Journal of Near-Death Studies
2008
J. Holden, J. Miner
Near-death experiencers (NDErs) have reported malfunction of electrical devices in their vicinities (Atwater, 1994; Bonenfant, 2005; Ring, 1992; Ring & Valarino, 2000). In this quantitative, retrospective study we investigated electromagnetic effects among NDErs, people who reported a close brush with death without an NDE, and people who reported never having been close to death but who used...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2008
Rudolf H. Smit
Abstract: One of the most striking examples of near-death experience stories is the account of a clinically dead patient whose dentures were removed from his mouth prior to resuscitation, and which dentures were then lost. Days later the patient saw a nurse and told him that it was he who had removed those dentures. The patient was right, but he should not have known this information, because...
American Journal of Kidney Diseases
July 1, 2007
Chun-Fu Lai, Tze-Wah Kao, Ming-Shiou Wu et al.
39 citations
BackgroundPeople who have come close to death may report an unusual experience known as a near-death experience (NDE). This study aims to investigate NDEs and their aftereffects in dialysis patients.Study designCross-sectional study.Setting & participants710 dialysis patients at 7 centers in Taipei, Taiwan.PredictorDemographic characteristics, life-threatening experience, depression, and...
Nursing
April 1, 2007
Nancy Duffy, Melodie Olson
In Brief Recovering from cardiac arrest, your patient reports an out-of-body experience. Do you know how to respond? Following resuscitation from cardiac arrest, a patient may report memories of an otherworldly experience. Find out what researchers have learned about these experiences and how to respond to a patient who's had one.
Resuscitation
February 8, 2007
Bruce Greyson
111 citations
Aim"Near-death experiences," commonly reported after clinical death and resuscitation, may require intervention and, if reliable, may elucidate altered brain functioning under extreme stress. It has been speculated that accounts of near-death experiences are exaggerated over the years. The objective of this study was to test the reliability over two decades of accounts of near-death...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2007
K. Sharp
Keith Augustine raises questions about my report of a case of veridical out-of-body perception during a near-death experience (NDE). His analysis is based not on my original description of the case but rather on a distorted account in a magazine written by two college students who misrepresented the facts and made unwarranted assumptions to support their beliefs.
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2007
C. Tart
Editor's abstract and note: In this commentary, Charles Tart critiques Keith Augustine's deconstruction of Pam Reynolds's near-death experience (NDE) while undergoing cerebral aneurysm surgery using the hypothermic cardiac arrest ("standstill") procedure. However, after drafting this initial response to Augustine's paper, family medical problems prevented Tart from researching and polishing his...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2007
A. Kellehear
Abstract: This paper is a sociological commentary on the leading paper by Keith Augustine. It discusses the relationship between social expectations and culture as well as extending the discussion about the possibility that near-death experiences may not be a singular entity. I suggest there are sound grounds for developing a typology of experiences that have different and or overlapping causes...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2007
Keith Augustine
3 citations
Article purporting that near-death experience (NDE) reports are sometimes open to multiple interpretations, that different kinds of NDEs should be distinguished according to their diverse physiological mechanisms, and that transformations following NDEs but not other hallucinatory experiences require special explanation if NDEs are hallucinations.
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2007
Keith Augustine
8 citations
Third part of a critique of survivalist interpretations of near-death experiences (NDEs), which considers psychophysiological and cultural correlates of NDEs suggesting that such experiences are solely products of individuals' minds rather than windows into a transcendental realm.