Although there is a very complete reference list regarding the main issues in this website, for many people a short suggested reading list may be more helpful. Therefore the following are selected reading materials from the references.

Near death experiences - General reading:

Blackmore S J Near death experiences Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 1996 Vol 89 73- 76

Fenwick P and Fenwick E. "The Truth in the Light", Pub. Hodder Headline, London. 1995 and Berkley Pub Group 1997

Jansen K, Near Death Experience and the NMDA receptor, BMJ 1989 Vol 298, 1708

Moody RA, Life after Life Bantam press 1975

Roberts G, Owen J, The near-death experience.Br J Psychiatry. 1988 Nov;153:607-17

Cardiac arrest and what happens to the body and brain during the dying process.

Paradis NA, Halperin HA,,Nowak RA, Cardiac Arrest: The Science and Practice of Resuscitation Medicine Williams and Wilkins 1996. Chapters 5-7

Explaining the scientific paradox and the relation of NDE to consciousness and the mind.

Parnia S, Fenwick P Near death experiences in cardiac arrest: visions of a dying brain or visions of a new science of consciousness. Resuscitation. 2002 Jan;52(1):5-11.

The problem of consciousness.

Blackmore S, Consciousness: An Introduction Hodder and Stoughton, London, June 2003.

Chalmers D J, The Puzzle of Conscious Experience, Mysteries of the Mind, Scientific American (special issue) 1997, 30- 37

Crick F, Koch C The Problem of Consciousness, Mysteries of the Mind, Scientific American (special issue) 1997

Eccles JC, Popper K, The Self and Its Brain Routledge 2003

Editorial, Mysteries of the Mind, Scientific American (special issue) 1997,

Elahi B, Foundations of Natural Spirituality: A Scientific Approach to the Nature of the Spiritual Self, Element Books Ltd ,1998, Spirituality is a Science, Cornwall Books,1999, 35-54, Medicine of the Soul, Cornwall Books, 2001, 69-70

Elahi B, The Path of Perfection, Paraview Books, 2005

Penrose R, Shadows of the mind, Oxford University Press, 1994

Defining Reality

Henslin J, Down to Earth Sociology: Introductory Readings Free Press 13th edition 2005, pp 259 -