A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life & Beyond | Dr Bruce Greyson
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#181 My amazing guest today is Dr Bruce Greyson. Bruce is a retired psychiatrist who has spent years researching near death experiences and gathering personal accounts from 1000 people, all culminating in his most recent book, After. During our conversation, Bruce and I discuss near death experiences (NDE) in depth and talk about what it entails, whether it relates to religion or not, how common it actually is, and how people can, or cannot, adjust to “normal life” afterwards.
If you’ve ever been interested in knowing more about what happens after we die, or if you have ever experienced an NDE yourself, this is the episode for you.
“Now I'm quite comfortable with the idea that we're not going to have all the answers, that the unknown is not necessarily our enemy. They're just things that we can't formulate the right questions for.”
About Bruce: Dr. Bruce Greyson is the Chester Carlson Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia. He was previously on the medical faculty at the University of Michigan and the University of Connecticut, where he was Clinical Chief of Psychiatry. Dr. Greyson has consulted with the National Institutes of Health and addressed symposia on consciousness at the United Nations and at the Dalai Lama’s compound in Dharamsala, India.
Dr. Greyson’s interest in near-death experiences began just a few months after graduating from medical school, when he treated an unconscious patient in the emergency room who stunned him the next morning with an account of leaving her body. That event challenged his beliefs about the mind and the brain, and ultimately led him on a journey to study near-death experiences scientifically, leading to more than a hundred publications in medical journals.
He co-founded the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS), an organization to support and promote research into these experiences, and for 27 years edited the Journal of Near-Death Studies, the only scholarly journal dedicated to near-death research. Through his research, he has discovered common and universal themes in near-death experiences that go beyond neurophysiological or cultural interpretations, as well as patterns of consistent aftereffects on individuals’ attitudes, beliefs, values, and personalities.
Bruce's Website:
www.brucegreyson.com
Bruce’s Book:
www.brucegreyson.com/after-a-doctor-explores-what-near-death-experiences-reveal-about-life-and-beyond
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