Did Emanuel Swedenborg Have Near-Death Experiences? Envisioning a Developmental Account of NDEs
Description:
Article examining the phenomenological commonalities between Emanuel Swedenborg's experiences and near-death experiences (NDEs). It argues that a distal cause of Swedenborg's experiences was neural changes induced by his lifetime of unusual respiration, in conjunction with a predisposition to temporal lobe seizures. It concludes by proposing a number of empirically testable hypotheses emerging from the arguments, centered around a developmental approach to NDEs.
Date:
Spring 2009
Creator:
Jones, Simon R. & Fernyhough, Charles