Near-death experience as mystical experience |
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Authors: | John Pennachio Ph.D. |
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Affiliation: | (1) Adirondack Community College in Glens Falls, New York |
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Abstract: | Near-death experience exhibits many attributes of mystical awareness. Assessing the mystical quality of psychedelic experience, Walter Pahnke identified a nine-category typology of mystical experience. It is used here to illustrate the mystical nature of near-death experience. The typology also describes the self-transformation which follows the mystical state of consciousness. Self-transformation results from near-death experience. Pahnke's mystical typology characterizes the near-death experience and allows for a definition of near-death experience as a mystical state. |
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