Category: Case Studies
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How do animals experience end-of-life?
Article: Experiences of Dying Animals: Parallels With End-Of-Life Experiences in Humans.Author(s): Rupert Sheldrake, Pam Smart, Michael Nahm.Journal: Journal of Scientific Exploration.Date published: March 2023Link to full paper (pdf) Author, and researcher Rupert Sheldrake has amassed a collection of anecdotal stories from owners of pets who died. The stories report unusual and intriguing behaviours at the…
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Oh Wow. Oh Wow. Oh Wow.
Final words have had what Karl Rahner refers to as an axiological presence in literature, biographies, and scientific research since Julian of Norwich recognized them as expressions of “preparation of the soul for death and afterlife”. Ontological articulations on the nature of death prompted Leo Tolstoy’s character Ivan Ilych to ask, “So where shall I…
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Podcast: Interview with Raymond Moody
In this podcast from The Monroe Institute, Dr Raymond Moody discusses near-death experiences and the broader topic of consciousness. Dr Moody is an author, psychiatrist, philosopher and physician, and is regarded as being the person who first coined the term near death experience. You can read Dr Moody’s Wikipedia bio, here.
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Four people share their NDE following cardiac arrest.
Paper: Near-death experiences and the change of worldview in survivors of sudden cardiac arrest: A phenomenological and hermeneutical study.Journal: Qualitative Research in Medicine & Healthcare.Year published: 2022Author(s): Hans Zingmark and Aneth Granberg-Axell.Link to full paper (PDF). This is an interesting paper both because it focuses on the common experiences of just four individuals rather than…
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Past life as an incense maker.
Researcher, Erlendur Haraldsson has investigated the case of Purnima, a young Sri Lankan girl who continued to claim past life memories at the age of 9 (an unusually late age for such memories). Purnima was born with a large cluster of hypo-pigmented birthmarks on her left chest wall and over her lower ribs. From the…
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Video interview: William Peters.
Dr William Peters is a psychotherapist, NDE researcher and author of the book “At Heavens Door”. In this interview for thantos TV EN, he discusses Near-death experiences, shared-death experiences and post-death visitations. Here is an excerpt from his book “At Heavens Door” examining the topic of Shared Death Experiences; These shared crossing links take many…