• 07/27/21 - Papers: added The Self Does Not Die: Paranormal phenomena in NDEs: slide presentation and video link.
  
• 07/20/21 - Papers: added A New Scale to Assess Near-Death Experiences--Commentary
• 02/15/21 - Papers: added link to preprint: NDEs: Extended naturalism or promissory physicalism?
• 10/30/20 - Home page: removed Comments section
• 10/25/20 - CVs: updated links to past research papers
  
• 10/18/20 - Home page: added interview series: The Mission & Message of NDErs.
• 10/18/20 - Home page: added video: NDEs, Consciousness and Reality.
• 12/08/19 - Home page: added video: Video blog #5 on Prophetic Visions in NDEs. Full video blog.
• 10/31/19 - Home page: added video: Video blog #2 on Prophetic Visions in NDEs. Full video blog.
  
• 09/09/19 - Home page: added video and slides: Prophetic visions in NDEs: Warnings for the current times
• 08/17/19 - Home page: added link to: IANDS NDE Radio interview on the prophetic visions in NDEs study.
• 08/17/19 - Home page: added video and slides: NDEs: A theory of Mind, Consciousness & Reality and Papers: added slides from NDEs: A theory of Mind, Consciousness & Reality
• 08/17/19 - Home page: added video and slides: The Self Does Not Die: Paranormal phenomena in NDEs and Papers: added slides from The Self Does Not Die: Paranormal phenomena in NDEs
• 03/02/19 - Home page: added information about our 2019 study "NDE Visions of the World's Future"
  
• 01/23/19 - Home page: added video and slides: NDEs: Insights into Mind, Consciousness & Reality and Papers: added slides from NDEs: Insights into Mind, Consciousness & Reality
• 11/28/18 - Papers: added link to reprint on ResearchGate: Near-Death Experiences: A Critique of the Fischer and Mitchell-Yellin Physicalist Interpretation, with Response and Rejoinder
• 11/28/18 - Papers: added link to reprint on ResearchGate: Eben Alexander’s Near-Death Experience: How an Esquire Article Distorted the Facts
• 10/06/18 - Home page: added video and slides: NDEs: Elucidating the True Nature of Reality and Papers: added slides from NDEs: Elucidating the True Nature of Reality
• 10/23/17 - Home page: added link to IANDS NDE Radio interview on the mind-entity hypothesis and the neural correlates of consciousness
• 09/17/17 - Home page: added video NDEs and the Neural Correlates of Consciousness and Papers: added slides from NDEs and the Neural Correlates of Consciousness
• 10/31/16 - Home page: added video Unraveling the Mystery of Memory through NDEs
• 09/27/16 - Other writings: added Foreword to the English edition of The Self Does Not Die
  
• 09/15/16 - Home page: added video (slides and audio): NDEs and the Mystery of Memory presented at ASCS 2016 Conference.
• 09/15/16 - Home page: added strongly recommended: The Self Does Not Die: Verified paranormal phenomena from NDEs.
• 09/15/16 - Papers: added slides from Unravelling the Mystery of Memory through Near-Death Experiences
• 09/15/16 - Papers: added link to reprint on ResearchGate: Explaining Near-Death Experiences: Physical or Non-physical Causation?
• 02/09/16 - Home page: added video The Importance of Veridical Perceptions in NDEs and link to IANDS NDE Radio interview on our research on non-physical causation of NDEs and how mind and brain work
• 12/01/15 - Papers: added abstract of Journal of Near-Death Studies paper Explaining Near-Death Experiences: Physical or Non-physical Causation? and slides from The Importance of Veridical Perceptions and Veridical Information in NDEs
• 07/24/15 - Home page: added Panel: Next Directions in NDE Research and excerpt on Proposed Mind-Brain Interface
• 05/20/15 - Home page: added link to IANDS NDE Radio interview on veridical perceptions in NDEs
• 04/22/15 - Other writings: added news article and commentary AWARE study initial results published!
• 03/28/15 - Home page: added link to NDE article in The Atlantic which mentions our work
• 02/23/15 - Home page: added interview of Suzanne and Robert by Bill Hendrickson (WCOM-FM) on Eben Alexander's books
• 02/23/15 - Home page: added NBC Washington story on the Science Behind Near-Death Experiences with a short interview of Robert
• 09/17/14 - Home page: added video What Medical Neuroscience Can Learn from NDEs, links to The Epoch Times articles from 2014 IANDS Conference
• 09/17/14 - Papers: added slides from What Medical Neuroscience Can Learn from NDEs
• 07/18/14 - Home page: added sign up for Raleigh Area IANDS Groups Emails
• 06/05/14 - CVs page: added more recent photo, thanks to Cherylee
  
• 06/05/14 - Home page: added The Nature of the Near Death Experience, featuring IANDS presentation on 04/11/14
  
• 04/02/14 - CVs page: revised Research areas, added Additional coursework: CVs
• 12/24/13 - Home page: added IANDS NDE Radio interview and Skeptiko.com interview
  
