Journal of Near-Death Studies
1990
Michael Gliksman, Allan Kellehear
2 citations
Although cerebral anoxia is not thought to be responsible for triggering near-death experiences (NDEs), the issue is not so clear in the case of hypercapnia. Detection of normal blood gases in Michael Sabom's (1982) case study seems to be the major reply to suggest that hypercapnia may have a causal role in NDEs. We argue, however, that routine arterial measures of blood gases are not a...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
1990
Leon Rhodes
ABS TRA CT: This editorial contrasts the private, personal near-death experi ence with the public concept of the experience, and finds important messages for humanity that are common to both.It would be difficult to think of an experience that is more private, secret, and personal than that brief, dramatic opening of nonphysical eyes to another realm of consciousness.Yet the near-death...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
1990
1 citation
Article discussing the following issue: If mental state can influence the external world, or if alternate dimensions of reality are accessible only in certain mental states, then important aspects of the universe are unknowable with current scientific tools. Near-death studies suggest that both those conditions may occur. Thus the exploration of NDE-like phenomena requires a radically new...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
1990
Leon Rhodes
Editorial contrasting the private, personal near-death experience with the public concept of the experience, and finding important messages for humanity that are common to both.
Journal of Near-Death Studies
1990
Elizabeth W. Fenske
2 citations
Article discussing the near-death experience (NDE) as an experience of wholeness, an adventure in consciousness, and a metaphoric encounter with light. It links theoretical physics with the occult, the Primordial Tradition, and various religious belief systems. Where science sees mystery, religion sees metaphoric truth; the NDE as spiritual quest and physical encounter beckons to both...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
1990
D. Scott Rogo, Susan C. Litton
To the Editor:Despite the fact that near-death experiences (NDEs) by definition seem caused by proximity to death, episodes similar to the classic NDE can emerge in other settings.Experiences remarkably concordant to the prototypical NDE, complete with out-of-body observations, tunnels, white lights, and even eschatological journeys, have been reported from situations in which the reporter was...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
1990
Cherie Sutherland
1 citation
A recent interview with a 34-year-old man, currently serving a life sentence for murder, revealed a remarkable case of "near-death experience by proxy." The phenomenological features of the experience unfolded typically, with some slight variation in content. The immediate drastic changes in attitude and belief following the experience are described.
Journal of Near-Death Studies
1990
Eliana C. Hermann
1 citation
Article comparing excerpts from Chuang Tzu's writings and the descriptions of near-death experiencers (NDErs). Similarities between the beliefs of NDErs and those of Taoist patriarch Chuang Tzu suggest that NDErs have experienced a kind of awakening that leads them to reject conventional attitudes toward life and death.
Social Science & Medicine (1967)
1990
A. Kellehear
Near-death experiences are identity transitions with many of the major social features of status passage as these were originally formulated by Glaser and Strauss (Status Passage, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1971). These features are described and then compared with the similar experience of being a castaway after shipwreck. In this way, the clinical near-death experience can be analysed as...
Death Studies
1990
The near-death experience literature includes many accounts of adults who have had near-death experiences as adults or when they were children. The literature also reveals a few accounts of children reporting on their childhood near-death experiences. But the literature does not contain a single case of a near-death experience happening at birth, until the reporting of this case. Not only is...