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Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 11, Number 2, Winter 1992
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Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 27, Number 3, Spring 2009
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Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 7, Number 2, Fall 1988
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Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 11, Number 4, Summer 1993
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Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 20, Number 4, Summer 2002
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Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 10, Number 4, Summer 1992
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Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 16, Number 1, Fall 1997
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Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 23, Number 3, Spring 2005
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Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 21, Number 4, Summer 2003
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Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 22, Number 3, Spring 2004
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Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 18, Number 2, Winter 1999
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Letters to the Editor: An Objective Correlate of Consciousness
Letter from Brian Miller to the editor discussing a strategy to detect consciousness as an electromagnetic field.
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Letters to the Editor: A Philosopher's View of Near-Death Research
Letter from V. Krishnan to editor reviewing Carl Becker's article in the Fall 1995 issues concerning Near-Death Research.
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A "Little Death": The Near-Death Experience and Tibetan Delogs
Article exploring a phenomenon remarkably like the near-death experience that has been uncovered in Tibetan culture. Anthropologists have gathered accounts of contemporary and historical cases of...
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Letters to the Editor: More on Kenneth Ring's "Swan Song" [#1]
Letter from Kenneth Ring to editor providing further explanation on his retirement.
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The Phantom Leaf Effect and Its Implications for Near-Death and Out-of-Body...
Article concerning the phantom leaf effect seen in Kirlian photography, which may help researchers better understand near-death and out-of-body experiences.
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Misidentified Flying Objects? An Integrated Psychodynamic Perspective on...
Article proposing an integrated psychodynamic perspective to account in part for a variety of similarities between near-death experiences and UFO abductions. The psychodynamic psychology of these...
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The Physiology of the Tunnel
Article describing several theories to account for the origin of tunnel hallucinations and tunnel experiences near death: (1) the idea of a "real" tunnel; (2) representations of transition; (3)...
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Neglected Near-Death Phenomena
Article suggesting several topics for further work in the area of near-death phenomena.
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Different Kinds of Near-Death Experience: A Report on a Survey of Near-Death...
Article providing a short summary of a representative survey on near-death experiences (NDEs) in Germany, which is the first of its kind in Europe. The researchers tested several assumptions derived...
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The Near-Death Experience and the Taoism of Chuang Tzu
Article comparing excerpts from Chuang Tzu's writings and the descriptions of near-death experiencers (NDErs). Similarities between the beliefs of NDErs and those of Taoist patriarch Chuang Tzu suggest...
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Book Review: Moral Development and Reality: Beyond the Theories of Kohlberg...
Review of the book "Moral Development and Reality: Beyond the Theories of Kohlberg ad Hoffman" written by moral psychologist John C. Gibbs.
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Comments on Stuart Twemlow's "Misidentified Flying Objects? An Integrated...
Abstract: In addition to the hypotheses on UFO abductions and near-death experiences described by Stuart Twemlow, another one has been put forward by researchers over the years that increases the...
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Book Review: Is There Life After Death? An Examination of the Empirical Evidence
Review of the book "Is There Life After Death? An Examination of the Empirical Evidence" by psychologist David Lester.
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Near-Death Encounters with and without Near-Death Experiences: Comparative...
Abstract: 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...
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Guest Editorial: Thomas Kuhn Revisited: Near Death Studies and Paradigm Shifts
Article purporting that near-death studies can be viewed within a theoretical framework of "paradigms" and "paradigm shifts" as explicated by Thomas Kuhn. Assuming the validity of Kuhn's model, it...
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Toward a Psychological Explanation of Near-Death Experiences: A Response to...
From introduction: "Michael Grosso, in his elegant review of various hypotheses intended to explain near-death experiences as reductionistic and unable to account adequately for the NDE. The present...
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The Reenchantment of Death: Near-Death, Death Awareness, and the New Age
Article discussing a contextual question regarding the receptivity of the near-death phenomenon. This question concerns the social conditions that have popularized the discourse of the near-death...
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The Physical Basis of Subtle Bodies and Near-Death Experiences
Article discussing "dark matter," the discovery of which may provide the key to an age-old mystery concerning the nature of humanity. The author suggests that "dark matter" is the matter of mysticism,...
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Kongo Near-Death Experiences: Cross-Cultural Patterns
Article analyzing eight Kongo near-death experiences (NDEs) from Central Africa in support of the argument that universal features exist within this experiential form.
