Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience (49 page)

12. M. Grey,
Return from Death: An Exploration of the Near-Death Experience
(London: Arkana, 1985).

13. Opdebeeck,
Bijna dood
[Nearly Dead].

14. Ring,
Heading Toward Omega.

15. C. Musgrave, “A Study of Spiritual Transformation,”
Journal of Near-Death Studies
15, no. 3 (1997): 187–201.

16. Sutherland,
Transformed by the Light,
94.

17. J. Becker and J. de Hart,
Godsdienstige veranderingen in Nederland
[Religious Change in the Netherlands], Werkdocument 128, Sociaal Cultureel Planbureau (2006). At present, 18 percent of churchgoing people in the Netherlands are Roman Catholic, 8 percent Dutch Reformed, 7 percent Reformed, and 4 percent Muslim.

18. Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life,
U.S. Religion Landscape Survey
(2007), http://www.religions.pewforum.org; Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life,
Many Americans Mix Multiple Faiths
(2009), http://pewforum.org/newassets/images/reports/multiplefaiths/multiplefaiths.pdf; F. A. Curlin, J. D. Lantos, C. J. Roach, and S. A. Sellergren, “Religious Characteristics of U.S. Physicians,”
Journal of General Internal Medicine
20, no. 7 (2005): 629–34. In the United Kingdom only 1.0 percent of people are Hindu, 0.6 percent Sikh, 0.5 percent Jewish, and 0.3 percent Buddhist; see V. Crabtree, “Religion in the United Kingdom: Diversity, Trends and Decline” (2007), www.vexen.co.uk/UK/religion.html.

19. Sutherland,
Transformed by the Light,
101.

20. Opdebeeck,
Bijna dood
[Nearly Dead]; P. Sartori, P. Badham, and P. Fenwick, “A Prospectively Studied Near-Death Experience with Corroborated out-of-body Perception and Unexplained Healing,”
Journal of Near-Death Studies
25, no. 2 (2006): 69–84.

21. Ring,
Heading Toward Omega;
Sutherland,
Transformed by the Light.

22. Sutherland,
Transformed by the Light,
116.

23. Sutherland,
Transformed by the Light.

24. Corbeau, “Psychische problematiek en hulpverlening” [Psychological problems and support].

25. Corbeau, “Psychische problematiek”.

26. N. E. Bush, “Is Ten Years a Life Review?”
Journal of Near-Death Studies
10 (1991): 5–9.

27. Greyson and Harris, “Clinical Approaches.”

28. Greyson, “Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms.”

29. B. Greyson, “Near-Death Experiences and Antisuicidal Attitudes,”
Omega
26 (1992–1993): 81–89; Bush, “Life Review.”

30. Corbeau, “Psychische problematiek en hulpverlening” [Psychological problems and support].

31. P. van Lommel et al, “Near-Death Experiences in Survivors of Cardiac Arrest: A Prospective Study in the Netherlands,”
Lancet
358 (2001): 2039–45; Ring,
Heading Toward Omega.

32. As mentioned in the introduction, approximately 72 percent to 74 percent of the U.S. population believes in life after death; in the United Kingdom about 58 percent of the people believe in an afterlife, and 40 to 50 percent of the Dutch population believes in some form of life after death.

Chapter 4: Near-Death Experiences in Childhood

1. M. Morse and P. Perry,
Closer to the Light
(New York: Villard Books 1990).

2. P. M. H. Atwater,
The New Children and Near-Death Experiences
(Rochester, VT: Bear & Company, 2003).

3. Atwater,
New Children.

4. Atwater,
New Children;
Morse and Perry,
Closer to the Light.

5. Atwater,
New Children.

6. Atwater,
New Children.

7. Atwater,
New Children.

8. For the Dutch study, see D. J. Bierman and R. van Wees, “Buitengewone ervaringen, andere bewustzijnsvormen en persoonlijkheid” [Extraordinary Experiences, Other Forms of Consciousness, and Personality],
Tijdschrift voor Parapsychologie
[
Journal of Parapsychology
] 60 (1993): 51–72. For the American study, see J. Palmer, “A Community Mail Survey of Psychic Experiences,”
Journal of the American Society of Psychical Research
73 (1979): 221–51.

9. K. Ring,
The Omega Project: Near-Death Experiences, UFO Encounters, and Mind at Large
(New York: William Morrow, 1992).

Chapter 5: There Is Nothing New Under the Sun

1. J. Fletcher,
The Egyptian Book of Living and Dying
(London: Duncan Baird Publishers, 2002).

2. J. Mishlove,
The Roots of Consciousness: The Classic Encyclopedia of Consciousness Studies Revised and Expanded
(Tulsa, OK: Oak Council Books, 1993).

3. J. Caesar,
The Gallic Wars,
trans. W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn, http://classics.mit.edu/Caesar/gallic.6.6.html. Also see R. E. Mellor,
The Historians of Ancient Rome: An Anthology of the Major Writings,
2nd ed. (New York: Routledge, 2004).

4. Ovid,
Metamorphoses,
trans. Samuel Garth, http://etext.virginia.edu/latin/ovid/garthl.html.

5. W. H. Huffman,
Robert Fludd and the End of the Renaissance
(London and New York: Routledge, 1988).

6. Dante Alighieri,
The Divine Comedy,
trans. A. S. Kline, http://www.poetryintranslation.com/klineasdante.htm.

7. E. Swedenborg,
Awaken from Death,
ed. James F. Lawrence (San Francisco: J. Appleseed, 1993).

8. A. Besant,
Death—and After?
(1906; repr., Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, 1998), http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18266; R. Steiner,
Der Tod als Lebenswandlung
(Dornach, Switzerland: Rudolf Steiner Gesamtausgabe, 1917/18), translated by S. Seiler as
Death as Metamorphosis of Life
by S. Seiler (New York: Steinerbooks, 2008); A. A. Bailey,
Death: The Great Adventure
(New York: Lucis Trust, 1992); E. Byskov,
Death Is an Illusion: A Logical Explanation Based on Martinus’ Worldview
(St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 2002).

