Kenneth Ring (born December 13, 1935) is an American psychologist, born in San Francisco, California. He is the co-founder and past president of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) and is the founding editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies. He currently lives in Kentfield, California.
Biography
Among his first publications was the book Methods of Madness: The Mental Hospital as a Last Resort. The book was released in 1969 and was co-authored with Benjamin Braginsky and Dorothea Braginsky. Ring's book Life at Death was published by William Morrow and Company in 1980. In this book Ring presented the Weighted Core Experience Index, a psychometric instrument constructed to measure the depth of a near-death experience. In 1984, the company published Ring's second book, Heading Toward Omega. Both books deal with near-death experiences and how they change people's lives.
In 1992 he published The Omega Project: Human Evolution in an Ecological Age, a book that dealt with near-death experiences and UFO-encounters. 1998 saw the release of Lessons From the Light. What We Can Learn From the Near-Death Experience, co-authored with Evelyn Elaesser. The book discussed a wide range of paranormal phenomena, including out-of-body experiences, children's near-death experiences, near-death experiences in the blind, as well as healing and paranormal abilities in near-death experiencers. Another co-authored release appeared in 1999. This time Ring co-operated with Sharon Cooper for the release of Mindsight: Near-death and out-of-body experiences in the blind. In the book Ring & Cooper discussed the possibility of sight and vision among blind near-death experiencers.
In November 2008, Ring visited Israel as part of a peace delegation and subsequently protested the Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip as completely disproportionate. Kenneth Ring also is a co-author of Letters from Palestine (2011).
References
- ^ Author biography in Kenneth Ring and Evelyn Elsaesser Valarino, Lessons from the Light: What we can learn from the near-death experience, Needham, MA: Moment Point Press (1998).
- Waxler, Nancy E. (1970). "Review of Methods of Madness: The Mental Hospital as a Last Resort". American Sociological Review. 35 (5): 951–952. doi:10.2307/2093343. ISSN 0003-1224.
- Wax, John (1970). "Review of Methods of Madness: The Mental Hospital As a Last Resort". Social Work. 15 (2): 121–122. ISSN 0037-8046.
- ^ Sharon L. Bass. You Never Recover Your Original Self New York Times August 28, 1988.
- Asher, Catherine G. Book review: Ring, Kenneth. Life at Death: a scientific investigation of the near-death experience. Library Journal, September 15, 1980, page 1870
- Hamby, Warren C. Reviewed Work(s): Life at Death: A Scientific Investigation of the Near-Death Experience by Kenneth Ring. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 21, No. 3 (Sep., 1982), pp. 289-290
- Greyson, Bruce. The Near-Death Experience Scale. Construction, Reliability and Validity. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Vol 171, No. 6, 1983, pp. 369-375
- Buehler, David A. Book review: Ring, Kenneth. Heading Toward Omega: in search of the meaning of the near-death experience. Library Journal, August 1984, page 1455
- Shields, Maureen R. Book review: Ring, Kenneth. The Omega Project: Human Evolution in an Ecological Age. Library Journal, April 1, 1992.
- Book review: Lessons From the Light. What We Can Learn From the Near-Death Experience. Publishers Weekly, Oct. 26, 1998, p. 55
- Twemlow, Stuart W. Book Review: Mindsight: Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences in the Blind, by Kenneth Ring and Sharon Cooper. Journal of Near-Death Studies, 21(1), Fall 2002
- Richard Halstead, Marin has mixed response to Israel's bombing of Gaza Archived 2012-03-07 at the Wayback Machine, Marin Independent Journal, 29 December 2008. Accessed 2009-06-02.