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Editor's Foreword [Fall 2020] (open access)

Editor's Foreword [Fall 2020]

Editorial statement introducing the contents of the journal issue and providing other relevant notes.
Date: Autumn 2020
Creator: Holden, Janice Miner
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Letter to the Editor: A New Scale to Assess Near-Death Experiences (open access)

Letter to the Editor: A New Scale to Assess Near-Death Experiences

Letter written to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies discussing current research that calls for expanding the instruments used to describe and measure near-death experiences.
Date: Autumn 2020
Creator: Mays, Robert G. & Mays, Suzanne B.
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Letter to the Editor: Mediumship Not a Near-Death Experience Aftereffect, Part 2 (open access)

Letter to the Editor: Mediumship Not a Near-Death Experience Aftereffect, Part 2

Letter written to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies regarding concerns about the precision of language for describing additional sensitivities following a near-death experience.
Date: Autumn 2020
Creator: Atwater, P. M. H.
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Letter to the Editor: Response to "Mediumship Not a Near-Death Experience Aftereffect, Part 2" (open access)

Letter to the Editor: Response to "Mediumship Not a Near-Death Experience Aftereffect, Part 2"

Letter written to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies in response to another author's concerns about the connotations of the term "mediumship" and their opinions on the suggested alternative term "sensitive."
Date: Autumn 2020
Creator: Holden, Janice Miner & Foster, Ryan D.
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metaphysical Beliefs and Experiences Among Physician Trainees: An Exploratory Study (open access)

Metaphysical Beliefs and Experiences Among Physician Trainees: An Exploratory Study

Article documenting the results of surveying 126 physician trainees regarding their beliefs about metaphysical experiences (e.g., near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences, shared-death experiences, and after-death communication) and experiences shared with them by patients. It also discusses results about the trainees' attitudes toward transcendental explanations and caring for end-of-life patients.
Date: Autumn 2020
Creator: Schmit, Jessica M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Phenomenology of Iranian Near-Death Experiences (open access)

The Phenomenology of Iranian Near-Death Experiences

Article describing the findings regarding thematic analysis of seventeen near-death experience accounts provided by Iranian Shia Muslims to determine how these experiences overlap or diverge from accounts given by experiencers from Western cultures.
Date: Autumn 2020
Creator: Ghasemiannejad Jahromi, Alinaghi & Long, Jeffrey
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sentiment Analysis of Web Scraped Near-Death Experience Narratives (open access)

Sentiment Analysis of Web Scraped Near-Death Experience Narratives

Article documenting the findings of research that employed web-scraping of personal narratives to analyze the level of positive or negative sentiment expressed by experiencers regarding their near-death experiences.
Date: Autumn 2020
Creator: Quinn, Rory Joseph
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library