January 1, 2020
Edward F. Kelly, Emily Williams Kelly, Adam Crabtree et al.
145 citations
The author argues that mainstream cognitive science and neuroscience fail to account for the full range of human mental phenomena, particularly those involving agency, selfhood, and subjective experience. Drawing on examples from psychical research, automatism, and mysticism, the text contends that the mind cannot be reduced to brain processes and that a broader, more inclusive framework is needed to understand consciousness. The review critically examines the assumptions of physicalism and reductionism, suggesting that empirical evidence from anomalous experiences supports a non-reductive view of mind.
January 1, 2009
Bruce Greyson, Emily Williams Kelly, Edward F. Kelly
88 citations
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Death Studies
April 1, 2001
Emily Williams Kelly
53 citations
Near-death experiences (NDEs) are often dismissed as evidence for survival after death, yet many experiencers become convinced of survival. This article examines survival and nonsurvival interpretations, focusing on reports of seeing deceased persons during NDEs. It compares 74 NDEs with such reports to 200 NDEs without them. Some findings could support either interpretation, but several findings weaken the main nonsurvival hypothesis of expectation. The convergence of features suggesting survival, along with the need for multiple alternative explanations in individual and group cases, warrants taking the survival hypothesis more seriously than most scientists currently do.
OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying
June 1, 2000
Emily Williams Kelly, Bruce Greyson, Ian Stevenson
26 citations
Near-death experiences (NDEs) often convince those who have them that consciousness survives death, a conviction not shared by others. While any single NDE feature might be explained non-survivally, three features together suggest the possibility of survival: enhanced mental processes during serious physiological impairment, out-of-body experiences where the person views events from above, and awareness of remote events inaccessible to ordinary senses. The authors briefly report one case and describe two additional cases where the remote events apparently seen were verified by other people.