| NOUN | a near-death experience | near-death experiences | |
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- A near-death experience or NDE is the perception reported by a person who nearly died or who was clinically dead and revived.
- In 1926, when he was 16 years old, Ōhira contracted typhoid fever and nearly died. This near death experience contributed to his conversion to Christianity around that time.
- In the early 1960s, on the way from Louisiana to Oklahoma City, Charles faced a near-death experience when the pilot of his plane lost visibility, as snow and his failure to use the defroster caused the windshield of the plane to become completely covered in ice.
- English actor Roger Moore plays a man haunted by a doppelgänger, who springs to life following a near-death experience, in Basil Dearden's "The Man Who Haunted Himself" (1970).
- A 2018 study found significant relationships between a DMT experience and a near-death experience.
- Despite his near-death experience on the way to the Ozarks in 1936, Parker returned to the area in 1937 where he spent a great deal of time woodshedding and developing his sound.
- This new devotion to religious artwork was hastened by a near death experience in 1909 after drinking poisoned water at the age of 42.
- In this book Ring presented the "Weighted Core Experience" Index, a psychometric instrument constructed to measure the depth of a near-death experience.
- Bach reported that he was inspired to finish the fourth part of the novella by a near-death experience which had occurred in relation to a nearly fatal plane crash in August 2012.
- Bernard Martin argues in "The Ancient Mariner and the Authentic Narrative" that Coleridge was also influenced by the life of Anglican clergyman John Newton, who had a near-death experience aboard a slave ship.
- Lincoln Hall went on to live for several more years, often giving talks about his near-death experience and rescue, before dying from unrelated medical issues in 2012 at the age of 56 (born in 1955).
- This near-death experience acted as his catalyst, driving him to make the most of his talents and not let his abilities go to waste.
- In "Tapestry", Q apparently saves Picard and helps him better understand himself, giving Picard a chance to avoid the accident that gave him an artificial heart only for Picard to choose dying as himself over living the tedious life he would have lived without the inspiration of his near-death experience (although whether Q actually appeared in this episode or was merely a hallucination Picard experienced during surgery is deliberately left ambiguous).
- Although the story of Er records a near-death experience, while the journey of Scipio's "disembodied soul" takes place in a dream, both give examples of belief in astral projection.
- The Iboga tree is central to the "Bwiti" spiritual practices in West-Central Africa, mainly Gabon, Cameroon and the Republic of the Congo, where the alkaloid-containing roots or bark are used in various ceremonies to create a near-death experience.
- A new religious movement began in 1882 when Squaxin John Slocum founded the Indian Shaker Church after a near-death experience.
- During this he had a near-death experience where he claimed he died and went to hell.
- This is viewed by many as a spiritual awakening and what is often described as a near-death experience or rebirth.
- Another religious-themed episode was "The Last Temptation of Ethyl," in which Ethyl willingly allows a televangelist to exploit her near-death experience to extort money from followers.
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