Season 10 Episode 2 w Dr Nicole Lindsay on the relationship between near death experiences and dreaming

In this episode, I chat with Dr Nicole Lindsay regarding her research paper titled “Trauma or Transcendence. The relationship between near death experiences and dreaming.” 

 

Dr Nicole Lindsay is a senior lecturer and researcher based within the School of Psychology at Massey University, New Zealand.  Her research is primarily focused on near-death experiences, end-of-life phenomena, exceptional human experiences, consciousness, spirituality and Indigenous psychologies. She completed a PhD on the topic of near-death experiences, holds national and international research grants and publishes regularly on these topics. 

 

In this episode we chat about: 

• The definition of Near-Death Experiences (NDE) and what are common NDE’s? 

• What factors does cultural background play in NDE’s? 

• How do NDE’s effect people’s thoughts and belief’s post the experience? 

• Life Reviews, Past life experiences and reincarnation. 

• The two different ways of “getting to the top of the mountain” 

• Paper and research involved – Trauma or Transcendence. The relationship between near death experiences and dreaming. 

• We touch on religion, hippies and woo woo! 

• What are the benefits of this type of research?

• The children are the future. 

 

Useful Links: 

• Massey University - Dr Nicole Lindsay - Senior Lecturer - Massey University 

• Paper - (PDF) Trauma or Transcendence? The Relationship Between Near-Death Experiences and Dreaming 

• Research Gate - Nicole LINDSAY | Senior Lecturer | Doctor of Philosophy | Massey University, Palmerston North | School of Psychology | Research profile 

• Email – n.lindsay1@massey.ac.nz