International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
December 31, 2024
Pascal Michael, David Luke, Oliver Robinson
3 citations
Introduction: Virtually no studies have looked at psychopharmacological combinations as models of the near-death experience (NDE), which is inadequate given the evidently complex neurochemistry occurring near- or at death. An example of such a combination is "changa," a smoked mixture of the psychedelic N,N-DMT and monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI)-containing plants, and as such has been...
OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying
December 1, 2024
Feven Seifu, Rakesh Maurya, Amanda C DeDiego
Death awareness and near-death experiences initiate shifts in awareness, priorities, and relationships. This narrative inquiry explored the stories of four individuals who had near-death experiences. Participants shared their experiences before and after the experiences. Findings include considerations of how mortality awareness connects with life experiences. Resonant threads across narratives...
Consciousness, Spirituality & Transpersonal Psychology
November 27, 2024
Emily J. Turnbull
This qualitative phenomenological study explored the under-researched aspect of near-death experiences (NDEs) involving encounters with living individuals, rather than deceased or religious figures. Through in-depth, semi-structured interviews with eight participants, the research captured the perspectives of both near-death experiencers (NDErs) and the living individuals they encountered....
Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition
November 27, 2024
Robert A. King
Objective. The near-death experience (NDE) is an altered state of consciousness in which experients generally perceive that they are out of and/or away from their physical body during real or presumed life-threatening incidents and/or near-death circumstances. While this is occurring, experients can also sometimes encounter a presumed deity that usually relates to their cultural and/or...
Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition
November 27, 2024
Amal Ait Melloul, Karolina Kinnunen, Etzel Cardeña
Objective: To explore what it is like to have a distressing near-death experience (NDE) and its aftereffects. Method: We accessed all distressing NDE narratives from the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) database and analyzed eight individual narratives using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Results: Distressing NDEs include features such as disturbing...
Interface: Comunicação, Saúde, Educação
November 5, 2024
Armando Henrique Norman, Gabriela Bley Jacob
To explore the scientific approach to Recalled Experience of Death (RED) and correlate it with the philosophical foundations of Family and Community Medicine to expand the understanding of the human consciousness. Non-systematic review on PubMed database for relevant “prospective studies” on “near-death experience”. Five prospective studies documented RED phenomenon occurrences during clinical...
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی
September 17, 2024
Shima Solati, Ali Izanloo, Azam Estaji
The purpose of this article is to find complications in Farsi discourse of Near-Death Experiences (NDE). We first examined the main categories of complications and then compared them in the stories of those who claimed to have near-death experience and those who were asked to fabricate a story about it. Through studying the stories of both groups, we found that complications in the discourses...
Authorea Preprints
September 10, 2024
Calixto Machado
preprint
Recent studies have indicated that there is an increment in EEG gamma activity following cardiac arrest. Gamma oscillations, which are high-frequency brain waves (30-90 Hz), have been linked to various cognitive functions and states of consciousness. The synchronous firing of neurons in the gamma-band has been proposed to bind multiple features of an object. These results recalled me that...
F1000Research
September 5, 2024
Nigel A Shaw
Near-death experience (NDE) is a transcendent mental event of uncertain etiology that arises on the cusp of biological death. Since the discovery of NDE in the mid-1970s, multiple neuroscientific theories have been developed in an attempt to account for it in strictly materialistic or reductionistic terms. Therefore, in this conception, NDE is at most an extraordinary hallucination without any...
Neuroimage
September 1, 2024
Charlotte Martial, Andrea Piarulli, Olivia Gosseries et al.
10 citations
During fainting, disconnected consciousness may emerge in the form of dream-like experiences. Characterized by extra-ordinary and mystical features, these subjective experiences have been associated to near-death-like experiences (NDEs-like). We here aim to assess brain activity during syncope-induced disconnected consciousness by means of high-density EEG monitoring. Transient loss of...
Crisis
September 1, 2024
Robert A. King
3 citations
Background: Sometimes during real or presumed life-threatening and/or near-death circumstances, an individual undergoes an altered state of consciousness referred to as a near-death experience (NDE). The prevalent position in the field of NDE research for the last several decades has been that such experiences result in positive antisuicidal attitudes and that it is highly unlikely that...
Preprints.org
July 16, 2024
Mitchell B. Liester
preprint
Time can be a difficult concept to understand. Albert Einstein, who viewed time as an illusion, explained the passage of time is relative to the observer’s frame of reference in the space-time continuum. However, the state of consciousness of the observer also influences the passage of time. This paper examines the relationship between the experience of time and different states of...
Journal of Scientific Exploration
July 9, 2024
Robert Mays, Suzanne Mays
Near-death experiences (NDEs) cannot be defined merely as a collection of phenomenal features. An accurate definition needs to describe what NDEs essentially are, that is, what lies behind the phenomenal features. The definition would describe what happens in the experience to account for the different features; this can only be fully described in the context of an underlying theoretical...
Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics
June 1, 2024
Madis Arukask, E. Saar
Abstract This article* focuses on the immediate near-death experience of an elderly woman living in traditional Vepsian culture. We analyse which universal, and which more culturally motivated features are present in her story narrated to us in 2018. We conclude that, despite the strong association with animistic beliefs in the informant’s everyday life, the experience is dominated by elements...
Discover Mental Health
May 28, 2024
Joshua G. Kovoor, Sanjana Santhosh, Brandon Stretton et al.
4 citations
Background This scoping review aimed to characterise near-death experiences in the setting of cardiac arrest, a phenomenon that is poorly understood and may have clinical consequences. Method PubMed/MEDLINE was searched to 23 July 2023 for prospective studies describing near-death experiences in cardiac arrest. PRISMA-ScR guidelines were adhered to. Qualitative and quantitative data were...
Cell
February 15, 2024
Kevin Christopher Brown
Kevin Christopher Brown Jr. is a winner of the fourth annual Rising Black Scientists Awards for a scholar in the life and health sciences. We asked emerging Black scientists to tell us about their scientific vision and goals, experiences that sparked their interest in science, how they want to contribute to a more inclusive scientific community, and how these all fit together on their journey....
Theologia Viatorum
February 1, 2024
Agai Matthew Jock
During the near-death experience (NDE), most percipients do express a high level of orderliness; yet at some instances, some percipients show some symptoms of trauma. It is pertinent to notice that a great quantity of academic work has been carried out about the excitements and awesomeness that comes alongside the NDE, but very little has been itemised about the traumatic or the negative...
Healthcare
January 24, 2024
Abbas Al Mutair, Zainab Ambani, Alexander Woodman et al.
1 citation
According to prevailing views in neuroscience, near-death experiences (NDE) occurring after severe head trauma, critical illness, or coma are often life-transforming experiences in which no awareness or sensory experience of any kind is possible. Although there are general patterns, each case is quite different from the other and requires accurate recording and reporting to potentially explain...
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
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...