The Science of Religion, Spirituality, and Existentialism
2020
N. Tassell-Matamua, J. Holden
Abstract Near-death experiences (NDEs) have been reported across time and cultures and more recently with increased frequency, in part due to improved survival rates from near-fatal encounters. As anomalous psychological phenomena often occurring in near-death situations, NDEs represent a radical departure from everyday normative experiences and are typically characterized by their...
August 24, 2015
J. Holden, S. Avramidis
Due to advances in resuscitation and defibrillation practices over the past decades, people are returning from the brink of death in numbers unprecedented in human history. Of the millions of people who survive drowning each year, about 20% report a near-death experience (NDE): a reported memory of profound psychological events that contain certain paranormal, transcendental, and mystical...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2015
Sarah M. Blalock, J. Holden, P. M. H. Atwater
Article describing the results of informal and formal research regarding electromagnetic (EM) effects of near-death experiences (NDEs); it reviews cases in which a person acts on his environment and those in which a person reacts to the environment. The paper also proposes more precise terminology regarding EM phenomena based on the research and literature review.
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2008
J. Holden, J. Miner
Near-death experiencers (NDErs) have reported malfunction of electrical devices in their vicinities (Atwater, 1994; Bonenfant, 2005; Ring, 1992; Ring & Valarino, 2000). In this quantitative, retrospective study we investigated electromagnetic effects among NDErs, people who reported a close brush with death without an NDE, and people who reported never having been close to death but who used...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
1989
J. Holden
A study (Holden, 1988) of visual perception during the naturalistic near-death out-of-body experience (nND OBE), that aspect of the NDE in which the experiencer seems to view normal physical surroundings from a vantage point outside the physical body, yielded some unexpected findings that contradicted or augmented previous research. The majority of respondents were able to estimate the duration...