{ "schema": "akashicnet.bq001.discovery_source_extraction.v1", "version": "0.1.0", "published_date": "2026-09-17", "question_id": "BQ001", "status": "discovery_and_methods_review_only", "discovery_source": { "title": "Near-Death Experiences and the Afterlife", "url": "https://near-death.com/", "classification": "secondary_discovery_catalogue", "admission_rule": "No claim is admitted from the catalogue itself. Each lead must resolve to an original paper or case report and pass identity, manifestation-deduplication, rights and claim-family checks." }, "boundary": { "bq001_status": "UNRESOLVED", "current_maturity_level": 8, "accepted_edges": 0, "promoted_records": 0, "supports_models": [], "scientific_evidence_promotion": false, "truth_inference": false, "frozen_case_cohort_changed": false }, "counts": { "catalogue_records": 1, "new_primary_screen_candidates": 7, "existing_underlying_works_deduplicated": 3, "total_ledger_rows": 11 }, "records": [ { "id": "NDX-000", "title": "Near-Death.com", "year": 2026, "url": "https://near-death.com/", "claim_family": "discovery_map", "design": "secondary curated catalogue", "deduplication": "catalogue_only", "disposition": "DISCOVERY_ONLY", "method_note": "Useful for finding leads, but it mixes research, historical material, testimony, interpretation and speculation." }, { "id": "NDX-001", "title": "Near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest: a prospective study in the Netherlands", "authors": "van Lommel, van Wees, Meyers & Elfferich", "year": 2001, "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11755611/", "doi": "10.1016/S0140-6736(01)07100-8", "claim_family": "nde_prospective_cardiac_arrest", "design": "prospective observational study; 344 consecutive resuscitated cardiac-arrest survivors across ten hospitals", "deduplication": "new_to_public_bq001_source_set", "disposition": "SCREEN", "method_note": "Strong for incidence, correlates and longitudinal aftereffects; not a prospective hidden-target verification and not a test of irreversible death." }, { "id": "NDX-002", "title": "The effect of carbon dioxide on near-death experiences in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors", "authors": "Klemenc-Ketis, Kersnik & Grmec", "year": 2010, "url": "https://doi.org/10.1186/cc8952", "doi": "10.1186/cc8952", "claim_family": "nde_physiological_correlates", "design": "prospective observational study of resuscitated out-of-hospital cardiac-arrest survivors", "deduplication": "new_to_public_bq001_source_set", "disposition": "SCREEN", "method_note": "Reports associations with carbon-dioxide and potassium measurements; small observational sample, multiple comparisons and timing of blood sampling limit causal inference." }, { "id": "NDX-003", "title": "Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences in the Blind: A Study of Apparent Eyeless Vision", "authors": "Ring & Cooper", "year": 1997, "url": "https://doi.org/10.17514/JNDS-1997-16-2-p101-147", "doi": "10.17514/JNDS-1997-16-2-p101-147", "claim_family": "nde_blind_visual_reports", "design": "retrospective interview study of 31 blind respondents", "deduplication": "new_to_public_bq001_source_set", "disposition": "SCREEN", "method_note": "Important qualitative dataset, including congenitally blind participants; retrospective recruitment, self-report and limited independent event verification prevent a veridical-vision conclusion." }, { "id": "NDX-004", "title": "Failure to Elicit Near-Death Experiences in Induced Cardiac Arrest", "authors": "Greyson, Holden & Mounsey", "year": 2006, "url": "https://doi.org/10.17514/JNDS-2006-25-2-p85-98", "doi": "10.17514/JNDS-2006-25-2-p85-98", "claim_family": "nde_induced_cardiac_arrest_null", "design": "prospective clinical study during medically induced cardiac arrest", "deduplication": "new_to_public_bq001_source_set", "disposition": "SCREEN", "method_note": "An informative null result for this procedure and sample; it constrains claims that cardiac arrest alone reliably produces an NDE." }, { "id": "NDX-005", "title": "Near-Death Veridicality Research in the Hospital Setting: Problems and Promise", "authors": "Holden & Joesten", "year": 1990, "url": "https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc799168/m2/1/high_res_d/vol9-no1-45.pdf", "claim_family": "nde_hidden_target_feasibility", "design": "double-blind hidden-target feasibility attempt", "deduplication": "new_to_public_bq001_source_set", "disposition": "SCREEN", "method_note": "No eligible completed target test resulted; valuable as a methods and failure-mode record, not as positive or negative evidence about veridical perception." }, { "id": "NDX-006", "title": "Spontaneous Remission of Dementia Before Death: Results From a Study on Paradoxical Lucidity", "authors": "Batthyany & Greyson", "year": 2021, "url": "https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000259", "doi": "10.1037/cns0000259", "claim_family": "paradoxical_terminal_lucidity", "design": "retrospective informant study of lucid episodes in severe dementia", "deduplication": "new_to_public_bq001_source_set", "disposition": "SCREEN", "method_note": "Supports systematic description and prospective-study design; retrospective informants, uncertain diagnoses and sparse physiology do not discriminate recovery, fluctuation or continuation models." }, { "id": "NDX-007", "title": "Stimulating illusory own-body perceptions", "authors": "Blanke, Ortigue, Landis & Seeck", "year": 2002, "url": "https://doi.org/10.1038/419269a", "doi": "10.1038/419269a", "claim_family": "neurological_obe_countermodel", "design": "neurological case with focal electrical stimulation", "deduplication": "new_to_public_bq001_source_set", "disposition": "SCREEN_COUNTERSOURCE", "method_note": "Shows that altered bodily self-location can be induced by brain stimulation; a mechanistic analogue, not a complete reproduction or refutation of all NDE reports." }, { "id": "NDX-008", "title": "DMT Models the Near-Death Experience", "authors": "Timmermann et al.", "year": 2018, "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30174629/", "claim_family": "psychedelic_nde_analogue", "design": "small placebo-controlled healthy-volunteer study", "deduplication": "existing_underlying_work_cq005", "disposition": "DUPLICATE_LINK", "method_note": "Already represented in CQ-005; an alternate catalogue manifestation does not count as independent evidence." }, { "id": "NDX-009", "title": "AWARE—AWAreness during REsuscitation—A prospective study", "authors": "Parnia et al.", "year": 2014, "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25301715/", "claim_family": "nde_prospective_cardiac_arrest", "design": "multicentre prospective cardiac-arrest study", "deduplication": "existing_underlying_work_bq001", "disposition": "DUPLICATE_LINK", "method_note": "Already represented in BQ001; Near-Death.com adds no independent observation." }, { "id": "NDX-010", "title": "AWAreness during REsuscitation—II: A multi-center study of consciousness and awareness in cardiac arrest", "authors": "Parnia et al.", "year": 2023, "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37423492/", "claim_family": "nde_prospective_cardiac_arrest", "design": "multicentre prospective cardiac-arrest study with physiological monitoring and audiovisual targets", "deduplication": "existing_underlying_work_bq001", "disposition": "DUPLICATE_LINK", "method_note": "Already represented in BQ001; press releases, summaries and catalogue pages remain manifestations of the same underlying work." } ], "promotion_rule": "SCREEN means methodologically relevant and ready for claim-level review. It does not mean support for survival, reincarnation or any other BQ001 model." }