Guidelines and standards for the study of death and recalled experiences of death
Sam Parnia, Stephen G. Post, et al. · 2022 · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1511(1), 5-21
This source is used as methodology evidence across 4 linked claims and 7 related evidence hubs. Its citation record is marked verified; that verifies the source trail, not the truth of any linked claim.
Summary
Multidisciplinary consensus statement proposing terminology and research standards for studying death, cardiac arrest, and recalled experiences of death.
How this source is used on the map
Useful authority source for careful language: it separates recalled experiences of death from broad spiritual conclusions and lays out better future-study standards.
Citation record
- Authors
- Sam Parnia, Stephen G. Post, et al.
- Year
- 2022
- Publication
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1511(1), 5-21
- Source type
- Review
- Map role
- methodology
- Credibility level
- primary
- Citation status
- Verified
- DOI
- 10.1111/nyas.14740
- PubMed
- Recorded
- Not recorded
Editorial note
Full author list intentionally trimmed to et al. for readability.
Linked claims
Hypoxia, hypercarbia, REM intrusion, endogenous DMT, and ketamine models reproduce many NDE features. Veridical cases resist the model.
The brain as transducer, not source — proposed by James, Bergson, Huxley. Compatible with neural correlates but harder to falsify.
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.
Related evidence hubs
Evidence around dying, near-death experience, and what (if anything) continues.
Cryptomnesia, anoxia models, cold reading. Counter-anchors.
Structured experiences during cardiac arrest and crisis.
What consciousness is, how it relates to brains, and whether it's basic to reality.
The nature of subjective experience.
Mind–brain relation, qualia, intentionality.
Whether anything of mind continues.
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 comparative guide to materialism, dualism, panpsychism, idealism, filter theories, and consciousness-first interpretations.
A balanced synthesis of the strongest and weakest evidence across afterlife, consciousness, reincarnation, mystical, psi, and practice claims.
Related sources
Methodological backbone of empirical NDE research — without this scale most later studies could not be compared.
The institutional home for serious empirical work on past-life memories and survival-related anomalies.
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.
Standard reference body for NDE-related claims; archives many first-person accounts and links to peer-reviewed work.
The leading academic group publishing on cases of children claiming past-life memories and on Greyson's NDE work.
The reference for what mind-body dualism means and why most contemporary philosophers reject it.