Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition
November 27, 2024
Robert A. King
Objective. The near-death experience (NDE) is an altered state of consciousness in which experients generally perceive that they are out of and/or away from their physical body during real or presumed life-threatening incidents and/or near-death circumstances. While this is occurring, experients can also sometimes encounter a presumed deity that usually relates to their cultural and/or...
Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition
November 27, 2024
Amal Ait Melloul, Karolina Kinnunen, Etzel Cardeña
Objective: To explore what it is like to have a distressing near-death experience (NDE) and its aftereffects. Method: We accessed all distressing NDE narratives from the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) database and analyzed eight individual narratives using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Results: Distressing NDEs include features such as disturbing...
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی
September 17, 2024
Shima Solati, Ali Izanloo, Azam Estaji
The purpose of this article is to find complications in Farsi discourse of Near-Death Experiences (NDE). We first examined the main categories of complications and then compared them in the stories of those who claimed to have near-death experience and those who were asked to fabricate a story about it. Through studying the stories of both groups, we found that complications in the discourses...
Authorea Preprints
September 10, 2024
Calixto Machado
preprint
Recent studies have indicated that there is an increment in EEG gamma activity following cardiac arrest. Gamma oscillations, which are high-frequency brain waves (30-90 Hz), have been linked to various cognitive functions and states of consciousness. The synchronous firing of neurons in the gamma-band has been proposed to bind multiple features of an object. These results recalled me that...
F1000Research
September 5, 2024
Nigel A Shaw
Near-death experience (NDE) is a transcendent mental event of uncertain etiology that arises on the cusp of biological death. Since the discovery of NDE in the mid-1970s, multiple neuroscientific theories have been developed in an attempt to account for it in strictly materialistic or reductionistic terms. Therefore, in this conception, NDE is at most an extraordinary hallucination without any...
Crisis
September 1, 2024
Robert A. King
3 citations
Background: Sometimes during real or presumed life-threatening and/or near-death circumstances, an individual undergoes an altered state of consciousness referred to as a near-death experience (NDE). The prevalent position in the field of NDE research for the last several decades has been that such experiences result in positive antisuicidal attitudes and that it is highly unlikely that...
Preprints.org
July 16, 2024
Mitchell B. Liester
preprint
Time can be a difficult concept to understand. Albert Einstein, who viewed time as an illusion, explained the passage of time is relative to the observer’s frame of reference in the space-time continuum. However, the state of consciousness of the observer also influences the passage of time. This paper examines the relationship between the experience of time and different states of...
Journal of Scientific Exploration
July 9, 2024
Robert Mays, Suzanne Mays
Near-death experiences (NDEs) cannot be defined merely as a collection of phenomenal features. An accurate definition needs to describe what NDEs essentially are, that is, what lies behind the phenomenal features. The definition would describe what happens in the experience to account for the different features; this can only be fully described in the context of an underlying theoretical...
Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics
June 1, 2024
Madis Arukask, E. Saar
Abstract This article* focuses on the immediate near-death experience of an elderly woman living in traditional Vepsian culture. We analyse which universal, and which more culturally motivated features are present in her story narrated to us in 2018. We conclude that, despite the strong association with animistic beliefs in the informant’s everyday life, the experience is dominated by elements...
Discover Mental Health
May 28, 2024
Joshua G. Kovoor, Sanjana Santhosh, Brandon Stretton et al.
4 citations
Background This scoping review aimed to characterise near-death experiences in the setting of cardiac arrest, a phenomenon that is poorly understood and may have clinical consequences. Method PubMed/MEDLINE was searched to 23 July 2023 for prospective studies describing near-death experiences in cardiac arrest. PRISMA-ScR guidelines were adhered to. Qualitative and quantitative data were...