The Need for the Psychological Study of Clinical Death

Abstract

“Why dost thou not tell us what happened in the beyond?” And all grew silent, startled by the question. It was as if it occurred to them only now that for three days Lazarus had been dead, and they looked at him, anxiously awaiting his answer. But Lazarus kept silence. For three days had he been dead; thrice had the sun risen and set, but he had been dead; children had played, streams had murmured over pebbles, the wayfarer had stirred up the hot dust in the highroad … but he had been dead. And now he was again among them; he touched them, he looked at them … looked at them! And through the black discs of his pupils, as through darkened glass, stared the unknowable Beyond.