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Book Review: Full Circle: The Near-Death Experience and Beyond
Review of the book "Full Circle: The Near-Death Experience and Beyond" written by Barbara Harris and Lionel Bascom.
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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.
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Near-Death Prophecies of Disaster and the New Age: Are They True?
Article examining long-range data and finding trend reversals in 1987-88: increases in religiosity, service, and United Nations peacekeeping efforts, and decreases in chlorofluorocarbon production,...
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Letter to the Editor: Making Meaning of Frightening NDEs
Letter written to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies on the topic: "Making Meaning of Frightening NDEs."
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Obituaries: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Obituary of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, psychiatrist and author of "On Death and Dying."
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Guest Editorial: A Theory of Death
Article presenting theoretical perspectives on the event and process of death.
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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.
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Near-Death and Transcendental Experiences: Neurophysiological Correlates of...
Article exploring a theory that the first stages of transcendental experiences might be induced by blocking or saturating sensory input to the brain at the level of the hippocampus. Many accounts of...
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Near-Death Experiences and the Theory of the Extraneuronal Hyperspace
Abstract: It is possible and desirable to supplement the traditional neurological and metaphysical explanatory models of the near-death experience (NDE) with yet a third type of explanatory model that...
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Book Review: To Hell and Back: Life After Death - Startling New Evidence
Review of the book "To Hell and Back: Life After Death--Startling New Evidence" by cardiologist Maurice S. Rawlings regarding distressing near-death experiences.
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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...
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Guest Editorial: The Resurrection as Near-Death Experience
Article suggesting that Jesus Christ was not clinically dead but in a deep coma when he was taken down from the cross. He was revived by Joseph of Arimathea, who was permitted to take Jesus's body into...
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The Darkness of God: An Account of Lasting Mystical Consciousness Resulting...
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...
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Book Review: Final Passage: Sharing the Journey as This Life Ends
Review of the book "Final Passage: Sharing the Journey as This Life Ends" by researcher Barbara Harris Whitfield, recounting ten persons who shared their experiences.
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Letters to the Editor: Consciousness and Substance: The Primal Forms of God
Letter from V. Krishnan to the editor discussing the lack of evidence in a previously published article by John White (1987).
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Frightening Near-Death Experiences Revisited: A Commentary on Responses to My...
Abstract: In this commentary, I discuss the responses to my paper on frightening near-death experiences (NDEs) written by Christopher Bache and Nancy Evans Bush, and I try to show that there are many...
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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."...
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Commentary on John Gibbs' "What Do Near-Death Experiencers and Jesus Have in...
Abstract: John Gibbs relates research findings on near-death experiences (NDEs) to John Shelby Spong's "continuity view of Jesus" and his "call for a new Christianity." Gibbs' argument falls short of...
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Guest Editorial: Lessons From Near-Death Experiences for Humanity
Article summarizing nine lessons consistently gleaned from near-death experiences (NDEs), which may help motivate humanity to live more in accordance with the messages from NDEs.
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A Child's Encounter with the Devil: An Unusual Near-Death Experience with...
Abstract: I describe the near-death experience (NDE) of a 6-year-old boy who encountered both the devil and God following a near-fatal car accident, and compare recent recollections of the event with...
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Comments on "A Neurobiological Model for Near-Death Experiences" [#1]
Article presenting commentary on a neurobiological model proposed by Juan C. Saavedra-Aguilar and Juan S. Gómez-Jeria, which discusses the clinical similarities between temporal lobe seizures and...
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The Structure and Function of Near-Death Experiences: An Algorithmic...
Article examining a modification of the traditional doctrine of reincarnation that takes into account biological and cultural evolution. This allows an understanding of how the attributes of NDEs could...
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Letters to the Editor: Different Kinds of NDE
Letter from Michael Schroeter-Kunhardt to the editor describing and dissecting the varying types of Near-Death Experiences as a response to a book's (Schroeter-Kunhardt, 1999) data in a recent NDE poll.
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Misidentified Flying Objects? A Critique
Critique reviewing Stuart Twemlow's paper and presenting some evidence for the existence of unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
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Letters to the Editor: Scientific Vs. Anecdotal Near-Death Studies
Letter from Melvin M. Morse to the editor discussing the role of scientific research in a field that has largely relied on anecdotal near-death studies for data.
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Book Review: Psychic and Spiritual: Parapsychology in Christian Faith and Life
Review of the book "Psychical and Spiritual: Parapsychology in Christian Faith and Life" written by the former Archdeacon of Durham, Canon Michael Perry.
