A Curated Reading List for the Christian Reader Who Wants to Go Deeper
This appendix is for the reader who has finished the book and now wants more. Throughout these chapters I have leaned on a small number of essential sources — Tabatt, Miller, Sabom, Burke, Long, and Cooper above all — but those sources stand on a much larger body of literature worth knowing. Some of these works will deepen your discernment. A few will challenge it. A handful must be approached with real care because they teach things that are not biblical. I have included them anyway, because part of growing in discernment is learning to read difficult sources well rather than pretending they do not exist.1
Entries are organized by category. Each gives full bibliographic information followed by a brief annotation explaining what the work offers and where it fits in the conversation.
If you are new to the field and want a starting path, begin with Tabatt, Miller's Is Christianity Compatible?, Sabom's Light and Death, and Burke's Imagine Heaven. From there, work outward as your interests pull you.
These works supply the theological backbone for taking near-death and deathbed experiences seriously in the first place. Without a biblical doctrine of the soul, the spiritual realm, and spiritual deception, NDE discernment becomes either credulous reception or wholesale dismissal.
Cooper, John W. Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting: Biblical Anthropology and the Monism-Dualism Debate. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2000. The single most important biblical-theological case for substance dualism (Cooper calls it "holistic dualism") and a conscious intermediate state. Cooper's exegesis of נֶפֶשׁ (nephesh), ψυχή (psychē), and the New Testament passages on death and the afterlife shows that the biblical writers consistently affirm conscious survival of the soul between death and resurrection.2 If physicalism were true, NDEs would be impossible. Cooper shows why physicalism is not biblical.
Farris, Joshua R. An Introduction to Theological Anthropology: Humans, Both Creaturely and Divine. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2020. A current, philosophically sophisticated introduction to theological anthropology that defends a traditional dualist view while engaging recent physicalist alternatives fairly. Farris is especially helpful on the relationship between the soul and the body, the image of God, and the implications of dualism for the afterlife.3 Pair with Cooper for the biblical-exegetical foundation and Moreland for the philosophical defense.
Wilkinson, Michael A. Crowned with Glory and Honor: A Chalcedonian Anthropology. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2022. A constructive theological anthropology built outward from Chalcedonian Christology. Wilkinson argues that Christ's incarnation — taking on a complete human nature including a rational human soul — anchors what we say about human nature in general. Especially important for the question of whether the Jesus encountered in NDEs is the same incarnate Christ of the Gospels (he is) or some disembodied "Christ consciousness" (he is not).
Moreland, J. P. The Soul: How We Know It's Real and Why It Matters. Chicago: Moody, 2014. The leading evangelical philosophical defense of substance dualism, written for a thoughtful general audience. Moreland engages neuroscience, philosophy of mind, and biblical theology, and treats NDEs as evidentially significant. Read this after Cooper if you want the philosophical case to complement the biblical-theological one.
Unger, Merrill F. Biblical Demonology: A Study of the Spiritual Forces Behind the Present World Unrest. Wheaton, IL: Scripture Press, 1952; reprinted, Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 1994. The classic mid-twentieth-century evangelical treatment of demonology. Some sections feel dated, but Unger's biblical exegesis on Satan as deceiver and on the New Testament's spiritual-warfare vocabulary remains valuable. Helpful background for chapters 6 and 7 of this book.
Arnold, Clinton E. Three Crucial Questions about Spiritual Warfare. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1997. A balanced and exegetically careful treatment of demonology and spiritual warfare from a New Testament scholar. Arnold steers between the two ditches of either denying demonic activity or seeing demons everywhere. His approach matches the posture this book takes toward distressing and deceptive NDEs.
Lewis, C. S. The Screwtape Letters. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1942. The Great Divorce. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1945. Not works of NDE research, but indispensable as imaginative theology of deception, the afterlife, and the soul's journey. The Screwtape Letters dramatizes demonic deception in a way that makes Paul's "angel of light" come alive. The Great Divorce is one of the most theologically suggestive imaginative treatments of the intermediate state in the modern canon.
These books established and continue to shape the academic field of near-death studies. Most of the authors are not Christians; their value lies in the empirical and medical work they have done. Read for the data; evaluate their theological framings against Scripture.
