A Near-Death Experience in a 7-Year-Old Child

Morse, M. L.

doi:10.1001/archpedi.1983.02140360023008

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“…This is particularly evident in the advanced cognitive reasoning expressed by Lisa at the age of 4. This type of precocious cognitive development revealed in NDEs during childhood or even at birth has been noted in previous reports (Morse, 1983;Morse, Castillo, Venecia, Milstein, and Tyler, 1986;Serdahely, 1989-90;Serdahely and Walker, 1990).…”

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confidence: 79%

Three near-death experiences with premonitions of what could have been

1991

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ABSTRACT:We analyze three near-death experiences involving a unique type of prophetic vision that has not previously been reported in the literature. These visions involve a brief glimpse of what circumstances would have been like for the near-death experiencers' family in the aftermath of the experi encers' deaths, had they actually died.Prophecy has long been a popular theme related to death and dying. During the past decade Kenneth Ring and others have reported on a small number of anecdotal cases dealing with two relatively uncom mon aspects of the near-death experience: the personal flashforward and the prophetic vision (Audette,

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 79%

Three near-death experiences with premonitions of what could have been

1991

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“…Melvin Morse's first article on NDEs described the NDE of 7-year-old Kristle who is met by Elizabeth while in the tunnel. Kristle later described Elizabeth as her guardian angel (Morse, 1983;Morse and Perry, 1990).…”

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Similarities between near-death experiences and multiple personality disorder

Serdahely

1992

J Near-Death Stud

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ABSTRA CT: In this paper I compare the phenomenology of near-death expe riences to that of multiple personality disorder. The comparison reveals a number of similarities, including out-of-body experiences, the transcendental environment, encounter with the higher self, possible temporal lobe involve ment, and antecedent child abuse. Rather than being disparate and unrelated experiences, I suggest that the near-death experience and multiple personality disorder may be variants of the same basic phenomenological pattern.Recently two psychotherapists independently referred adult clients to me who had had near-death experiences (NDEs) as children. I was told the first client had had an NDE when she was 3 or 4 years old because of an uncle's sexual abuse and that she was currently being treated for multiple personality disorder (MPD). The second client believed she had an NDE when she was about 6 months old, and she revealed her MPD during our interview about her near-death experi ence. Thus began my inquiry into similarities between NDEs and MPD.

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“…In addition, Morse (1983) has reported a case of a 7-year-old girl who also had a Stage 5 light experience. Morse, Castillo, Venecia, Milstein, and Tyler (1986) noted that the pediatric NDEs they studied lacked (a) transcendent feelings, (b) a life review, and (c) time alteration.…”

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Pediatric near-death experiences

Serdahely

1990

J Near-Death Stud

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A review of one previously reported and three new pediatric near-death experiences (NDEs), in which the experiencers were interviewed as children, suggests that the childhood core NDE as described by Melvin Morse and colleagues may be expanded to include feeling pain-free, seeing a light at the tunnel's end, entering the light, and time alteration. These cases also suggest that the life review may be a function of chronological age.A paucity of pediatric near-death experience (NDE) cases, in which these experiences are reported by children and adolescents rather than retrospectively by adults, exists in the literature. At the time of the publication of my first pediatric case (Serdahely, 1989(Serdahely, -1990, fewer than 20 pediatric cases in the above sense of the word had been published.Besides the subject of my previous publication, who was 8 years old at the time he was interviewed about his NDE, three additional and previously unpublished cases have come to my attention. One is the NDE of a girl who was 12 years old when she was interviewed; another is that of an adolescent girl who was 17% years old when she described her NDE to me; and the third is the NDE of a boy who was 9 years old when he recounted his NDE.I describe below the pediatric NDEs of these youngsters. Realizing that I am dealng with a very small sample, I will then compare the tentative findings from this pediatric sample with those presented in the pediatric NDE literature.

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A Near-Death Experience in a 7-Year-Old Child

Cited by 23 publications

References 12 publications

Three near-death experiences with premonitions of what could have been

Three near-death experiences with premonitions of what could have been

Similarities between near-death experiences and multiple personality disorder

Pediatric near-death experiences

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