The cultivation of attention, especially in the form of mindful engagement in the present moment, is recognized by many diverse schools of Buddhist practice to be the prerequisite for insight and the therapy for all forms of suffering engendered by false views. Legend has it that when Rinzai Zen poet-priest Ikkya was asked to write down the sum of his wisdom, he wrote Attention, attention,...
Abstract: Acknowledging the cultural shaping of near-death experiences makes possible a deeper and more sophisticated appreciation of their meaning and validity.
This book represents the first objective, comprehensive survey of the evidence for life after death provided by 'near-death' experiences. Carol Zalewski demonstrates that the eyewitness account of life after death is a common motif in the folklore and religious literature of the world, and shows that medieval Christian visionary narratives in particular offer surprisingly close parallels to the...
Article proposing a nonreductionist interpretation of near-death experiences (NDEs), showing that it is possible to give credit to individual testimony while still taking into account the physiological, psychological, and cultural conditions that influence visionary experience in the face of death.