
Creator: Siegel, Ronald K. & Hirschman, Ada E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library