Abstract: This article provides a summary of current literature regarding the nature of spiritual development, types of potentially spiritually transformative experiences (pSTEs), and both short- and long-term aftereffects of pSTEs— biological, psychological, spiritual, and social. The author concludes that in the aftermath of pSTEs, experiencers, their intimates and associates, and their healthcare providers should be prepared to experience integration that can be manageable or be deeply challenging and that can be relatively brief or can last for years.

Article offering an analysis of major topics at the American Society for Indexing Conferences from 1997 through 2011.

Introduction to the special section on education featured in the 2012 edition of The Eagle Feather.

This article discusses moving toward a workable controlled vocabulary for music.

Article on the American Society for Indexing (ASI) conference presentations. This article identifies major topics discussed at ASI conferences from 1997 through 2012 and explores how topics have changed over time.

Paper explores the impact of ancient Roman venationes, or wild beast hunts, on animal populations around the world.

Article discussing research on biography reviews and indexes.

Article discussing Constitution Day outreach to campuses and communities.

This articles discusses why ones work as a librarian begins long before their graduate program.

Paper discusses how Candy Jernigan Blood of a Vagrant uses the mixture of text, photography, and collage to explore remembrance of a subject that could otherwise remain anonymous.

This article discusses changes in music cataloguing systems.

Abstract: Although the category "Religious or Spiritual Problem" (Code V62.89) was incorporated into the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for mental health professional in 1994, it has taken until 2012 for a conference or training to take place designed to help therapists and social workers understand how best to address such issues. In this article I describe my personal experience and my professional experience as a psychotherapist with religious and spiritual phenomena. I offer my view of what it means to be spiritual, including the role of worldviews and my conceptualization of a three-stage path of spiritual development.

Paper explores the impact of repatriation on peace durability.

Paper describes research conducted with the goal of expanding the body of information related to mycobacteriophages and the relationship between those viruses and the bacteria that are immune to them.

Paper looks at the effects of anti-gay bias and a lack of diversity training related to LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Queer/Questioning) issues on pre-service educators, and in turn on their students.

Paper analyzes the commentary on the use of history in art in Eleanor Antin’s Last Days of Pompeii.

Abstract: Some NDE researchers have suggested that because some users of psychedelic drugs have experiences purportedly similar to near-death experiences (NDEs), neural receptors and neurotransmitters affected by a particular drug may underlie out-of-body experiences and NDEs. One of the most recent psychedelic candidates that allegedly causes NDE-like experiences is N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a natural substance that the body produces in small amounts. If DMT experiences are phenomenologically similar to NDEs, then it is possible that the human body in extremis may produce larger amounts of DMT that reach psychedelic experience-causing levels in the blood. In this paper, I explore the issue of whether DMT might play a causal role in the production of NDEs. The first section summarizes basic information of about NDEs, focusing on their phenomenological aspects. The second section classifies theories of NDEs to place the DMT theory in some context of the history of the debate over the cause of NDEs. The following section discusses DMT's chemical composition, physical effects, and psychological effects. The final section explores whether NDE and DMT experiences have a sufficient degree of phenomenological similarity to justify a causal role for DMT in the production of NDEs and concludes that such similarity is lacking.

Paper examines the effect of migration precipitated by environmental disasters on the likelihood of conflict in host communities.

Abstract: In this paper, I describe the research method and key near-death experience (NDE) aftereffects- and integration-related findings of my dissertation research study (Gordon, 2007), the first published near-death studies research project to use the ethnographic method. I compare my findings with those of a comparable sociological study (Sutherland, 1995), with emphasis on NDE aftereffects and integration issues related to what I identified as a previously unrecognized pattern of unmet, NDE-integration-related health-education and counseling needs. Finally, I explore the cultural implications of near-death and similarly transformative experiences and posit that actualizing the potential social-wellness value of these experiences to those who have had them and to their societies requires research and practice that adequately addresses experiencers' health-education and counseling needs.

Article on an American Anti-Slavery Society periodical, the 'Slave's Friend,' which ran from 1836 to 1839. The author describes the abolitionist sentiment and the animal metaphor.

Paper explores Snuggie’s use of specific brand experience dimensions based on the Edvardsson and Enquist conceptualization of six experience rooms in hyper-reality contexts and social media.

Article on a Food for Fines program at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries. The Food for Fines drive offers a way for the library to help students take care of their library fines and help the local community as well.

Paper examines the subjective relationships between the Palestinians, the Israeli West Bank Barrier ( or the “Apartheid Wall”), Handala (a cartoon character created by Naji al-Ali), and the concept of home.

Paper describes research that tests the effectiveness of a military approach versus an approach of social and judicial reform for fighting drug cartels.