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Distressing Near-Death Experience: An Iranian Shia Muslim Case

Description: Abstract: In this article we present a distressing near-death experience (NDE) that a 23-year-old Iranian Shi'ite Muslim man described having experienced five years previously, during coma following a serious car accident. Given that very few Muslims, especially Iranians, have reported NDEs, one of our aims in presenting this case was to begin to fill this void in the near-death studies literature. We provide extensive quotations from our 40-minute interview with this experiencer, in which he d… more
Date: Spring 2018
Creator: Jahromi, Alinaghi Ghasemiannejad & Imaninasab, Ali
Partner: UNT Libraries

"My heart sang within me, and I was glad to be dead": The Reception of Near-Death Experiences Across the Cultures of Oceania

Description: Abstract: A comparative survey of how near-death experiences (NDEs) intersected with afterlife myths and shamanic practices, as reported in the mid-19th to mid-20th century by missionaries, explorers, and ethnographers of Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Australia, reveals various culturally distinct patterns. In Polynesia and Melanesia, documentary accounts of NDEs are found alongside myths and beliefs that directly refer to the phenomenon. In contrast, in Australia and Micronesia NDEs ar… more
Date: Spring 2018
Creator: Shushan, Gregory
Partner: UNT Libraries

Spontaneous Mediumship Experiences Among Near-Death Experiencers: A Qualitative Study

Description: Abstract: We describe results of a qualitative study investigating spontaneous mediumship experiences (SMEs) of near-death experiencers (NDErs). Using archival data from a prior survey (Holden, Foster & Kinsey, 2014), we used cross-comparison qualitative analysis to examine emerged themes of participants' descriptions of SME characteristics, challenges of SMEs, and strategies to cope with SMEs. We identified 19 themes across 3 research questions. We discuss implications, including our urge to N… more
Date: Spring 2018
Creator: Foster, Ryan D.; Kahoe, Bethany M. & Nardelli, Danijela H.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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