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In an earlier study, Rupert Sheldrake, Pam Smart, and Michael Nahm reviewed accounts of end-of-life experiences (ELEs) involving non-human animals. They showed animal ELEs to be similar to human ELEs, suggesting common underlying processes. Here, we consider apparent after-death communications (ADCs) from non-human animals and compare them to accounts of ADCs from humans. We collected 442 accounts of animal ADCs from our own appeals and from reports in the literature. We found a close resemblance between ADCs from animals and from humans in the types of experience—dream visitations, a sense of presence, visual, auditory, tactile, and olfactory apparitions, and psychokinetic effects. As with human ADCs, the great majority of animal ADCs were reported to have occurred in the first hours or days after death, with a dramatic falling off over time. Moreover, our data show that people grieve their pets in much the same fashion as they grieve their human loved ones, suggesting that human bereavement studies would do well to take into account the animal data to which we draw attention. Doing so may help clarify issues regarding the fundamental nature of the experiences—determining whether they are best regarded as internal hallucinations, as living-agent-psi-mediated subjective or objective phenomena, or as actual contacts with the deceased—which in turn carries implications not only for academic studies of bereavement but for clinical practice with the bereaved.
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The sporadic occurrence of unusually enhanced mental clarity before death has been documented over time and cultures, and reported in patients with and without neurodegenerative diseases, psychiatric disorders, and other neurocognitive deficits, as well as those with nonterminal and terminal conditions. Using a purposive sampling method via existing professional networks, clinical presentations of terminal lucidity in pediatric populations, as witnessed by pediatric oncologists and medical personnel, were solicited. We document clinical presentations suggestive of terminal lucidity in children, which were compiled by their attending physician at two large tertiary pediatric hospitals. Unanticipated and unexplained changes in mental clarity, verbal communication, and/or physical capability in the days and hours before the death of the pediatric patients were observed. Each patient's medical condition should not have allowed for such changes. The phenomenon known as terminal lucidity provides a conceptual framework for these deviations, although more systematic documentation and clinical research is required before definitive conclusions can be drawn.
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Biologie und Naturphilosophie werden gegenwärtig von frischen Denkströmungen belebt, z. B. in der Formulierung der neodarwinistischen Evolutionstheorie, neuer Konzepte und Inter-pretationen der Quantenphysik oder panpsychistischer Ansätze. Es lohnt sich daher, das Werk des bedeutenden Biologen und Philosophen Hans Driesch (1867-1941) aus heutiger Sicht neu zu betrachten. Driesch setzte vor rund 100 Jahren mit seinem ganzheitlichen Lebensverständ-nis entscheidende Impulse, die heute wieder aktuell sind. Seine Pionierleistungen würdigend werden hier verschiedene Aspekte seines Lebens, seiner empirischen Forschungen und philo-sophischen Leitideen beleuchtet. Die Autoren Krall und Nahm sind Biologen, Waldrich ver-fügt über eine breite geisteswissenschaftliche Ausbildung. Zahlreiche Publikationen der Auto-ren zu naturphilosophischen Themen.
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