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The American philosopher and physician whose 1975 book Life After Life named the near-death experience and began its modern study.

The American psychologist who carried out the first systematic study of near-death experiences and helped found IANDS.

The American psychiatrist who built the standard scale for measuring near-death experiences and has studied them for five decades.

An American researcher and near-death experiencer known for her work on the after-effects of the experience and on children who have it.

The American hypnotherapist who developed life-between-lives hypnotherapy and described it in Journey of Souls.

The American hypnotherapist and author whose regression work is a direct source for parts of The Bridge.

The psychiatrist who spent forty years investigating young children's reports of previous lives at the University of Virginia.

The Dutch cardiologist who led the largest prospective hospital study of near-death experiences, published in The Lancet in 2001.