Mortality
December 5, 2024
Pablo Sabucedo, Chris Evans, Donald W. Nicholson et al.
1 citation
This paper focuses on a single case of ayahuasca-assisted grief therapy for the prevention of complicated grief, conducted within a clinical trial. The participant, a woman in her thirties who lost her father to cancer, completed a 9-session process of Meaning Reconstruction Therapy (MRT) organised around two ayahuasca sessions. Following each psychedelic experience, she also completed a...
Mortality
October 25, 2024
Sara Mackian
Death in Western modernity is predominantly experienced as challenging and destabilising, bringing uncertainty, loss, and pain. However, from some contemporary spiritual perspectives, death represents not just an ending, but also facilitates new ways of experiencing our embodied being. Based on participatory fieldwork in the UK, this paper explores constructions and encounters with death...
Mortality
January 27, 2022
Marieta Pehlivanova, A. Carroll, Bruce Greyson
15 citations
ABSTRACT Death is a common existential concern, and fear of death is widespread at subclinical levels. Near-death experiences (NDEs) are profound mystical experiences that may occur close to death, and they are usually followed by dramatic reductions in fear of death. The content of these experiences varies in each case, but NDEs tend to have common features among individuals and across...
Mortality
August 30, 2020
Mackenzie Blomstrom, Andrew Burns, D. Larriviere et al.
ABSTRACT The fear of death and dying is a multifaceted and prevalent source of human distress that can cause significant psychological and existential distress, especially at the end of life. Analysing current therapeutic approaches to this issue to identify promising modalities and knowledge gaps could improve end of life experiences and reduce human suffering. In this systematically...
Mortality
1999
Bruce Greyson
42 citations
Researchers have failed to distinguish definitions of near-death experiences (NDEs), criteria for identifying them and tests of those criteria. Few researchers specify criteria or apply standard tests; those who do often use those tests inappropriately. Tests of NDEs may either describe their common features, measure their depth, or 'diagnose' their occurrence; all three have been used to...
Mortality
1997
Paul Badham
38 citations
Christian belief in a future life was historically based on theistic religious experience. Today Near Death Experiences are more often cited. Exceptional reports of NDEs go back to the dawn of history but modern medicine has democratised them. Accounts from St. Paul, St. John of the Cross, and from Tibetan and Japanese Buddhism are described and compared with a large survey of contemporary...
Mortality
1996
Louis Heyse-Moore
46 citations
Spiritual pain is enmeshed in human history. In the dying, it is part of their total pain: physical, mental, social and spiritual. Spirit is beyond definition, but is a phenomenon that can be studied like any other. Spirit refers to inspiration, soul to depth, though both terms are often used synonymously. Spiritual characteristics include: life force; the essence of a person (an unchanging...