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- 1 weeks ago1h 2m
Adrenochrome: The Chemical, The Scientists, and The Blood-Harvesting Legend
Links For The Occult Rejectshttps://linktr.ee/theoccultrejectsOccult Research Institutehttps://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/Substackhttps://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-pageCash Apphttps://cash.app/$theoccultrejectsVenmo@TheOccultRejectsPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejectsRESEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHY I. CHEMISTRY, MEDICINE, AND EXPERIMENTS1. Weinstein, S., and R. J. Manning. “Intermediate Oxidation Products of Epinephrine.” Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine 32, no. 7 (1935): 1096–1097. doi:10.3181/00379727-32-7983P.Link: https://doi.org/10.3181/00379727-32-7983PAccess/evidence: Publisher text available. Episode use: Early adrenaline oxidation; do not describe this as proven isolation of modern adrenochrome.2. Green, David Ezra, and Derek Richter. “Adrenaline and Adrenochrome.” Biochemical Journal 31, no. 4 (1937): 596–616. doi:10.1042/bj0310596.Link: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1266980/Access/evidence: Full article accessible. Episode use: Foundational chemistry and historical nomenclature.3. Osmond, Humphry, and John Smythies. “Schizophrenia: A New Approach.” Journal of Mental Science 98, no. 411 (1952): 309–315. doi:10.1192/bjp.98.411.309.Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14917992/Access/evidence: Citation verified; full text not reviewed. Episode use: Original proposed biochemical hypothesis.4. Hoffer, Abram, Humphry Osmond, and John Smythies. “Schizophrenia: A New Approach. II. Result of a Year’s Research.” Journal of Mental Science 100, no. 418 (1954): 29–45. doi:10.1192/bjp.100.418.29.Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/13152519/Access/evidence: Citation and publisher extract verified; full paper not reviewed. Episode use: Early follow-up research.5. Hoffer, Abram. “Adrenochrome in Blood Plasma.” American Journal of Psychiatry 114, no. 8 (1958): 752–753. doi:10.1176/ajp.114.8.752.Link: https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ajp.114.8.752Access/evidence: Citation verified; full paper paywalled. Episode use: Hoffer’s claimed measurement, not an accepted consensus.6. Szára, Stephen, Julius Axelrod, and Seymour Perlin. “Is Adrenochrome Present in the Blood?” American Journal of Psychiatry 115, no. 2 (1958): 162–163. doi:10.1176/ajp.115.2.162.Link: https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/ajp.115.2.162Access/evidence: Publisher abstract available. Episode use: Reports nondetection using the researchers’ method; a direct historical contrast with Hoffer.7. Cohen, Gerald, Bernard Holland, and Marcel Goldenberg. “The Stability of Epinephrine and Arterenol (Norepinephrine) in Plasma and Serum: A Comparison of Normal and Schizophrenic Subjects.” AMA Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry 80, no. 4 (1958): 484–487. doi:10.1001/archneurpsyc.1958.02340100084020.Link: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/archneurpsyc/article-abstract/652760Access/evidence: Publisher abstract/introduction available. Episode use: A related but distinct experimental question about catecholamine behavior.8. Heacock, R. A. “The Chemistry of Adrenochrome and Related Compounds.” Chemical Reviews 59, no. 2 (1959): 181–237. doi:10.1021/cr50026a001.Link: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/cr50026a001Access/evidence: Bibliographic record and period text identified. Episode use: Comprehensive contemporary chemistry review.9. Payza, A. N., and M. E. Mahon. “Spectrofluorometric Estimation of Adrenochrome in Human Plasma.” Analytical Chemistry 31, no. 7 (1959): 1170–1174. doi:10.1021/ac60151a028.Link: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac60151a028Access/evidence: Citation verified; full paper paywalled. Episode use: Analytical-method dispute and measurement limitations.10. Payza, A. N., and Margaret Mahon. “Modification of Spectrofluorometric Determination of Aminochromes in Human Plasma.” Analytical Chemistry 32, no. 1 (1960): 17–19. doi:10.1021/ac60157a005.Link: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac60157a005Access/evidence: Citation verified; full paper not reviewed. Episode use: Follow-up modification to assays.11. Grof, Stanislav, M. Vojtěchovský, V. Vítek, and S. Pranková. “Clinical and Experimental Study of Central Effects of Adrenochrome.” Journal of Neuropsychiatry 4 (1963): 33–50.Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14089791/Access/evidence: PubMed bibliography verified; full study not reviewed. Episode use: Historical publication and experimental research context; no specific numerical outcomes in the final script pending original paper.12. Throne, M. L., and C. W. Gowdey. “A Critical Review of Endogenous Psychotoxins as a Cause of Schizophrenia.” Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal 12 (1967). doi:10.1177/0706
- 1 weeks ago1h 4m
WHO Sold Us Halloween? A History w/ Christian Kenny & Nick (Occult Rejects)
Links For The Occult Rejectshttps://linktr.ee/theoccultrejectsOccult Research Institutehttps://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/Substackhttps://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-pageCash Apphttps://cash.app/$theoccultrejectsVenmo@TheOccultRejectsPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejectsAlso want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.
