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This 5 page paper compares and criticizes three articles written about near death experiences. The author of the paper establishes which paper is the most credible of the three and to which the author had the strongest response. Bibliography lists four sources.
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attention from the medical community, religious people, the so-called "new age" thinkers, and, of course, psychologists. Americans have always been enthusiastically self-absorbed and usually uncomfortable with the uncertainty of
the one certainty -- death. With the proliferation of stories of people who have had insight to what the experience of death is really like, millions of people have
rushed to buy the latest "guide" that promises to help them "prepare." One of the authors whose work is reviewed in this paper, Jeanne Achterberg (1994), notes that the current
interest in ritual, myth, and multicultural use of symbolic healing is an additional reason to look more deeply into the nature of imagination. "Glib interpretations of symbols and the
placement of universal meaning based on a limited sample of cultures may not serve to benefit the person who is seeking knowledge and healing. On the other hand, a broad
knowledge of the way symbolic healing is used world wide, as well as a sensitive understanding of a persons personal interpretation, will lend strength to the therapeutic encounter (Achterberg, 1994).
Despite the possibility that her words may be applied to numerous psychological experiences, her comments are related to near death experience and the images and their symbolism as created
by "nonordinary" states of consciousness. Achterbergs research and experience with people in the midst of life-threatening of life-changing crises form a great deal of the background for the observations in
her article. Her work, entitled "Healing Images and Symbols in Nonordinary States of Consciousness (ReVision, 1994) draws heavily on both cultural symbolism and the collective definition of symbolism most
often accepted in the psychological field from the theories and beliefs of Carl Jung. (Jung, 1954) She carefully examines the biological, psychological, and transpersonal bases of an individuals experience of
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