Near-death experience: all studies (page 76)

Mapping the Boundaries between Science and Religion

transcript Verlag eBooks December 31, 2018 Stephanie Gripentrog-Schedel 3 citations

In contemporary religious landscapes, entanglements between the field of religion and the field of psychology and psychiatry are manifold.In this paper, the psychological school of "Transpersonal Psychology" (TP) and specifically the work of the psychiatrist and LSD researcher Stanislav Grof is introduced in order to illuminate the interferences between psychological or therapeutic discourses...

DOI: 10.1515/9783839445822-009 Epistemology

THE RECEPTION OF C.G. JUNG IN US DEATH AND DYING STUDIES

Phanês Journal For Jung History November 19, 2018 Jelena Martinovic 1 citation

C.G. Jung’s work has had a noticeable impact on conceptions about death and the dying experience, as well as on the therapeutic work methods that deal with anxiety, depression or terminal illnesses. This article analyses the reception of C.G. Jung’s work in the United States during the time period 1960-80. It examines ways in which Jung’s concepts were discussed and applied by psy practitioners...

DOI: 10.32724/phanes.2018.martinovic Mysticism Thanatology Psychoanalysis Transpersonal psychology +10

A sub-set of psychoactive effects may be critical to the behavioral impact of ketamine on cocaine use disorder: Results from a randomized, controlled laboratory study.

Neuropharmacology November 1, 2018 Elias Dakwar, Edward V. Nunes, Carl L. Hart et al. 83 citations

Efforts to translate sub-anesthetic ketamine infusions into widespread clinical use have centered around developing medications with comparable neurobiological activity, but with attenuated psychoactive effects so as to minimize the risk of behavioral toxicity and abuse liability. Converging lines of research, however, suggest that some of the psychoactive effects of sub-anesthetic ketamine may...

DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2018.01.005 Full text Addiction Ketamine Mystical experience Cocaine +3

Confronting Death: An Experiential Imagery Exercise

Routledge eBooks October 26, 2018 Anees Ahmad Sheikh

This exercise, the group first is engages in a general discusses of death and dying and the life–giving qualities that ensue from an encounter with death. The simple procedure almost always elicits profound reactions, particularly from adults in the late thirties and older. Imagine that as body is buries or cremated, essence merges with the source of the universe, with the universal energy,...

DOI: 10.4324/9781315224480-10

The Advent of Parapsychology and the Figuration of “Out-of-the-Body Experiences” (1880–1930)

Oxford Scholarship Online September 20, 2018 Jens Schlieter

This chapter outlines how the term “out-of-the-body experience” emerged in spiritualist and parapsychological literature. As is shown, “psychical researchers” such as Frederic W. Myers and William James made a significant contribution. The chapter also deals with the “filter” theory or “transmission” theory, i.e., the idea of the brain as a means for the inhibition of consciousness. This...

DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190888848.003.0008

The Presence of Religious Metacultures in Near-Death Discourse (1580–1975)

Oxford Scholarship Online September 20, 2018 Jens Schlieter

The conclusion of the discursive history outlines that in contrast to studies that argue for a broad decline of Christian narratives of deathbed experiences in the early modern centuries, there is ample evidence of a continuous stream of Christian reports. These reports are, from the 18th century onward, seconded by a broad current of Spiritualist–Occult and Gnostic–Esoteric reports....

DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190888848.003.0021

Consolidation of Near-Death Discourse (1930–1960)

Oxford Scholarship Online September 20, 2018 Jens Schlieter

The three decades treated in this chapter can be summarized as a consolidation phase of near-death discourse, transmitted mainly in parapsychology, Theosophy, and Spiritualist–Occult circles. A newly emerging element in near-death visions is the “tunnel” experience. Finally, the chapter highlights the impact of Aldous Huxley—especially his psychedelic drug experiences in combination with his...

DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190888848.003.0010

Currents of Early Modern Near-Death Discourse

Oxford Scholarship Online September 20, 2018 Jens Schlieter

This chapter presents how discourse on experiences near death unfolded from 1580 to 1900 in the three religious metacultures (and occasionally in Naturalist metaculture). It takes its departure with Michel de Montaigne’s experience near death. It is argued that this testimony is supposedly the first report in a modern, autobiographical setting. It moves on to early modern Christian accounts,...

DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190888848.003.0006

What Is It Like To Be Dead?

Oxford Scholarship Online September 20, 2018 Jens Schlieter

This book offers a modern genealogy of “near-death experiences,” outlining the important functions of these experiences in the religious field of Western modernity. Emerging as autobiographical narratives in the legacy of Christian deathbed visions, narratives of near-death experiences were used in Western religious metacultures (Christian, Esoteric, and Spiritualist–Occult) as substantial...

DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190888848.001.0001

Information: From Philosophic to Physics Concepts for Informational Modeling of Consciousness

Philosophy Study August 28, 2018 Florin Gaiseanu 17 citations

Information was a frequently used concept in many fields of investigation.However, this concept is still not really understood, when it is referred for instance to consciousness and its informational structure.In this paper it is followed the concept of information from philosophical to physics perspective, showing especially how this concept could be extended to matter in general and to the...

DOI: 10.17265/2159-5313/2018.08.004

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