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IANDS

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IANDS, the International Association for Near-Death Studies, is an independent nonprofit organization that supports research, education, and community around near-death experiences.

IANDS has no affiliation with this wiki or with The Source of Aletheia. It has not reviewed or endorsed Universal Panpsychism.

History

Established scholarship

After Raymond Moody's Life After Life appeared in 1975, a small group of researchers began meeting to study the phenomenon systematically. In 1978 John Audette, Bruce Greyson, Kenneth Ring, and Michael Sabom formed the Association for the Scientific Study of Near-Death Phenomena. In 1981 it was renamed the International Association for Near-Death Studies.[1] Its headquarters have been in Durham, North Carolina, since 2008.

What it does

Established scholarship
  • Research. It publishes the Journal of Near-Death Studies, a peer-reviewed quarterly and the only scholarly journal devoted to the field. The journal began under the title Anabiosis.
  • Education. It holds an annual conference and provides information for health professionals and the public.
  • Support. It sponsors local groups where people who have had a near-death experience can talk about it. Many experiencers report that they had no one to tell.

Neutrality

Established scholarship

IANDS brings together people who interpret near-death experiences in very different ways, from evidence of an afterlife to a product of the brain. Its stated policy is that it "is neutral and does not align itself with any particular social, religious, or political ideology."[2]

In 2023 Bruce Greyson, one of its founders, argued in its journal that the association should not endorse any worldview, including one he personally finds persuasive, because its value depends on being an unbiased source.[2]

Relation to Universal Panpsychism

Framework claim

There is no formal relationship. The research that IANDS publishes and supports was a helpful source while the framework was being developed, and The Bridge cites the work of Greyson.

Given the association's policy of neutrality, nothing on this wiki should be read as suggesting that IANDS shares the framework's conclusions. The framework is one interpretation of the research. IANDS takes no side among interpretations.

See also

Near-death experiences Bruce Greyson Kenneth Ring Raymond Moody The Source of Aletheia

References

  1. International Association for Near-Death Studies. (n.d.). About IANDS. https://iands.org
  2. Greyson, B. (2023). Response to editorial "Should IANDS endorse a post-physicalist worldview?": Why IANDS should not endorse a specific worldview. Journal of Near-Death Studies, 41(2), 103-108.
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