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The Final Configuration of Near-Death Experiences (1960–1975)

by Jens Schlieter

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  • 21st century
  • Language: English

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The final chapter of the discursive history outlines how Robert Crookall’s and Robert A. Monroe’s books on “astral projection,” but also C. G. Jung and other researchers discussing paranormal and parapsychological phenomena in the 1960s and early 1970s, already assembled almost all phenomena that Moody could bundle in 1975 under the new term “near-death experiences.” However, the chapter points to the fact that, in contrast to the opinio communis , the term had already been introduced by John C. Lilly in 1972. Other influences discussed are the use of LSD, which sometimes triggered near-death experiences, and the growing interest of psychologists and psychotherapists in such experiences (e.g., Russell Noyes and Roy Kletti or Stanislav Grof). It concludes with the institutionalization of the term as grasped in the post-Moodian “Greyson scale.” The latter serves as an example for the still-dominant religious interest in the experiences, i.e., their mystic, esoteric, and transformative qualities.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences, Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics, Occultism and esotericism, and Out-of-body, astral, and dream studies.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Retained metadata contains “esoteric” in the description.

    • “esoteric”· in description
  • Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences

    Controlled discovery queries from crossref matched “near-death experiences”. Retained metadata contains “near-death” in the title, “Near-death experiences” in the title, “near-death” in the description, and 3 additional metadata match(es).

    • “near-death experiences”· via Crossref
    • “near-death”· in title
    • “Near-death experiences”· in title
    • “near-death”· in description
    • “Near-death experiences”· in description
    • “near-death”· in edition title
  • Out-of-body, astral, and dream studies

    Controlled discovery queries from openaire and openalex matched “astral projection”. Retained metadata contains “Astral projection” in the description.

    • “astral projection”· via OpenAIRE Graph
    • “astral projection”· via OpenAlex
    • “Astral projection”· in description
  • Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics

    Retained metadata contains “Mysticism” in the subject metadata.

    • “Mysticism”· in subject

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2018-09-20Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press (OUP); Oxford University Press eBooksEnglish—Unknown

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