9.
The Upanishads,
trans. E. Easwaran, ed. M. N. Nagler (Tomales, CA: Nilgiri Press, 2006); J. Mascoró,
The Upanishads
(London and New York: Penguin Classics, 1965).

10. Swami Rama,
Sacred Journey: Living Purposefully and Dying Gracefully
(New Delhi: Himalayan International Institute of Yoga Science & Philosophy, 1996).

11. W. Y. Evans-Wentz,
The Tibetan Book of the Dead, or The after-death experiences on the Bardo plane, according to Lâma Kazi Dawa-Samdup’s English rendering
, with foreword by Sir John Woodroffe (London: H. Milford, 1927, and London: Oxford University Press, 1971), 98ff.

12. Evans-Wentz,
Tibetan Book of the Dead.

13. Sogyal Rinpoche,
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
(San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992), 357, 364.

14. Plato,
Phaedo
, trans. Benjamin Jowett, http://philosophy.eserver.org/plato/phaedo.txt.

15. Mishlove,
Roots of Consciousness.

16. S. P. Raphael,
Jewish Views of the Afterlife
(Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1994), 395–96.

17. L. D. Solomon,
The Jewish Book of Living and Dying
(Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1999).

18. Mishlove,
Roots of Consciousness;
Raphael,
Jewish Views.

19.
The Holy Qur’an,
trans. Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Wordsworth Classics of World Literature (Ware, UK. Wordsworth Editions Limited, 2000).

20. B. Coppes,
Bijna dood ervaringen en wereldreligies: Getuigenis van universele waarheid
[Near-Death Experiences and World Religions: Testimony of Universal Truth] (Soesterberg, the Netherlands: Aspekt, 2006); P. Badham and L. Badham,
Death and Immortality in the Religions of the World
(New York: Paragon House, 1987); J. C. Hampe,
Sterben ist doch ganz anders: Erfahrungen mit dem eigenen Tod
(Stuttgart, Germany: Kreuz Verlag, 1975), translated as
To Die Is Gain: The Experience of One’s Own Death
(Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1979); M. Fox,
Religion, Spirituality and the Near-Death Experience
(London and New York: Routledge, 2003); H. Küng,
Ewiges Leben?
[Eternal Life?] (Munich: Piper, 1982).

21. C. Zaleski,
Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near-Death Experience in Medieval and Modern Times
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987); M. A. van der Sluijs, “Three Ancient Reports of Near-Death Experiences: Bremmer Revisited,”
Journal of Near-Death Studies
27, no. 4 (2009): 223–53.

22. Plato,
The Republic,
trans. Benjamin Jowett, http://philosophy.eserver.org/plato/republic.txt.

23. B. Colgrave and R. A. B. Mynors, eds.,
Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People
(1969; repr., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991), 284–89.

24. G. G. Ritchie,
Return from Tomorrow
(Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1978).

25. F. Beaufort, “Letter to Dr. W. Hyde Wollaston,”
An Autobiographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow
(London: John Murray, 1847), 398–403.

26. A. B. Boismont,
On Hallucinations,
trans. R. T. Hulme (London: Henry Renshaw, 1859).

27. F. W. H. Myers, “On Indications of Continued Terrene Knowledge on the Part of Phantasms of the Dead,”
Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research
8 (1892): 170–252.

Chapter 6: Research into Near-Death Experiences

1. E. Kübler-Ross,
On Death and Dying
(New York: Macmillan, 1969); R. A. Moody Jr.,
Life After Life
(Covington, GA: Mockingbird Books, 1975).

2. A. von St. Gallen Heim, “Notizen über den Tod durch Absturz,” trans. R. Noyes and R. Kletti as “The Experience of Dying from Falls,”
Jahrbuch des Schweizer Alpenclub
[Yearbook of the Swiss Alpine Club] 27 (1892): 46.

3. Data from International Association of Near-Death Studies: http://www.iands.org.

4. G. Gallup and W. Proctor,
Adventures in Immortality: A Look Beyond the Threshold of Death
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982); I. Schmied, H. Knoblaub, and B. Schnettler, “Todesnäheerfahrungen in Ost- und Westdeutschland: Ein empirische Untersuchung” [Near-Death Experiences in East and West Germany: An Empirical Study], in
Todesnähe: Interdisziplinäre Zugänge zu einem außergewöhnlichen Phänomen
[Near-Death: Interdisciplinary Approaches to an Extraordinary Phenomenon], ed. H. Knoblaub and H. G. Soeffner, 65–99 (Konstanz, Germany: Universitätsverlag, 1999).

5. B. Greyson, “The Incidence of Near-Death Experiences,”
Medicine and Psychiatry
1 (1998): 92–99; P. van Lommel et al., “Near-Death Experiences in Survivors of Cardiac Arrest: A Prospective Study in the Netherlands,”
Lancet
358 (2001): 2039–45; B. Greyson, “Incidence and Correlates of Near-Death-Experiences in a Cardiac Care Unit,”
General Hospital Psychiatry
25 (2003): 269–76; S. Parnia et al., “A Qualitative and Quantitative Study of the Incidence, Features and Aetiology of Near-Death Experiences in Cardiac Arrest Survivors,”
Resuscitation
48 (2001): 149–56.