The Near-Death Experience - A Reader

The Near Death Experience: A Reader is the most comprehensive collection of NDE cases and interpretations ever assembled. This book encompasses a broad range of disciplines: psychological researchers discuss cognitive models and Jungian theories of meaningful archetypal phenomena; the biological perspectivedescribes how brains near death may produce soothing endorphins, optical illusions, and convincing hallucinations.

List of contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 The Light Beyond, Raymond Moody; Chapter 2 Through the Light and Beyond, Mellen-Thomas Benedict; Chapter 3 Embraced by the Light, Betty Eadie; Chapter 4 Saved by the Light, Dannion Brinkley; Chapter 5 Unknown Well-Known Near-Death Experiences, Lee W. Bailey; Chapter 6 My Life After Dying, George Ritchie; Chapter 7 Visions/Life After Death, Cari G. Jung; Chapter 10 Being of Light, Jenny Yates; Chapter 11 The Near-Death Experience, Sogyal Rinpoche; Chapter 14 Distressing Near-Death Experiences, Bruce Greyson, Nancy Evans Bush; Chapter 15 What Is Not Being Said About the Near-Death Experience, P. M. H. Atwater; Chapter 16 Near-Death Reports, Robert Kastenbaum; Chapter 18 Near-Death Experiences, Susan Blackmore; Chapter 19 Parting Visions, Melvin Morse; Chapter 20 Who Might Survive the Death of the Body?, Charles Tart; Chapter 23 Mysticism and the Near-Death Experience, Judith Cressy; Chapter 24 The No-Thing-ness of Near-Death Experiences, Lee W. Bailey; Bibliography;

Summary

Including primary sources and a range of interpretive articles The Near-Death Experience: A Reader emphasizes multiple approaches to the study of NDEs, examining religious, scientific and psychological perspectives and implications.

Product details

• Assisted by: Lee W Bailey (Editor), Lee W. Bailey (Editor), Bailey Lee W. (Editor), Jenny Yates (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.06.1996
• EAN: 9780415914307
• ISBN: 978-0-415-91430-7
• No. of pages: 420
• Weight: 940 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Cultural Studies, RELIGION / General, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Afterlife & Reincarnation, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Religion: general, Psychology: states of consciousness, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: Death & Dying, The afterlife, reincarnation and past lives