Natasha Tassell-Matamua — Terminal Lucidity Research

Natasha Tassell-Matamua, PhD is an Associate Professor and founder and Director of the Centre for Indigenous Psychologies in the School of Psychology at Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand. She teaches is in the area of Indigenous psychologies, but her primary research focusses on exceptional experiences of consciousness. Natasha initiated the area of near-death studies in Aotearoa New Zealand, co-researching the first large scale study of the phenomena in the country. She has spent the last 15 years researching the phenomenology, after-effects and cultural specificity of near-death experiences and other exceptional experiences of consciousness,. She continues to publish extensively in the area and provide presentations both nationally and internationally.

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Some of Natasha’s Recent Publications

Tassell-Matamua, N. (2024). Power and privilege in the study of near-death experiences. In The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Spirituality and Contemplative Studies. (pp. 271 - 281).

Lindsay, N., Tassell-Matamua, N., O’Sullivan, L., & Gibson, R. (2024). Trauma or Transcendence? The Relationship Between Near-Death Experiences and Dreaming. Dreaming. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/drm0000278

Tassell-Matamua, N. (2022). Dying to be green. The implications of near-death experiences (NDEs) for the greening of death.. In The Sustainable Dead: Searching for the Intolerable. (pp. 155 - 169). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Tassell-Matamua, N., Lindsay, N., & Winterbottom, J. (2022). Why Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) Matter to Psychology: An Exploration of Aotearoa New Zealand Psychologists' Knowledge of NDEs and Implications for Professional Practice. Journal of Near-Death Studies. 40(3), 177-199. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2293046/

Tassell-Matamua, N., & Holden, JM. (2020). Near-death experiences: the mystical feeling of “crossing over” and its impact on faith and spirituality. In The Science of Religion, Spirituality, and Existentialism. (pp. 51 - 64).

Lindsay, N., & Tassell-Matamua, N. (2020). Subjective Sleep Quality After a Near-Death Experience. Journal of Near-Death Studies. 38(2), 65-86. https://www.iands.org/research/publications/journal-of-near-death-studies/1470-jnds38.html

Tassell-Matamua, N., & Lindsay, N. (2020). Impartiality as an obligation in nde research response to ‘near-death experiences: To the edge of the universe’. Journal of Consciousness Studies. 27(11-12), 237-243.

Tassell-Matamua, N. (2019). Dying for acceptance: Learning about near-death experiences to facilitate growth for those with life-limiting illnesses in Aotearoa New Zealand.. In Death Down Under: Twenty-first Century Dying, Death, Disposal and Memorialisation in the Antipodes. (pp. 204 - 211). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Natasha Tassell-Matamua