…(2021). An encounter with the other: a thematic and content analysis of the DMT experience from a naturalistic field study. Frontiers in Psychology 12, 720717. Pascal, M., Luke, D., & Robinson, O. (2023). An encounter with the self: a thematic and content analysis of the DMT experience from a naturalistic…
…death” spectrum… are the same experience.’7Charland-Verville et al. (2014). Sociologist Allan Kellehear observed that NDEs are a ‘regularly occurring social experience encountered by many people in a variety of settings other than illness.’8Kellehear (1996), 43, (emphasis in original). This is of particular importance with dNDEs, as it detaches the experience…
…Los Angeles Times, Science and Nature, and wrote a monthly column entitled Skeptic for Scientific American from April 2001 to January 2019. Shermer has also appeared on TV shows including 20/20, Dateline, Charlie Rose, Oprah, and Larry King Live, and been interviewed in many documentaries aired on educational TV channels…
Reincarnation cases with intervals between lives (intermissions) of under nine months mean that the returning soul or consciousness has joined the body after conception. This raises questions about when exactly reincarnation occurs, whether displacement of consciousness in utero is possible, and how such cases relate to possession. Investigators found intervals…
In replacement reincarnation, a person recalls being someone who died after he or she was born. These cases have been called anomalous-date cases, possession, and parakaya pravesh, a Sanskrit term indicating a wandering spirit that takes possession of a living body. Unlike the New Age concept of walk-ins, replacement reincarnation…
…letter having an accurate premonition of encountering an unexpected friend in a valley.161Prince (1928). Gardner Murphy (1895–1979), president of the American Psychological Association and of the Society for Psychical Research,162See here. wrote extensively on human potentials and on psi.163Murphy (1961). (See article) Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich (1880–1949), psychologist and philosopher, professor…
…Cases Without Past-Life Documentation Dilukshi Nissanka (Sri Lanka)* Dilukshi Nissanka’s claim to remember having died by drowning when she fell into a stream was documented initially in a letter to the abbot of a rock temple, who tried to verify the memories. When he encountered difficulties, he contacted a journalist…
…due to Ryan’s late talking, which allowed them to remain in his mind with minimal competition from present life activities. Rylann O’Bannion This is another extraordinary case, investigated by James Matlock and reported in Signs of Reincarnation in 2019. Rylann appeared in an episode of the television programme Ghost Inside…
…processes and distortions in the sense of time); changes in affective processes (such as intense feelings of peace and joy); paranormal processes (such as a sense of leaving the physical body and being aware of events at a distance from the body); and experiences of transcendence (such as encounters with…
