Journal of Near-Death Studies
1996
Gracia Fay Ellwood
1 citation
This essay presents various interpretative frameworks for pain ful near-death experiences (NDEs).It describes Bruce Greyson and Nancy Evans Bush's three-part typology of inverted NDEs, everlasting void expe riences, and hellish experiences, suggesting a further breakdown of the latter into entity-centered and fire-centered.A potential fourth category is the em pathetic life review.As a...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
1996
K. Ring
Previously (Ring, 1994a, 1994b) I had speculated that the "meaningless void" type of frightening near-death experience (NDE), in which the individual finds him- or herself in a situation of existential nullity in which life itself is understood to be an illusion or a cruel joke, indicating that nothing has any inherent meaning or reality, tends to occur following the use of anesthetics, and is...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
1996
Bruce Greyson
Interna tional Poetry Associations of UNESCO, he has written 27 poetry vol umes and 22 prose nonfiction works, six of them in Japanese.Their content ranges from the effect of the 1956 Hungarian uprising on Asian nations to critical biographies of Plato, Ch'u Yuan, and Bela Bart6k.In Near-Death Experiences in Antiquity, this prolific and mul tifaceted author provides his own English translations...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
1996
Bruce Greyson
Review of the book "Near-Death Experiences in Antiquity" by poet and author Jeno Platthy.
Journal of Near-Death Studies
1996
8 citations
Study suggesting that in order to explain the phenomenology of perinatal experience, as described in the work of Stanislav Grof, we must hypothesize that the patient in these instances has expanded beyond the individual subject.
Research in Nursing & Health
June 1, 1995
Roberta M. Orne
AbstractAn estimated 9 million adults in this country may have had a near‐death experience (NDE), yet little research has been focused on the early aftermath of this extraordinary phenomenon. The purpose of this interpretive study was to appropriate and make visible how patients who had an NDE during a cardiac or respiratory arrest understood and experienced this early period of survival....
Journal of Near-Death Studies
1995
Max C. Norton, James M. Sahlman
5 citations
Article exploring near-death experiences and attribution theory, which focuses on how information is used to create causal inferences and answer causal questions. The finding that near-death experiencers (NDErs) rarely describe unknown events, characters, or objects suggests that NDErs make attributions to answer why these experiences occurred. Examining various descriptions of NDEs...
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
1995
Christopher Cherry
1 citation
I shall be tiresome and borrow the familiar (but useful) device of making a couple of preliminary remarks before launching into my topic proper. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
1995
David Lorimer
The near-death experience (NDE) is a challenging and even disturbing phenomenon: it calls into question the assumptions of a materialistic science and medicine which insists that mind is a by-product of brain function and that it cannot, therefore, conceivably survive the disintegration of the brain; it also impinges on the ecclesiastical territory of the afterlife — or at least of its...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
1995
Venkateswaran Krishnan
1 citation
Recently I was going through my collection of near-death experiences (NDEs) for the sake of a fellow researcher when I noticed for the first time that four experiencers had voluntarily said that after the experience they felt cured of, or gained relief from, the physical illness from which they were suffering at the time.Because these cases were collected several years ago, I am unable to trace...