Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies
July 30, 2018
Jeffrey J. Kripal
1 citation
Abstract After relating a dramatic near-death experience of a Houston woman named Elizabeth Krohn, this essay explores some of the themes of her near-death experience, particularly the invisible presence of a being of unconditional love in a paradisiacal garden and various direct transmissions of some traditional religious convictions. The essay then discusses some of the obvious New Age...
Method & Theory in the Study of Religion
July 24, 2018
Claire J. White, Michael Kinsella, Jesse M. Bering
3 citations
Abstract Reports of people who have survived death have captured the attention of mainstream audiences. Why do these ideas enjoy persistent and widespread success in contemporary Western culture? Adopting a cognitive approach to the study of afterlife accounts and drawing upon our own research, we argue that mainstream survival narratives are popular because they provide convincing evidence...
NeuroQuantology
July 24, 2018
Liang Shan
2 citations
The difficulty in solving the measurement problem may derive from a lack of thorough understanding of the nature of consciousness. Recent findings from parapsychological research and confirmed reports of veridical perceptions during near death experiences (NDEs) show that consciousness can acquire non-local information and may act as an independent entity outside of the body. But how apparent...
International Journal of Dream Research
July 2, 2018
Kurt Forrer
The bulk of the scientific fraternity still regards the world as ‘a thing as such’, a ‘reality’, in other words, that is independent of an active mind. Its proponents build their theories on facts they regard as something certain, steadfast and unalterable. The etymology of ‘fact’ reveals that its meaning has its roots in the Latin word ‘facere’, ‘to do’. Its present day meaning was established...
Medjugorje and the Supernatural
April 19, 2018
Daniel Maria Klimek
Relating the first days of the Medjugorje apparitions, the chapter tells the story of the original encounter that transpired the week of June 24, 1981, between five Croatian teenagers and a child reporting to encounter the Virgin Mary. It analyzes some of the key messages the visionaries have reported to receive from the Virgin. Some of the biggest questions of life are considered, as answered...
April 17, 2018
Gertrud Mander
Even very old people are afraid of death, and the example of people with near-death experiences, who tell afterwards that they had seen a light, is instructive as a form of denial, as they are still alive then. Analysts come closest to describing this mortal fear, when they talk of the unconscious anxieties of annihilation and disintegration, from which Freud&s;s controversial death instinct...
Preternature Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural
March 1, 2018
Mirjam Mencej
ABSTRACT The article discusses the experience of being “carried by witches” narrated to me repeatedly during my field research in rural eastern Slovenia in 2000–2001. The experience, which was ascribed to the agency of witches who “enchanted” their victims and led them astray, typically occurred in the forest at night and implied disorientation, sometimes (but not necessarily) the vision of...
Journal of Addiction Medicine
February 4, 2018
Matteo Caloro, Giuseppa Calabrò, Eleonora de Pisa et al.
9 citations
: Novel psychoactive substance use is a major social concern. Their use may elicit or uncover unpredictably as yet undescribed clinical pictures. We aimed to illustrate a multisubstance use case indistinguishable from paranoid schizophrenia, so to alert clinicians on possibly misdiagnosing substance-induced psychotic disorders. CASE REPORT: We describe a case of a 32-year-old man who started at...
OALib
2018
Claudio Messori
3 citations
The huge progress made in recent decades in the medical-health field, together with the large-scale introduction of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and other emergency techniques and procedures, has made it possible to save a growing number of human lives.Also because of this, the testimonies classified as Near Death Experiences (NDEs) have increased exponentially, mostly in Western...
Journal of Psychopharmacology
2018
David E Nichols
68 citations
The pineal gland has a romantic history, from pharaonic Egypt, where it was equated with the eye of Horus, through various religious traditions, where it was considered the seat of the soul, the third eye, etc. Recent incarnations of these notions have suggested that N,N-dimethyltryptamine is secreted by the pineal gland at birth, during dreaming, and at near death to produce out of body...