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Comparing Near-Death Experiences and Shared Death Experiences: An Illuminating Contrast

Description: Article comparing records of persons who reported near-death experiences (i.e., experienced by a person close to death) with shared death experiences (i.e., experienced by someone other than the person close to death). It discusses similarities and differences in features and aftereffects based on these reports.
Date: Summer 2022
Creator: Shared Crossing Research Initiative
Partner: UNT Libraries
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"It's made me reassess what I think and believe." An Exploratory Study of Therapists' Experiences With Their Clients' Deathbed Visions, Deathbed Coincidences, and After-Death Communication

Description: Article discussing an analysis of literature and interview data with implications for clinical practice related to therapists working with clients who report experiencing deathbed visions, deathbed coincidences, or after-death communication.
Date: Summer 2022
Creator: Bacchus, Gurm; Charura, Divine & Fox, Tara
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Book Review: Touched by the Light: Exploring Spiritually Transformative Experiences

Description: Review of a book titled "Touched by the Light: Exploring Spiritually Transformative Experiences" by retired family physician Yvonne Kason based on her research and several personal near-death experiences. The review includes an in-depth overview of the three major sections: Defining Spiritually Transformative Experiences, Researching the Yogic Model of Conscciousness, Kundalini, and STEs; and Long-Term Spiritual Transformation: The Aftereffects of STEs.
Date: Summer 2022
Creator: Punzak, Dan
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Letter to the Editor: Beneficial NDE-Like Aftereffects Among Camino de Santiago Pilgrims

Description: Letter written to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies to comment on research related to "exceptional human experiences" (EHEs), particularly among pilgrims in Spain on the Camino de Santiago. It specificially notes that EHEs may facilitate positive life changes, similar to some near-death experiences, which are a sub-set of EHEs.
Date: Summer 2022
Creator: Brumec, Snežana
Partner: UNT Libraries

Letter to the Editor: Response to "A New Scale to Assess Near-Death Experiences"

Description: Letter written to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies discussing a proposed scale for assessing near-death experiences (NDEs), which was proposed by the authors of the letter, and also comments on a previous letter in which others reviewed the original proposal.
Date: Spring 2021
Creator: Martial, Charlotte; Greyson, Bruce; Simon, Jessica; Puttaert, Ninon; Gosseries, Olivia; Charland-Verville, Vanessa et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries

Near-Death Experiences: A Critique of the Fischer and Mitchell-Yellin Physicalist Interpretation

Description: Abstract: In "Near Death Experiences: Understanding Visions of the Afterlife," authors John Martin Fischer and Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin (2016) argued for purely physicalist explanations of near-death experiences (NDEs) and against "supernatural" explanations involving objects and events--out-of-body experiences, heavenly realms, meeting deceased relatives--that have no physical reality. In our critique, we identify two major weaknesses to their argument: heavy reliance on ad hoc hypotheses and … more
Date: Winter 2017
Creator: Mays, Robert G. & Mays, Suzanne B.
Partner: UNT Libraries

Editor's Foreword [Spring 2018]

Description: Editorial statement introducing the contents of the journal issue and providing other relevant notes. This issue includes articles discussing near-death experiences in non-western cultures.
Date: Spring 2018
Creator: Holden, Janice Miner
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Letter to the Editor: Response to James Matlock's Rejoinder, Regarding His Review of Near-Death Experience in Indigenous Religions by Gregory Shushan

Description: Letter written to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies providing a commentary from the author of the book, Near-Death Experience in Indigenous Religions, regarding a review of the book and multiple critiques and responses between the book's author and the reviewer.
Date: Summer 2019
Creator: Shushan, Gregory
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Misuse or Breakthrough? Mind and the Quantum Model: A Reponse to "Quantum Misuse in Psychic Literature"

Description: Abstract: The classic problem of how the mind and body relate, which is part of the general problem of how the physical universe may have given rise to consciousness, cannot be solved with a purely physical approach. In an attempt to locate a region of nature where mind and matter closely meet, many theorists both in and out of physics have looked to the quantum field. In their article "The Misuse of Quantum Physics in Psychic Literature" that appears elsewhere in this Journal issue, Jack A.… more
Date: Spring 2019
Creator: Chopra, Deepak
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Not Misuse but Progress: A Response to "Quantum Misuse in Psychic Literature"

Description: Abstract: In rebuttal to the article "Quantum Misuse in Psychic literature" by Jack A Mroczkowski and Alexis P. Malozemoff published in this issue of the Journal of Near-Death Studies, I briefly present the quantum science of consciousness, provide its experimental verification, and mention some of its applications. I then briefly summarize one such application--near-death experiences. I also provide an explanation of how a macro material body such as the brain can be quantum.
Date: Spring 2019
Creator: Goswami, Amit
Partner: UNT Libraries
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