Greyson, Bruce. After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Death. New York: St. Martin's Essentials, 2021. The most comprehensive single-volume overview by a senior academic NDE researcher. Greyson, formerly editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies, draws on decades of clinical research. Theologically he is non-committal toward Christian faith but largely respectful, and his empirical case for the reality of these experiences is among the strongest a non-confessional researcher has yet made.
van Lommel, Pim. Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience. New York: HarperOne, 2010. The book-length statement of van Lommel's landmark 2001 Lancet prospective study. Van Lommel, a Dutch cardiologist, demonstrates that NDEs occur during periods of clinically flat EEG, when on a physicalist account the brain should be incapable of generating any conscious experience. The empirical core is invaluable; the theoretical framework drifts into quantum-mysticism and should be read with discernment.
Parnia, Sam. Erasing Death: The Science That Is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death. New York: HarperOne, 2013. Parnia is a critical-care physician at NYU Langone and the lead researcher on the AWARE and AWARE II studies — the first attempts at large-scale prospective hospital-based NDE research. The book combines resuscitation science with careful documentation of NDE reports, including verified out-of-body perceptions. Parnia is methodologically conservative, which makes his work especially useful for engaging skeptics.
Long, Jeffrey, with Paul Perry. God and the Afterlife: The Groundbreaking New Evidence for God and Near-Death Experience. New York: HarperOne, 2016. The "God Study" — Long's analysis of 420 NDEs containing God-encounters from his Near-Death Experience Research Foundation database. Long documents striking consistency across cultures in descriptions of God as light, love, and overwhelming presence.4 Crucial for the empirical case that NDErs really do encounter someone, but read with discernment: Long's own conclusion ("all religions lead to the same God") is not biblical.
Sabom, Michael B. Light and Death: One Doctor's Fascinating Account of Near-Death Experiences. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1998. Sabom is a cardiologist, a PCA elder, and a rare combination — elite medical credentials and a robust evangelical theology. Light and Death presents the Atlanta Study, including the Pam Reynolds case, with both medical rigor and biblical reflection. Sabom also gives a candid case study of a syncretistic NDE that helped reshape his thinking on discernment. Indispensable.
Sabom, Michael B. Recollections of Death: A Medical Investigation. New York: Harper & Row, 1982. Sabom's earlier work, conducted while he was still skeptical of NDE claims. Includes the now-famous comparison of NDErs' descriptions of resuscitation with those of medically informed control subjects, demonstrating that NDErs frequently described accurately what controls could not.
Ring, Kenneth. Life at Death: A Scientific Investigation of the Near-Death Experience. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1980. Heading Toward Omega: In Search of the Meaning of the Near-Death Experience. New York: William Morrow, 1984. Mindsight: Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences in the Blind (with Sharon Cooper). Palo Alto, CA: William James Center, 1999. Ring's three works span empirical pioneering, theological speculation (where he tilts universalist), and one of the most striking empirical contributions in the field — Mindsight's documentation of visual NDEs in congenitally blind people. Read for the data; weigh the theology against Scripture.
These are the books that have done the explicit work of holding NDE research up against biblical and theological criteria.
Miller, J. Steve. Is Christianity Compatible with Deathbed and Near-Death Experiences? The Surprising Presence of Jesus, Scarcity of Anti-Christian Elements, and Compatibility with Historic Christian Teachings. Acworth, GA: Wisdom Creek Press, 2023. The single most important Christian engagement with the NDE corpus published in the last decade. Miller systematically analyzed consecutively uploaded NDEs at NDERF and documented the surprising prominence of Jesus, the rarity of clearly anti-Christian elements, and the broad compatibility with biblical teaching.5 Highest priority for the Christian reader.
Tabatt, Shaun. The NDE Conspiracy: Confronting Demonic Activity Surrounding Near-Death Experiences. Shippensburg, PA: Destiny Image, 2025. The discernment framework for the Christian who already believes in NDEs but wants help spotting the corrupted ones. Tabatt addresses the dark side of the movement — psychics, mediums, reincarnation, alien encounters — without falling into wholesale dismissal.6 The most direct conversation partner of the present book.
