The near-death experience : a reader /

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Imprint:New York : Routledge, 1996.
Description:x, 409 pages ; 27 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13164672
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Other authors / contributors:Bailey, Lee Worth.
Yates, Jenny L.
ISBN:0415914302
9780415914307
0415914310
9780415914314
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-409).
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Summary:This is the most comprehensive collection of cases and interpretations of near-death experiences (NDEs) ever assembled. A broad range of disciplines are encompassed, including psychology, philosophy and religion.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Light beyond: the experience of almost dying / Raymond Moody
  • 2. Through the light and beyond / Mellen-Thomas Benedict
  • 3. Embraced by the light / Betty Eadie
  • 4. Saved by the light / Dannion Brinkley
  • 5. Unknown well-known near-death experiences / Peter Sellers, Eddie Rickenbacker, Plato, and Black Elk
  • 6. My life after dying / George Ritchie
  • 7. Visions/Life after death / Carl G. Jung
  • 8. On dreams and death / Marie-Louise von Franz
  • 9. Archetype of death and enlightenment / Michael Grosso
  • 10. Being of light: dreaming the vision onward / Jenny Yates
  • 11. Near-death experience: a staircase to heaven / Sogyal Rinpoche
  • 12. Near-death experiences: implications for human evolution / Kenneth Ring
  • 13. Near-death experiences: relevance to the question of survival after death / Ian Stevenson and Bruce Greyson
  • 14. Distressing near-death experiences / Bruce Greyson and Nancy Evans Bush
  • 15. What is not being said about the near-death experience / P.M.H. Atwater
  • 16. Near-death reports: evidence for survival of death / Robert Kastenbaum
  • 17. Neuroscience, ketamine, and the near-death experience: the role of glutamate and the NMDA receptor / Karl Jansen
  • 18. Near-death experiences: in or out of the body / Susan Blackmore
  • 19. Parting visions: a new scientific paradigm / Melvin Morse
  • 20. Who might survive the death of the body / Charles Tart
  • 21. Evaluating near-death testimony / Carol Zaleski
  • 22. Near-death experience and the perennial wisdom / David Lorimer
  • 23. Mysticism and the near-death experience / Judith Cressy
  • 24. No-thing-ness of near-death experiences / Lee W. Bailey.