UNT Libraries - 57 Matching Results

Search Results

Results: 1 - 24 next
open access

After-math: Counting the Aftereffects of Potentially Spiritually Transformative Experiences

Description: Abstract: This article provides a summary of current literature regarding the nature of spiritual development, types of potentially spiritually transformative experiences (pSTEs), and both short- and long-term aftereffects of pSTEs— biological, psychological, spiritual, and social. The author concludes that in the aftermath of pSTEs, experiencers, their intimates and associates, and their healthcare providers should be prepared to experience integration that can be manageable or be deeply chall… more
Date: Winter 2012
Creator: Holden, Janice Miner
open access

Biography indexes reviewed

Description: Article discussing research on biography reviews and indexes.
Date: September 2012
Creator: Sassen, Catherine
open access

The Challenges of Traveling a Psychospiritual Path in Today's Postmodern Western World

Description: Abstract: Although the category "Religious or Spiritual Problem" (Code V62.89) was incorporated into the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for mental health professional in 1994, it has taken until 2012 for a conference or training to take place designed to help therapists and social workers understand how best to address such issues. In this article I describe my personal experience and my professional experience as a psychotherapist with religious and spiritual phenomena. I offer my view of w… more
Date: Winter 2012
Creator: Miller, Judith S.
open access

Does N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) Adequately Explain Near-Death Experiences?

Description: Abstract: Some NDE researchers have suggested that because some users of psychedelic drugs have experiences purportedly similar to near-death experiences (NDEs), neural receptors and neurotransmitters affected by a particular drug may underlie out-of-body experiences and NDEs. One of the most recent psychedelic candidates that allegedly causes NDE-like experiences is N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a natural substance that the body produces in small amounts. If DMT experiences are phenomenologica… more
Date: Autumn 2012
Creator: Potts, Michael
open access

An Ethnographic Study of Near-Death Experience Impact and Aftereffects and Their Cultural Implications

Description: Abstract: In this paper, I describe the research method and key near-death experience (NDE) aftereffects- and integration-related findings of my dissertation research study (Gordon, 2007), the first published near-death studies research project to use the ethnographic method. I compare my findings with those of a comparable sociological study (Sutherland, 1995), with emphasis on NDE aftereffects and integration issues related to what I identified as a previously unrecognized pattern of unmet, N… more
Date: Winter 2012
Creator: Gordon, L. Suzanne
open access

Feeling Animal: Pet-Making and Mastery in the Slave's Friend

Description: Article on an American Anti-Slavery Society periodical, the 'Slave's Friend,' which ran from 1836 to 1839. The author describes the abolitionist sentiment and the animal metaphor.
Date: August 30, 2012
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C.
open access

Five Experience Rooms of Snuggie in a Social Media

Description: Paper explores Snuggie’s use of specific brand experience dimensions based on the Edvardsson and Enquist conceptualization of six experience rooms in hyper-reality contexts and social media.
Date: 2012
Creator: Choi, Yujin
open access

Food for Fines: Helping Students and the Community

Description: Article on a Food for Fines program at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries. The Food for Fines drive offers a way for the library to help students take care of their library fines and help the local community as well.
Date: October 2012
Creator: Venner, Mary Ann
open access

Hanging on to Home: Representations of Handala and the Home

Description: Paper examines the subjective relationships between the Palestinians, the Israeli West Bank Barrier ( or the “Apartheid Wall”), Handala (a cartoon character created by Naji al-Ali), and the concept of home.
Date: 2012
Creator: Hyche, Breana
Back to Top of Screen