Paving a New Frontier: Near-Death Experiences and the Unspoken Aspect of What Researchers Have Faced, and Continue to Face

Fracasso, Cheryl

doi:10.14704/nq.2012.10.2.568

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“…In order to do no harm, it is important to maintain an open, nonjudgmental attitude. Those experiencing NDEs have reported reluctance to disclose experiences to health-care providers (Fracasso, 2012;Holden, Kinsey, & Moore, 2014). Professionals who dismiss NDEs as fantasy or hallucinations not only reject survivors' vivid and meaningful experiences that have become a significant part of their personal lives, but may create a path leading to depression or worse (Moody, 1980;Ring, 1984;Walker, 1989).…”

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Burn Survivors’ Near-Death Experiences: A Qualitative Examination

Royse

Badger

2018

Omega (Westport)

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Persons who come close to death but survive catastrophic accidents sometimes report very vivid experiences during times when their survival was in doubt, when they were believed to be dead, and during resuscitation efforts. This qualitative study builds upon existing research on near-death experiences (NDEs) by focusing on the oral accounts from a sample of individuals with large and life-threatening burns. The NDE accounts were obtained from burn survivors attending the Phoenix Society's World Burn Congress and are similar to reports by notable researchers ( Greyson, 2003 ; Moody, 1975 ; Ring, 1980 ) while reflecting the uniqueness of the individual survivor's experiences. Six major themes are reported. Counselors and health professionals need to be aware of and educated about NDEs as these experiences can have profound effects upon the individual. Patients who have had NDEs may need to discuss them but fear professionals will reject their stories as being crazy.

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Burn Survivors’ Near-Death Experiences: A Qualitative Examination

Royse

Badger

2018

Omega (Westport)

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“…This viewpoint has been challenged by research findings on PSI (Achterberg et al, 2005;Sidorov et al, 2013;Scott et al, 2015;Radin et al, 2015;Radin et al, 2016;Walach et al, 2016;Jr. Daher et al, 2017;Schwartz, 2017) and near death experiences (NDEs) (Fracasso and Friedman, 2011;van Lommel, 2011;Fracasso, 2012;Haesler and Beauregard, 2013;Parnia, 2014;Craffert, 2015;Lake, 2016;Gaiseanu, 2017;, which suggest that consciousness may exist independently of one's body and function in a non-local way.…”

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Consciousness is an Entity with Entangled States: Correlating the Measurement Problem with Non-Local Consciousness

Liang

2018

Neuroquantology

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The difficulty in solving the measurement problem may derive from a lack of thorough understanding of the nature of consciousness. Recent findings from parapsychological research and confirmed reports of veridical perceptions during near death experiences (NDEs) show that consciousness can acquire non-local information and may act as an independent entity outside of the body. But how apparent nonlocal properties of consciousness correlate with the measurement problem is unclear. Starting from the assumption that discrete states of consciousness are entangled with corresponding superposed eigenstates of an observed system, the findings of the double-slit experiment and delayed-choice quantum eraser experiment are reanalyzed and the non-locality of consciousness entity is derived from first principles. I propose experimental designs aimed at testing non-local entanglement between multiple consciousness entities that may help explain anomalous phenomena including telepathy, the role of "which-path information" in a measurement, and the nature of consciousness in non-human animals. Finally, I discuss the origin of the perception of time and the relationship between time and consciousness.

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Almost 40 Years Investigating Near-Death Experiences

Sleutjes¹,

Moreira‐Almeida²,

Greyson³

2014

Journal of Nervous &Amp; Mental Disease

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This article reviews mainstream scientific publications on near-death experiences (NDEs). We searched near-death experience in titles, key words, and abstracts at the Web of Knowledge database published between 1945 and 2013. We identified 266 relevant documents, the oldest from 1977. There was a strong predominance of opinion articles (book reviews, commentaries, and editorials), review articles, phenomenological description articles, and articles that originated in the United States. Since 2000, the number of longitudinal and cross-sectional studies has increased; there has been a diversification in the countries that have published on the subject and more articles that discuss the implications of NDEs for the mind-brain relationship. The results indicate that most scholarly publications on NDEs are recent, usually have no original empirical data, and are concentrated in North America and Western Europe. Future studies should focus on increasing the cultural diversity in the field and on testing explanatory hypotheses based on high-quality empirical data.

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Paving a New Frontier: Near-Death Experiences and the Unspoken Aspect of What Researchers Have Faced, and Continue to Face

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

Burn Survivors’ Near-Death Experiences: A Qualitative Examination

Burn Survivors’ Near-Death Experiences: A Qualitative Examination

Consciousness is an Entity with Entangled States: Correlating the Measurement Problem with Non-Local Consciousness

Almost 40 Years Investigating Near-Death Experiences

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