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Elizabeth Krohn

Disciplines:
consciousness
near-death experiences
parapsychology/anomalous experience

Summary

American woman who had a near-death experience after being struck by lightning in 1988 — the experience transformed her psychologically and resulted in what she reported as precognitive dreams — and who co-authored Changed in a Flash with Jeffrey Kripal describing her experience and its implications.

Core Contribution

Provides a first-person account of lightning-strike NDE with subsequent anomalous experiences (precognitive dreams) — the co-authorship with Kripal models the dialogue between experiencer and scholar that Kripal argues the study of consciousness phenomena requires.

Notable Works & Achievements

Changed in a Flash

Historical Influences

NDE experience

Intellectual Lineage

Houston Texas Lightning strike 1988

Contemporaries & Peers

Jeff Kripal Bruce Greyson

Minds Influenced

NDE research Jonathan Bi

Intellectual Posterity

Changed in a Flash

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