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Ken Ring in BackyardUpon his arrival at the University of Connecticut, Dr. Ring was hired as a social psychologist. However, towards the end of the sixties, his interests began to shift towards transpersonal psychology. This shift of focus came to a peak when he discovered Raymond Moody's best-selling book Life After Life, which galvanized his interest in near-death experiences (NDEs). Noting Moody’s philosophical approach to the investigation of NDEs, Ring concluded that this phenomenon could benefit from greater scientific scrutiny than was then currently being offered in the field. Thus, beginning in 1977, Dr. Ring set about studying NDEs with the aid of graduate and undergraduate students. This period of about a year’s worth of research led to Ring’s first book on NDEs, Life At Death, published in 1980. It was with the release of this book that Dr. Ring declared that “there was no turning back;” he had committed himself to the lifelong study of NDEs.

 

Scholarly Articles by Ken Ring Published in the Journal of Near-Death Studies

Ring, K. (1982). Precognitive and prophetic visions in near-death experiences. Anabiosis: The Journal of Near-Death Studies, 2, 47-74. [Web] [PDF]

 

Ring, K. (1984). The nature of personal identity in the near-death experience: Paul Brunton and the ancient tradition. Anabiosis - The Journal for Near-Death Studies, 4(1), 3-20. [Web] [PDF]

 

Ring, K. (1986). From alpha to omega: ancient mysteries and the NDE. Anabiosis, Volume 5, Number 2, Spring 1986 [Web] [PDF]

Ring, K. (1988). Paradise is paradise: reflections on psychedelic drugs, mystical experience and the NDE. Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 6, Number 3, Spring 1988 [Web] [PDF]

Ring, K. (1988). Prophetic visions in 1988: a critical reappraisal. Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 7, Number 1, Fall 1988 [Web] [PDF]

Ring, K. (1990). The omega project: an empirical study of the NDE-prone personality. Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 8, Number 4, Summer 1990 [Web] [PDF]

Ring, K. (1991). Amazing grace: the NDE as a compensatory gift. Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 10, Number 1, Fall 1991 [Web] [PDF]

Ring, K. (1993). Further evidence for veridical perception during NDEs. Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 11, Number 4, Summer 1993 [Web] [PDF]

Ring, K. (1993). A new book of the dead: reflections on the NDE and the Tibetan Buddhist tradition regarding the nature of death. Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 12, Number 2, Winter 1993 [Web] [PDF]

Ring, K. (1994). Commentary on Stuart W. Twemlow's "misidentified flying objects?". Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 12, Number 4, Summer 1994 [Web] [PDF]

Ring, K. (1994). Solving the riddle of frightening NDEs: some testable hypotheses and a perspective based on A Course in Miracles. Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 13, Number 1, Fall 1994 [Web] [PDF]

Ring, K. and Bache, C.(1994). A perinatal interpretation of frightening NDEs: a dialogue with Kenneth Ring. Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 13, Number 1, Fall 1994 [Web] [PDF]

Ken Ring in LibraryRing, K. (1994). Frightening NDEs revisited: a commentary on responses to my paper. Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 13, Number 1, Fall 1994 [Web] [PDF]

 

Ring, K. (1995) The impact of near-death experiences on persons who have not had them: a report of a preliminary study and two replications. Journal of Near-Death Studies, 13(4), 223-235. [Web] [PDF]

Ring, K. (1996) A note on anesthetically-induced frightening "near-death experiences." Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 15, Number 1, Fall 1996 [Web] [PDF]

Ring, K. (1997). Near-death and OBEs in the blind: a study of apparent eyeless vision. Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 16, Number 2, Winter 1997 [Web] [PDF]

Ring, K. (1998). Experiences of anoxia: do reflex anoxic seizures resemble NDEs?. Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 17, Number 2, Winter 1998 [Web] [PDF]

Ring, K. (2000). Religious wars in the NDE movement: some personal reflections on Michael Sabom's Light & Death. Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 18, Number 4, Summer 2000 [Web] [PDF]

Ring, K. (2000). Response to Kenneth Ring's "Religious wars in the NDE movement: some personal reflections on Michael Sabom's Light & Death". Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 18, Number 4, Summer 2000 [Web] [PDF]

Ring, K. (2008). The death and posthumous life of Tom Sawyer: a case study of apparent after-death communication. Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 27, Number 2, Winter 2008 [Web] [PDF]

Scholarly Articles by Ken Ring Published in Other Journals

Ken in YountvilleRing, K. (1967). Some impending reorientations in social psychology: some thoughts provoked. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 3(2), 124-139.

Ring, K. (1979) Further studies of near-death experiences. Theta, 7(2):1-3. [Reprinted in The near-death experience: problems, prospects, perspectives (pp. 30-36), Charles C. Thomas, Springfield IL, 1984.] 

Ring, K. (1980). Religiousness and near-death experiences: An empirical study. Theta, 8(3), 3-5.

Ring, K. (1980). Religious aspects of near-death experiences: some research findings and their implications. Journal of the Academy of Religion and Psychical Research, 3(2):105-114.

Ring, K. (1980). Commentary on Ernest A. Rodin, The reality of death experiences: a personal perspective. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 168(5):273-274.

Ring, K. & Franklin, S. (1980). Do suicide survivors report near-death experiences? Omega, 12(3):191-208.

