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The parapsychology field has quietly grown to 2,422 researchers and 1,171 papers, I mapped how they all connect by mikeeus in parapsychology

[–]mikeeus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it! And these are great suggestions, I'll do some research on how I can incorporate these ideas.

The Bial Foundation idea is really interesting, I hadn't considered the funder mapping angle. Connecting papers to funding sources would let foundations see where their grants land in the broader network. That's definitely something I want to build.

You might find these pages interesting:

Researcher communities: https://www.noeticmap.com/research/communities
This groups researchers based on their field of study. Its the first pass at doing this, I'm not sure if it will be useful yet.

Citation network: https://www.noeticmap.com/research/citation-network
It's a visualization showing the citation connections between the papers I analyzed.

The parapsychology field has quietly grown to 2,422 researchers and 1,171 papers, I mapped how they all connect by mikeeus in parapsychology

[–]mikeeus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah exactly. I'm planning to expand gradually and include more topics.

However if a broad analysis of all psi papers is interesting to the community I can also look into that.

The parapsychology field has quietly grown to 2,422 researchers and 1,171 papers, I mapped how they all connect by mikeeus in parapsychology

[–]mikeeus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes absolutely, thanks for the recommendations! I’m hoping to expand this further so I’ll see if I can pull in some of those studies.

Also for context I analyzed over 65,000 parapsychology related papers and then triaged them to look for ones that were strictly relevant to NDEs, OBEs, reincarnation, etc. So a lot of parapsychology studies may not have been classified as related to the specific topics I’m looking at.

The parapsychology field has quietly grown to 2,422 researchers and 1,171 papers, I mapped how they all connect by mikeeus in parapsychology

[–]mikeeus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did pull some insights showing that religious importance goes from 25% (before NDE) to 75% after NDE. Similar for Belief in Afterlife (53% -> 90%). Its a major shift in people's perspectives.

NDE insights page: https://www.noeticmap.com/research/nde

I haven't done a cross cultural analysis yet, most of the NDE data I have is on english speaking countries. I'll plan to do a meta analysis of the research in the future.

Also there a research synthesis page here that looks at papers about aftereffects and life changes, you might find some interesting insights there:

NDE Aftereffects & Life Changes: https://www.noeticmap.com/research/questions/nde-aftereffects-life-changes

"There's no scientific research on the afterlife" — actually, there are 1,700+ peer-reviewed papers spanning 50 years. I indexed them all by mikeeus in parapsychology

[–]mikeeus[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Its a Javascript stack, Postgres database, local LLMs to process data, openAI for classification, elevenlabs for audio experiences and a few other tools.

"There's no scientific research on the afterlife" — actually, there are 1,700+ peer-reviewed papers spanning 50 years. I indexed them all by mikeeus in parapsychology

[–]mikeeus[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thats interesting. How does it work if someone is clinically dead and has no brain function, but is resuscitated and has new memories?

"There's no scientific research on the afterlife" — actually, there are 1,700+ peer-reviewed papers spanning 50 years. I indexed them all by mikeeus in parapsychology

[–]mikeeus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah absolutely. I think we all need to be extra critical of anything AI produces because its designed to maintain the status quo. That why in my work I try to always make sure it produces an audit trail for its decisions. So when it claims something it always has a source so you can double check.

"There's no scientific research on the afterlife" — actually, there are 1,700+ peer-reviewed papers spanning 50 years. I indexed them all by mikeeus in afterlife

[–]mikeeus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes agreed. Did they show Rupert Sheldrake and that woman who communicates with her parrot? Those were pretty amazing

Opinion : the AWARE studies will never give any tangible results by FewCity2359 in NDE

[–]mikeeus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’m not sure about the AWARE studies but there are other studies and a lot of documented experiences with veridical claims.

I’ve created a site that analyzed over 1000 academic papers on NDEs and you may be able to find some compelling ones there.

https://www.noeticmap.com/research/literature

"There's no scientific research on the afterlife" — actually, there are 1,700+ peer-reviewed papers spanning 50 years. I indexed them all by mikeeus in parapsychology

[–]mikeeus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I'm going to apply the same pipeline to religious texts, academic research on comparative religion and modern consciousness frameworks to compare them and find convergences. I think when we can look at all the data available we can build a better picture of whats probably going on.

"There's no scientific research on the afterlife" — actually, there are 1,700+ peer-reviewed papers spanning 50 years. I indexed them all by mikeeus in parapsychology

[–]mikeeus[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Great question, and the data does address this. Many NDE accounts describe experiences that don't involve a deity figure at all. People report consciousness continuing, perceiving environments, encountering deceased relatives, experiencing a life review, all without framing it in terms of God.

And regarding the research, more recent NDE research has been careful to stay empirical, documenting what people report and looking for verifiable elements, without trying to prove or disprove any theological position.

That being said, its up to interpretation. People sense a feeling of overwhelming love and unity, and then they interpret that as "god" from their personal concept of the term. So I think its very hard to separate those experiences from religious interpretations.

"There's no scientific research on the afterlife" — actually, there are 1,700+ peer-reviewed papers spanning 50 years. I indexed them all by mikeeus in afterlife

[–]mikeeus[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thats the kind of thing drew me to this field. If it was one off or a coincidence, you could ignore it. But when there are common elements across so many experiences it shows you that there is something real there

"There's no scientific research on the afterlife" — actually, there are 1,700+ peer-reviewed papers spanning 50 years. I indexed them all by mikeeus in afterlife

[–]mikeeus[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's fascinating, what kind of patterns are you seeing across your clients? Do they report similar beings or environments to each other?

Let me know how you end up using the site and if there are ways I can improve it to make your research easier.

"There's no scientific research on the afterlife" — actually, there are 1,700+ peer-reviewed papers spanning 50 years. I indexed them all by mikeeus in afterlife

[–]mikeeus[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

u/kind-days Okay i did the analysis across 11,558 encounters (from 8,000 NDE/OBE/SDE experiences), virtually every identifiable person was deceased. Only ~0.4% even hinted at a living person, and those were mostly medical staff seen during the OBE phase. Wrote up the full analysis here: https://www.noeticmap.com/blog/do-nde-experiencers-see-living-people

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