Phenomenological Quantification of an Out-of-the-Body Experience Associated with a Near-Death Event

1991 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward A. Maitz ◽  
Ronald J. Pekala
Keyword(s):  
Research Design ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Experience ◽  
Eyes Closed ◽  
Single Person ◽  
Death Event ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Near Death Experience

This article briefly describes the phenomenological reports of individuals who have survived a near-death experience (NDE) and summarizes the methodological problems of assessing and defining their experience, specifically the out-of-the-body (OBE) experience associated with an NDE. The authors, using a single-person research design, offer one approach to quantifying the OBE associated with an NDE. They administered the Phenomenology of Consciousness Inventory (PCI) and the Dimensions of Attention Questionnaire (DAQ) to one participant across several stimulus conditions including: hypnosis, resting with eyes closed, recollection of an out-of-the-body experience, and recollection of the out-of-the-body experience during hypnotic regression. Similarities and differences among the participant's experiences associated with these stimulus conditions are discussed.

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 Physical Interpretation of Mind

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ananta
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Physical Interpretation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Extended Time ◽  
Sharp Line ◽  
The World ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
Mind And Brain ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Near Death Experience

To draw a sharp line between mind and brain is very difficult task. Function of brain is more or less understood. But when it comes to mind, very less is studied and known. My approach in investigating the mind is based on the fact that if something exists then it must have its impact on the world we are living in, may be in some form of sign. My investigation is based on some questions which I think is related to mind. Why don’t we feel our weight? Why don’t we feel taste of food if the tongue is kept hold? When we are weak, say when we have fever, why does the dream become so vivid? Why images get distorted when gaze at it for extended time? I think brain is not related to these questions. Therefore there must be some agent in our body which can be related to these questions. In addition to these, the mental disorder like, some people have habit of moving the body or closing the eye tightly etc is also related to the mind. To investigate the mind I have taken some ideas from dream, meditation, reincarnation and near death experience.

Revelation in Near-Death Experience

2021 ◽  
pp. 536-551
Author(s):  
Gregory Shushan
Keyword(s):  
Life Review ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
The Body ◽  
Religious Experiences ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Near Death Experiences ◽  
Near Death Experience

Accounts of near-death experiences (NDEs) across cultures often include claims of encounters with deities or spirits who impart information to the experiencer. Other accounts involve the experiencer obtaining knowledge by other means, without the assistance of a non-human supernatural being. While some cases involve deceased relatives, the most significant factor in others might be the soul’s perceptions of the body from a vantage point outside it, seeing or travelling to other realms, having a panoramic life review, encountering the soul of a person not previously known to have died, having prophetic visions, or more generalized impressions of universal understanding and/or union. In all these senses, NDEs can be seen as revelatory experiences, with profound information being conveyed to the individual through ostensibly mystical or ‘religious’ experiences.

The Perceived Other World in Mormon Near-Death Experiences: A Social and Physical Description

1982 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 319-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig R. Lundahl
Keyword(s):  
Social Stratification ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Physical Description ◽  
The Social ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
Other World ◽  
Near Death Experiences ◽  
Near Death Experience

During the past decade, behavioral and medical scientists have compiled an increasing amount of scientific work on the aspect of death known as the near-death experience. Investigators have found over 100 cases of near-death experience where persons have encountered another realm or mode of existence. This paper describes the perceived other world based on a limited number of insightful cases of Mormon near-death experiences. The social system of the other world is very organized and based on a moral order. The basic societal unit is the family. The other world has a system of social stratification and its most important desirable is morality. Social control processes are also evident in the other world. The Mormon findings suggest that a tremendous process of socialization is being undertaken there. The Mormon descriptions suggest the other world is vast and located near the earth. It contains buildings that are better constructed than the buildings on earth and landscape and vegetation “indescribably beautiful.” New powers and capabilities are experienced in the body form of the other world, and there are various styles of dress. The influence of the Mormon frame of reference on the findings is discussed.

