Guest editorial: Paradise is paradise: Reflections on psychedelic drugs, mystical experience, and the near-death experience
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Near-Death Studies
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0891-4494,1573-3661
DOI: 10.1007/bf01073362