ISSN 0891-4494
333 papers in the library · 1,247 citations · publishing 1981-2025
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1983 C. R. Lundahl
This paper describes an explanation of the near-death experience (NDE) based on the writings of Mormon leaders. The Mormon explanation states that NDEs are brief glimpses into a second world that exists parallel to the world in which we exist. This tangible sphere, called the spirit world, is a place where all those who have died live. The transition from this world to the next is a pleasant...
Journal of Near-Death Studies December 1, 1982 C. Becker
This article refutes Carl Sagan's theory that near-death experiences (NDEs) are recollections of birth experiences based on three major reasons including the inability of newborn babies to perceive experiences and that there are differences between births and NDEs.
Journal of Near-Death Studies December 1, 1982 Stuart W. Twemlow, Glen O. Gabbard, L. Coyne
Abstract: This study reports the results of a multivariate analysis of data from 33 subjects who had near-death experiences. The analysis examined the relationship between the phenomenology of the experience and preexisting conditions. Five clusters were derived: Low Stress, Emotional Stress, Intoxicant, Cardiac Arrest, and Anesthetic. The heuristic value of these clusters is discussed. The...
Journal of Near-Death Studies December 1, 1982 Patrick Gallagher
The author details a near-death experience which has caused him to find a new reality "replete with symbolic meanings that altered his view of life, death, and their intermediate cultural patterns." After his near-death experience (NDE), he faced NDE visions while unconscious and partially paralyzed for weeks, encountering "radiant knowledge and total love" and feeling no need to eat, drink or...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1982 C. T. K. Chari 9 citations
Partial Abstract: "This paper examines tunnel experiences, which have been discussed by Raymond Moody, Kenneth Ring, and Kevin Drab in the context of near-death experiences. It is argued that tunnel experiences, even when possibly triggered by psi cognition, are not always associated with near-death experiences or out-of-body experiences. A proposed definition of pseudo-hallucinations is...
Journal of Near-Death Studies July 1, 1981 M. Grosso
This paper discusses different kinds of near-death experiences (NDEs) and the conditions that general elicit them. Their nature is elaborated upon, as well as their effects on the people that experience them.
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1981 Carl Becker 31 citations
From introduction: "One of the commonest reactions to the visionary experiences of heaven by the critical observer has been to argue that these are nothing more than the projections of the expectations of the dying person, who was either consciously or subconsciously trained to expect heavenly scenery (etc.) by his cultural upbringing. [...] This paper is a preliminary report on the status of...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1981 Bruce Greyson 12 citations
From introduction: "Michael Grosso, in his elegant review of various hypotheses intended to explain near-death experiences as reductionistic and unable to account adequately for the NDE. The present paper is a restatement of the case for psychological interpretations of the NDE; it is intended to forestall the premature rejection of psychodynamic approaches to the study of NDEs."