Ring, K. (1981). Paranormal and other non-ordinary aspects of near-death experiences - Implications for a new paradigm. Essence, 5(1), 33-51.

Ring, K. (1984). Near-death studies: an overview. In, Bruce Greyson and Charles P. Flynn [Eds.], The Near-Death Experience: Problems, Prospects, Perspectives (pp. 5-15). Charles C. Thomas, Springfield IL.

Ring, K. (1984). Measuring the near-death experience. In, Bruce Greyson and Charles P. Flynn [Eds.], The Near-Death Experience: Problems, Prospects, Perspectives (pp. 37-44). Charles C. Thomas, Springfield IL.

Ring, K. and Agar, A. (1986) The omega project. Re-Vision, 8(2):87-88.

Ring, K. (1986) Near-death experiences: implications for human evolution and planetary transformation. Re-Vision, 8(2):75-85.

Ring, K. (1987). Near-death experiences: Intimations of immortality? In J. S. Sprong (Ed.), Consciousness and survival: An interdisciplinary inquiry into the possibility of life beyond biological death. Sausalito, CA.: Institute of Noetic Sciences.

Ring, K. (2004). The life changes inventory: revised. Journal [PDF]

Ring, K. (2011). How I came to spend my life among the once nearly dead: Ken Ring's story. Neuroquantology [PDF]


Book Reviews by Ken Ring Published in the Journal of Near-Death Studies

Ken Ring in Grey and WhiteRing, K. (1982). Book Review: Adventures in immortality: a look beyond the threshold of death: by George Gallup Jr. Anabiosis, Volume 2, Number 2, December 1982 [Web] [PDF]

Ring, K. (1989). Book Review: The return from silence: a study of NDEs by D. Scott Rogo. Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 8, Number 2, Winter 1989 [Web] [PDF]

Ring, K. (1992). Book Review: Whole in one: the NDE and the ethic of interconnectedness by David Lorimer. Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 10, Number 4, Summer 1992 [Web] [PDF]

Ring, K. (1995). Book Review: Dying to live: science and near-death experience by Susan Blackmore. Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 14, Number 2, Winter 1995 [Web] [PDF]

Ring, K. (1998). Book Review: Children of the light: the NDEs of children by Cherie Sutherland. Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 17, Number 2, Winter 1998 [Web] [PDF]

Book Reviews of Ken Ring's Books Published in the Journal of Near-Death Studies

Grosso, M. (1985). Book Review: Heading toward omega: by Kenneth Ring. Anabiosis, Volume 5, Number 1, Spring 1985 [Web] [PDF]

Alexander, J. (1993). Book Review: The omega project: NDEs, UFO encounters, and mind at large by Ken Ring. Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 11, Number 4, Summer 1993 [Web] [PDF]

Grosso, M. (2000). Book Review: Lessons from the light: what we can learn from the NDE by Ken Ring, Evelyn Elsaesser Valarino. Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 19, Number 2, Winter 2000 [Web] [PDF]

Twemlow, S. (2002). Book Review: Mindsight: near-death and OBEs in the blind by Ken Ring, Sharon Cooper. Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 21, Number 1, Fall 2002 [Web] [PDF]

 

Saqfrqansky, S. (1975). A Map of Consciousness (Review of Ken Ring's article "A Transpersonal View of Consciousness: A Mapping of Farther Regions of Inner Space"). Theta, Number 45, Summer 1975. [PDF]

Letters to the Editor by Ken Ring Published in the Journal of Near-Death Studies

Ken with arms crossedRing, K. (1991). Letter to the Editor: Kenneth Ring responds. Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 9, Number 4, Summer 1991 [Web] [PDF]

Ring, K. (1991). Letter to the Editor: Premonitions of what could have been. Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 10, Number 1, Fall 1991 [Web] [PDF]

Ring, K. (1995). Letter to the Editor: More on Kenneth Ring's "swan song". Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 13, Number 3, Spring 1995 [Web] [PDF]

Ring, K. (2005). Letter to the Editor: Scope of IANDS and the journal. Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 24, Number 1, Fall 2005 [Web] [PDF]

Ring, K. (2007). Letter to the Editor: Response to Keith Augustine. Journal of Near-Death Studies, Volume 26, Number 1, Fall 2007 [Web] [PDF]

 

Ken Ring's Contribution in Other Books

Fingerprints of God: Evidences from Near-Death Studies, Scientific Research on Creation & Mormon Theology - by Arvin Gibson, Foreword by Ken Ring

The Gifts of Near-Death Experiences: You Don't Have to Die to Experience Your True Home - by Sheila Fabricant Linn et al, Foreword by Ken Ring [Kindle eBook]

The Ketamine Papers: Science, Therapy, and Transformation - Edited by Phil Wolfson et al [Kindle eBook]

On the Other Side of Life: Exploring the Phenomenon of the Near-Death Experience - by Evelyn Elsaesser Valarino, Foreword by Kenneth Ring [Hardcover] [Kindle eBook]

Our Life after Death: A Firsthand Account from an 18th-Century Scientist and Seer - by Emanuel Swedenborg, Introduction by Kenneth Ring [Kindle eBook]

Tunnel To Eternity: Beyond Near-Death - by Leon Rhodes, Foreword by Kenneth Ring [Kindle eBook]

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