Upon
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]
Ring, 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
Ring, 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
Ring, 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
Ring, 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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