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The Worldly Conquest of Death: Near Death Experiences
The Worldly Conquest of Death: Near Death Experiences

Author(s): Florina Codreanu
Subject(s): Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life
Published by: Institutul de Cercetări Socio-Umane Gheorghe Şincai al Academiei Române
Keywords: otherworld journey; afterlife vision; testimonial narrative; out-of-body experience; half-death; cinema.

Summary/Abstract: This paper keeps track of some pre-modern and modern emblematic near death experiences (acts of faith) towards the contemporary attitude regarding the phenomenon of partial death (acts of brain). The mystic of resurrection based on religious belief is subdued in the contemporary world by a medical condition based on drugs, stress or accidents leading to a brain attack. The study points up the course of expression and rationale taken by the worldly conquest of death using the spiritual body as the main weapon in the detriment of the actual physical body at stake. Moreover, the NDE epitomizes the condition in which a selected life experience explains an unexplainable death experience.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 193-202
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English