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Adjustment and the Near-Death Experience: A Conceptual and Therapeutic Model

Description: Abstract: Most mental health practitioners, and counseling psychologists in particular, possess skills for helping near-death experiencers. What is needed is a conceptual framework that is both familiar to practitioners and highly relevant to that client group. Cross-cultural counseling in general, and the consideration of world views more specifically, are suggested. Using that framework, the world view assimilated during the near-death experience (NDE) is viewed as being in contrast to tha… more
Date: Autumn 1987
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Clinical Approaches to the Near-Death Experiencer

Description: This paper discusses near-death experiencers and "general guidelines and specific interventions, developed at an interdisciplinary conference, to assist NDErs in coping with psychological difficulties following their experiences" (abstract).
Date: Autumn 1987
Creator: Greyson, Bruce & Harris, Barbara
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Comments on Bette Furn's "Adjustment and the Near-Death Experience"

Description: The author of the article critiques Bette Furn's paper in an effort to provide better strategies for helping people that have had near-death experiences (NDEs), and presents an alternative perspective from someone who has experienced an NDE.
Date: Autumn 1987
Creator: Geraci, Joseph B.
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Comments on Dr. J. Slawinski's Paper

Description: This paper discusses Rupert Sheldrake's comments about Dr. J. Slawinski's paper "Electromagnetic Radiation And The Afterlife." Sheldrake proposes ideas that disagree with Slawinski's paper.
Date: Winter 1987
Creator: Sheldrake, Rupert
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Comments On "Electromagnetic Radiation And The Afterlife" [#1]

Description: This paper by Evan Harris Walker comments on Janusz Slawinski's paper named "Electromagnetic Radiation and the Afterlife." It states the shortcomings of Slawinski's electromagnetic radiation argument by specifying a variety of points that run counter to the argument's physical possibility.
Date: Winter 1987
Creator: Walker, Evan Harris
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Comments On "Electromagnetic Radiation And The Afterlife" [#3]

Description: This paper by Steven M. Rosen comments on Janusz Slawinski's paper named "Electromagnetic Radiation And The Afterlife." This paper contains three critiques of an empirical, philosophical, and mathematical nature, respectively.
Date: Winter 1987
Creator: Rosen, Steven M.
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Comments on Slawinski's Paper

Description: This paper by Keith Harary addresses Janusz Slawinki's paper "Electromagnetic Radiation And The Afterlife." Harary expresses why he remains unconvinced by Slawinski's electromagnetic radiation argument.
Date: Winter 1987
Creator: Harary, Keith
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Cross-Cultural Counseling and the Near-Death Experience: Some Elaborations

Description: This paper proposes "cross-cultural counseling and world views" as an effort to improve therapeutic models for aiding near-death experiencers (NDErs). The parameters of the cross-cultural counseling method are established, and potential counterarguments are addressed.
Date: Autumn 1987
Creator: Furn, Bette G.
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Electromagnetic Radiation And The Afterlife

Description: This article discusses the possibility that electromagnetic radiation could contain and transmit the essence of consciousness after the body's death, allowing consciousness to continue beyond the body's death.
Date: Winter 1987
Creator: Slawinski, Janusz
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Out-of-Body Experiences in the Blind

Description: "The theoretical significance of out-of-body experiences in blind people is explored. In this context I report results of a survey of a small sample of blind adults. It is concluded that we have yet to locate a case of an out-of-body experience in the blind that has critical implications for the interpretation of the experience among the general population" (abstract).
Date: Autumn 1987
Creator: Irwin, Harvey J.
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Remarks On Janusz Slawinski's Paper

Description: This paper by Michael Grosso analyzes points made by Janusz Slawinski in their paper "Electromagnetic Radiation and the Afterlife." It specifies that the author's hypothesis cannot be tested currently, and thus, it cannot be falsified. More research and data is needed, according to Grosso.
Date: Winter 1987
Creator: Gross, Michael
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Response to "Adjustment and the Near-Death Experience"

Description: This paper addresses Bette Furn's article "Adjustment and the Near-Death Experience" from two perspectives that the author possesses. The author is a social worker and a near-death experiencer. The author points out some limitations of Furn's argument.
Date: Autumn 1987
Creator: Clark, Kimberly
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Review of Bette Furn's "Adjustment and the Near-Death Experience"

Description: This paper reviews Bette Furn's "Adjustment and the Near-Death Experience." McDonagh commends Furn's paper for eliciting conversation within the subject of near-death experiences (NDEs), and then McDonagh points out some of the limitations of Furn's ideas. He then proceeds to give his own perspective on how NDE counseling could be potentially improved.
Date: Autumn 1987
Creator: McDonagh, John
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The Use Of Physics In Answering Metaphysical Questions

Description: This paper by Hoyt Edge comments on Janusz Slawinski's paper "Electromagnetic Radiation and the Afterlife" by looking at Slawinski's arguments from a logical and structural point of view. Edge points out the logical shortcomings of Slawinski's arguments, and criticizes Slawinski for making bold claims upon lacking evidence. Edge gives credit to Slawinski for continuing the conversation about the afterlife, however.
Date: Winter 1987
Creator: Edge, Hoyt
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When Science is Nonscientific

Description: This paper addresses the connection that science has to philosophy and the use of presuppositions. The author critiques Slawinski's paper titled "Electromagnetic Radiation And The Afterlife" by pointing out a variety of flaws in Slawinski's reasoning.
Date: Winter 1987
Creator: Braude, Stephen E.
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