Option 2: Educational Search You must click the "I agree" button in the License Agreement to use the more advanced search engine. Upgraded 8/16/2022
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NDERF Explorer Beta 0.7
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Quick Help
Enter a search term in the field above and click on "search".
You can search for multiple terms like +heaven +hell or
phrases "I saw a bright light" New users are encouraged to click ALL links in the 'show options' button to explore functionality
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Help & Infos
Search syntax
You can use special search characters in front of search terms:
+ Use plus sign to force that search term must be INCLUDED in experience example: +garden +green +sun
- Use minus sign to force that search term must be ABSENT in experience example: cloud -heaven
"" Use quotation marks to search for word groups or whole sentences example: "the angel said"
You can combine this: example: +ambulance -heaven +"golden light"
Word cloud
The word cloud shows keywords out of all the documents from your whole search.
Click on a keyword in the cloud to add this as search term and to refine your search.
The click on "search" and a new word cloud gets generated.
Options
font size Use this to scale the font-size up or down.
export options Use this to show or hide the export options. This is a feature for researchers to be able to export all experience data and metadata for further analysis Export as CSV Export all the documents you found into a CSV file Export as JSON Export all the documents you found into a structured JSON file Export as TEXT Export all the experience descriptions you found into text files
show/hide word cloud Show or hide the keyword cloud. Turn of the word cloud on slower computers / mobile phones,
to increase the search speed.
change color scheme Change the color to day or night mode.
Version Infos
version NDERF explorer Beta 0.7 by David Garcia
used software
- wordcloud2.js by Tim Guan-tin Chien and contributors MIT License timdream.org/wordcloud2.js/
- mark.js by Julian Kühnel MIT License markjs.io/
- JSZip MIT License stuk.github.io/jszip/
- jquery/jquery MIT License jquery.com
- jqueryUI MIT License jqueryui.com
A big thanks goes out to all developers of the free software used for this NDERF search engine!
License Agreement
There is a joint copyright between NDERF (Near-Death Experience Research
Foundation, nderf.org) and those who shared their experiences with NDERF.
Many of those who shared with NDERF over the years do not give permission to
publish their experiences anywhere other than on the NDERF website. Others
who have shared with NDERF have personally copyrighted their experiences in
addition to copyrighting their experiences on NDERF.
NDERF does not give legal advice.
Hundreds of people have contacted us to get permission to use the
experiences posted on NDERF for their own books or in other media.
NDERF does NOT contact experiencers for these purposes.
In using this NDERF website search application, you are agreeing to the
following conditions:
1) You agree that any use of this website search application is exclusively
for private, personal, or research use.
2) You agree to abide by ALL copyright laws.
3) You agree to completely indemnify and hold harmless NDERF and all persons
associated directly or indirectly with NDERF, including the
developer(s) of this website search application, for any and all costs
associated with defending any legal suit, or for any liability, resulting
from the wrongful use of experiences posted on NDERF or from any violation
of this agreement.