Qualitative Health Research
2016
Limor Meoded Danon
This article is based on narrative research that focuses on corporeal experience during coma and during the rehabilitation process. Seventeen participants from different areas of Israel who had been in various kinds of coma states reveal what the corporeal experience of coma is. The participants are divided into three types of narrative protagonists--"dead-alive," "rational," and "emissaries."...
Anthropology & medicine
2015
Barbara Mh Stöckigt, Florian Besch, Florian Jeserich et al.
Spiritual healers in contemporary Germany comprise a heterogeneous and growing group, yet little data exists about them. Therefore, one aim of this study was to learn about which biographical aspects and events were important to the process of becoming a healer and which biographical aspects drove clients to consult a healer. The study was based on semi-structured interviews combined with...
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
November 2014
Sam Parnia
Advances in resuscitation science have indicated that, contrary to perception, death by cardiorespiratory criteria can no longer be considered a specific moment but rather a potentially reversible process that occurs after any severe illness or accident causes the heart, lungs, and brain to stop functioning. The resultant loss of vital signs of life (and life processes) is used to declare a...
The American journal of hospice & palliative care
November 1, 2013
Madelaine Lawrence, Elizabeth Repede
The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence of deathbed communications (DBCs) during the 30 days before death and their impact on the dying process. A total of 60 hospice chart audits and 75 survey responses by hospice nurses across the United States were analyzed. Chart audits revealed 5 (8.33%) of the 60 included descriptions of DBCs. The survey of 75 hospice nurses identified...
Revista latino-americana de enfermagem
September 5, 2013
Ana Catarina Araújo Elias, Joel Sales Giglio, Cibele Andrucioli de Mattos Pimenta
OBJECTIVE: To understand Spiritual Pain and the new meaning it takes on using the RIME intervention. Subjects and methods: Eleven terminally ill patients (n=11), treated at public hospitals, received care from six professionals trained for RIME application. The methods used were both qualitative, through phenomenology, and quantitative, based on the descriptive method, using the Wilcoxon Test....
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
August 27, 2013
Jimo Borjigin, UnCheol Lee, Tiecheng Liu et al.
The brain is assumed to be hypoactive during cardiac arrest. However, the neurophysiological state of the brain immediately following cardiac arrest has not been systematically investigated. In this study, we performed continuous electroencephalography in rats undergoing experimental cardiac arrest and analyzed changes in power density, coherence, directed connectivity, and cross-frequency...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
March 1, 2003
Thomas E. Beck, Janet E. Colli
Near-death life reviews pose a challenge to current memory research in terms of the sheer amount of instantaneous and empathetic information recall. Advances in quantum physics, biomechanics, holographic information theory, and consciousness studies support for the first time a fully realizable quantum biomechanical basis for near-death life reviews. We introduce the unifying paradigm of the...
Open Science Framework
October 6, 2026
Brian Harbord
preprint
Near-death experiences (NDEs) occasionally include claims of veridical perception — accurate information about the physical environment obtained from a reported out-of-body vantage point, ostensibly without ordinary sensory access. The largest attempt to test this directly (the AWARE I/II studies) placed hidden visual targets, visible only from a ceiling-level vantage point, in resuscitation...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 24, 2026
George Wanjau
preprint
This essay argues that the stable entities of experience and cosmology are held forms: patterns of relation that have stabilized enough to persist, hold a boundary, and be located. It begins with cases where those anchors loosen: sensory deprivation, long contemplative retreats, near-death experiences, and the involuntary LSD dosing of James "Whitey" Bulger under MK-Ultra. In each, the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 16, 2026
Tiny Buffalo Dillon Reese Gause
preprint
This paper examines the plausibility, though not the proof, of a hypothesis that consciousness may be tied to a form of energy that persists beyond biological death. The argument proceeds from an established physical premise, the conservation of energy, through a contested but serious philosophical position, panpsychism, and into the empirical territory of near-death experience research, before...