Welcome! - to the Near-Life Experience web page
A Summary Page for
Near-Death Experiences 

Resources:
a) International Assn. for Near-Death Studies (IANDS)
     IANDS - Main page
     IANDS - Report experience

b) Near Death Experience Research Foundation (NDERF)
     NDERF - Main Page
     NDERF - Report experience

"A Measure of Heaven"
Table of Contents

Acknowledgements     

1. Introduction 
   A. Background         
   B. Statistical Advantage        
   C. Sampling Considerations  
   D. Editing, Coding, and Data Clean-up         

2. Demographics         
   A. Age, Gender, and Country           
   B. Demographic Differences and Similarities  

3. Antecedents
   A. Medical Condition           
      Q1. Your condition during the experience:  
      Q3. Your status of health after the experience:        
      Q4. Your status of health now:       
      Q5. Your experience: Wonderful, Frightening, Mixed    
   B. Emotional and Spiritual Triggers    

4. Transitional States    
   A. Cessation of Pain 
   B. The Tunnel           
   C. Movement           
   D. "You Must Go Back"       

5. Pervasive Content    
   A. Experience Content          
      Q6. Experience include (check all that apply:       
   B. Out-of-Body Experience (67.7% of cases)           
   C. Light (64.5%)      
   D. Strong Emotional Tone (61.0%)   
   E. Knowledge (52.5%)         
   F. Presence of Unearthly Beings (48.2%)    G. Darkness (34.9%)           

6. Ancillary Content     
   A. Events Out of Keeping With Beliefs at the Time (28.5%)  
   B. Landscape or City (26.2%)          
   C. Presence of Deceased Persons (25.4%)   
   D. Void (24.4%)      
   E. Boundary (23.5%)           
   F. Life Review (21.6%)        
   G. Vision of the Future (19.3%)        

7. Incidental Findings   
   A. Telepathy 
   B. Sounds and Synesthesia   
   C. Cleansing Ritual   
   D. Cluster Groups    
   E. Council of Elders  
   F. Meeting Jesus       
   G. Judgment 
   H. Sense of Unity     

8. After-Effects
   A. After-Effects Overview    
      Q7. Changes resulting from the experience?           
   B. Feelings About Death (83.0%)     
   C. Sense of Life Purpose (75.4%)    
   D. Belief System (69.2%)     
   E. Healing, Psychic Abilities (68.0%)
   F. Personal Relationships (67.4%)    
   G. Feelings About Friends, Society (64.9%) 
   H. Changes in Job or Studies (46.7%)          
   I. Physical After-Effects (33.3%)      
   J. After-Effect Evaluation         
      Q8. Have these changes been: Positive, Mixed, Disturbing  
   K. Life Changes       
      Q9. Has your life changed specifically as a result of your experience?          

9. Related Phenomenon           
   A. Religious Experiences       
   B. UFO Phenomena 
   C. Earth as Unreal    

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