ISSN 0891-4494
333 papers in the library · 1,247 citations · publishing 1981-2025
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1994 J. Kenneth Arnette
In his letter to the Journal, V. Krishnan disagrees with my interpretation of near-death experience (NDEs) in the context of the mind/body problem (Arnette, 1992).Krishnan writes that I consider Michael Sabom's (1982) evidence of accurate visual perception during NDEs to be proof of dualism.Further, Krishnan writes that I have ignored the problems of mind-brain interaction and infinite...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1994 Kenneth Ring
Stuart Twemlow's article has made an important dual contribution to our thinking about anomalous experiences: first in offering a heuristic psychodynamic model in terms of which to view them, and second, in suggesting a definite link between near-death experiences (NDEs) and unidentified flying object (UFO) abductions. I consider his argument largely from the standpoint of my own recent...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1994 Juan Sebastian G 6 mez-Jeria, J. C. Saavedra-Aguilar
In this article we propose a scientific approach to explain the fact that some near-death experiencers (NDErs) are able to recollect and verbalize real events occurring in the environment during the experience. Our model assigns a central place to priming, multiple declarative memory, and verbal modules. These biological mechanisms lead to the assimilation of multiple external cues, the...
Journal of Near-Death Studies March 1, 1993 C. R. Lundahl
Kenneth Ring (1982) described two kinds of precognitive visions in the near-death experience (NDE): the personal flashforward and the prophetic vision. I describe a third category, the otherworld personal future revelation (OPFR). The OPFR resembles the personal flashforward in that it previews the experiencer's personal future, but differs from the personal flash-forward in that it is...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1993 William J. Serdahely 13 citations
The near-death experience (NDE) literature has long chron icled the observation that out-of-body experiences (OBEs) lead to relief from physical and emotional pain.Researchers have suggested recently that the NDE may be viewed as dissociation.People who are physically or sexually abused, including those who have multiple personality disorder, often develop dissociative defenses and may well...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1993 Craig R. Lundahl 4 citations
This article (a) outlines a systematic theory of the near-death experience (NDE) based on accumulated research; (b) formulates 23 propositions that describe the NDE developmental process and illustrates these propositions and their relationship to one another; and (c) discusses observations on the sequence of events for the NDE and its aftermath and illustrates a proposed model of causal...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1993 Juan G mez-Jeria 4 citations
This paper describes a possible near-death experience (NDE) among the Mapuche people of Chile. The individual reporting the experience was in a cataleptic-like state for two days, the experience itself occurring at the end of this period. Some common features of NDEs, such as encounters with deceased people and being sent back, are present, together with clear evidence that past and present...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1993 Kenneth Ring 3 citations
Article offering a comparison of historical cases of Tibetan near-death experiences (NDEs) and contemporary Western accounts. A tradition of NDEs in Tibetan culture, the das-log experience, affords such a comparison. Modern NDEs differ from das-log experiences in ways that reflect their cultural context and may provide the foundation for a new Book of the Dead especially fitted to the...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1993 Kenneth Ring 2 citations
Article offering a comparison of historical cases of Tibetan near-death experiences (NDEs) and contemporary Western accounts. A tradition of NDEs in Tibetan culture, the das-log experience, affords such a comparison. Modern NDEs differ from das-log experiences in ways that reflect their cultural context and may provide the foundation for a new Book of the Dead especially fitted to the...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1993 1 citation
Some time ago I suggested in this Journal some ways to advance our understanding of out-of-body vision (Krishnan, 1988).I would like to suggest three more strategies.First, a number of people who have had an out-of-body experience (OBE) spontaneously have claimed that when the experience occurred in conditions of darkness, they could see the environment clearly and in color, just as they could...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1993
Article describing an investigation carried out in Italy on 54 subjects, half of whom had out-of-body experiences (OBEs) in good health, and half of whom had OBEs in a coma or in a state of presumed death. The focus of this research was the emotions subjects reported having felt during their OBEs.
