scholarly journals Psychic phenomena following near-death experiences: An Australian study

1988 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cherie Sutherland
Keyword(s):  
Australian Study ◽  
Near Death Experiences

The Neurophysiology of Near-Death Experiences

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sage Schuitevoerder ◽  
Giovanni Sosa
Keyword(s):  
Near Death Experiences

Near-Death Experiences and the Religious Metacultures of Western Modernity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Schlieter
Keyword(s):  
Moral Significance ◽  
Western Modernity ◽  
Religious Meaning ◽  
Near Death Experiences ◽  
Being Religious

Building on earlier conceptions of “metacultures,” this chapter defines four metacultures that are important for Western near-death discourse: Christian, Gnostic–Esoteric, and the Spiritualist–Occult, being religious in outlook; the fourth, however, the Naturalist metaculture, is of a nonreligious nature. The three former metacultures assign religious meaning to the content of near-death experiences, affirming by and large the soul’s survival of death. The chapter argues that this meaning has (a) ontological, (b) epistemic, (c) intersubjective or communicative, and (d) moral significance. Naturalist metaculture is defined as offering pharmacological, neurological, or psychological explanations of near-death experiences, usually declaring their content to be hallucinatory.

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