The Near-Death Experience - 2nd Edition by Calvert Roszell (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This book is about the riddle of life asked from the perspective of near-death experiences. It begins with knowledge that recent developments in science afford us, leading to the question of the role direct experience can play in answering our questions about the nature of the human soul and spirit in relation to the cosmos.</p> <p>Much has been written about the phenomenon of near-death experiences, but little attention has been paid to scientific research, such as that of Dr. Michael Sabom, which indicates that these are body-free, or spiritual, experiences. Even less attention has been directed toward the parallels between descriptions such as those given by George Ritchie--whose near-death journey led Raymond Moody to begin his epoch-making study that brought the phenomenon to the public eye--and the spiritual research of Rudolf Steiner.</p> <p>This book presents a synthesis of scientific research, personal experience, and Spiritual Science. In the author's words: <i>"This book asks the reader to decide whether Ritchie's story does not both testify to the living presence of the Christ in our age, as well as to an intimate and exact acquaintance with beings and events of the spiritual world that Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Science first makes clearly intelligible. Steiner spoke of the twentieth century as an age at the threshold of the Risen Christ; it is the author's conviction that Ritchie's story affords us a opportunity to recognize and enter the meaning of this event."</i></p> <p><strong>C O N T E N T S</strong> </p> <p>Foreword by George G. Ritchie, Jr.<br />Preface</p> <p><strong>PART ONE: THE RIDDLE OF CONSCIOUSNESS</strong></p> <p><strong>1. The Present State of Research into Near-death Experiences</strong></p> <p>The Temporal Lobe Seizure Hypothesis <br />Hypoxia <br />Hypercarbia <br />Hallucinogenic Drugs <br />The Search for a Common Physiological Basis for NDEs <br />The Biochemistry of Emotions <br />The Limits of Measure <br />The Insufficiency of Other Explanations of Near-death Experiences <br />Accurate Reconnaissance of Physical Surroundings </p> <p><strong>2 Rudolf Steiner</strong></p> <p>Spiritual Science and the Mind-Body Problem </p> <p><strong>PART TWO: THE NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE OF DR. GEORGE G. RITCHIE, JR.</strong></p> <p><strong>1. The Near-death Experience of Dr. George G. Ritchie, Jr.</strong></p> <p>The Nine Minutes<br />The Life Review, or Etheric Tableau<br />The Light of Conscience and the Guardian of the Threshold<br />Moses and Christ and the Judgment of Souls<br />Rudolf Steiner and the Rose-Cross<br />Vessel of the Suprapersonal<br />The Apocalyptic Christ<br />Christus, verus Luciferus<br />Church Doctrine and the Teleology of the Human Being <br />The Motion of the Etheric Organization<br />The Earthbound Dead in Purgatory<br />The Nearness of the Spiritual World<br />Suicides<br />Guardian Angels<br />Devachan, the Realm of Creative Thought<br />Return to Ordinary Consciousness</p> <p><strong>Coda</strong></p> <p>George Ritchie Today<br />Rudolf Steiner and the Anthroposophical Society<br />Rudolf Steiner and the Intelligibility of the Observations of Spiritual Science</p> <p><strong>Epilogue: Twenty-eight Years On </strong></p> <p>From George's Sergeant to Los Alamos, and Beyond<br />"You have 45 Years" Spiritual Science, Reincarnation, and Karma <br />George Ritchie <br />Bettina Hindes <br />Daniel Hafner <br />Patrick Kennedy<br />Nancy Roszell and George Ritchie <br />The Near-Death Experience </p> <p><strong>Appendix</strong></p>
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