In celebration of being named a recipient of the Parapsychology Foundation's 2021 Rogo Award for Parapsychological Media, the Historical NDE of the Month for July was from the famous psychic medium Leonora Piper. It's the only example of an NDE account from a Victorian medium as far as I know.
As with many NDE accounts (and mediumship claims, for that matter), there are some aspects of it that raise doubts about its authenticity. But it interestingly combines NDE imagery with typical Victorian afterlife conceptions of an idealized mirror-image of Earth, squarely aligned with the Spiritualist beliefs of the day. I discuss this further in my forthcoming book The Next World: Extraordinary Experiences and the Origins of the Afterlife. The book explores afterlife descriptions not only in mediumship, but also in reincarnation "intermission" memories (of a state between death and rebirth), shamanism, and of course near-death experiences. While the all share similarities, there are also major differences between the afterlife as described from these varied experiences. The Next World explains why.
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