The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
March 1, 2006
Geena Athappilly, Bruce Greyson, Ian Stevenson
52 citations
Transcendental near-death experiences show some cross-cultural variation that suggests they may be influenced by societal beliefs. The prevailing Western model of near-death experiences was defined by Moody's description of the phenomenon in 1975. To explore the influence of this cultural model, we compared near-death experience accounts collected before and after 1975. We compared the...
OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying
June 1, 2000
Emily Williams Kelly, Bruce Greyson, Ian Stevenson
26 citations
Most people who have a near-death experience (NDE) say that the experience convinced them that they will survive death. People who have not had such an experience, however, may not share this conviction. Although all features of NDEs, when looked at alone, might be explained in ways other than survival, there are three features in particular that we believe suggest the possibility of survival,...
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
March 1, 1986
Satwant Pasricha, Ian Stevenson
94 citations
The authors report some features of 16 cases of near-death experiences that they investigated in India. After presenting brief accounts of four such experiences, the authors describe and discuss features in which the Indian cases differ from a larger sample of American cases. They note that some of these features seem to be culture-bound, but they caution against accepting this observation as...
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
August 1, 1959
Lewis C. Mokrasch, Ian Stevenson
18 citations
2 Medical Center, University of Kansas, Kansas City, Kansas. 3 Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Char-lottesville, Virginia.
American Journal of Psychiatry
October 1, 1957
Ian Stevenson, Andrew J. Sanchez
8 citations
1. Sodium succinate was found to have a definite antidotal effect on the mescaline psychosis in each of 12 subjects. 2. The effect varied greatly in different subjects. Moreover, the effect was rather transient and there was little shortening of the total duration of mescaline effect. 3. The most plausible hypothesis of the succinate effect is that succinate provides a substrate for oxidation...
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
July 1, 1957
Ian Stevenson
6 citations
DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA