Belanti John, Perera Mahendra, Jagadheesan Karuppiah
Broadmeadows Adult Community Mental Health, Broadmeadows VIC 3407, Australia.
Transcult Psychiatry. 2008 Mar;45(1):121-33. doi: 10.1177/1363461507088001.
Near-death experiences (NDEs) include a set of subjective experiences encountered by people who were close to death or were faced with life-threatening situations. Reports have suggested that the phenomenology of NDE might differ across cultures. This article is aimed at providing an updated phenomenological perspective by comparing NDEs in a cross-cultural context. We compared the various descriptions of NDEs from a phenomenological perspective. There were similarities between particular cultures, which differed from typical western European experiences. This article concludes that although there are common themes, there are also reported differences in NDEs. The variability across cultures is most likely to be due to our interpretation and verbalizing of such esoteric events through the filters of language, cultural experiences, religion, education and their influence on our belief systems either shedding influence as an individual variable or more often perhaps by their rich interplay between these factors.
濒死体验（NDEs）包括一组由濒临死亡或面临危及生命情况的人所经历的主观体验。报告表明，濒死体验的现象学可能因文化而异。本文旨在通过在跨文化背景下比较濒死体验，提供一种更新的现象学视角。我们从现象学角度比较了濒死体验的各种描述。特定文化之间存在相似之处，这与典型的西欧体验有所不同。本文得出结论，尽管存在共同主题，但濒死体验也有报道称存在差异。文化间的变异性很可能是由于我们通过语言、文化体验、宗教、教育及其对我们信仰体系的影响等过滤器，对这类深奥事件进行解释和表达，这些因素要么作为个体变量发挥影响，要么更常见的是通过它们之间丰富的相互作用来影响。
