This research paper titled “Rebirth and Near-Death Experiences: A Comparative Study” presents an interdisciplinary analysis of two widely discussed phenomena in consciousness studies. The study examines empirical findings, psychological interpretations, neuroscientific explanations, and survival-based hypotheses related to rebirth reports and near-death experiences (NDEs). Drawing upon...
BMC NursingJune 8, 2026Poria Moradi, Alireza Abdi, Ameneh Amiri Kolehjoubi
BACKGROUND: Near-death experiences (NDEs) are rare but profound phenomena that have also been reported in children. However, most existing research has focused primarily on adults, and evidence regarding pediatric NDEs remains limited. This study explored pediatric nurses' observations and accounts of children's NDEs using a qualitative approach. METHODS: A conventional qualitative content...
Scientific ReportsJune 5, 2026Amaury C Mengin, Julie Rolling, Walid Oulehri et al.
Intensive Care Unit (ICU) hospitalizations confront individuals with imminent death and may cause post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In contrast, traumatic events may lead to positive psychological outcomes such as post-traumatic growth. As consciousness is altered, near-death experiences (NDEs) may occur and be associated with post-traumatic growth. Our cross-sectional, monocentric study...
The term ‘near-death experience’ (NDE) refers to particular encounters reported by individuals who have been revived from the brink of death. The narratives provided by such individuals exhibit a core set of characteristics that are consistent across diverse populations. Although this suggests that NDEs may offer valuable insights into our understanding of the world, many scientists hold the...
Thomas Pierce’s poignant debut novel The Afterlives (2018) premises that God sometimes reincarnates someone in order to give them a second chance – a second chance to ponder life, explore and connect with other people, and question why they exist. The novel tells the story of every man Jim Byrd, a loan officer who suffers a heart attack at age thirty-three. During his fatal cardiac arrest, Jim...
The Theory of Psychic Quanta (TPQ) postulates the existence of a universal non-local psychic field whose quantized excitations—termed informational quanta (analogous to qubits) —anchor to coherent brain systems to generate individual consciousness as a phenomenological unit. According to this model, the brain does not produce consciousness in an emergentist sense; rather, it acts as a...
Resuscitation PlusMay 1, 2026José Alonso Ruiz, Mayte Rodríguez-González-Moro, Tomás Segura et al.
This observational study examined brain activation patterns when people relive their memories of recalled experiences of death (REDs), also known as authentic near-death experience (NDE) memories, using structural and functional MRI under normal cerebral perfusion in participants with clinically documented life-threatening events and loss of consciousness. Fifteen participants (7 women, 8 men;...
Near-death experiences (NDEs) are lucid events that some people have suddenly experienced in the face of imminent death. Often having been declared clinically dead, they recover with memories of emotions, images, or voices after a resuscitation process. The purpose of this study is to examine an Argentine sample of NDEs and compare individuals who experienced various NDE traits that occurred...
Behavioral SciencesApril 30, 2026Dylan Briggs, Thomas B Sease, Ruthie Menou et al.
Mystical experiences are characterized by a profound sense of interconnectedness and transcendence of ordinary reality. These experiences can facilitate feelings of connectedness with oneself and others and have been documented as leading to significant positive changes in thoughts, emotions, and behavior. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the extent to which the four mindfulness...
April 13, 2026Yifan Zhao, Yuxin Fang, Yihuan Chen et al.1 citation
People who experienced near-death events often turn to personal expression as a way of processing trauma and articulating beliefs. While scholars have examined how individuals share near-death experiences (NDEs), limited research has explored how these narratives are communicated collaboratively on today’s social media platforms. We analyzed 200 randomly sampled TikTok videos tagged with #nde...
Based on the 9-Dimensional Unified Entropy Topological Evolution (9D-USTE) framework established in prior work, this fifteenth article formally constructs a mathematical model of near-death experience (NDE) as transient topological decoupling between a 9D consciousness trajectory and a 4D physical dissipative structure. By introducing the 9D-to-4D projection operator and its norm as the...
Near death experience (NDE) reported as supernatural and emotional feelings with episodes involving a special state of consciousness, including several special elements and these experiences typically occur with often grouped contents commonly observed in life-threatening conditions. Participants were provided with an Arabic version of the Near-Death Experience (NDE) scale via mail and social...
In comparison to adults, little is known about children's near-death experiences (NDEs).A review of the literature shows a scarcity of studies that directly involve children and an absence of direction for this area of work.This presents challenges for researchers who want to develop studies with children and generate more knowledge around the NDE.From a phenomenological perspective, children...
In this article I rationalise my historical intuition that perceptible commonalities, evolution and intentionality between two groups of texts (four poems by Peyo Yavorov and three by Georgi Zarkin) could be indicative of a Soviet-Ottoman contact zone. Moreover, I discuss my theoretical intuition that the basically spatialising concept of “contact zone” can refer to temporality and, in...
ReligionsMarch 12, 2026Rena Latifa, Maryam Abidah Masykuroh, Stefan Huber
Near-death experiences (NDEs) are profound psychological events known to catalyze significant spiritual transformation, though most research has been conducted in Western contexts. This study investigated perceived changes in spirituality or religiosity following NDEs among adults residing in Jakarta, Indonesia (N = 402 NDErs; 70% female; Mage = 23, SD = 7.93). This population is crucial as...
Humanity is undergoing a profound demographic transition, with older adults representing a growing share of society. This late stage of life not only prompts profound reflections on the meaning of life and the inevitability of death, but is also associated with a higher occurrence of certain non-ordinary experiences - such as end-of-life experiences (ELEs), after-death communications (ADCs),...
تاریخ فلسفه اسلامیFebruary 18, 2026Mohsen Izadi, Seyyed Mahdiiar Hosseini
Dualistic interpretations of near-death experiences (NDEs) are based on evidence such as experiencing distant places, gaining awareness of the past, present, and future, and seeing beyond physical objects. From this perspective, these experiences are not possible without the existence of a soul and a metaphysical dimension. This approach considers reductionist and physicalist interpretations...
This work proposes a unified, multimodal framework for understanding near-death experiences (NDEs) as structured transformations of the human world-model under extreme physiological stress. Drawing on findings from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, phenomenology, and developmental research, the paper argues that core NDE features—such as tunnel-like vision, out-of-body experiences, altered...
People who experienced near-death events often turn to personal expression as a way of processing trauma and articulating beliefs. While scholars have examined how individuals share near-death experiences (NDEs), limited research has explored how these narratives are communicated collaboratively on today's social media platforms. We analyzed 200 randomly sampled TikTok videos tagged with #nde...
The phenomena of out-of-body experience (OBE) and near-death experience (NDE) have attracted increasing research interest. In this study, we used a set of videos to examine verbal and gestural descriptions of a group of people talking about their OBE experiences. Two chi-square tests were used to find out what type of sentences and what type of gestures were more frequently used to describe...