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INTERDOC_22 — Near-Death Experience, Afterlife Belief, and Cross-Cultural Evidence

[KEY FINDING] The AWARE (AWAreness during REsuscitation) study — a four-year prospective study across 15 hospitals in the UK, US, and Austria, led by Sam Parnia (published 2014, Resuscitation) — found that 39% of 140 car

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Y_2_16 Credible Altered States

Y_2_16 — Near-Death Experience Latest Research

Near-death experiences (NDEs) — the vivid, structured experiences reported by approximately 10–20% of cardiac arrest survivors (including out-of-body perception, tunnel experiences, life reviews, encounters with deceased

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Y_2_05 Altered States

Y_2_05 — Near-Death Experiences: Cross-Cultural Analysis

Near-death experiences (NDEs) — profound subjective experiences occurring during clinical death, cardiac arrest, or perceived proximity to death — have been reported across virtually all cultures and historical periods.

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Y_2_02 Altered States

Y_2_02 — Terminal Lucidity

This document examines Terminal Lucidity, a topic within the Consciousness research area. Key areas of investigation include What Is Terminal Lucidity?, Why This Is Anomalous, The Significance for Consciousness Studies.

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Y_2_04 Altered States

Y_2_04 — Neuroscience of Death — Terminal Lucidity and Dying Brain

The neuroscience of death has emerged as a legitimate research frontier, revealing that dying is not a simple cessation but a complex neurobiological process with surprising features. Michael Nahm and Bruce Greyson's doc

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K_4_15 Credible Consciousness

K_4_15 — Shared Death Experiences

Shared death experiences (SDEs) are reported phenomena in which a person who is physically healthy — typically a family member, caregiver, or bystander present at a death — describes experiencing some or all of the featu

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P_4_01 Philosophy & Meaning

P_4_01 — Death and the Afterlife Across Cultures

Every known human culture has developed beliefs about what happens after death — making afterlife cosmology one of the most universal features of human thought. The major frameworks include: judgment and reward/punishmen

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K_4_18 Verified Consciousness

K_4_18 — Near-Death Experiences: Evidence, Neuroscience, and the Consciousness Debate

Near-death experiences (NDEs) are complex subjective experiences reported by approximately 10–20% of cardiac arrest survivors, characterized by feelings of peace, tunnel vision, life review, encounters with deceased pers

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Y_2_10 Credible Altered States

Y_2_10 — Drowning and Near-Drowning: Aquatic Altered Consciousness

Drowning — defined by the WHO (2002, revised 2005) as "the process of experiencing respiratory impairment from submersion/immersion in liquid" — is one of the leading causes of accidental death worldwide (~236,000 deaths

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INTERDOC_71 — The NDE Paradox: Consciousness Without Neural Activity & Substrate Independence

The near-death experience (NDE) paradox is the question of whether subjective phenomenology reported during cardiac arrest reflects (a) post-hoc reconstruction during recovery, (b) hidden residual neural activity not cap

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C_1_04 Global Traditions

C_1_04 — Orpheus and the Descent to the Underworld Archetype

This document examines Orpheus and the Descent to the Underworld Archetype, a topic within the Global Traditions research area. Key areas of investigation include Definition and Etymology, The Common Structure, Joseph Ca

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C_5_25 Verified Global Traditions

C_5_25 — Underworld Journey / Katabasis: Descent to the Land of the Dead

The katabasis (Greek: κατάβασις, "going down") — the hero's or god's descent to the underworld and return — is one of the oldest and most universal narrative structures in world mythology. The Descent of Inanna (Sumerian

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K_1_04 Consciousness

K_1_04 — Brain as Filter vs Generator

Two opposing models have dominated the consciousness debate for over a century:

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T_1_03 Psychology & Social

T_1_03 — Transpersonal Psychology — Beyond the Personal Self

Transpersonal psychology extends psychological inquiry beyond the individual ego to encompass states of consciousness, spirituality, and experiences transcending ordinary personal identity. Emerging in the late 1960s fro

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T_3_18 Credible Psychology & Social

T_3_18 — Anomalistic Psychology

Anomalistic psychology is the scientific study of extraordinary human experiences — including apparent telepathy, precognition, ghost sightings, alien abduction reports, near-death experiences, and other phenomena tradit

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Y_2_14 Credible Altered States

Y_2_14 — Dying Process Phenomenology: Shared Death Experiences and After-Death Communication

The phenomenology of death and the experiences reported by those who witness the dying process include several distinct categories of altered-state phenomena that extend beyond the well-known near-death experience (NDE).

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Y_2_01 Altered States

Y_2_01 — NDEs, OBEs & Consciousness Studies

Modern consciousness research — NDEs in cardiac arrest patients, children's past-life memories, and DMT-induced entity encounters — produces data that intersects remarkably with ancient descriptions of death journeys, as

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Y_1_06 Altered States

Y_1_06 — Psychedelic Research — Modern Science and Ancient Entheogen Parallels

Psychedelic research has undergone a dramatic revival since ~2006, with major studies at Johns Hopkins, Imperial College London, NYU, and MAPS demonstrating the therapeutic potential of psilocybin, MDMA, and ayahuasca/DM

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