My first book, Conceptions of the Afterlife in Early Civilizations, has recently gone out of print. This means that for the first time...

In 1838 a Mormon pioneer woman named Phoebe Carter Woodruff had an NDE as a result of "brain fever." Her illness was brought on by a...

The earliest known account of a near-death experience from an actual documentary source (as opposed to a religious or mythological one)...

I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that because of the pandemic, Oxford University Press has temporarily suspended issuing...

I was recently invited by by the Religious Studies Project to respond to an interview with another scholar of near-death experiences who...

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Christina the Astonishing was a Belgian saint who had an NDE in 1171.