- 1 weeks ago55 min
The History of The Occult Hermaphrodite
Links For The Occult Rejectshttps://linktr.ee/theoccultrejectsOccult Research Institutehttps://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/Substackhttps://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-pageCash Apphttps://cash.app/$theoccultrejectsVenmo@TheOccultRejectsPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejectsBIBLIOGRAPHYANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN SOURCESDiodorus Siculus. Bibliotheca Historica (Library of History), Book IV. Especially the discussion of Hermaphroditus as the offspring of Hermes and Aphrodite and as possessing combined male and female characteristics.Ovid. Metamorphoses, Book IV, especially the episode of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus.Plato. Symposium, especially Aristophanes’ speech, 189d–193d, for the myth of primordial male, female, and androgynous human beings and their division by Zeus.Theophrastus. Characters, especially the discussion of the “Superstitious Man,” traditionally connected with early evidence for Hermaphroditus.Posidippus. Hermaphroditus. Surviving fragment/testimonia concerning the lost Hellenistic comedy.Ajootian, Aileen. “The Only Happy Couple: Hermaphrodites and Gender.” In studies of ancient representations of Hermaphroditus and erotic sculpture. Useful for the Hellenistic and Roman iconographic tradition.Brisson, Luc. Sexual Ambivalence: Androgyny and Hermaphroditism in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Important for the broader ancient history of androgyny and hermaphroditism.JEWISH, RABBINIC, AND KABBALISTIC SOURCESGenesis Rabbah 8:1. Especially the teachings concerning Adam as androgynos and du-parzufim.Babylonian Talmud. Berakhot 61a and Eruvin 18a. For related rabbinic discussions of the original human as double-sided or possessing two faces.Philo of Alexandria. De Opificio Mundi (On the Creation). Relevant to earlier Jewish-Hellenistic speculation concerning primordial humanity and sexual differentiation.Sefer ha-Bahir. For early medieval Kabbalistic material contributing to later gendered sefirotic symbolism.The Zohar. Especially passages concerning masculine and feminine divine configurations, the Shekhinah, Tiferet, Adam, and supernal union.Tishby, Isaiah. The Wisdom of the Zohar: An Anthology of Texts. 3 vols. Translated by David Goldstein. Oxford: Littman Library, 1989.Scholem, Gershom. Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism. New York: Schocken Books.Scholem, Gershom. On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism. Translated by Ralph Manheim. New York: Schocken Books, 1965.Idel, Moshe. Kabbalah: New Perspectives. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.Wolfson, Elliot R. Circle in the Square: Studies in the Use of Gender in Kabbalistic Symbolism. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.Wolfson, Elliot R. Through a Speculum That Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.Wolfson, Elliot R. Language, Eros, Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination. New York: Fordham University Press, 2005.Brown, Jeremy Phillip. “God as Androgyne in Medieval Kabbalah: Toward a History of the Doctrine.” Traditio 80 (2025). Particularly important for reassessing older claims concerning the antiquity of fully developed divine-androgyny doctrines within Provençal Kabbalah.CHRISTIAN CABALA AND RENAISSANCE OCCULT PHILOSOPHYPico della Mirandola, Giovanni. Conclusiones Nongentae (900 Conclusions). 1486.Reuchlin, Johannes. De Verbo Mirifico. 1494.Reuchlin, Johannes. De Arte Cabalistica. 1517.Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius. De Occulta Philosophia Libri Tres (Three Books of Occult Philosophy). Complete edition, 1533.Copenhaver, Brian P., ed. and trans. Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.Forshaw, Peter J. Studies on the conjunction of Cabala, magic, and chymistry in early-modern European esotericism. Particularly useful for understanding the intellectual environment connecting Christian Cabala with alchemical and magical traditions.MEDIEVAL AND EARLY-MODERN ALCHEMY — PRIMARY SOURCESAurora Consurgens. Medieval/early Renaissance alchemical manuscript tradition. Especially important for the development of sexual, generative, and composite alchemical imagery before the printed Rosarium Philosophorum.Rosarium Philosophorum. In De Alchimia. Frankfurt, 1550. Essential for the sequence of Sol and Luna, the royal couple, conjunction, death, purification, regeneration, and hermaphroditic transformation.Khunrath, Heinrich. Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae. Hamburg, 1595; expanded posthumous edition, Hanau, 1609. Especially the circular figures known as Adam Androgyne, Rebis or Alchemical Hermaphrodi
- 1 weeks ago59 min
Can Your Dreams Be Hacked? W/ Nick of The Occult Rejects
Links For The Occult Rejectshttps://linktr.ee/theoccultrejectsOccult Research Institutehttps://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/Substackhttps://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-pageCash Apphttps://cash.app/$theoccultrejectsVenmo@TheOccultRejectsPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejectsAlso want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.
- 1 weeks ago1h 10m
Beetlejuice and The Sacred Clown Part 2: History, Restriction, Misinterpretation, and a Deeper Connection
Links For The Occult Rejectshttps://linktr.ee/theoccultrejectsOccult Research Institutehttps://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/Substackhttps://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-pageCash Apphttps://cash.app/$theoccultrejectsVenmo@TheOccultRejectsPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejectsBIBLIOGRAPHYBabcock, Barbara A., ed. The Reversible World: Symbolic Inversion in Art and Society. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1978. This is one of the major theoretical works behind our discussion of symbolic inversion, reversal, reflexivity, and why societies sometimes institutionalize behavior that deliberately contradicts ordinary norms.Black Elk [Nicholas Black Elk], as told through John G. Neihardt. Black Elk Speaks. Originally published 1932; complete annotated edition, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Chapter 16, “Heyoka Ceremony,” is the important material for our comparison, particularly Black Elk’s explanation that Heyoka authority is connected with visions of the Thunder Beings and that sacred power is expressed through apparently foolish or reversed behavior. The modern Nebraska edition includes annotations by Lakota scholar Raymond J. DeMallie and additional contextual material.Burke, Charles H. “Circular 1665: Indian Dancing.” Office of Indian Affairs, April 26, 1921; “Supplement to Circular No. 1665: Indian Dancing,” February 14, 1923; and “To All Indians,” February 24, 1923. Copies are preserved in the Indian Rights Association Papers, reel 40, D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Newberry Library. These are the crucial primary federal documents behind our discussion of attempts to discourage, regulate, and suppress Native dances. Contemporary archival citations confirm the dates and repository.Mathiowetz, Michael D. “The Keepers of Tradition: Clown Societies in the Casas Grandes and Puebloan Worlds.” KIVA: Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History 91, no. 2 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1080/00231940.2025.2461803. This is the major new archaeological source in Part Two. Mathiowetz argues that clown societies existed within the Casas Grandes cultural world during the Medio Period, approximately AD 1200–1450, and may have influenced later Pueblo clown institutions; he also explores relationships with governance, Sun Youth, katsina ritualism, medicine societies, and agriculture.Mathiowetz, Michael D. “The Sun Youth of the Casas Grandes Culture, Chihuahua, Mexico (AD 1200–1450).” KIVA 84, no. 3 (2018): 367–390. https://doi.org/10.1080/00231940.2018.1463685. This earlier article supplies much of the archaeological and iconographic background underlying Mathiowetz’s later clown-society argument, particularly his reconstruction of Sun Youth and the political-religious complexity of Paquimé.National Gallery of Art. “Awa Tsireh: