ISSN 0891-4494
333 papers in the library · 1,247 citations · publishing 1981-2025
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 2025 J. Matlock
Article discussing a review of 10 specific cases in which persons who had a near-death experience later experienced new or more extensive past-life memories or visions.
Journal of Near-Death Studies 2024 Marco Condorelli
Article describing interpretations of heavenly scenes from the Geneva Bible and their correlation with modern near-death experience narratives and elements.
Journal of Near-Death Studies 2024 Natasha Tassell-Matamua, Antti Savinainen, Bruce Greyson
Article describing life review accounts as included in the writings of the Theosophy movement, from the 1800s and 1900s.
Journal of Near-Death Studies 2024 Mitchell B. Liester
Article discussing "the relationship between experience of time and different states of consciousness including near-death experiences and both mystical and psychedelic medicine-induced states of consciousness". The author designates terms additional dimensions of time-experiences, and reviews benefits and methods achieve higher states.
Journal of Near-Death Studies 2024 R. King
The typical near-death experience (NDE) is generally understood as an altered state of consciousness that occurs during real or presumed life- threatening and/or near-death circumstances, often including the experiencer’s (NDEr’s) perception of existing as an extrapersonal self out of and/or away from their physical body. The ego, while in this presumed disembodied state, some- times has the...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 2023 Bruce Greyson 3 citations
Article describing human and animal consciousness and how both humans and animals experience near-death experiences and how they interact with each other's close to death moments psychologically and spiritually.
Journal of Near-Death Studies 2023 Bruce Greyson 1 citation
Near-death experiences (NDEs) have been known for millennia and studied rigorously for the past 50 years.In that time, scholars have developed comprehensive tabulations of NDEs' commonly associated physical circumstances, phenomenological features, and aftereffects, as well as quantitative scales to measure the occurrence and depth of NDEs.Yet despite this extensive research literature, no one...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 2023 Alex A. Álvarez, Rodrigo Arriola-Godoy, Ramsés D'León 1 citation
Article describing studies in near death experiences in Latin American communities and how their experiences affect people's outlook on their life, emotional wellbeing, and religion.
Journal of Near-Death Studies 2023 Patrick Brissey
: In this paper, I defend the traditional argument for a transphysi-cal self from near-death experiences and respond to prominent objections in the literature that have accrued over the last decade, including naturalist interpretations by Borjigin et al., Vicente et al.
Journal of Near-Death Studies 2022 Bruce Greyson, Pim van Lommel, Peter Fenwick 4 citations
Invited commentary discussing interpretation of brainwave recordings taken of an elderly patient who suffered a cardiac arrest and it's relationship to near-death experiences.
Journal of Near-Death Studies 2022 Robert A. King 2 citations
Article regarding observed somatic continuance (OSC) -- i.e., situations where an experiencer observes their physical body persisting in semi-autonomous behavior from what appears to be a detached vantage point -- and discussing possible theories about what might trigger the experiences.
Journal of Near-Death Studies 2022 James G. Matlock 1 citation
Letter written to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies commenting on a previously-published article related to reincarnation.
Journal of Near-Death Studies 2022 P.m.h. Atwater
Letter written to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies discussing a previous review for a book written by the letter author to clarify several differences between multiple publications and research.
Journal of Near-Death Studies 2022
Article comparing records of persons who reported near-death experiences (i.e., experienced by a person close to death) with shared death experiences (i.e., experienced by someone other than the person close to death). It discusses similarities and differences in features and aftereffects based on these reports.
Journal of Near-Death Studies 2022 Don Cozette
Letter written to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies discussing a short story titled "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" by Fyodor Dostoevsky and connecting the main character to characteristics of near-death experiences then proposing that Dostoevsky might've based the story on his own life.
Journal of Near-Death Studies 2022 Dan Punzak
Review of a book titled "Touched by the Light: Exploring Spiritually Transformative Experiences" by retired family physician Yvonne Kason based on her research and several personal near-death experiences. The review includes an in-depth overview of the three major sections: Defining Spiritually Transformative Experiences, Researching the Yogic Model of Conscciousness, Kundalini, and STEs; and...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 2021 Bruce Greyson 7 citations
Article responding to criticism of the author's book regarding research in near-death experiences (NDEs) and clarifying that psychedelic molecules may be a factor in some NDEs but is only one factor and not relevant to all NDEs.
Journal of Near-Death Studies 2021 Robert Mays, Suzanne Mays 1 citation
Because the Near-Death Experience Scale (NDE Scale; Greyson, 1983) has been so widely used in NDE research, a recent article by Charlotte Martial and her colleagues ( 2020) is likely of significant interest to researchers in the field of near-death studies.In the article, the authors described a three-phase strategy that the Coma Science Group of the University of Liège in Belgium undertook to...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 2021 Patrick Brissey
: Among the phenomena of near-death experiences (NDEs) are what are known as aftereffects whereby, over time, experiencers undergo substantial, long-term life changes, becoming less fearful of death, more moral and spiritual, and more convinced that life has meaning and that an afterlife exists. Some supernaturalists attribute these changes to the experience being real. John Martin Fischer and...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 2021 Bruce Greyson
: Some features of near-death experiences (NDEs) suggest that con sciousness may continue to function after death of the body. The life reviews of some NDEs include what seem to be memories of a past lifetime, some of which involve verifiable details, suggesting that the experiencer has lived more than one life and can recall events from successive lives. These apparent past life memories...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 2021 Steven Laureys, Vanessa Charland-Verville, M. Botbol-Baum
Article discussing research related to personal feelings of self-location and movement during near-death experiences (NDEs). It also describes the use of "Archi-Textures" to more clearly define spatio-temporal experiences during NDEs.
Journal of Near-Death Studies 2021
Letter written to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies discussing a proposed scale for assessing near-death experiences (NDEs), which was proposed by the authors of the letter, and also comments on a previous letter in which others reviewed the original proposal.
Journal of Near-Death Studies 2020 Phd Nicole Lindsay, Phd Natasha Tassell-Matamua 1 citation
: Findings from several studies suggest near-death experiences (NDEs) may influence sleep quality. In this study, we examined self-reported duration, latency, and quality of sleep in those who had experienced a life-threatening event and who had and had not reported an associated NDE. Participants were 154 members of the general New Zealand population who completed an online quantitative...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 2020 Alinaghi Ghasemiannejad Jahromi, Jeffrey Long 1 citation
Article describing the findings regarding thematic analysis of seventeen near-death experience accounts provided by Iranian Shia Muslims to determine how these experiences overlap or diverge from accounts given by experiencers from Western cultures.