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Mom, When You Were a Little Girl and I Was Your Daddy, You Were Bad a Lot of Times, and I Never Hit You!”
S17_Death_INSIDE48_12Nov07_FNL 12/17/07 1:46 PM Page 14 CHRISTIAN WEIGEL/DEAR PHOTOGRAPHY/VEER AND DIGITAL VISION PHOTOGRAPHY/VEER AND DIGITAL WEIGEL/DEAR PHOTOGRAPHY/VEER CHRISTIAN “Mom, when you were a little girl and I was your daddy, you were bad a lot of times, and I never hit you!” ith these words,William, then a grandfather and also discussed his death. He demon- rambunctious three-year-old responding to strated knowledge that amazed his mother, such as the W his mother’s warning about a spanking, pro- nickname only his grandfather used for a family cat and claimed that he had been his maternal grandfather, John. the day of the week when his grandfather had died. His mother, Doreen, was initially William also talked about the taken aback by this, but as William JIM B. TUCKER period between lives. “When you talked more, she began to feel com- die, you don’t go right to heaven,”he forted by the idea that her father had returned. John had told his mother.“You go to different levels—here, then been close to his family and had frequently told Doreen, here, then here,”he explained, with his hand moving up “No matter what, I’m always going to take care of you.” at each level. He said that animals are reborn as well as DEATH: THE INFINITE TO WINDOW William talked a number of times about being his humans and that he saw animals in heaven that did not 14 DECEMBER 2007–FEBRUARY 2008 • # 17 • SHIFT: AT THE FRONTIERS OF CONSCIOUSNESS S17_Death_INSIDE48_12Nov07_FNL 12/17/07 1:46 PM Page 15 I’ve Been Here Before: Children’s Reports of Previous Lives bite or scratch. -
A Lawyer Presents the Case for the Afterlife
A Lawyer Presents the Case for the Afterlife Victor James Zammit 2 Acknowledgements: My special thanks to my sister, Carmen, for her portrait of William and to Dmitri Svetlov for his very kind assistance in editing and formatting this edition. My other special thanks goes to the many afterlife researchers, empiricists and scientists, gifted mediums and the many others – too many to mention – who gave me, inspiration, support, suggestions and feedback about the book. 3 Contents 1. Opening statement............................................................................7 2. Respected scientists who investigated...........................................12 3. My materialization experiences....................................................25 4. Voices on Tape (EVP).................................................................... 34 5. Instrumental Trans-communication (ITC)..................................43 6. Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) ..................................................52 7. Out-of-Body Experiences ..............................................................66 8. The Scole Experiment proves the Afterlife ................................. 71 9. Einstein's E = mc2 and materialization.........................................77 10. Materialization Mediumship.......................................................80 11. Helen Duncan................................................................................90 12. Psychic laboratory experiments..................................................98 13. Observation -
Deathbed Visions: Social Workers' Experiences, Perspectives, Therapeutic Responses, and Direction for Practice
St. Catherine University SOPHIA Master of Social Work Clinical Research Papers School of Social Work 5-2012 Deathbed Visions: Social Workers' Experiences, Perspectives, Therapeutic Responses, and Direction for Practice Leslee Curtis St. Catherine University Follow this and additional works at: https://sophia.stkate.edu/msw_papers Part of the Social Work Commons Recommended Citation Curtis, Leslee. (2012). Deathbed Visions: Social Workers' Experiences, Perspectives, Therapeutic Responses, and Direction for Practice. Retrieved from Sophia, the St. Catherine University repository website: https://sophia.stkate.edu/msw_papers/17 This Clinical research paper is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Social Work at SOPHIA. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master of Social Work Clinical Research Papers by an authorized administrator of SOPHIA. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Deathbed Visions: Social Workers’ Experiences, Perspectives, Therapeutic Responses, and Direction for Practice Submitted by Leslee Curtis May 2012 MSW Clinical Research Paper The Clinical Research Project is a graduation requirement for MSW students at St. Catherine University/University of St. Thomas School of Social Work in St. Paul, Minnesota and is conducted within a nine-month time frame to demonstrate facility with basic social research methods. Students must independently conceptualize a research problem, formulate a research design that is approved by a research committee and the university Institutional Review Board, -
Perspectives of Family Members of the Deceased