Two Kossa,” ca. 1925. Corcoran Collection, accession 2015.19.381. This is the primary museum record for the artwork we discuss throughout Part Two: two Kossa figures painted by San Ildefonso Pueblo artist Awa Tsireh during the period of the Pueblo dance controversy.National Gallery of Art. “Expressing the Individual” and “Artists Who Expand Views of the Southwest.” These NGA interpretive resources are particularly valuable because they discuss Awa Tsireh’s repeated representation of Kossa, the possibility that his clown imagery responded to federal attempts to suppress Pueblo ceremonial life, and his practice of omitting or altering details to protect sacred Pueblo knowledge from non-Pueblo viewers.National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. “Statement on Online Collections and Culturally Sensitive Collections.” This is the major contemporary museum source behind our section on restricted knowledge. NMAI explicitly states that it withholds culturally sensitive images and information when requested by authorized Native or Indigenous communities and can present records without publicly displaying the objects themselves.National Museum of the American Indian. Koyemsi (Mud Head Clown) Mask, ca. 1966. A (Zuni), catalog no. 25/8935. This object was especially useful because NMAI identifies it as a ceremonial/ritual object and currently withholds its image, making it a concrete example of the principle that museum possession does not automatically make ceremonial material unrestricted public property.National Park Service. “John Fire Lame Deer (Tahca Ushte).” NPS biographical resource. Useful as a supplementary source for the Heyoka comparison because the NPS explicitly identifies Lame Deer as a Heyoka, explains the association with dreams or visitations involving Thunder Beings, and distinguishes that sacred role from ordinary clowning.Parsons, Elsie Clews. Hopi and Zuñi Ceremonialism. Memoirs of the
- 1 weeks ago1h 4m
Beetlejuice and The Sacred Clown Part 1: The Koshare and The Ritual of Breaking Every Rule
Links For The Occult Rejectshttps://linktr.ee/theoccultrejectsOccult Research Institutehttps://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/Substackhttps://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-pageCash Apphttps://cash.app/$theoccultrejectsVenmo@TheOccultRejectsPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejectsBIBLIOGRAPHYBeals, Ralph L. Preliminary Report on the Ethnography of the Southwest. Berkeley, CA: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Field Division of Education, 1935. This is one of the major historical comparative sources behind the sections on Pueblo ceremonial organization, clown societies, katsina dances, agriculture, rain ceremonialism, medicine societies, and policing functions.Benedict, Ruth. Tales of the Cochiti Indians. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 98. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1931. This is the primary historical source for the Cochiti narratives we used, particularly “The Recovery of the Koshare” and the material concerning the recovery of the katsinas.Howard, Courtney. “[Interview] Costume Designer Colleen Atwood Fashions Character Into Clothing in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.” Fresh Fiction, September 19, 2024. Interview with Colleen Atwood discussing Aggie Guerard Rodgers’ work on the original film and Atwood’s statement that the original Beetlejuice appearance derived from a Tim Burton sketch centered on the striped suit.Mathiowetz, Michael D. “The Keepers of Tradition: Clown Societies in the Casas Grandes and Puebloan Worlds.” KIVA: Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History 91, no. 2 (2025): 147–179. https://doi.org/10.1080/00231940.2025.2461803. Particularly important for understanding Pueblo clown societies as institutions associated with governance, katsina ceremonialism, medicine societies, and the agricultural cycle, rather than merely as comic performers.Parsons, Elsie Clews. Taos Pueblo. General Series in Anthropology 2. Menasha, WI: George Banta Publishing Company, 1936. Used as part of the historical ethnographic background concerning community sanctions, ridicule, Pueblo social organization, and ceremonial clowning.Parsons, Elsie Clews, and Ralph L. Beals. “The Sacred Clowns of the Pueblo and Mayo-Yaqui Indians.” American Anthropologist 36, no. 4 (1934): 491–514. