Frontiers in PsychologyOctober 15, 2026France Lerner, Paulo Cezar Rocha Dos Santos, Guillaume Tahar
Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) challenge conventional research methods, as they are often described as exceeding the limits of verbal expression. While most studies rely on narrative accounts, little attention has been given to graphic representations as a complementary mode of investigation. This study employs a hybrid approach combining a semi-structured digital questionnaire with a graphic...
The final narratives so that you understand what our brains can do, ( NDE) is not connected to quantum entanglement , death is always death when our biological machine shuts down and time travel that is up to you how you interpret :)
Jorge A Delgado-Ron; Reappraising the claims of evolutionary continuity between thanatosis and near-death experiences, Brain Communications, , fcag368, htt
Phenomenal consciousness has no satisfactory explanation in the strict natural scientific physicalist framework. This may be an indication of consciousness not being a causal outcome of neurophysics at all. If this is the case, there would be no grounds for postulating that the collapse of neurophysical structures at death would dissolve consciousness and its constituent elements. If...
LUMEN ET VIRTUSSeptember 23, 2026Beatriz Rocha Zaniboni, Luan MLV Rodrigues, Wilson CLV Rodrigues
Introduction: Near-death experiences (NDEs) are complex phenomena of consciousness, described as subjective experiences occurring in life-threatening situations, often associated with cardiorespiratory arrest. Objective: Through a narrative literature review, this study aimed to analyze the main characteristics, clinical implications, and explanatory theories regarding NDEs, relating them to...
IntroductionNear-death experiences (NDEs) are subjective experiences reported during actual or perceived life-threatening situations, whereas near-death-like experiences may occur in non-life-threatening altered states. Empirical data from Chinese populations remain limited, particularly regarding culturally specific narrative content.MethodsThis exploratory mixed-methods study examined...
Near-death experiences in palliative care predominantly appear distinct from typical hallucinations due to their comforting, meaningful, and spiritual nature. Proper recognition and interpretation by healthcare professionals can enhance end-of-life care quality.
No direct evidence for sensory perceptions during near-death experiences in palliative care specifically excluding pathological causes was identified. However, end-of-life dreams and visions are common and usually comforting in hospice settings, emphasizing the need for sensitive interpretation by healthcare professionals.
Near-death experiences (NDEs) have been reported in approximately 6.3% to 39.3% of patients who survived death or critical illness. Research indicated that health care professionals, of whom nurses are the largest group, received little education or training on NDEs. Nurses' responses to a disclosure could help the patient integrate the experience or contribute to stress and isolation. National...
This article examines the connection between the ideas adherents of alternative spiritualities in Bosnia and Herzegovina have about the afterlife and their understanding of dreams involving the dead. It explores how these ideas and interpretations are connected to the perceived agency of the dead, as experienced by my interlocutors in their dreams. Focusing on ideas about the afterlife within...
This is a working paper I created about how near-death experiences can help scientists become more open to studying other spiritually transformative experiences.
An intermediate space seems to be constituted by the "spiritual but not religious", which we will consider from the angle of its implications in the field of health. We study experiences of the "wildly sacred," particularly at the frontiers of death: near-death experiences, terminal lucidity and necrophany. Presented in spontaneous forms or induced in experimental devices, these experiences are...
Living beings bring more order to the world, and are required by the second law of thermodynamics, to simultaneously produce more disorder through metabolic heat dissipation. Consciousness in living beings produces even more order, enhancing survival and reproduction, and incurs an entropy debt that must be paid separately, and non-metabolically, through heat dissipation produced by Landauer’s...
Abstract Background Near-death experiences (NDEs) have been increasingly studied due to their recurrent and structured nature in patients who survive cardiac arrest (CA). These experiences often include sensations of peace, out-of-body perceptions, or encounters with luminous presences. The Light Project was designed to replicate the seminal study by van Lommel et al. (The Lancet, 2001) in a...
Near-death experiences occur in approximately 15% of intensive care unit survivors. Despite their profound impact on post-intensive care syndrome and long-term psychological recovery, near-death experiences remain under-addressed in clinical settings. To systematically map and synthesize evidence regarding the subjective experiences, influencing factors, assessment tools, and prognostic impacts...
Near-death experiences (NDEs) occur in all cultures for many who are revived from clinical death. Anyone, from believers to atheists, can have one. The life-changing, spiritually transforming NDEs of medical doctors Eben Alexander and Tony Cicoria discussed in this article are amplified by the thousands of cases that doctors Pim Van Lommel and Jeffrey Long have researched. Van Lommel believes...
The association between near-death experiences (NDEs) and physiological indicators remains an unsolved mystery, which hinders in-depth understanding of the essence of consciousness and life processes. Traditional single-indicator analysis methods have limitations, and a comprehensive multi-modal research approach is urgently needed to advance relevant explorations in the fields of medicine,...
Near-death experiences (NDEs) are phenomena reported by individuals who have been, or perceived themselves to be, close to death. Although extensively studied internationally, no validated questionnaire exists in Danish. We aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Danish version of the Near-Death Experience Content Scale (NDE-C). We conducted a cross-sectional survey of...
Background. Near-death experience (NDE) is an altered state of consciousness experienced at the moment of near death, which has a specific structure (which includes such elements as an out-of-body experience, a feeling of movement in a dark tunnel, a review of life, visions of bright light, other realities and meetings with the dead, and many others). The similarity of reports on the NDE of...
This interdisciplinary research monograph examines a broad range of Exceptional Human Experiences (EHEs), including Near-Death Experiences (NDEs), Reincarnation Memories (RMs), Deathbed Visions (DBVs), Terminal Lucidity (TL), Shared Death Experiences (SDEs), and Mystical Consciousness (MC). These phenomena have been reported across cultures and historical periods and continue to attract...