Dr Raymond Moody's new book: Glimpses of Eternity

Written with Paul Perry, this book provides numerous examples of the shared death experience in which persons present at the death of a loved one experience leaving their own body, viewing the life review of their loved one and traveling part-way toward the Light. Moody describes seven key elements of the shared death experience which are very similar to those of the near-death experience. Watch this YouTube video of Dr. Raymond Moody's interview with Paul Perry.

Dr Bruce Greyson Consulted on CO2 Study Linked to NDEs

Study Links High CO2 Levels to Incidents of NDEs

Zalika Klemenc-Ketis, MD, of the University of Maribor in Slovenia, and colleagues completed a prospective study of cardiac arrest patients and reported "Our study suggests that some physiological factors or processes might be important in the provoking of near-death experiences," the researchers wrote in the open-access online journal Critical Care.

Fox News picked up the story from Agence France-Presse and published it with the headline “Near-Death Experience Explained by High Levels of CO2”.  The Fox News version reads as follows:

A study suggests that people who report having "near-death experiences," such as seeing lights or divine encounters, have increased levels of carbon dioxide in the blood, Agence France-Presse reported.

According to research, between 11 and 23 percent of heart attack survivors report having near-death experiences.

The study, which is reported in the journal "Critical Care," looked at 52 heart attack victims. Eleven had a near-death experience and the common link was a high level of carbon dioxide in the blood. Researchers said more work still needs to be done to confirm the findings, but understanding a near-death experience is important.

A more sophisticated source, MedPageToday (MPT), in its General Psychiatry section reported the story with the somewhat less assertive headline: “Blood Parameters May Explain Near-Death Experience”.  The MPT article solicited observations on the study from preeminent NDE researcher, Dr Bruce Greyson. 

The MPT webpage featuring the article also carried the sidebar advice to doctors to explain to their patients “that although some studies suggest there may be physical causes for these experiences, they are still largely unexplained by medical science”.

New Research Tool - 128 Years of Information

Anyone who has gone looking for solid information about NDEs knows how difficult it can be to find. Now IANDS has an online answer. The most powerful search tool about NDEs is being offered as a free benefit with every IANDS membership at the Supporting and Professional levels or higher.

The NDE Research Index covers all scholarly and many popular English language articles about NDEs from 1877 through 2005. That's 128 years of information! Using the flexible search tools of the Index, you can roam through the abstracts of almost 900 articles, finding author, title, year of publication, journal title, issue number, and page numbers.

For students, teachers, researchers, curious experiencers - anyone with a deep interest in near-death and similar experiences - this is like having a library catalog in the living room. Many of the actual articles will soon be available on the IANDS website, and others can be obtained from libraries and publishers with the citation information provided in the Index.

For more detailed information about the Index and how to access it - or to upgrade your membership or join IANDS in order to use the Index - go to this page. If you are already a Supporting, Professional, or higher level member of IANDS, the Index is now yours to use.

Expanded Version of Research Bibliography on CD-ROM

The International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) is pleased to announce the release of the new expanded version of Near-Death Experiences: Index to the Periodical Literature through 2005. This updated tool is an invaluable tool for all NDE researchers as well as others interested in an in-depth investigation of NDE’s. 

Near-death experience (NDE) researchers were thrilled when the Near-Death Experiences Research Bibliography came out two years ago. The CD-ROM indexed every Anabiosis/Journal of Near-Death Studies (JNDS) article through 2005 by about 140 NDE-related topics. As useful as it was, the new version, Near-Death Experiences: Index to the Periodical Literature through 2005, is a resource for NDE researchers to almost die for. It covers not only JNDS articles but every article published in the first 25 years of near-death studies, a total of over 800 articles: 703 scholarly (mostly refereed journal articles) and 123 non-scholarly (popular magazines, newspapers, etc.).

With this invaluable tool, researchers can find virtually every article addressing a particular NDE-related topic—or combination of topics. Through article abstracts that appear for over 98% of articles that originally included abstracts, researchers are further helped to select just those articles that are relevant to their own areas of inquiry.

Click here for more information or to order the bibliography.

Reprints:
Having created a custom list of citations, researchers who do not have access to free reprints—such as higher education faculty who can acquire free reprints through inter-library loan service—can purchase one reprint of each article from the office of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS). In either case, researchers can feel confident they have conducted a very thorough review of the available NDE literature through 2005.