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NDERF Explorer Beta 0.6
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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 0.6 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.