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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
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.
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
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.
System: The UNT Digital Library