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Letters to the Editor: Harold Widdison's Book review of Children of the New...
Letter from P. M. H. Atwater to the editor responding and analyzing criticism of their book, "Children of the New Millennium."
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Letters to the Editor: Scope of IANDS and the Journal
Letter from Kenneth Ring to editor discussing concerns over the presence of mystical experience and research in the International Association for Near-Death Studies and Journal.
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Which Comes First: Consciousness or Aspartate Receptors?
Abstract: This paper is a critique of Karl Jansen's hypothesis that near-death and ketamine experiences are caused by blockade of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors. An assumption that consciousness and...
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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.
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Letters to the Editor: Near-Death Experiences and Homo noeticus
Letter from John White to editor discussing the meaning of near-death experiences and the concept of Homo noeticus.
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Book Review: Searching for Eternity: A Scientist's Spiritual Journey to...
Review of the book "Searching for Eternity: A Scientists Spiritual Journey to Overcome Death Anxiety" written by retired professor Don Morse.
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Book Review: Hear His Voice: The True Story of a Modern Day Mystical...
Review of the book "Hear His Voice: the True Story of a Modern Day Mystical Encounter With God" written by Nancy Clark about her personal out-of-body/hear-death experiences.
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Response to Commentaries on "A Neurobiological Model for Near-Death Experiences"
Article responding to critiques of an article written by the authors, entitled "A Neurobiological Model for Near-Death Experiences."
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Cases of the Reincarnation Type with Memories from the Intermission Between...
Article analyzing reports from Burmese subjects which indicate that intermission memories can be broken down into three parts, and comparing these reports to reports of near-death experiences (NDEs),...
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Prophetic Revelations in Near-Death Experiences
Article exploring flash forwards in near-death experiences, which includes prophetic visions and prophetic revelations.
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Over My Dead Body There Is an Ideal Utopia: Comments on Kellehear's Paper
Article examining the logical implications and philosophical possibilities of a utopian realm, and coming to three conclusions. First, the realms described by near-death experiencers (NDErs), if taken...
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Letter to the Editor: The Future of IANDS
Letter to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies on the topic: "The Future of IANDS."
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Prevalence of Near-Death Experiences in Australia
Study assessing the prevalence of near-death experiences (NDEs) in Australia through the use of questionnaires.
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Letters to the Editor: On the Mind/Body Problem
Letter from V. Krishnan to editor replying to a previously published article to the potentially dualist nature of the mind and body.
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Extrasomatic Emotions
Article describing an investigation carried out in Italy on 54 subjects, half of whom had out-of-body experiences (OBEs) in good health, and half of whom had OBEs in a coma or in a state of presumed...
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Letter to the Editor: An Objective Correlate of Consciousness
Letter from Denis Purcell to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies on the topic "An Objective Correlate of Consciousness."
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Describing the Light: Attribution Theory as an Explanation of the Near-Death...
Article exploring near-death experiences and attribution theory, which focuses on how information is used to create causal inferences and answer causal questions. The finding that near-death...
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Book Review: Experiencing the Next World Now
Review of the book "Experiencing the Next World Now" by philosopher Michael Grosso.
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Letters to the Editor: Millennarian Prophecies
Letter from Canon Michael Perry to the editor discussing his his concerns over the interpretation of biblical prophecies at the turn of the millennium.
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Parallels Between Near-Death Experience Prophetic Visions and Prophecies from...
Article discussing a phenomenon identified by Kenneth Ring where some near-death experiencers (NDErs) were permitted to see a picture of the Earth's future as a "prophetic vision" (PV). A comparison of...
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Comments on "A Neurobiological Model for Near-Death Experiences" [#5]
Article outlining the author's opinions and comments regarding a paper written by Juan C. Saavedra-Aguilar and Juan S. Gómez-Jeria, which approaches near-death experiences from a...
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Book Review: Glimpses of Eternity: New Near-Death Experiences Examined
Review of the book "Glimpses of Eternity: New Near-Death Experiences Examines" by scientist Arvin S. Gibson.
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Introducing Near-Death Research Findings Into Psychotherapy
Article discussing the rationale for introducing issues of spirituality or religion into a psychotherapy session in cases of bereavement.
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Near-Death Experiences and Dissociation: Two Cases
Article presenting two cases of near-death experiences (NDEs) that support the supposition that NDEs and out-of-body experiences (OBEs) may be a dissociative process.
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