This is your brain on death: a comparative analysis of a near-death experience and subsequent 5-Methoxy-DMT experience [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionMuch research has focused on the modeling of the near-death experience (NDE) by classical and atypical psychedelics; however, to date, no study has reported on the relationship between the NDE and the experience induced by the highly potent ...
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An encounter with death: a comparative thematic and content analysis of naturalistic DMT experiences and the near-death experience [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionClassical near-death experiences (NDEs) refer to states of disconnected consciousness characterised by a range of features occurring in the context of being close to death. Various psychedelic substances, such as N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT),
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Designing a “near-death experience” reality testing system [PDF]
Journal of Medical Physics, 2021 “Near-death experiences (NDEs)” are usually depicted with a vivid perception of departure from the physical body and being in a distinctive spatial and temporal area setting.
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Losing the Self in Near-Death Experiences: The Experience of Ego-Dissolution
Brain Sciences, 2021 Many people who have had a near-death experience (NDE) describe, as part of it, a disturbed sense of having a “distinct self”. However, no empirical studies have been conducted to explore the frequency or intensity of these effects.
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Personality traits and pattern of beliefs of near-death(-like) experiencers
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2023 IntroductionLittle is known about the potential personality and psychological predictors of near-death experiences (NDEs), and fewer yet those of near-death-like experiences (NDEs-like; similar phenomenology reported after a non-life-threatening context).
Aminata Bicego +13 more
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Near-death experience: A concept analysis
Nursing Practice Today, 2023 Background & Aim: The incidence of near-death experience is not a novel phenomenon since human history. However, with healthcare technological advancement, near-death narratives have been reported in a greater number of critically ill patients as well ...
Azeem Kaleem
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Near-Death Experiences and Religious Experience: An Exploration of Spirituality in Medicine
Religions, 2022 There has been a continuous discussion of religious experience since William James, culminating in a rich and varied literature on the epistemology of religious experience in the late twentieth century. There has also been a burgeoning literature on near-
Jonathan Kopel, Mark Webb
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 BackgroundPromoting reflection about death may support better living, and how to carry out death education is an important issue to be addressed across the world. The purpose of the current study was to explore the attitude of heart transplant recipients
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Religious Interpretations of Near-Death Experiences Based on the Teachings of Shia Islam
Religious Inquiries, 2022 Although most philosophers and theologians have simply disregarded the results of more than forty years of scholarly endeavor in near-death experiences (NDEs), many scholars believe that religious teachings have great potentials for explaining different ...
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The Enigmatic Lineaments betwixt Life and Death: Posttraumatic Growth in Thomas Pierce’s The Afterlives (2018) [PDF]
Al-Mağallah Al-ʿilmiyyaẗ Li Kulliyyaẗ Al-Adāb - Ǧāmiʿaẗ Asyūṭ, 2021 Thomas Pierce’s poignant debut novel The Afterlives (2018) premises that God sometimes reincarnates someone in order to give them a second chance – a second chance to ponder life, explore and connect with other people, and question why they exist.
Lobna Mohammed Shaddad
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