End Of Life Signs: Perspectives Of Family Members Of The Deceased Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry (TOJQI) Volume 12, Issue 7, July, 2021:1668 – 1682 End Of Life Signs: Perspectives Of Family Members Of The Deceased Gaanapriya, S**, Dr.Naachimuthu KP*., Sarumathi, T**, Shwetha, R** ABSTRACT The study explored the signs shown by the departing before their death. Semi- structured interviews were conducted among 24 families of recently deceased individuals. Narrative Analysis and phenomenological approach was used for analyzing data collected. There were notable physical, mental and social signs shown by the deceased before death like visions / dreams of their deceased elders, death-related talks, metaphorical messages, post-death rituals, changes in sleep cycle, eating habits, expressing unusual irritability or unusual care and love towards family members. While the cause is unclear, awareness and understanding of such signs is important to improve the end-of-life care Key Words: End-of-life experiences, Nearing Death Awareness and Deathbed phenomenon. * Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, PSG College of Arts & Science, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India **Undergraduate Students of Psychology, PSG College of Arts & Science, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India INTRODUCTION Sudden natural death occurs due to an illness or malfunctions of the body and not directly influenced by external forces. There are several causes. Phases of dying include- pre-active and active, each stage characterized by signs. Emotional & personality changes, physical deterioration, declining cognitive functions and other significant changes are observed before death. Deathbed Phenomena (DBP) as described by Brayne and colleagues (2006) “death may be heralded by deathbed phenomena such as visions that comfort the dying and prepare them spiritually for death”. -
Reincarnation As a Scientific Concept
Reincarnation as a Scientific Concept focuses on the question of whether reincarnation should be recognized as a serious subject by the contemporary scientific community. After a historical overview of the psychical research into reincarnation memories, the authors present well-documented cases that have been studied by scholars from East and West. The authors place themselves in the tradition of American psychiatrists Ian Stevenson and Jim Tucker and their Indian predecessors, as well as colleagues such as the late Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson, Dr. Satwant Pasricha and anthropologist James Matlock. Dr. Rawat has independently studied many children with memories of a past life in Asia, including classic cases in India such as Shanti Devi, Jagdish Chandra and Swarn Lata Mishra. Rivas has investigated cases in the Netherlands that show the same basic pattern, even though most of them remain unsolved. The authors address alternative psychological and parapsychological hypotheses for the findings in the field and demonstrate why reincarnation of a personal psyche offers the best explanation. Based on this assumption, they look at the possible future of parapsychological reincarnation research. About the author Dr. Kirti Swaroop Rawat was born in 1936 in Beawar, Rajasthan, India. He is currently residing at Goyal Nagar, Indore, Madhya Pradesh. He is married to Mrs. Vidya Rawat and has one daughter, Mrs. Bharti Khandelwal, and two sons, Dr. Bharat Rawat and Jai Rawat. Dr. Rawat holds master degrees in Philosophy and Psychology from Rajasthan University in Jaipur. He was awarded a Doctorate in Philosophy at the same University with a dissertation about reincarnation, and conducted his own research into cases of memories of past lives in India,Nepal, and the Netherlands. -
Erlendur Haraldsson and James G. Matlock. Hove: White Crow Books, 2016
Book Reviews I SAW A LIGHT AND I CAME HERE: CHILDREN’S EXPERIENCES OF REINCARNatION by Erlendur Haraldsson and James G. Matlock. Hove: White Crow Books, 2016. This highly informative book by two eminent reincarnation researchers comes in the form of 32 short chapters, presented in two parts written separately by each author. The first part, by Erlendur Haraldsson, concentrates primarily on investigations of children reporting memories of a past life, while in the second part James Matlock, an anthropologist by training, provides a broader context for this phenomenon. The first part includes mainly accounts of Haraldsson’s own investigations of numerous cases in Sri Lanka, Lebanon, India and Iceland. However, this is not simply a review of the existing database of cases; there are historical cases as well as some new and ongoing ones, and both authors refer to the work of other researchers, including Ian Stevenson, Antonia Mills, Jim Tucker and Hernani Andrade. The selection with which we are presented is thus aimed at providing us with a comprehensive insight into the current state of the field and the direction in which the research seems to point. In much of the literature on the subject we hear only about the most impressive cases of past-life memories fitting a previous personality (solved cases), but this is hardly a balanced view, as this volume clearly demonstrates. Striking cases can be found — like the solved case of a Druze boy in Lebanon — so full of remarkable instances of behaviours, recognition of family members, and memories of unusual details (like having his car batteries charged twice by Israeli soldiers when driving from Beirut) that it seemed “too good to be true” (p. -
Anomalous/Paranormal Experiences Reported by Nurses Themselves
