Reviewed by: On Presence: Variations and Reflections Stephen Vicchio Ralph Harper. On Presence: Variations and Reflections. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2006. x + 132 pages. On Presence first appeared from a small press in 1991 and won the esteemed Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion. It is, without doubt, the finest of Ralph Harper's thirteen books. In many ways, it is a conclusion, a...
Anabiosis-The Journal for Near-Death Studies Cicero tells us, through the character of Scipio, of a panoramic vision coming as the result of a close brush with death.In this vision Scipio is met by Scipio Africanus, the Elder, a dead ancestor who guides him into paradise.James Hastings' Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics (1928) contains a number of other cross-cultural examples of out-of-body...