Near-Death Experience

<p><strong><em>The Near Death Experience: A Reader</em></strong> is the most comprehensive collection of NDE cases and interpretations ever assembled. This book encompasses a broad range of disciplines: psychological researchers discuss cognitive models and Jungian theories of meaningful archetypal phenomena; the biological perspectivedescribes how brains near death may produce soothing endorphins optical illusions and convincing hallucinations. Philosophers present empirical analyses and images in archetypal theories and the symbolic language of comparative phenomenological theories. Christian Jewish and Mormon responses to NDEs outline the religious perspective and the mystical and spiritual interpretations of NDEs are also explored.</p>