Anomalous/Paranormal Experiences Reported by Nurses Themselves and in Relation With Theirs Patients in Hospitals: Examining Psychological, Personality and Phenomenological Variables (Grant 246/14) ALEJANDRO PARRA & IRMA CAPUTO Instituto de Psicología Paranormal, Buenos Aires, Argentina [email protected] Abstract. The aim of this study was to determine the degree of occurrence of certain unusual perceptual experiences in hospital settings, so called Anomalous/Paranormal Experiences (APE), often related by nurses and carers. Two studies were carried out: The first one on one single hospital measuring three psychological variables, such as work stress, hallucination proneness and absorption; and the second one on multiple hospitals (N= 39) using two additional variables, such as schizotypy proneness and empathy. For study 1, one hundred nurses were grouped as 54 experiencers and 46 “control” (nonexperiencers). The most common anomalous experiences reported by nurses are sense of presence and/or apparitions, hearing noises, voices or dialogues, and intuitions and ESP experiences as listerners of experiences of their patients, such as near death experiences, religious interventions, and out-of-body experiences. Nurses reporting such experiences did not tended to score higher work stress, which not confirmed H1. However, nurses reporting experiences tended to report greater absorption and proneness to hallucinate confirming hypothesis H2 and H3 respectively, compared with those who did not report such experiences. For study 2, three hundred forty four nurses were recruited from 36 hospitals and health centers in Buenos Aires. They were grouped 235 experiencers and 109 nonexperiencers. The most common experiences are sense of presence and/or apparitions, hearing noises, voices or dialogues, crying or complaining, intuitions and ESP experiences and as listerners of experiences of their patients, such as near death experiences, religious interventions, and many anomalous experiences in relation with children. -
11.12 Examples of Demonic Miracle Working
11.12: Examples of Demonic Miracles 1 Chapter 11.12 Ancient & Modern Examples of Demonic Miracle Working Demonstrating the not Everything Supernatural is Holy Table of Topics A) The Simonians B) Levitations C) “Eyeless” sight D) Elongations E) Psychic healing F) Psychic surgery G) sai baba: the greatest miracle worker today . & he’s not a Christian Extras & Endnotes Primary Points There is no qualitative difference between what these demonically empowered miracle workers do and what their counterparts in super-supernaturalism are performing. The greatest miracle worker in the world today is not a Christian. 11.12: Examples of Demonic Miracles 2 Below are a few examples of what we would suggest to be possibly demonically empowered miracle workers, not just magicians. As noted in previous chapters, while fraud and psychological manipulations may have been involved in the following examples, it would seem the particularly supernatural nature of the phenomena suggests demonic involvement. Unfortunately, there is no qualitative difference between what these demonically empowered miracle workers do and what their counterparts in super-supernaturalism are performing. Our primary point here is one that needs to be heard loud and clear in American Christianity: not everything supernatural is holy. A) The Simonians Luke records: Now there was a certain man named Simon, who formerly was practicing magic in the city, and astonishing the people of Samaria, claiming to be someone great; and they all, from smallest to greatest, were giving attention to him, saying, "This man is what is called the Great Power of God." And they were giving him attention because he had for a long time astonished them with his magic arts. -
Delirium and the Good Death: an Ethnography of Hospice Care
DELIRIUM AND THE GOOD DEATH: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF HOSPICE CARE DAVID WRIGHT, N., BSc, MSc(A), CHPCN(C) Thesis Submitted to The Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctorate of Philosophy in Nursing Faculty of Health Sciences School of Nursing University of Ottawa © David Wright, Ottawa, Canada, 2012 ii Abstract Delirium is a disturbance of consciousness and cognition that affects many terminally ill patients before death. It can manifest as confusion, hallucinations, and restlessness, all of which are known to be distressing to patients, families, and professional caregivers. Underlying the contemporary palliative care movement is a belief in the idea that a good death is possible; that dying can be made better for patients and families through the proper palliation of distressing symptoms and through proper attention to psychological, social, and spiritual issues that affect wellbeing at the end of life. Given that delirium is potentially disruptive to all that the good death assumes, i.e., mental awareness, patient-family communication, peace and comfort, the question was asked: What is the relationship between end- of-life delirium and the good death in hospice care? Ethnographic fieldwork was conducted at a freestanding residential hospice over a period of 15 months in a suburban community in eastern Canada. The research methods included participant observation (320 hours over 80 field visits), interviews with 28 hospice caregivers, and document analysis. The findings of this study provide an in-depth examination of the nature of caregiving relationships with patients and with families in end-of- life care. -
Near-Death Experiences: Evidence for Survival? 1
