Near-death experiences

Higher doses of ketamine (more than 100 milligrams) produce more profound psychological effects, sometimes known as the K-Hole. Here, users often experience out-of-body or near-death experiences, where they feel like... 

Beings in the Bonnet realm sometimes have blank eye sockets. This image is also occasionally reported by people who have used the hallucinogen Special K (ketamine hydrochloride). One person e-mailed me to tell me that, while under the influence of Special K, everything was normal except that people in the room suddenly had no eye sockets, just black voids, and he saw light being sucked into the void from around the periphery of the eyeballs. Ketamine has also been associated with feelings of ego loss, out-of-body experiences, and near-death experiences. 

Near-Death Experiences, Proust, and the Dissolution of Self... 

Near-death experiences (NDEs) are sometimes reported by people who have nearly died or have been clinically dead and revived. During the experience, people sometimes have the sensation of floating above their bodies and seeing a tunnel of light. 

People having near-death experiences sometimes say that they see a silver cord connecting their bodies to heaven or to their souls. They... 

Williams, Kevin, City of Light Near Death Experiences, http // www.near-death.com/experiences/researchl9.html... 

I m so skeptical that I ve written numerous articles for American s foremost skeptic magazine, Skeptical Inquirer. On the other hand, unlike some skeptics I know, I am deeply fascinated by religion, near-death experiences, psychoactive compounds, the spiritual, and even the Bible. 

A 59-year-old woman, grade ASA I, had psychiatric effects associated with local anesthetic toxicity after receiving bupivacaine 50 mg and mepivacaine 75 mg for an axillary plexus block. She complained of dizziness and a near death experience (464). 

Ring, K. Heading toward Omega In Search of the Meaning of the Near-Death Experience. New York Morrow, 1984. 

The evidence suggests that these phenomena may be a good deal more "common" than the quoted author realizes. The following account beautifully combines the four related themes of gnosticism, hallucinogens, shamanism and a Near Death experience into one event. Anthropologist Michael Harner here describes an adventure with ayahuasca, the potent psychedelic brew of Amazonian shamanism ... 

Ketamine also has been known to produce "out-of-body" or "near-death" experiences, even at lower doses than those used by doctors for human anesthesia. A user may feel as if he or she is in a tunnel. Some believe they experience oneness with God or see the future. In some cases, users report that they felt they had died... 

A week after the experiment, still mildly confused as a result of his near-death experience, Kelly was asked by Basil Clarke to undertake a series of psychological tests to assess his intellectual efficiency , spatial and temporal orientation , immediate and recent memory , and comprehension . MI, Folder 2B, Exhibit MNJ/18, PTP 361, A Case of Severe GB Poisoning in Man , 21 May 1953, Appendix II, Psychological State A Week after Exposure , by Basil Clarke, pp. 222-3. 

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