title: Near-death experience as mystical experience.
abstract: Near-death experience exhibits many attributes of mystical awareness. Assessing the mystical quality of psychedelic experience, Walter Pahnke identified a nine-category typology of mystical experience. It is used here to illustrate the mystical nature of near-death experience. The typology also describes the self-transformation which follows the mystical state of consciousness. Self-transformation results from near-death experience. Pahnke's mystical typology characterizes the near-death experience and allows for a definition of near-death experience as a mystical state.
authors.affiliation: Adirondack Community College in Glens Falls, New York.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pennachio