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Guest Editorial: The Search for Muslim Near-Death Experiences
Abstract: Given the dearth of Muslim near-death experiences (NDEs) in the literature, I decided to take advantage of my contacts in the Muslim community to find more of this material. After advertising unsuccessfully in both traditional media and Internet groups, I recruited a student resident of Pakistan who had considerable contacts and help there to visit the area of a major earthquake in the Kashmir area in the hope that this would be a fertile terrain to find additional NDE accounts. Once again the results were disappointing. I conclude that NDEs are specifically designed for people who need them, and the need in certain communities may not be as great because of the persistence of traditional faith in an afterlife and a Creator.
Letter to the Editor: Response to Review of The Big Book of Near-Death Experiences
Letter from Yvonne Kason to the editor responding to a review of a recently published book, and providing an explanation for its title.
Book Review: The Natural Soul
Review of a book titled "The Natural Soul" written by Barbara Harris Whitfield.
Terminal Lucidity in People with Mental Illness and Other Mental Disability: An Overview and Implications for Possible Explanatory Models
Abstract: The literature concerned with experiences of the dying contains numerous accounts reporting the sudden return of mental clarity shortly before death. These experiences can be described as Terminal Lucidity (TL). The most peculiar cases concern patients suffering from mental disability including mental illness or dementia. Despite the potential relevance of TL for developing new forms of therapies and for elaborating an improved understanding of the nature of human consciousness, very little has been published on this subject. In this paper I present a historical overview and selected case reports of TL of mentally ill or otherwise disabled patients, mainly drawing on the literature available in English and in German. Possible explanatory models of TL and their implications are discussed.
Letter to the Editor: Response to "Did Emanuel Swedenborg Have Near-Death Experiences?"
Letter written to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies responding to the article, "Did Emanuel Swedenborg Have Near-Death Experiences? Envisioning a Developmental Account of NDEs" by Jones and Ferneyhough.
Editor's Foreword [Winter 2009]
Editorial statement introducing the contents of the journal issue and providing other relevant notes.
Letter to the Editor: U.S. Release of Farther Shores
Letter written to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies regarding the first U. S. publication of Yvonne Kason's book, "Farther Shores: Exploring how Near-Death, Kundalini and Mystical Experiences Can Transform Ordinary Lives."
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