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Earlier
updates
(updated
11/10/21)
- 03/02/19
- Home page: added information about our
2019
study "NDE Visions of the World's
Future"
- 01/23/19
- Home page: added video and slides: NDEs:
Insights into Mind, Consciousness
& Reality and Papers:
added slides from NDEs:
Insights into Mind, Consciousness
& Reality
- 11/28/18
- Papers: added link to reprint on
ResearchGate: Near-Death
Experiences: A Critique of the
Fischer and Mitchell-Yellin
Physicalist Interpretation, with
Response and Rejoinder
- 11/28/18
- Papers: added link to reprint on
ResearchGate: Eben
Alexander’s Near-Death Experience:
How an Esquire Article
Distorted the Facts
- 10/06/18
- Home page: added video and slides: NDEs:
Elucidating the True Nature of
Reality and Papers:
added slides from NDEs:
Elucidating the True Nature of
Reality
- 10/23/17
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Home page: added
link
to IANDS NDE
Radio interview on
the mind-entity hypothesis and the
neural correlates of consciousness
- 09/17/17
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Home page: added video NDEs and
the Neural Correlates of
Consciousness and Papers:
added slides from NDEs and
the Neural Correlates of
Consciousness
- 10/31/16
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Home page: added video Unraveling
the Mystery of Memory through
NDEs
- 09/27/16
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Other writings: added Foreword
to the English edition of The Self Does
Not Die
- 09/15/16
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Home page: added video (slides and
audio): NDEs and
the Mystery of Memory
presented at ASCS 2016 Conference.
- 09/15/16
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Home page: added strongly
recommended: The
Self Does Not Die:
Verified paranormal phenomena from
NDEs.
- 09/15/16 -
Papers: added slides from Unravelling
the Mystery of Memory through
Near-Death Experiences
- 09/15/16
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Papers: added link to reprint on
ResearchGate: Explaining
Near-Death
Experiences:
Physical or Non-physical Causation?
- 02/09/16
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Home page: added video The
Importance of Veridical
Perceptions in NDEs and
link to IANDS NDE
Radio interview on
our research on
non-physical causation of NDEs and how
mind and brain work
- 12/01/15
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Papers: added abstract of Journal
of Near-Death Studies paper Explaining
Near-Death
Experiences: Physical or
Non-physical Causation?
and slides from The
Importance of Veridical
Perceptions and Veridical Information
in NDEs
- 07/24/15
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Home page: added Panel:
Next Directions in NDE Research
and excerpt on Proposed
Mind-Brain Interface
- 05/20/15
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Home page: added link to IANDS NDE Radio
interview on
veridical perceptions in NDEs
- 04/22/15
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Other writings: added news article and
commentary AWARE
study initial results
published!
- 03/28/15
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Home page: added link
to NDE article in The Atlantic
which mentions our work
- 02/23/15
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Home page: added interview of Suzanne
and Robert by Bill
Hendrickson (WCOM-FM) on Eben
Alexander's books
- 02/23/15
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Home page: added NBC
Washington story on the Science
Behind Near-Death Experiences
with a
short interview of Robert
- 09/17/14
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Home page: added video
What Medical Neuroscience Can Learn
from NDEs,
links to The
Epoch
Times
articles from 2014 IANDS
Conference
- 09/17/14
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Papers: added slides from What
Medical Neuroscience Can
Learn from NDEs
- 07/18/14
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Home page: added sign up for Raleigh
Area IANDS Groups Emails
- 06/05/14
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CVs page: added more recent photo,
thanks to Cherylee
- 06/05/14
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Home page: added The
Nature of the Near Death
Experience, featuring IANDS
presentation on 04/11/14
- 04/02/14
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CVs page: revised Research areas, added
Additional coursework: CVs
- 12/24/13
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Home page: added IANDS
NDE Radio interview and Skeptiko.com
interview
- 11/14/13
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Home page: added WBAI-FM
interview about the Open
Center Symposium
- 10/30/13
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Home page and Other writings: added blog
post What
Near-Death Experiences Tell Us
- 09/07/13
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Home page: added Open
Center engagement, Nov.
23, 2013
- 09/07/13
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Papers: added slides from workshop Solving
the Mystery of
Consciousness through NDEs
- 09/07/13
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Other writings: added commentary Esquire
article on Eben
Alexander distorts the facts
- 11/04/12
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Home page: added video of presentation
The
Future of NDE and
Consciousness Research
- 11/02/12
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Papers: added slide presentation The
Future of NDE and
Consciousness Research presented
at the 2012 IANDS Conference
(Scottsdale)
- 02/09/12
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Added link
to news article in the Durham Herald-Sun.
