NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE AND TRANSFORMATION OF AFTERLIFE BELIEF: A PSYCHOLOGICAL SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

Abstract

This psychological discussion explores the changes in attitude to life and death that near-death experiences bring to people. (Common near-death experiences where people experience the event at the time when they are on the verge of dying or already dead are the feelings of being outside his body, or meeting dead relatives or even experiencing tunneling towards the light and feeling at peace). Such experiences are supposed to affect the psychological and emotional change of afterlife beliefs. The study looks at how NDEs cause a change in the perception of life after death, spirituality, and fear of death. Secondly, NDEs change their cognitive set, people are forced to ask questions about the meaning of life, and values in their systems of belief. It is for this reason that psychological transformation is commonly linked with enhanced well-being, increased empathy and a better attitude to life. Moreover, it reconstructs the controversy over whether NDEs should be explained physiologically – as the functioning of certain brain structures — or provide a cognizance of a spiritual afterlife. In this study, the psychological effects of NDEs are considered to demonstrate how they influence new conceptions of the afterlife and the relationship between experience, thought, and spirituality.