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Book Review: Cosmic Cradle: Souls Waiting in the Wings for Birth

Review of the book "Cosmic Cradle: Souls Waiting in the Wings for Birth" by Elizabeth M. Carman and Neil J. Carman, which provides firsthand accounts as well as crosscultural documentation of...

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Letters to the Editor: Embellishment of Near-Death Experiences

Letter from P. M. H. Atwater to the editor discussing how memories of near-death experiences appear to be more stable over time than other traumatic memories.

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Guest Editorial: Nondualistic Experiences of Light in Near-Death Experiences...

Editorial which brings together two forms of human understanding of disembodied consciousness: the light in the near-death experience (NDE), and the Clear Light in the Tibetan Book of the Dead.

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Commentary on Stuart W. Twemlow's "Misidentified Flying Objects?"

Abstract: Stuart Twemlow's article has made an important dual contribution to our thinking about anomalous experiences: first in offering a heuristic psychodynamic model in terms of which to view them,...

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Otherworld Personal Future Revelations in Near-Death Experiences

Article describing a new kind of precognitive vision in the near-death experience (NDE): the otherworld personal future revelation (OPFR). Kenneth Ring previously described two kinds: the personal...

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Gender and Trauma in the Near-Death Experience: An Epidemiological and...

Article exploring the nature of the "fear-death experience" (FDE) by way of an epidemiological analysis, and discussing the FDE as one of several causal theories of the near-death experience (NDE).

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The Absence of Tunnel Sensations in Near-Death Experiences from India

Abstract: This article questions the recent report by Susan Blackmore (1993) of tunnel sensations in near-death experiences in India, and presents anthropological and methodological reasons for...

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Book Review: Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century

Review of the book " Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century" written by Edward F. Kelly, Emily W. Kelly, Adam Crabtree, Alan Gauld, Michael Grosso, and Bruce Greyson.

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Guest Editorial: The Luminous Experience and the Scientific Method

Article purporting that an encounter with the Light during a state of altered consciousness is a direct experience of God. The question of scientific proof is discussed.

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Letters to the Editor: An Experimentally Induced NDE

Letter from D. Scott Rogo to editor discussing the process of an experimentally induced near-death experience.

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Book Review: The Final Choice: Playing the Survival Game

Review of the book "The Final Choice: Playing the Survival Game" written by parapsychological philosopher Michael Grosso.

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Bozzano and the First Classification of Deathbed Visions: A Historical Note...

Abstract: "Ernest Bozzano was an Italian parapsychologist who published, in 1923, one of the most important historical studies on deathbed visions. The book, while influencing such scholars as Charles...

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Afterlife Research and the Shamanic Turn

Abstract: In Western culture, approaches to the afterlife have mutated throughout history, from shamanism and mythology to philosophy, spiritualism, and psychical research. For conceptual reasons,...

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Guest Editorial: Can Artificial Intelligence Have a Near-Death Experience? A...

Abstract: Since a computer model begins as an instance of writing, that is, a "text," it is appropriate to examine this kind of discourse through the perspective of literary criticism. I examine...

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Does Paranormal Perception Occur in Near-Death Experiences?

Article that serves as Part 1 of a critique of survivalist interpretations of near-death experiences (NDEs), reviews the quality of the evidence for veridical observations during NDEs, and finds the...

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Disclosure Needs and Motives After a Near-Death Experience

Article analyzing the communication processes used by 50 near-death experiencers and discussing their disclosure needs and motives, as well as influences and obstacles that affect disclosure habits....

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The Emerging Intelligence and Its Critical Look at Us

Abstract: In response to Susan Gunn's editorial, I offer a less comforting but more utilitarian perspective on the life and death of artificial consciousness. Admittedly an unpopular view, it suggests...

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Comments on "A Neurobiological Model for Near-Death Experiences" [#9]

Article outlining the author's opinions and comments regarding a paper written by Juan C. Saavedra-Aguilar and Juan S. Gómez-Jeria, which approaches near-death experiences from a...

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Book Review: Conscious Dreaming: A Spiritual Path for Everyday Life

Review of the book "Conscious Dreaming: A Spiritual Path for Everyday Life" by Robert Moss, related to shamanic dreaming.

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Dissociation: Normal or Abnormal?

Abstract: Recent articles have addressed the question of whether or not the out-of-body experience reported by many people near death is a form of dissociative behavior. If so, is it related to other...

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