Burke, John. Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2015. A widely read, pastorally warm engagement with NDE accounts that compares them systematically with biblical teaching about heaven. Endorsed by Moreland, Habermas, and Strobel. Burke is generous in citing positive accounts; the discerning reader should pair Burke with Tabatt to maintain the testing posture.
Habermas, Gary R., and J. P. Moreland. Beyond Death: Exploring the Evidence for Immortality. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 1998. Reissued as Immortality: The Other Side of Death. Two senior evangelical philosophers treat NDEs as part of the cumulative case for the afterlife. The chapters on veridical NDEs and on the philosophical implications of consciousness during clinical death remain valuable for readers wanting a serious apologetic case.
Rawlings, Maurice. Beyond Death's Door. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1978. To Hell and Back: Life After Death — Startling New Evidence. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1993. A Christian cardiologist's pioneering work on distressing NDEs. Rawlings argued, against the prevailing optimistic narrative, that many NDEs include hellish components that are quickly forgotten or repressed. Some methodology has been challenged, but his core insight has held up. Read alongside Bush and Rommer.
First-person accounts from people who profess Christ. These vary in theological depth. Read with appreciation but also with the framework developed in chapters 10–14.
Piper, Don, with Cecil Murphey. 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life. Grand Rapids, MI: Revell, 2004. The bestselling testimony of a Baptist pastor's NDE following a fatal car accident. Theologically modest and biblically restrained. One of the safer popular Christian NDE testimonies for readers new to the genre.
Neal, Mary C. To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again. Colorado Springs: WaterBrook, 2012. 7 Lessons from Heaven: How Dying Taught Me to Live a Joy-Filled Life. Colorado Springs: Convergent, 2017. Neal is an orthopedic spine surgeon whose kayaking-accident NDE has had unusually wide reach. Largely Christian-aligned, with a few moments where the discerning reader will want to test the language against Scripture.
Storm, Howard. My Descent into Death: A Second Chance at Life. New York: Doubleday, 2005. The dramatic conversion testimony of a former art professor and atheist who experienced a distressing NDE that gave way to a Christ encounter. Storm's account of being rescued from a hellish realm by Jesus is among the most striking in the literature. His later teaching has drifted in places toward universalism; the original testimony remains powerful.
Braxton, Dean. In Heaven! Experiencing the Throne of God. Shippensburg, PA: Destiny Image, 2014. A charismatic-evangelical NDE testimony with rich biblical imagery. Braxton's emphasis on the centrality of Jesus and on the worship of heaven aligns well with biblical descriptions.
Woodford, Jim. Heaven, an Unexpected Journey: One Man's Experience with Heaven, Angels, and the Afterlife. Shippensburg, PA: Destiny Image, 2017. Catholic-charismatic testimony; Woodford wrote the foreword for Tabatt's NDE Conspiracy. The Christ-centered character of his account, and the doctrinal sobriety of his teaching ministry afterward, set him apart from many in the popular NDE-speaker circuit.
DBEs, as I argue in chapters 3 and 12, are typically more theologically reliable than NDEs, though the literature is smaller. These are the major sources.
Miller, J. Steve. Deathbed Experiences as Evidence for the Afterlife, Volume 1: A Groundbreaking, Scientific Apologetic, Evaluating Death-Related Visions, Terminal Lucidity and After-Death Communications. Acworth, GA: Wisdom Creek Press, 2024. The most thorough recent treatment of DBEs as a cumulative-case argument for the afterlife. Miller catalogs phenomena before death, at the moment of death, and after death, including terminal lucidity. Indispensable for chapters 3 and 12 of this book.
Miller, J. Steve. An Apologetic for the Survival Hypothesis Drawn from Deathbed Experiences [doctoral dissertation]. Holy Land University, 2023. The scholarly dissertation behind Miller's deathbed-experience work. Provides the full academic framework, methodology, literature review, and a tighter argumentative spine than the popular volume.
Osis, Karlis, and Erlendur Haraldsson. At the Hour of Death: A New Look at Evidence for Life After Death. New York: Avon, 1977; rev. ed., Norwalk, CT: Hastings House, 1997. The landmark cross-cultural study of deathbed visions, comparing American and Indian samples and finding remarkable consistency across very different religious backgrounds. Methodologically careful, theologically modest. The empirical foundation for nearly all subsequent DBE research.
Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth. On Death and Dying. New York: Macmillan, 1969. The book that launched the modern death-and-dying field and made deathbed phenomena a respectable subject of study. Kübler-Ross's later work moved in directions Christians cannot follow; this earlier volume remains foundational.
Fenwick, Peter, and Elizabeth Fenwick. The Art of Dying: A Journey to Elsewhere. London: Continuum, 2008. A British neuropsychiatrist and his hospice-research collaborator catalog hundreds of end-of-life experiences from UK hospices. Strong empirical work, theologically minimal. Their careful documentation of bedside visions, terminal lucidity, and synchronicities at the moment of death corroborates Miller's findings independently.
Kerr, Christopher. Death Is But a Dream: Finding Hope and Meaning at Life's End. New York: Avery, 2020. A hospice physician's research on end-of-life dreams and visions at Hospice Buffalo. Methodologically rigorous, written for a general audience. Kerr documents the comforting, deceased-loved-one-centered nature of dying patients' experiences. A natural complement to the Fenwicks and Miller.
Bush, Nancy Evans. Dancing Past the Dark: Distressing Near-Death Experiences. Cleveland, TN: Parson's Porch, 2012. The definitive treatment of distressing NDEs. Bush, a former president of IANDS, catalogs three major types: void experiences, hellish experiences, and meaningless-darkness experiences. Bush is not writing as a Christian, but her empirical work is essential before drawing theological conclusions about distressing NDEs.
Rommer, Barbara R. Blessing in Disguise: Another Side of the Near-Death Experience. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 2000. Rommer's empirical study of distressing NDEs, identifying multiple subtypes and tracing aftereffects. Read alongside Bush.
Wiese, Bill. 23 Minutes in Hell: One Man's Story About What He Saw, Heard, and Felt in That Place of Torment. Lake Mary, FL: Charisma House, 2006. A widely read distressing-NDE testimony from a Christian author. Theologically robust in its high view of judgment, but the level of vivid detail and absence of corroboration require the discernment chapter 21 develops.
These works are referenced throughout the book and should be approached with the testing framework of chapter 10. Not recommended for uncritical reading.
Alexander, Eben. Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012. The Map of Heaven. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014. Alexander's NDE during bacterial meningitis catapulted him into the role of America's most prominent NDE celebrity. His message ("love is all there is," "we are all one") is universalist and increasingly New Age. Discussed at length in chapter 30.
Eadie, Betty J. Embraced by the Light. Placerville, CA: Gold Leaf Press, 1992. Eadie's NDE became a publishing phenomenon but encodes specifically Latter-day Saint theology — pre-existence of souls, councils of gods, broadly universalist soteriology — without disclosing it. Critiqued at book length by Hank Hanegraaff.
Moorjani, Anita. Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing. Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, 2012. A Hindu-background NDEr whose teaching synthesizes monism and self-deification. Often cited as evidence for "all religions lead to the same place"; theologically incompatible with biblical Christianity.
Brinkley, Dannion. Saved by the Light: The True Story of a Man Who Died Twice and the Profound Revelations He Received. New York: Villard, 1994. Brinkley's NDE led him into a career as a psychic and "future-teller." A textbook example of the NDE-to-occult pipeline Tabatt addresses.
Moody, Raymond A., Jr. Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon — Survival of Bodily Death. Atlanta: Mockingbird Books, 1975. The book that named the field. Moody's identification of the core NDE features remains foundational. His later writings have drifted toward syncretism and "shared-death" speculation that the discerning reader should evaluate carefully.
MacArthur, John. The Glory of Heaven: The Truth About Heaven, Angels, and Eternal Life. 2nd ed. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2013. The most prominent evangelical case for wholesale dismissal of NDEs. MacArthur's concerns about specific bad NDE books are sometimes well-placed; his categorical rejection of the entire phenomenon is, in my judgment, biblically and pastorally mistaken. Engaged at length in chapter 35.
Hanegraaff, Hank. The Bible Answer Book and various Christian Research Journal articles. Charlotte, NC: Christian Research Institute, 1990s–present. Hanegraaff's critiques of Eadie and other heterodox NDE accounts have been valuable. His tendency to extrapolate from specific bad cases to global suspicion is the part of his approach this book respectfully resists.
Gilley, Gary E. Heaven Tourism. Webster, NY: Evangelical Press, 2014. A short pastoral critique of the popular "I went to heaven" book genre. Gilley's concerns about specific titles are often legitimate; like MacArthur, he extrapolates further than the evidence warrants. Useful for hearing the wholesale-rejectionist case at its most charitable.
These titles appear in the book because they have shaped the broader spiritual landscape in which NDE literature is read. Christians should not engage them devotionally, but discernment requires that we understand what they teach.
Newton, Michael. Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1994. Hypnotic-regression accounts presented as evidence for a between-lives realm and reincarnation. Foundational text of the modern reincarnation-NDE crossover; refuted in chapter 23.
Weiss, Brian L. Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. The book that mainstreamed past-life therapy. Methodologically and theologically problematic at every level.
Strieber, Whitley. Communion: A True Story. New York: Beech Tree Books, 1987. Foundational text of the modern alien-abduction genre. Increasingly cited as a comparison case for NDE phenomenology and as a recruitment text for the "star beings" wing of contemporary spirituality. Engaged in chapter 27.
Walsch, Neale Donald. Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. Channeled "revelations" presented as direct communication from God; theologically incompatible with biblical Christianity at the level of the doctrine of God. Representative of the spiritual-but-not-religious literature that often shapes NDE interpretation.
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If this is the first book you have read on NDE/DBE discernment and you want a path forward, here is mine. First, read Tabatt's The NDE Conspiracy for the framework. Second, read Miller's Is Christianity Compatible? for the empirical case that most NDEs are biblically compatible. Third, read Sabom's Light and Death for an evangelical doctor's careful medical and theological work. Fourth, read Burke's Imagine Heaven for a warm pastoral synthesis. From there, follow your interests outward. Cooper, Farris, and Moreland are the foundation if you want to go deeper into the underlying theological anthropology.
This bibliography is a starting point, not a finish line. The literature on NDEs and DBEs continues to grow in every direction at once — academically respectable medical research, careful Christian engagement, popular testimony of varying quality, and frankly heterodox spiritual teaching. The same testing posture this book has commended throughout applies to reading itself: weigh every source against Scripture, distinguish empirical claims from theological interpretations, and remember that the goal is not curious knowledge but love of Christ and care for souls.
Read your way through even half of these sources with a Bible open and the seven tests of chapter 10 close at hand, and you will know more about discernment in this field than the great majority of Christians. May that knowledge serve the church and the dying.
Alexander, Eben. Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012.
Arnold, Clinton E. Three Crucial Questions about Spiritual Warfare. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1997.
Braxton, Dean. In Heaven! Experiencing the Throne of God. Shippensburg, PA: Destiny Image, 2014.
Brinkley, Dannion. Saved by the Light: The True Story of a Man Who Died Twice and the Profound Revelations He Received. New York: Villard, 1994.
Burke, John. Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2015.
Bush, Nancy Evans. Dancing Past the Dark: Distressing Near-Death Experiences. Cleveland, TN: Parson's Porch, 2012.
Cooper, John W. Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting: Biblical Anthropology and the Monism-Dualism Debate. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2000.
Eadie, Betty J. Embraced by the Light. Placerville, CA: Gold Leaf Press, 1992.
Farris, Joshua R. An Introduction to Theological Anthropology: Humans, Both Creaturely and Divine. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2020.
Fenwick, Peter, and Elizabeth Fenwick. The Art of Dying: A Journey to Elsewhere. London: Continuum, 2008.
Gilley, Gary E. Heaven Tourism. Webster, NY: Evangelical Press, 2014.
Greyson, Bruce. After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Death. New York: St. Martin's Essentials, 2021.
Habermas, Gary R., and J. P. Moreland. Beyond Death: Exploring the Evidence for Immortality. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 1998.
Hanegraaff, Hank. The Bible Answer Book. Charlotte, NC: Christian Research Institute, 2004.
Kerr, Christopher. Death Is But a Dream: Finding Hope and Meaning at Life's End. New York: Avery, 2020.
Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth. On Death and Dying. New York: Macmillan, 1969.
Lewis, C. S. The Great Divorce. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1945.
Lewis, C. S. The Screwtape Letters. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1942.
Long, Jeffrey, with Paul Perry. God and the Afterlife: The Groundbreaking New Evidence for God and Near-Death Experience. New York: HarperOne, 2016.
MacArthur, John. The Glory of Heaven: The Truth About Heaven, Angels, and Eternal Life. 2nd ed. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2013.
Miller, J. Steve. An Apologetic for the Survival Hypothesis Drawn from Deathbed Experiences. Doctoral dissertation, Holy Land University, 2023.
Miller, J. Steve. Deathbed Experiences as Evidence for the Afterlife, Volume 1: A Groundbreaking, Scientific Apologetic, Evaluating Death-Related Visions, Terminal Lucidity and After-Death Communications. Acworth, GA: Wisdom Creek Press, 2024.
Miller, J. Steve. Is Christianity Compatible with Deathbed and Near-Death Experiences? The Surprising Presence of Jesus, Scarcity of Anti-Christian Elements, and Compatibility with Historic Christian Teachings. Acworth, GA: Wisdom Creek Press, 2023.
Moody, Raymond A., Jr. Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon — Survival of Bodily Death. Atlanta: Mockingbird Books, 1975.
Moorjani, Anita. Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing. Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, 2012.
Moreland, J. P. The Soul: How We Know It's Real and Why It Matters. Chicago: Moody, 2014.
Neal, Mary C. 7 Lessons from Heaven: How Dying Taught Me to Live a Joy-Filled Life. Colorado Springs: Convergent, 2017.
Neal, Mary C. To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again. Colorado Springs: WaterBrook, 2012.
Newton, Michael. Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1994.
Osis, Karlis, and Erlendur Haraldsson. At the Hour of Death: A New Look at Evidence for Life After Death. Rev. ed. Norwalk, CT: Hastings House, 1997.
Parnia, Sam. Erasing Death: The Science That Is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death. New York: HarperOne, 2013.
Piper, Don, with Cecil Murphey. 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life. Grand Rapids, MI: Revell, 2004.
Rawlings, Maurice. Beyond Death's Door. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1978.
Rawlings, Maurice. To Hell and Back: Life After Death — Startling New Evidence. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1993.
Ring, Kenneth. Heading Toward Omega: In Search of the Meaning of the Near-Death Experience. New York: William Morrow, 1984.
Ring, Kenneth. Life at Death: A Scientific Investigation of the Near-Death Experience. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1980.
Ring, Kenneth, and Sharon Cooper. Mindsight: Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences in the Blind. Palo Alto, CA: William James Center, 1999.
Rommer, Barbara R. Blessing in Disguise: Another Side of the Near-Death Experience. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 2000.
Sabom, Michael B. Light and Death: One Doctor's Fascinating Account of Near-Death Experiences. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1998.
Sabom, Michael B. Recollections of Death: A Medical Investigation. New York: Harper & Row, 1982.
Storm, Howard. My Descent into Death: A Second Chance at Life. New York: Doubleday, 2005.
Strieber, Whitley. Communion: A True Story. New York: Beech Tree Books, 1987.
Tabatt, Shaun. The NDE Conspiracy: Confronting Demonic Activity Surrounding Near-Death Experiences. Shippensburg, PA: Destiny Image, 2025.
Unger, Merrill F. Biblical Demonology: A Study of the Spiritual Forces Behind the Present World Unrest. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 1994.
van Lommel, Pim. Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience. New York: HarperOne, 2010.
Walsch, Neale Donald. Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995.
Weiss, Brian L. Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.
Wiese, Bill. 23 Minutes in Hell: One Man's Story About What He Saw, Heard, and Felt in That Place of Torment. Lake Mary, FL: Charisma House, 2006.
Wilkinson, Michael A. Crowned with Glory and Honor: A Chalcedonian Anthropology. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2022.
Woodford, Jim. Heaven, an Unexpected Journey: One Man's Experience with Heaven, Angels, and the Afterlife. Shippensburg, PA: Destiny Image, 2017.