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.

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.

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.

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.

Geragogy - the Third Pillar of Education Science

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-91
Author(s):  
Ctibor Határ
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Methodological Basis ◽  
The Third ◽  
Methodical Basis ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Education Science

The present scientific study, mostly of theoretical and methodological nature, is intended to penetrate into the near past (and present) of geragogy as a discipline and analyze briefly the process of creating the constitution and methodology in the area of Europe (with emphasis on the Czech and Slovak and German provenance). Emphasis is also placed on theoretical and methodological basis of the current geragogy, covering the subject of investigation, content, objectives and tasks, science-systemic geragogy anchor being a methodological and methodical basis of senior education in various spheres of their individual and social life.

The pragmatics of humor reception: Young people's responses to a newspaper cartoon

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth El Refaie
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Background Knowledge ◽  
Gay Marriage ◽  
Daily Mail ◽  
Humor Appreciation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
The Individual

AbstractThis paper uses the example of 25 young people's responses to a Daily Mail cartoon on the subject of gay marriage in order to explore the pragmatics of humor reception. The results indicate that the enjoyment of a multimodal joke depends to a large extent on the background knowledge, values and attitudes of the individual. If, for instance, a cartoon is too threatening to someone's core sense of identity, it is likely to create anger and alienation rather than amusement. Humor appreciation is also shown to depend on the broader socio-cultural context in which the cartoon is encountered.

Global Thefts of Biblical Narrative

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald West
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Biblical Narrative ◽  
Biblical Story ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Narratives ◽  
African Experience ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Family Resemblances ◽  
African Perspective ◽  
The Subject

This chapter takes its starting point from the African experience, across a range of African contexts, of Africa as both the subject and object of biblical narrative. When the Bible came to Africa, it came with well-established colonial metanarratives, constructed in part from biblical narratives. These colonial metanarratives were in turn partly reconstructed by the engagement with African others, from both a European and an African perspective along two diverging trajectories, with biblical narrative making a contribution to both. This chapter focuses on the capacity of biblical narrative, biblical story, to be both incorporated into “local” metanarratives and to shape these metanarratives. The contexts that are the focus of this chapter are largely “third world” contexts, across which there are significant family resemblances and important contextual differences.

Was King Scorpion Menes?

Antiquity ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 37 (145) ◽  
pp. 31-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Arkell
Keyword(s):  
Original Publication ◽  
100Th Birthday ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
The Subject

It was Dr Margaret Murray, my predecessor in charge of the Flinders Petrie Collection of Ancient Egyptian Antiquities, whose 100th birthday we look forward to celebrating this year, who encouraged me to re-study as many as possible of the antiquities found at Hierakonpolis; for she holds that the original publication was, as is not surprising, inadequate by modern standards.We have in the Petrie Collection two pieces of large yellow limestone macehead (UCI4898 and 14898A). They have hitherto been considered to belong to the same macehead, being published by Quibell and Green as the first of three great maceheads, of which no. 2 is in Cairo and no. 3 in the Ashmolean at Oxford. It is not surprising that our two fragments should have been thought to have come from the same mace, for the subject of the relief decoration on each is the conquest of the Pigtail people, and both are of yellow limestone. But I am indebted to my artist, Mr W. Masiewicz, who drew FIGS. 1 and 2, for drawing my attention to points indicating that they are not from the same macehead.

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