Beyond the Theories

2019 ◽  
pp. 235-268
Author(s):  
John C. Gibbs
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
The Body ◽  
Moral Life ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Near Death Experience

This chapter goes beyond Kohlberg’s, Hoffman’s, and Haidt’s theories to consider the question of a deeper reality. As noted, Kohlberg argued that existential thinkers in their soul-searching sometimes come to see their earthly moral life from an inspiring “cosmic perspective.” Perhaps such a reality can be glimpsed not only through existential crises, but also through physically life-threatening ones. Accordingly, this chapter studies cases of persons who have had a so-called near-death experience (“When some people come close to death, they go through a profound experience that may include a sense of leaving the body and entering some other realm or dimension” [Greyson]). A review of the literature—especially, recent medical research literature—suggests that the experience entails a transcendent significance congruent with Kohlberg’s cosmic perspective. In this light, “growing beyond the superficial” and “taking the perspectives of others” take on radical new meaning.

scholarly journals Formation of the Affective-Cognitive Representation of Body in the Context of Psychosomatic Development

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Y. Chebakova ◽  
R.R. Kharisova ◽  
D. Komolov ◽  
S.N. Enikolopov
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Body Representation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cognitive Representation ◽  
Body Experience ◽  
Cognitive Representations ◽  
Cognitive Components ◽  
Parent Relationships ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Psychic System

The article describes the phenomenology of health groups, substantiates the possibility of determining the psychosomatic ontogenesis as the formation of affective and cognitive representations of parts of the body in an integrated, systematic intra-psychic system from the perspective of cultural-historical approach and psychoanalytic theory to the study of the specificity of the reflection body experience. The paper presents analysis of the stages’ the forming a representation of the body, the main elements of its affective and cognitive components. Discusses the theoretical and methodological problems of the dynamics of affective and cognitive representation of the body in children and adolescents with various health groups. The problem of psychosomatic dysontogenesis viewed from the perspective of deconstruction and imbalance affective-cognitive components of body representation, as well as factors of child-parent relationships and its role in the formation of a detainee psychosomatic development.

Sky Ops Surprise

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-34
Author(s):  
Shawna Malvini Redden
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Traumatic Events ◽  
Focus Attention ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Commercial Aviation ◽  
Critical Commentary ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
Near Death Experience

Invoking the styling of classic spy stories, this essay provides an account of a commercial aviation emergency landing that blew the agent/author's “cover” as a full participant ethnographer. Using an experimental autoethnographic format, the piece offers an evocative portrayal of a perceived near-death experience and its aftermath, as well as critical commentary on writing autoethnography with a fictionalized framing. In the closing “debrief,” the author sheds her agent persona to describe the process of writing about traumatic events and to analyze how those events focus attention on methodological and ethical considerations for qualitative research.

Hubungan Religiusitas dengan Citra Tubuh pada Wanita Dewasa Awal

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-28
Author(s):  
Dessy Sumanty ◽  
Deden Sudirman ◽  
Diah Puspasari
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Correlation Coefficient ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Calculation Result ◽  
The Body ◽  
Statistical Testing ◽  
P Value ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
Correlational Research

This research attempts to relate the body image phenomenon with the level of subject religiosity. This research used correlational research design that was involving 332 respondents. The statistical testing which is used to test the hypothesis Rank Spearman. The calculation result with the significance level of trust 95% (a = 0.05) show that the correlation coefficient is 0.083 and p-value is 0.129. It means that Ho is accepted and H1 is rejected. It can be concluded that there is no relationship between religiosity with body image.

Body balance in a free-standing position in road and off-road cyclists

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulina Hebisz ◽  
Rafal Hebisz ◽  
Marek Zaton
Keyword(s):  
Sagittal Plane ◽  
Standing Position ◽  
The Body ◽  
Free Standing ◽  
Body Balance ◽  
Eyes Closed ◽  
Road Cycling ◽  
Progressive Exercise ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Road Cyclists

AbstractBackground: The purpose of this study was to compare body balance in road and off-road cyclists, immediately before and after the racing season.Material/Methods: Twenty individuals participated in the study and they were divided into two groups: specialists in road-cycling (n = 10) and in off-road cycling (n = 10). Immediately before and after the five-month racing season stabilographic trials were carried out (at rest and after progressive exercise). In assessing body balance the distance and velocity of the centre shifts (in the anterior-posterior and left-right direction) were analysed. The tests were performed with the cyclists’ eyes open, eyes closed, and in feedback.Results: After the racing season, in the off-road cyclists’ group, distance and velocity of the centre of pressure shifts increased after a progressive exercise.Conclusions: In the off-road cyclists’ group the balance of the body in the sagittal plane deteriorated after the racing season. Moreover, after the racing season off-road cyclists were characterized by a worse balance of the body, compared to road cyclists

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