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Characteristics of Near-Death Experiences… R. Salariyan et al (145
In this article, an attempt (Ref: Cardena et al,
has been made to examine the 2004: 320)
possibility of achieving a
rational approach to the Janice Holden, a researcher
phenomenon of near-death on near-death experiences,
experience and its role in considers this phenomenon to
human life and to extract and be a parapsychological and
present it from the words of spiritual memory reported by
Islamic philosophers, in particular people on the verge of death.
Mulla Sadra and the school (Nouri, 2008: 15)
Examining the states and
of transcendent wisdom.
characteristics that the NDE
Near Death Experience Experiencer have found in
Near-death experience is the their personal experiences and
experience of a death-like which they have narrated to
condition that occurs to some others after returning to the
people in certain situations, world, it becomes clear that
such as accidents, serious the near-death experience is
illnesses, and the like. not a definite death and is
Bruce Greyson defines merely a state similar to the
near-death experiences as: situation of the moribund .
Deep psychological events Characteristics of NDE
with mystical, spiritual,
and transcendent components Although near-death experiences
that occur for people seem to be quite different in
who are on the verge detail, by examining and
of death or in severe studying near-death experiences
states of physical injury. reports, a number of general
