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The Failure of Saganomics: Why Birth Models Cannot Explain Near-Death Phenomena

This article refutes Carl Sagan's theory that near-death experiences (NDEs) are recollections of birth experiences based on three major reasons including the inability of newborn babies to perceive experiences and that there are differences between births and NDEs.

Date: December 1982

Creator: Becker, Carl B.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries

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The Centrality of Near-Death Experiences in Chinese Pure Land Buddhism

From introduction: "One of the commonest reactions to the visionary experiences of heaven by the critical observer has been to argue that these are nothing more than the projections of the expectations of the dying person, who was either consciously or subconsciously trained to expect heavenly scenery (etc.) by his cultural upbringing. [...] This paper is a preliminary report on the status of NDEs in Pure Land Buddhism in China, and is an important contribution to cross-cultural research for se… more

Date: December 1981