Point-of-Transition

2020 ◽  
pp. 124-144
Author(s):  
Peter J. Adams
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Mystical Experience ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
Regular Contact ◽  
Near Death Experience

This chapter provides a third example of an enabling frame based on an intense belief in dying as a transition to some form of afterlife. An intense mystical experience can provide the catalyst for a profound realization that death is not the end of life but a transition into another form of being. Confidence in this belief reduces a person’s fear of death, and regular contact with markers of finitude further strengthens this understanding and reinforces a sense of connection to death as a gateway to the afterlife. This, then, leads on to a discussion of philosophical positions, both pro and anti, regarding life after death and its relationship to what is happening when a person has a near-death experience.

Can Experiences Near Death Furnish Evidence of Life after Death?

2000 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 513-519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Williams Kelly ◽  
Bruce Greyson ◽  
Ian Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
Near Death Experience

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.

scholarly journals On Life After Death: A Chaplain’s View on the Process of Dying

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-51
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Kaldahl
Keyword(s):  
Life After Death ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
Near Death Experience

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross wrote the book On Life After Death to give her findings on what happens when a person dies. Over the course of 20 years, she found that no matter age, sex, religion, or culture, everyone spoke of the same things happening upon death. The insights and revelations that Kubler-Ross talks about will give a minister help when they speak with someone who is dying or has had a near-death experience.

scholarly journals Poems in Prose by I.S. Turgenev: the Cycle’s Title as a Historical Literary Issue

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-15
Author(s):  
Yulia D. Burmistrova
Keyword(s):  
Sequential Analysis ◽  
World View ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Unified Approach ◽  
Foreign Publication ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
French Edition ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Death Experience

The article deals with the I.S. Turgenevs last cycle Poems in prose which title has been changed several times throughout his work on it. The cycle put together the main aspects of writers previous creative works which led to the continuous search for the most suitable title to fully express authors intentions: from the original Posthuma which is focused on the life after death experience to the last Poems in prose which additionally underlines the uniqueness of the form used for Turgenevs last creative work. The study reveals the main theories on the cycles titles and the reasons behind their changes as well as suggests the own vision of the evolution of concepts after death and senile which are seemed to be bound in writers world view. The sequential analysis of the existing cycles titles undertaken in the current research finds the logic of Turgenevs title transformations where the fear of death is gradually replaced by the thoughts of future new life which will be continued beyond the Earth life. The significance of the research lies in the absence of the unified approach to the naming and understanding of the Turgenevs last cycle while the title of the book was considered to change the works perception even by Turgenevs contemporaries. The scientific novelty of the work is added by using the authors French edition of Poems in prose which up until now hasnt been studied properly. It allows to expand the material of the research and look thoroughly into Turgenevs strategy of naming his final cycle which was preserved for the foreign publication as well.

The New Face of Death: Postmodernity and Changing Perspectives of the Afterlife

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond L. M. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Buddhism ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Death Process ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Near Death Experience

Reflections on the near-death experience, the bardo teachings in Tibetan Buddhism, and the relationship between dying and dreaming have made possible many new insights into the death process. The postmodern context in which this knowledge is being disseminated provides an environment conducive to understanding the meaning of self-transformation in life and death. These developments suggest that the denial and fear of death have been an unnecessary distraction in the unfolding of human consciousness.

“I’m not afraid to die”: the loss of the fear of death after a near-death experience

Mortality ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha A. Tassell-Matamua ◽  
Nicole Lindsay
Keyword(s):  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
Near Death Experience

scholarly journals Reading the near-death experience from an African perspective

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jock Agai
Keyword(s):  
Background Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Traditional Beliefs ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
African Perspective ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Afterlife Beliefs ◽  
Near Death Experience

The scientific study of near-death experience (NDE) teaches that NDE does not entail evidence for life after death, but a study of NDE from an African perspective implies that NDE could serve as a yardstick which supports African traditional beliefs concerning death and resurrection. Using references from Ancient-Egyptian afterlife beliefs and those of the Yorubas of Nigeria, I argue that, for Africans, the percipients of NDE did not only come close to death but are regarded as having truly died. The purpose of this research is to initiate an African debate on the subject and to provide background-knowledge about NDE in Africa for counsellors who counsel NDE percipients that are Africans.

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