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1934.36.4.02a00020. One of the foundational comparative studies of Pueblo ceremonial clown traditions and particularly useful for demonstrating that the various clown societies should not be collapsed into one supposedly universal Native American figure.Roediger, Virginia More. Ceremonial Costumes of the Pueblo Indians: Their Evolution, Fabrication, and Significance in the Prayer Drama. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1941; reprinted 1991. The principal historical source used for the detailed descriptions of black-and-white body striping, hair arrangements, cornhusk elements, clown behavior, mimicry, village gossip, and ceremonial appearance.White, Leslie A. The Pueblo of Sia, New Mexico. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 184. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1962. Particularly important for the Sia/Zia material concerning Koshairi and Kwairina, ceremonial societies, katsina dances, corn-dance responsibilities, contrary behavior, doorkeepers, clowning, and disciplinary authority.Wenger, Tisa. We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. This is the major modern scholarly source behind our discussion of missionary accusations, alleged obscenity, Charles Burke, federal regulation of Pueblo dances, religious suppression, and the political struggle over whether Pueblo ceremonies would be recognized as “religion” under American religious-freedom discourse.Swentzell, Roxanne. Oral history interview by Mija Riedel, November 8–9, 2011. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. The interview runs approximately four hours and thirty-seven minutes with a 120-page transcript. It is particularly valuable for Swentzell’s own discussion of clown imagery, the use of the clown as a means of speaking about difficult subjects, and works such as For Sale.Godrèche, Dominique. “Speaking With Clay, Mud and Clowns: Pueblo Potter Roxanne Swentzell.” ICT News, November 26, 2013. This contains one of the most important Indigenous explanations used in Part One: Swentzell’s discussion of Koshares as figures who help maintain balance, communicate messages other community members cannot comfortably say, and reflect problematic behavior such as greed back at the person displaying it.Pueblo de Cochiti. “Visiting for Cultural Events.” Official Pueblo de Cochiti visitor guidance. Important for our methodological distin
- 2 weeks ago1h 0m
Flatliners II: TALES FROM THE DARK SIDE
Links For The Occult Rejectshttps://linktr.ee/theoccultrejectsOccult Research Institutehttps://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/Substackhttps://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-pageCash Apphttps://cash.app/$theoccultrejectsVenmo@TheOccultRejectsPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejectsAlso want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.
- 2 weeks ago1h 38m
Flatliners: Into The Undiscovered Country
Links For The Occult Rejectshttps://linktr.ee/theoccultrejectsOccult Research Institutehttps://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/Substackhttps://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-pageCash Apphttps://cash.app/$theoccultrejectsVenmo@TheOccultRejectsPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejectsBIBLIOGRAPHYCARDIAC ARREST, RESUSCITATION, AND CONSCIOUSNESSDreier, Jens P., Sebastian Major, Brandon Foreman, et al. “Terminal Spreading Depolarization and Electrical Silence in Death of Human Cerebral Cortex.” Annals of Neurology 83, no. 2 (2018): 295–310. DOI: 10.1002/ana.25147.Parnia, Sam, Ken Spearpoint, Gabriele de Vos, et al. “AWARE—AWAreness during REsuscitation—A Prospective Study.” Resuscitation 85, no. 12 (2014): 1799–1805. DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2014.09.004.Parnia, Sam, Tara Keshavarz Shirazi, Jignesh Patel, et al. “AWAreness during