4 papers in the library · publishing 1987-2025
Journal of Near-Death Studies 2025 J. Gibbs
Article discussing accounts of near-death experiences that specifically reference a feeling of "returning home" and considering the hypothesis that these experiences could support the idea of reincarnation.
Journal of Near-Death Studies 2010 J. Gibbs
Abstract: This review supports cardiologist Pim van Lommel's continuity claim for human existence in his recently published book 'Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience' (2010). Van Lommel and colleagues (van Lommel, van Wees, Meyers, & Elfferich, 2001) studied NDEs among 344 Dutch hospital patients who had been resuscitated following cardiac arrest. From their and...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 2005 J. Gibbs
Article relating near-death phenomena to John Shelby Spong's argument for a more "authentic" view of Jesus, a more spiritual understanding of humanity, and a new, evolving Christianity. Near-death research and Spong's envisioned new Christianty share in principle the ideal of progress through challenge and open dialogue.
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1987 J. Gibbs
Article using recent research to evaluate Raymond Moody's versus Ronald Siegel's interpretations of the near-death experience (NDE). Whereas Moody had concluded that the NDE is ontologically valid, Siegel interpreted the NDE as a purely subjective hallucinatory phenomenon.