- 12/05/11
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Papers: added full paper
for A
theory of mind and brain that solves
the "hard problem"of consciousness
- 11/25/11
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Other writings: added letter to the
Editor, Journal of Near-Death Studies,
Near-death
experiences and EEG
surges at end of life
- 11/25/11
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Home page: added links
to the news article
in The
Epoch Times
mentioning our work.
- 09/12/11
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Home page: added video of presentation
A
Theory of Physical Interaction
in NDE that Explains NDE
Aftereffects
- 09/05/11
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Papers: added slide presentation A
Theory of Physical Interaction
in NDE that Explains NDE
Aftereffects presented
at the 2011 IANDS Conference (Durham)
- 06/08/11
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Papers: added abstract
for A
theory of mind and brain that solves
the "hard problem"of consciousness
- 05/23/11
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Other writings: added slide
presentation Near-death
research:
History and perspectives,
presented as a course
lecture on May 18, 2011
- 09/07/10
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Papers: added slide
presentation The
mystery of physical
interaction presented at the 2010
IANDS Conference (Denver)
- 09/07/10
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Papers: moved slide
presentation What
NDEs
tell us about consciousness to the
Papers page: an overview
of our theory
and work, presented
at the 2009 IANDS Conference (San Diego)
- 05/20/10
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Home page: updated
illustration of NDE
- 04/20/10
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Papers: added photos
of
poster presentation at
2010 Tucson Consciousness
Conference
- 04/05/10
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Papers: added poster paper A
theory of mind-and-brain that solves
the “hard
problem”, presented
at 2010 Tucson
Consciousness Conference
- 03/03/10
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Home page: added
illustrations of NDE and ordinary
consciousness
- 02/18/10
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Ritchie: replaced aerial
photo of 1501 Levee
St
after the tornado. The new picture has
more detail suggesting that
there may have been writing above the
front door and writing on the
side of the building, implying that the
building was painted and may
have been white.
- 01/21/10
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Introduction: added
a point
that cases of NDErs "merging" with
another person's brain imply that
the mind's internal structure is similar
from person to person. Home
page: reformatted the brief
introduction
- 01/01/10
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Home page: updated brief
introduction
- 12/26/09
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Introduction: completely revised the Introduction
to the
Self-conscious Mind to
include how our theory
addresses the "hard problem" of
consciousness
- 12/23/09
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Papers: added abstract A
theory of mind-and-brain that solves
the “hard
problem”,
submitted to 2010 Tucson Consciousness
Conference
- 12/23/09
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Home page: added Research
requests for NDE and
phantom limb cases of interaction
- 12/14/09
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Phantom limb research: added
cases to
page on Phantom
limb
pain and Therapeutic Touch
- 11/25/09
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Phantom limb research: expanded
page on Phantom
limb
pain and Therapeutic Touch
- 11/21/09
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Papers: added reprint to our 2008
paper, The
Phenomenology of the Self-conscious
Mind, to this site
- 11/17/09
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Phantom limb research: added
information
about apparent involvement of peripheral
nerves in phantom pain and
sensations of movement; split off cases
of Therapeutic Touch use in
treating phantom
pain to a separate
page
- 11/08/09
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Phantom limb research: added
information
about Therapeutic Touch which
apparently can be felt in the
phantom (like M.G.) and appears to
alleviate phantom limb pain; added
note
to use galvanic skin response in
conjunction with M.G. tests
of “touch” of an object.
- 10/25/09
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Ritchie: added details
of traffic lights in
Tyler Texas
and reasons
to
drive down to
Levee St
on the return trip.
- 10/03/09
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Phantom limb research: added
note
to use a door or similar barrier in
further double blind experiments
with M.G.
- 09/27/09 -
Other writings: added slide presentation
What
NDEs
tell us about consciousness, an
overview of our theory
and work
- 09/27/09 -
Phantom limb research: clarified
subject's reaction to “touch” with
dizziness and headache, based on
subsequent interview with subject
- 09/09/09
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Phantom limb research: reorganized phantom
limb research
page; split off results
page;
added 2009 research results
- 05/25/09
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Ritchie: added preliminary
color
analysis of 1501 Levee St roof
shows it was probably
red or reddish brown
- 04/19/09
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Other writings: added slide
presentation What
do NDEs tell us about
consciousness? which
summarizes
our theory of the self-conscious mind
and the latest lines of
reasoning about it
- 04/19/09
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Phantom limb research: added highlights
of the phantom limb
research from 2007:
summarized in 10 slides,
including three video excerpts of the
experimental sessions
- 12/31/08
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Other writings: added letter to the
Editor, Journal
of Near-Death Studies, On the
scope of analysis for the
AWARE study
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