Can Experiences Near Death Furnish Evidence of Life after Death

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13629372
AutoresEmily Williams Kelly (University of Virginia, autor de correspondencia), Bruce Greyson (0000-0002-2192-7898, University of Virginia), Ian Stevenson (0000-0002-6920-3573, University of Virginia)
Año2000
Volumen40
Número4
Páginas513-519
Fecha de publicación2000-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2190/kntm-6r07-ltvt-mc6k
OpenAlexW2102021021
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas9

Most people who have a near-death experience (NDE) say that the experience convinced them that they will survive death. People who have not had such an experience, however, may not share this conviction. Although all features of NDEs, when looked at alone, might be explained in ways other than survival, there are three features in particular that we believe suggest the possibility of survival, especially when they all occur in the same experience. These features are: enhanced mental processes at a time when physiological functioning is seriously impaired; the experience of being out of the body and viewing events going on around it as from a position above; and the awareness of remote events not accessible to the person's ordinary senses. We briefly report one such case, and we also briefly describe two additional such cases in which the remote events apparently seen were verified by other persons

Cognitive psychology · Conviction · Political science · Functional Brain Connectivity Studies · Law · Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs · Psychology · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments · Social Psychology