• 11/14/13 - Home page: added WBAI-FM interview about the Open Center Symposium
• 10/30/13 - Home page and Other writings: added blog post What Near-Death Experiences Tell Us
• 09/07/13 - Home page: added Open Center engagement, Nov. 23, 2013
• 09/07/13 - Papers: added slides from workshop Solving the Mystery of Consciousness through NDEs
• 09/07/13 - Other writings: added commentary Esquire article on Eben Alexander distorts the facts
  
• 11/04/12 - Home page: added video of presentation The Future of NDE and Consciousness Research
• 11/02/12 - Papers: added slide presentation The Future of NDE and Consciousness Research presented at the 2012 IANDS Conference (Scottsdale)
• 02/09/12 - Added link to news article in the Durham Herald-Sun.
• 12/05/11 - Papers: added full paper for A theory of mind and brain that solves the "hard problem"of consciousness 
• 11/25/11 - Other writings: added letter to the Editor, Journal of Near-Death Studies, Near-death experiences and EEG surges at end of life
• 11/25/11 - Home page: added links to the news article in The Epoch Times mentioning our work.
• 09/12/11 - Home page: added video of presentation A Theory of Physical Interaction in NDE that Explains NDE Aftereffects
• 09/05/11 - Papers: added slide presentation A Theory of Physical Interaction in NDE that Explains NDE Aftereffects presented at the 2011 IANDS Conference (Durham)
• 06/08/11 - Papers: added abstract for A theory of mind and brain that solves the "hard problem"of consciousness 
  
• 05/23/11 - Other writings: added slide presentation Near-death research: History and perspectives, presented as a course lecture on May 18, 2011
• 09/07/10 - Papers: added slide presentation The mystery of physical interaction presented at the 2010 IANDS Conference (Denver)
• 09/07/10 - Papers: moved slide presentation What NDEs tell us about consciousness to the Papers page: an overview of our theory and work, presented at the 2009 IANDS Conference (San Diego)
• 05/20/10 - Home page: updated illustration of NDE
• 04/20/10 - Papers: added photos of poster presentation at 2010 Tucson Consciousness Conference
• 04/05/10 - Papers: added poster paper A theory of mind-and-brain that solves the “hard problem”, presented at 2010 Tucson Consciousness Conference
• 03/03/10 - Home page: added illustrations of NDE and ordinary consciousness
• 02/18/10 - Ritchie: replaced aerial photo of 1501 Levee St after the tornado. The new picture has more detail suggesting that there may have been writing above the front door and writing on the side of the building, implying that the building was painted and may have been white.
• 01/21/10 - Introduction: added a point that cases of NDErs "merging" with another person's brain imply that the mind's internal structure is similar from person to person. Home page: reformatted the brief introduction
• 01/01/10 - Home page: updated brief introduction
• 12/26/09 - Introduction: completely revised the Introduction to the Self-conscious Mind to include how our theory addresses the "hard problem" of consciousness
• 12/23/09 - Papers: added abstract A theory of mind-and-brain that solves the “hard problem”, submitted to 2010 Tucson Consciousness Conference
• 12/23/09 - Home page: added Research requests for NDE and phantom limb cases of interaction
• 12/14/09 - Phantom limb research: added cases to page on Phantom limb pain and Therapeutic Touch
• 11/25/09 - Phantom limb research: expanded page on Phantom limb pain and Therapeutic Touch
• 11/21/09 - Papers: added reprint to our 2008 paper, The Phenomenology of the Self-conscious Mind, to this site
• 11/17/09 - Phantom limb research: added information about apparent involvement of peripheral nerves in phantom pain and sensations of movement; split off cases of Therapeutic Touch use in treating phantom pain to a separate page
• 11/08/09 - Phantom limb research: added information about Therapeutic Touch which apparently can be felt in the phantom (like M.G.) and appears to alleviate phantom limb pain; added note to use galvanic skin response in conjunction with M.G. tests of “touch” of an object.
• 10/25/09 - Ritchie: added details of traffic lights in Tyler Texas and reasons to drive down to Levee St on the return trip.
• 10/03/09 - Phantom limb research: added note to use a door or similar barrier in further double blind experiments with M.G.
• 09/27/09 - Other writings: added slide presentation What NDEs tell us about consciousness, an overview of our theory and work
• 09/27/09 - Phantom limb research: clarified subject's reaction to “touch” with dizziness and headache, based on subsequent interview with subject
• 09/09/09 - Phantom limb research: reorganized phantom limb research page; split off results page; added 2009 research results
• 05/25/09 - Ritchie: added preliminary color analysis of 1501 Levee St roof shows it was probably red or reddish brown
• 04/19/09 - Other writings: added slide presentation What do NDEs tell us about consciousness? which summarizes our theory of the self-conscious mind and the latest lines of reasoning about it
• 04/19/09 - Phantom limb research: added highlights of the phantom limb research from 2007: summarized in 10 slides, including three video excerpts of the experimental sessions
• 12/31/08 - Other writings: added letter to the Editor, Journal of Near-Death Studies, On the scope of analysis for the AWARE study