Journal of Near-Death Studies
2020
Abstract: People diagnosed with cancer frequently report deleterious psychological experiences because of their diagnosis and subsequent medical treatment. One particularly helpful coping strategy reported by cancer patients is psychoeducational on spiritual topics. Anecdotally, cancer survivors reported that psychoeducation about near-death experiences (NDEs) has been a source of great...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2020
Abstract: The physiological and psychological underpinnings of near-death experiences (NDEs) are not yet understood. In this article, we show that for "critical" NDEs reported after cardiac arrest, two different neurophysiological models have been proposed that, in the literature so far, have not been adequately distinguished from each other. In the real-time model, it is postulated that during...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2020
Letter written to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies discussing current research that calls for expanding the instruments used to describe and measure near-death experiences.
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2020
H A Atwater
Letter written to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies regarding concerns about the precision of language for describing additional sensitivities following a near-death experience.
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2020
Article documenting the findings of research that employed web-scraping of personal narratives to analyze the level of positive or negative sentiment expressed by experiencers regarding their near-death experiences.
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2020
Marjorie Woollacott, Anne Shumway-Cook
Abstract: Despite their different etiologies, three types of spiritually transformative experiences (STEs)--near-death experiences, psilocybin experiences, and meditative experiences of cosmic consciousness--appear to have attributes that are common to a broad range of mystical experiences, including an experience of expanded awareness. In addition, all three appear to be associated with...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2019
Letter written to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies providing a commentary from the author of the book, Near-Death Experience in Indigenous Religions, regarding a review of the book and multiple critiques and responses between the book's author and the reviewer.
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2019
Review of a book titled God and the Afterlife: The Groundbreaking New Evidence for God and Near-Death Experience written by Jeffrey Long with Paul Perry, focusing on near-death experiences which have encounters with god.
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2019
H A Atwater
Letter written to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies discussing the article, "Spontaneous Mediumship Experiences Among Near-Death Experiencers: A Qualitative Study" by Ryan D. Foster, Bethany M. Kahoe, and Danijela H. Nardelli.
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2019
H A Atwater
Letter written to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies discussing the article, "Spontaneous Mediumship Experiences Among Near-Death Experiencers: A Qualitative Study" by Ryan D. Foster, Bethany M. Kahoe, and Danijela H. Nardelli.
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2019
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Journal of Near-Death Studies
2018
Øystein Buer, Mary Harris Kalfoss, Lars Weisæth et al.
Abstract: The objective of this study was to explore the states of consciousness associated with various features of near-death experience (NDE). The sample comprised 23 Norwegian adult survivors of unconsciousness associated with life threatening medical conditions, either cardiac arrest (CA; n=19) or surgery to address another type of trauma (OT; n=4). Of these, 11 CA and 4 OT patients...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2018
A comparative survey of how near-death experiences (NDEs) intersected with afterlife myths and shamanic practices, as reported in the mid-19th to mid-20th century by missionaries, explorers, and ethnographers of Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Australia, reveals various culturally distinct patterns. In Polynesia and Melanesia, documentary accounts of NDEs are found alongside myths and...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
May 1, 2017
Sahar Loseu
An estimated 15 million people in the US have had a near‐death experience (NDE), an experience of usually lucid consciousness during a close brush with death. Following an NDE, experiencers (NDErs) sometimes feel challenged and seek counseling to integrate the experience into their subsequent lives. They have reported psychologically harmful experiences disclosing their NDEs to healthcare...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2017
Mays Mays
14 citations
In "Near Death Experiences: Understanding Visions of the Afterlife," authors John Martin Fischer and Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin (2016) argued for purely physicalist explanations of near-death experiences (NDEs) and against "supernatural" explanations involving objects and events--out-of-body experiences, heavenly realms, meeting deceased relatives--that have no physical reality. In our critique,...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2017
John C. Gibbs
The work of researcher Jim Tucker and regression therapist Brian Weiss on past-life memories suggests a transcendent or non-reductionist view of human life.In this view, mental life or consciousness does not entirely reduce to the neural activity of the brain, and bodily death involves a return to a nonphysical realm.This view is also suggested from other phenomena such as near-death...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2017
Gregory Sushan
A wide-ranging survey of ethnographic, explorer, and missionary literature demonstrates that although historical accounts of near-death experiences (NDEs) are attested in indigenous African societies, they are comparatively rare. Correspondingly, there is also a scarcity of mythological narratives of journeys to afterlife realms and a comparative lack of concern with afterlife speculation per...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2016
Gregory Shushan
3 citations
This article discusses near-death experiences as a central theme of Native American afterlife beliefs, and Native Americans' response to Christian missionaries. It argues that NDEs and socio-political factors can explain Native American religious revitalization movements and beliefs in general.
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2016
Tony B. Benning, Ryan Rominger
1 citation
Article discussing the factors at play during Near-Death Experience disclosures between patients and professionals in psychiatric practice.
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2016
In July, 2013, journalist Luke Dittrich wrote an article in Esquire magazine critical of neurosurgeon Eben Alexander’s 2012 book Proof of Heaven. Dittrich cited several malpractice lawsuits against Alexander, in one of which Alexander allegedly had altered medical records to cover his errors. Dittrich made this allegation his theme for critiquing the story of Alexander’s NDE: that Alexander...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2015
Bruce Greyson, Mitchell B. Liester, Lee Kinsey et al.
5 citations
Electromagnetic (EM) aftereffects have been reported following near-death experiences (NDEs). These effects include both (a) EM actions, apparent actions by the individual on the surrounding EM environment, and (b) EM reactions, apparent reactions of the individual to the EM environment. This study investigated EM aftereffects among 216 NDErs, 54 persons who had been close to death without...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2015
Stanley Krippner
In 2015, I began communicating with an events planner for the U.S. Army who shared with me a series of anomalous dreams -- anomalous in the sense that the dreams usually contained specific names of deceased servicemen previously unknown to her but known to an assistant chaplain with whom she worked. The goal of my ensuing case study research into this apparent episode of spontaneous mediumship...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2015
Alexander Batthyány
Abstract: Near-death experiences (NDEs) entail complex and structured conscious experience during conditions known to coincide with rapid loss of consciousness often associated with decline or disruption of the neurological correlates currently held to be causative factors of visual imagery and cognition. In this study , 653 NDE reports of cardiac and/or respiratory arrest patients were...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2014
Bruce Greyson
14 citations
This article discusses spiritually transformative experiences and how they differ from psychotic experiences, including the context, content, how the experience is remembered, and effect on the individual.
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2014
Masayuki Ohkado, Bruce Greyson
8 citations
Decades of studies on near-death experiences (NDEs) have reveals both cross-cultural and culture-specific features (Kellehear, 2009) and that it is important to determine which aspects are attributed to the physiological, biological, or psychological mechanisms shared by all humans and which aspects are of cultural origin. In this article, we examine Japanese NDEs and compare their features...