REsuscitation—II: A Multi-Center Study of Consciousness and Awareness in Cardiac Arrest.” Resuscitation 191 (2023): 109903. DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2023.109903.West, Rebecca L., Quentin Otto, Ian R. Drennan, Sarah Rudd, Bernd W. Böttiger, Sam Parnia, and Jasmeet Soar. “CPR-Related Cognitive Activity, Consciousness, Awareness and Recall, and Its Management: A Scoping Review.” Resuscitation Plus 10 (2022): 100241. DOI: 10.1016/j.resplu.2022.100241.van Lommel, Pim, Ruud van Wees, Vincent Meyers, and Ingrid Elfferich. “Near-Death Experience in Survivors of Cardiac Arrest: A Prospective Study in the Netherlands.” The Lancet 358, no. 9298 (2001): 2039–2045. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(01)07100-8.Greyson, Bruce. “The Near-Death Experience Scale: Construction, Reliability, and Validity.” Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 171, no. 6 (1983): 369–375. DOI: 10.1097/00005053-198306000-00007.THE DYING BRAINVicente, Raul, Michael Rizzuto, Can Sarica, et al. “Enhanced Interplay of Neuronal Coherence and Coupling in the Dying Human Brain.” Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 14 (2022): 813531. DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.813531.Greyson, Bruce, Pim van Lommel, and Peter Fenwick. “Commentary: Enhanced Interplay of Neuronal Coherence and Coupling in the Dying Human Brain.” Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 14 (2022): 899491. DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.899491.Xu, Gang, Temenuzhka Mihaylova, Duan Li, et al. “Surge of Neurophysiological Coupling and Connectivity of Gamma Oscillations in the Dying Human Brain.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120, no. 19 (2023): e2216268120. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2216268120.Martial, Charlotte, Pauline Fritz, Olivia Gosseries, et al. “A Neuroscientific Model of Near-Death Experiences.” Nature Reviews Neurology 21 (2025): 297–311. DOI: 10.1038/s41582-025-01072-z.O’Grady, Greg, and Chris Varghese. “Limitations of Neurocentric Models for Near-Death Experiences.” Nature Reviews Neurology 21 (2025): 461. DOI: 10.1038/s41582-025-01117-3.Parnia, Sam, Jignesh Patel, Erik Kulstad, et al. “Recalled Experiences of Death: Need for Empirical Research without Prejudice.” Nature Reviews Neurology 22 (2026): 196–197. DOI: 10.1038/s41582-026-01186-y.Fritz, Pauline, Charlotte Martial, Olivia Gosseries, et al. “Reply to ‘Recalled Experiences of Death: Need for Empirical Research without Prejudice.’” Nature Reviews Neurology 22 (2026): 198. DOI: 10.1038/s41582-026-01187-x.PEOPLE WHO CAME BACK AND APPARENT PERCEPTIONSepioni, Francesco, Antonio Metastasio, and Manuel Monti. “A Distressing Near-Death Experience with Veridical Perceptions during Coma: Psychiatric and Clinical Reflections from a Rare Case.” Rivista di Psichiatria 61, no. 1 (2026): 33–36. DOI: 10.1708/4641.46507.Smit, Rudolf H. “Corroboration of the Dentures Anecdote Involving Veridical Perception in a Near-Death Experience.” Journal of Near-Death Studies 27, no. 1 (2008): 47–61.Sabom, Michael B. Light & Death: One Doctor’s Fascinating Account of Near-Death Experiences. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1998. [Primary published source for the Pam Reynolds account.]Ebbern, Hayden, Sean Mulligan, and Barry L. Beyerstein. “Maria’s Near-Death Experience: Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop.” Skeptical Inquirer 20, no. 4 (1996): 27–33. [Critical investigation of the Maria’s-shoe case.]Sharp, Kimberly Clark. “The Other Shoe Drops: Commentary on ‘Does Paranormal Perception Occur in Near-Death Experiences?’” Journal of Near-Death Studies 25, no. 4 (2007): 245–250. [Response concerning the Maria’s-shoe controversy.]EXPERIMENTALLY INDUCED NDE-LIKE STATESLempert, Thomas, Michael Bauer, and Dieter Schmidt. “Syncope and Near-Death Experience.” The Lancet 344 (1994): 829–830. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(94)92389-2.Martial, Charlotte, Andrea Piarulli, Olivia Gosseries, Héléna Cassol, Didier Ledoux, Vanessa Charland-Verville, and Steven Laure
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