International Association for Near-Death Studies
IANDS · 2024 · IANDS
This source is used as context evidence across 4 linked claims and 4 related evidence hubs. Its citation record is marked verified; that verifies the source trail, not the truth of any linked claim.
Summary
Organisation collecting, archiving, and supporting research on near-death experiences.
How this source is used on the map
Standard reference body for NDE-related claims; archives many first-person accounts and links to peer-reviewed work.
Citation record
- Authors
- IANDS
- Year
- 2024
- Publication
- IANDS
- Source type
- Institution page
- Map role
- context
- Credibility level
- primary
- Citation status
- Verified
- DOI
- Not recorded
- PubMed
- Not recorded
- Not recorded
Linked claims
A panoramic, often empathic re-experiencing of one's life — common in NDE samples, with strong moral aftereffects.
A handful of veridical NDE cases are striking. The leap from 'unexplained by current models' to 'proof of afterlife' is large.
A consistent core experience — peace, light, life review, OBE — reported across cultures and prospective hospital studies.
Caregivers and family occasionally report sharing imagery, light, or peace at the moment of someone's death.
Related evidence hubs
Evidence around dying, near-death experience, and what (if anything) continues.
The nature of subjective experience.
Whether anything of mind continues.
Structured experiences during cardiac arrest and crisis.
Related research reports
A comparative guide to the strongest survival-adjacent evidence: NDEs, terminal lucidity, deathbed visions, past-life memories, mediumship, and after-death communication.
What NDE studies support, what they do not prove, and why the phenomenon remains one of the strongest spiritual-adjacent evidence clusters.
A balanced synthesis of the strongest and weakest evidence across afterlife, consciousness, reincarnation, mystical, psi, and practice claims.
Related sources
Direct background for any claim about whether something of the person survives death, and a useful guardrail against treating survival as a single simple proposition.
The leading academic group publishing on cases of children claiming past-life memories and on Greyson's NDE work.
Use this for the broad OBE phenomenon. It should sit beside astral-projection and NDE sources so the experience, neurological mechanisms, and spiritual interpretation remain separate.
Reasonable general-audience starting point for these phenomena, especially for distinguishing clinical reports from afterlife interpretation.
Direct topical reference; the phenomenon is rarely covered in academic encyclopedias, so this serves as a limited orientation rather than strong evidence.
The institutional home for serious empirical work on past-life memories and survival-related anomalies.