Near-Death Experiences: Evidence for Survival? 1 V. Krishnan Tamilnad, India ABSTRACT This paper argues that the out-of-body experience (OBE) and other elements of a near-death experience (NDE), as well as the positive affects that accompany them, do not yield conclusive evidence for survival after death. The OBE has features that suggest a physical basis for it, the other elements show the influ ence of cultural background, and positive affects may simply occur to conserve one's energy and prolong life. Other explanations for near-death elements, such as sensory deprivation, extrasensory perception, and eyeless sight, are addressed. INTRODUCTION Various interpretations have been offered for near-death experi ences (NDEs) (see Drab [1981] for a brief account). I am concerned here with the view that they hint at survival after death. As I have said elsewhere in a rather piecemeal fashion, I doubt whether.such a claim can be made on the basis of the experiences currently cited in support of it (Krishnan, 1978, 1981, 1982). In fact, some of them seem to me to be biological mechanisms that help the experiencer survive. However, I do not hold the view that it is fruitless to look for survival evidence in NDEs or other phenomena. Indeed, there are good reasons for not closing the issue. Before examining the survivalists' use of the NDE as evidence, let me recall here briefly the NDE's most common elements: an over whelming feeling of peace and well-being (which serves as an affective background for other experiences, if there are any); an out-of-body experience (OBE); a sensation of floating through darkness or a passage described as a tunnel, etc.; meeting spirits, dead relatives, and religious figures; an encounter with a presence or a brilliant light; a feeling of being in a realm of ethereal beauty; a life review; and a sense of reaching a limit beyond which the experiencer feels that he or she should not go. -
Ernesto Bozzano on the Phenomena of Bilocation
Ernesto Bozzano on the Phenomena of Bilocation Carlos S. Alvarado, Ph.D. University of Virginia ABSTRACT: Italian psychical researcher Ernesto Bozzano (1862-1943) was a well-known student of parapsychological phenomena and a strong defender of the concept of survival of bodily death. This paper includes an excerpt of what Bozzano referred to as the phenomena of bilocation, a term he used for the phantom limb sensations experienced by amputees, autoscopy, out-of-body and near-death experiences (OBEs and NDEs), and a variety of luminous or cloud-like emanations that clairvoyants claimed left the body at the moment of death. He believed these phenomena indicated the existence of a subtle body capable of exteriorization during life as well as at the moment of death. I present Bozzano's ideas in the context of his career as a psychical researcher and of previous discussions of the topic found in the early literature of Spiritualism and psychical research. Although some contemporary students of OBEs and NDEs still speculate on the relationship of these phenomena to the concept of survival of death, Bozzano's work is not widely cited today and few researchers have followed up his method. Nonetheless, his work is of historical interest, reminding us of areas and phenomena that deserve further study. KEY WORDS: Ernesto Bozzano, bilocation, out-of-body experiences, deathbed phenomena, apparitions of the living, survival of death. Italian psychical researcher Ernesto Bozzano (1862-1943) was an important defender of the concept of survival of death through the study of the phenomena of parapsychology. Part of this work centered on the phenomena of "bilocation," a term he used to refer to the Carlos S. -
Jse 26 1 Reviewharaldsson.Pdf
Book Reviews 191 Glimpses of Eternity: Sharing a Loved One’s Passage from This Life to the Next by Raymond Moody with Paul Perry. New York: Guideposts, 2010. 183 pp. $19.95 (hardcover). ISBN 978824948139. Glimpses of Eternity is a highly interesting book on a fascinating topic. It contains dozens of accounts of what the authors call shared-death experiences. These accounts were related to Moody over the years, often at conferences and book signings, or told by colleagues, friends, or hospital staff. The book is not describing the results of a systematic scientifi c research project, but it brings to light many interesting rare cases of the kind that little attention has been paid to, in part perhaps because of how exceptional they are. One wonders whether many of these cases are a residue of deathbed-vision cases and near-death experiences that the authors were until now hesitant to publish because they appeared so incredible. Or, could the features of some of these experiences have been somewhat exaggeratedly reported to the authors? Or, were these accounts jotted down after lectures and book-signings without getting back to the persons who reported them to check their correctness? These are methodological limitations and questions to which some readers will want answers. There is much room for further studies of deathbed-visions and end-of-life experiences, among them to corroborate some of the more exceptional experiences found in this book. In shared-death experiences, as the authors defi ne them, the observer of a dying person suddenly fi nds himself seeing the deceased persons that are generally visible only to the dying, namely, he shares the deathbed visions of the dying person.