Caminhando pela vida e transitando pela morte: Experiência de Quase Morte (EQM) como uma experiência mística
B. F. Carunchio
August 24, 2017 DOI: 10.23925/1677-1222.2017vol17i2a2 (opens in new tab)
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| Key findings | Argues that near-death experiences are best understood as mystical experiences and that they often prompt survivors to re-evaluate their lives, potentially transforming beliefs, values, and lifestyle. The authors conclude that studying NDEs can be fruitful for the science of religion in its interface with health and for psychological clinical practice. |
Abstract
This paper aims to present a bibliographic review on near-death experience (NDE) and discuss its consequences, considering it as a mystical experience. NDE is an anomalous phenomenon which happens to some patients, generally, during or close to clinical death. When reanimated and conscious, the patient usually reports out-of-body experience, contact with deceased loved ones, a trip through a tunnel towards transcendent planes, find a light that radiates love... After this intense experience, the person starts to re-evaluate his life and this can promote intense transformations in his beliefs, values and lifestyle. We conclude that the study of NDEs can be fruitful both for the science of religion in its interface with the health area and for a better understanding of NDEs in the psychological clinic.