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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...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1990 Bruce Greyson
In a retrospective study contrasting the near-death encounters of 183 persons who reported near-death experiences and 63 persons who reported no near-death experience, the two groups did not differ in age, gender, or time elapsed since the near-death encounter. Near-death experiencers reported all 16 items of the NDE Scale significantly more often than did nonexperiencers.
Medical Hypotheses 1990 Karl Jansen 96 citations
The Near-Death Experience (NDE) is a dissociative mental state with characteristic features. These can be reproduced by ketamine which acts at sigma sites and blocks N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) linked phencyclidine (PCP) receptors to reduce ischaemic damage. Endogenous ligands, alpha and beta-endopsychosin, have been detected for these receptors which suggests an explanation for some NDE's: the...
JAMA June 1, 1989 F O Walker
To the Editor.— Descriptions of the experience of surviving near-death events are entertaining,1but should be interpreted with caution. Report of a Case.— A 40-year-old woman with normal findings on physical examination except for breakaway weakness and nonanatomic sensory loss, underwent myelography for long-term lower back pain. Immediately after subarachnoid instillation of iohexol she...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1989
In an Aus t ra l i an survey of communi ty at t i tudes toward neardeath experiences (NDEs), 173 respondents were asked to read a hypothetical description of an NDE and to select from a range of explanat ions tha t might approximate their own. Fifty-seven percent of the respondents believed the NDE was evidence of life after death, while less t h a n 2 percent believed the NDE was a sign of...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1989 I. Stevenson
This s tudy examines the incidence of reports of psychic phenomena and associated beliefs both before and after the near -dea th experience (NDE). The near -dea th exper iencers in terv iewed repor ted no more psychic phenomena before the NDE than the genera l populat ion. There was a stat ist ica l ly s ignif icant increase following the NDE in the incidence of 14 of 15 i tems examined. The...
Journal of Humanistic Psychology 1989
History and research on near-death experiences are reviewed and evaluated under five categories: frequency, measurement, patterns, aftereffects, and explanations. Major findings, inconsistencies, and controversies are summarized. Recommendations for future research are made, and the problems encountered when researching near-death experiences are discussed.
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1989 Bruce Greyson
Article discussing empirical questions about near-death experiences (NDEs) that can be explored by the scientific method. Scientific study poses risks both to NDErs and to our understanding of the NDE itself. However, because the NDE allows unique access to information about consciousness and death, those risks are outweighed by the benefits to NDErs and to humanity derived from a scientific...
Journal of Near-Death Studies December 1, 1988 R. D. Newsome
Near-death experiencers (NDErs) commonly report shifts in basic values and attitudes, toward intensified compassion and a sense of unconditional love, sprituality, and a sense of mission, and away from materialism and competitiveness. Some researchers have suggested that these attitudinal shifts represent a new stage in human evolution, which will produce major social change. However, knowledge...
The British Journal of Psychiatry November 1, 1988 Glenn Roberts, John R. Owen 117 citations
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