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1993 William J. Serdahely
Letter from William J. Serdahely to the editor discussing the application of optical imaging technology in the study of near-death experiences.
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1993 William J. Serdahely, V. Krishnan
for investigation of the organization of the sensory and motor cortices, language, and other cognitive processes" of the human cortex (Haglund, Ojemann, and Hochman, 1992, p. 668).Michael Haglund, George Ojemann, and Daryl Hochman measured optical changes in five persons undergoing surgery for intractable epilepsy, mapped the sensory cortex and Broca's area on two awake patients under local...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1993 V. Krishnan
Letter V. Krishnan to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies on the topic "The Physical Basis of Out-of-Body Vision."
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1993 John Wren-Lewis
Transformed by the light: Life After Near-Death Experiences, by Cherie Sutherland.
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1993 Bruce Greyson, A. Kellehear
A considerable amount of information on the aftereffects of near-death experiences (NDEs) has been gathered by researchers and used by practitioners to help NDErs, but the lessons from this information have not been presented for use by the rest of humanity. This essay summarizes nine lessons consistently gleaned from NDEs, which may help motivate humanity to live more in accordance with the...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1993 Juan S. GSmez-Jeria
An advertisement in an Indian newspaper solicited accounts from people who had come close to death. Of 19 received, 7 reported no experiences, 4 reported dreamlike experiences, and 8 reported near-death experiences (NDEs). These NDEs were comparable to those reported by Raymond Moody, and included tunnels, dark spaces, and bright lights, contrary to previous reports of Indian cases. Many...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1993 H. Irwin
Study seeking to assess the hypothesis that near-death experiencers are characterized by a dissociative response style engendered by severely traumatic childhood experiences.
Journal of Near-Death Studies September 1, 1992 J. Arnette
The classical mind/body problem can be approached empirically, using instances of the near-death experience (NDE) as experimental data. The monistic viewpoint, that the mind is the functioning of the brain, finds little support in the NDE data, while dualism, mind and body as separate entities, is consistent with NDE research to date. Comparison of the details of the NDE with predictions from...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1992 Lori J. Bechtel, Alex B. Chen, Richard M. Pierce et al. 15 citations
Article discussing the results of a questionnaire distributed to clergy from Pennsylvania and Illinois, which showed the respondents had limited knowledge of the near-death experience (NDE) but had a moderately positive attitude toward the subject.
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1992 William J. Serdahely 8 citations
Article purporting that persons who have Stage 5 or Transcendental near-death experience frequently report they were given a message that they should be more loving and helpful to others upon returning to their bodies. On the other hand, some persons who have had near-death, or near-death-like, experiences report receiving loving help from "the other side." The author proposes that these...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1992 William J. Serdahely 1 citation
In this paper I compare the phenomenology of near-death experiences to that of multiple personality disorder. The comparison reveals a number of similarities, including out-of-body experiences, the transcendental environment, encounter with the higher self, possible temporal lobe involvement, and antecedent child abuse. Rather than being disparate and unrelated experiences, I suggest that the...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1992 Raymond A. Moody 1 citation
Article describing a modern attempt to recreate the psychomanteum. Like near-death experiences, visionary encounters in this modern psychomanteum are experienced as real and not as hallucinatory, and have profound personal aftereffects. This novel experimental technique may permit the scientific study of phenomena that previously occurred only spontaneously and under uncontrolled circumstances.
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1992 John Wren-Lewis 1 citation
Article exploring the theory that contemporary belief that near-death experiences (NDEs) are glimpses of an afterlife may prevent us from realizing their more profound nature. Belief in an afterlife has not historically brought humanity a high quality of life, but NDEs seem reliably to do so, and may offer important clues about why the expanded vitality, the "eternity-consciousness," of the...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1992 John White
Letter from John W. White to the editor responding to Allan Kellehear's idea (1991) that near-death experiences might provide insight to the pursuit of the ideal society.