The Phenomenology of Past-life Experiences (Mellen Studies in Psychology S., v. 5)
by Diane S. Winn
Begun in 1994, The Atlanta Study is the first comprehensive investigation of its kind into near-death experiences (NDEs). The study's name hardly captures what lies behind it: life-and-death dramas played out in operating rooms and hospital beds--and simultaneous events unseen by medical personnel but reported with astonishing clarity and conviction by nearly 50 individuals who returned from death's door. Now the founder of The Atlanta Study, Dr. Michael Sabom reveals their impact on the people...
Challenging religious, medical, and psychological explanations of deathbed journeys, Experiences Near Death examines the social dimensions of the near-death experience. Kellehear explores near-death experience around the globe to demonstrate that many experiences thought to be rooted in biology in fact vary widely across many cultures.
From the files of FATE magazine, this is a collection of 144 true ghost stories as told by those who lived them. For the past fifty years, 'My Proof of Survival' has been one of FATE's most popular features. FATE has published some 2,000 personal ghost stories, all attested to be true by their authors. The best of these stories are presented in book form for the first time.
From the age of 7 to the age of 22, Kathie Jordan's deceased brother came to her at night-time, pulled her from her body, and guided her to Heaven. In these night-time journeys, she was taught about the purpose of life in the body, the meaning of death, and about the soul's progress in the afterlife. In these moments out of her body, Kathie is taken to higher and higher levels of Heaven, where she meets and learns from spiritual teachers, including Jesus.
Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand their own mind and to find a spiritual path that is compatible with scienceAs an impressionable young student, Susan Blackmore had an intense, dramatic and life-changing experience, seeming to leave her body and travel the world. With no rational explanation for her out-of-body experience (OBE) she turned to astral projection and the paranormal, but soon despaired of finding answers. Decades later, a Swiss neurosurgeon accidentally discovered th...