| Description |
x, 409 pages ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [403]-409). |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Near-death experiences.
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Near-death experiences -- Religious aspects.
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Attitude to Death.
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Death.
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| Added Author |
Bailey, Lee Worth.
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Yates, Jenny L.
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| ISBN |
0415914302 cloth alkaline paper |
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0415914310 paperback alkaline paper |
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