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Measuring the Unmeasurable: New UVA Study Sharpens Near‑Death Experience Scales

21 April 2026

A new analysis from the University of Virginia compares two leading near-death experience questionnaires, revealing strengths, gaps, and a path to better measurement—while reminding us why the ineffable remains hard to score.

How do you quantify the moment when life hangs by a thread and people report clarity, connection, or a reality more vivid than waking life? Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have taken a fresh look at that question, not by debating what near-death experiences (NDEs) are, but by asking how we measure what people say about them. In work highlighted by UVA’s Medicine in Motion News, a team led by Marieta Pehlivanova, PhD, and Bruce Greyson, MD, compared two established questionnaires designed to assess NDEs—and uncovered both encouraging overlaps and telling gaps.

The study examined Greyson’s 16‑item Near‑Death Experience Scale—first developed in 1983 and used across decades of research—alongside the newer Near‑Death Experience Content Scale (NDE‑C), introduced in 2020 to address perceived blind spots. Using Rasch modeling on responses from more than 700 experiencers, the team found that both tools are tapping into the same underlying construct. That coherence matters: it suggests the shared heart of NDE reports can be approached with scientific consistency. At the same time, some newer items, including “feeling dead,” did not consistently align with the validated hierarchy of perceptions. And both instruments struggled with response categories meant to capture “intensity” in experiences often described as beyond words.

The authors recommend continued use of the original NDE Scale, largely to preserve continuity with decades of data, while also outlining targeted improvements for both measures. Their findings, published in Consciousness and Cognition, are less about declaring answers and more about strengthening the tools that let us ask better questions. For clinicians and researchers, more rigorous measurement can bring clarity to complex cases, support careful documentation, and inform emerging theories about what might underlie NDEs without presuming a single explanation.

For many readers, the fascination of NDEs lives at the edge of language. People speak of a boundary crossed, a presence felt, a perspective widened—yet struggle to pin those moments to a scale from zero to three. The UVA team’s results honor that tension. They show that it is possible to respect mystery while refining method, to acknowledge ineffability without abandoning measurement. In that space, intuition and inquiry can collaborate: our inner sense that consciousness holds layers we do not fully grasp meets the steady patience of science, which asks, “How, exactly, do we know?”

If the human journey is part map and part mist, then studies like this help redraw the map’s contours without pretending the mist is gone. By keeping a reliable yardstick while improving the marks on it, researchers are inviting a more faithful accounting of profound experiences—ones that may never be fully captured on paper, yet can still inform our understanding of mind, meaning, and the mysteries at the threshold of life.

Source: UVA School of Medicine – Medicine in Motion News

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A new story about how a pet psychic was able to find a lost dog is the latest phenomenon to hit the supernatural and psychic circle. Jaime Kalkowski lives in Springfield and always has her dog beside her. She treats her dog as her only child and has since been distraught since he has gone missing. Her hopes have been lifted by a pet psychic who said that her dog is still alive.
Sharon Pugh is a psychic medium from Georgia. She claims she is able to detect a lost dog’s energy and locate where the pet exactly is. She has given Jaime hopes that her psychic abilities will be able to help locate the dog. Sharon specializes in phone psychic readings.

KETV I reports that there is an abundance of pet psychics. The Internet is flooded with such ads promoting pet psychics and the Animal Planet has wholeheartedly embraced the existence of such an industry.

Plugh intimates that she uses her psychic abilities to locate lost pets. However she cannot guarantee that any lost pet can be located because she is limited only by the spirit that passes through her during a psychic session. She further says that the information she can give a pet owner is bound with what God, the Guardian Angels and her Spirit Guides allow her to give. These are the information her psychic abilities allow her to receive.

When asked about the situation of Jaime’s pet, Plugh’s psychic abilities reveal that the dog plunged into a body of water and was recovered by someone in a military uniform. She further reveals that the dog is still alive. This prediction has given Jaime a lot of hope of finally recovering her pet as she has already spent a fortune trying to locate her “child.”

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