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Ian Stevenson

6 papers in the library · 204 citations · publishing 1957-2006

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Do Prevailing Societal Models Influence Reports of Near-Death Experiences?

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...

Can Experiences Near Death Furnish Evidence of Life after Death?

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,...

Near-Death Experiences in India

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 ANTIDOTAL ACTION OF SODIUM SUCCINATE IN THE MESCALINE PSYCHOSIS

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...