Staying on the near-death experience theme from yesterday, I went and dug up one of my all-time favorite papers on the topic: Dorothy Counts‘ 1983 study of NDEs in New Guinea. Of particular note were the visions described by the Kaliai, a people who inhabit West New Britain. When they hallucinate about the Great Beyond […]
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Heaven to the Kaliai
November 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Tags:anthropology·Dante·Dorothy Counts·NDEs·New Guinea·religion