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Book Review: Full Circle: The Near-Death Experience and Beyond
Review of the book "Full Circle: The Near-Death Experience and Beyond" written by Barbara Harris and Lionel Bascom.
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Endogenous Ketamine-Like Compounds and the NDE: If So, So What?
Article offering commentary on Karl Jansen's ketamine model for the near-death experience, expanding upon and raising additional questions about several issues and hypotheses.
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Near-Death Prophecies of Disaster and the New Age: Are They True?
Article examining long-range data and finding trend reversals in 1987-88: increases in religiosity, service, and United Nations peacekeeping efforts, and decreases in chlorofluorocarbon production,...
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Letter to the Editor: Making Meaning of Frightening NDEs
Letter written to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies on the topic: "Making Meaning of Frightening NDEs."
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Obituaries: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Obituary of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, psychiatrist and author of "On Death and Dying."
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Guest Editorial: A Theory of Death
Article presenting theoretical perspectives on the event and process of death.
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Near Death Experiences and Gnostic Christianity: Parallels in Antiquity
Article examining ancient Gnostic Christian texts which display compelling similarities between Gnostic conceptions of life and death and modern NDEs.
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Near-Death and Transcendental Experiences: Neurophysiological Correlates of...
Article exploring a theory that the first stages of transcendental experiences might be induced by blocking or saturating sensory input to the brain at the level of the hippocampus. Many accounts of...
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Near-Death Experiences and the Theory of the Extraneuronal Hyperspace
Abstract: It is possible and desirable to supplement the traditional neurological and metaphysical explanatory models of the near-death experience (NDE) with yet a third type of explanatory model that...
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Book Review: To Hell and Back: Life After Death - Startling New Evidence
Review of the book "To Hell and Back: Life After Death--Startling New Evidence" by cardiologist Maurice S. Rawlings regarding distressing near-death experiences.
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The Failure of Saganomics: Why Birth Models Cannot Explain Near-Death Phenomena
This article refutes Carl Sagan's theory that near-death experiences (NDEs) are recollections of birth experiences based on three major reasons including the inability of newborn babies to perceive...
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Guest Editorial: The Resurrection as Near-Death Experience
Article suggesting that Jesus Christ was not clinically dead but in a deep coma when he was taken down from the cross. He was revived by Joseph of Arimathea, who was permitted to take Jesus's body into...
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The Darkness of God: An Account of Lasting Mystical Consciousness Resulting...
Article describing the author's near-death experience (NDE) in 1983 as a result of poisoning. Almost every feature of the experience has been antithetical to the author's prior background, both in...
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Book Review: Final Passage: Sharing the Journey as This Life Ends
Review of the book "Final Passage: Sharing the Journey as This Life Ends" by researcher Barbara Harris Whitfield, recounting ten persons who shared their experiences.
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Letters to the Editor: Consciousness and Substance: The Primal Forms of God
Letter from V. Krishnan to the editor discussing the lack of evidence in a previously published article by John White (1987).
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Frightening Near-Death Experiences Revisited: A Commentary on Responses to My...
Abstract: In this commentary, I discuss the responses to my paper on frightening near-death experiences (NDEs) written by Christopher Bache and Nancy Evans Bush, and I try to show that there are many...
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Over Easy: A Cultural Anthropologist's Near-Death Experience
The author details a near-death experience which has caused him to find a new reality "replete with symbolic meanings that altered his view of life, death, and their intermediate cultural patterns."...
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Commentary on John Gibbs' "What Do Near-Death Experiencers and Jesus Have in...
Abstract: John Gibbs relates research findings on near-death experiences (NDEs) to John Shelby Spong's "continuity view of Jesus" and his "call for a new Christianity." Gibbs' argument falls short of...
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Guest Editorial: Lessons From Near-Death Experiences for Humanity
Article summarizing nine lessons consistently gleaned from near-death experiences (NDEs), which may help motivate humanity to live more in accordance with the messages from NDEs.
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A Child's Encounter with the Devil: An Unusual Near-Death Experience with...
Abstract: I describe the near-death experience (NDE) of a 6-year-old boy who encountered both the devil and God following a near-fatal car accident, and compare recent recollections of the event with...
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