dgac63:
I thought the first third or so of the book was a little boring when the doctor's research methods were being presented but I guess that this was just part of the necessary scientific process. I found the remainder of the book to be very interesting and thought provoking. I have never had an NDE but I have had a couple of close calls in auto accident situations. In these cases, time as I perceived it, slowed way down but my brain was processing information very quickly. Similar things were mentioned in NDE experiences in the book. I am glad I purchased the book. At the very least it was very thought provoking as to what happens next for all of us.
United States on Feb 02, 2024
LR:
Outstanding overview of the subject and personally very encouraging.
United States on Jan 29, 2024
Kindle Customer:
This book stunned me. I was pretty much sort of a skeptic like Richard Dawkins. For long years, I was terrified by what Bertrand Russell called "Terror of cosmic loneliness". This book totally & fundamentally changed my perception about after life. More importantly, I finally reconciled with my father's death, which had had a devastating effect on me for more than a dozen years. I couldn't thank the author Dr.Bruce Greyson enough. I am very grateful to him and even more grateful to the good God for making me accidentally stumble on to this phenomenal book. This should be read by every person with a spiritual orientation but also by those who haven't yet found that spiritual orientation - for it could have a transformatively positive effect on them. God bless.
India on Nov 24, 2023
Janice:
Loved this book and the way Dr. Greyson approaches the subject. I cannot say I remember anything about my death, but I know I came back without the fear of dying. A reevaluation of dying did occur somehow, as did how important it is to just listen to what is really being said without judgment or expressing an opinion. Acceptance is key to those who have such a memory.
Canada on Nov 05, 2023
Filippo Fortunati:
Ottimo saggio scientifico sulle NDE.
di grande valore scientifico è anche la sua diretta testimonianza di una percezione extrasensoriale verificata della paziente in coma.
Italy on Oct 10, 2023
Michael:
This is the most recent book on the phenomenon of NDEs by a researcher with a database of over a thousand accounts. It’s based on about forty years of work in the area. Dr Greyson is a psychiatrist who was raised a materialist and atheist but whose respect for the truth would not allow him to dismiss accounts that seem to put either or both of those assumptions about the nature of reality in doubt. And the NDEs certainly are a remarkable and challenging phenomenon.
If memory serves, about two thirds of those who’ve experienced an NDE report meeting dead relatives. One might think that there’s an element of expectation and wishful thinking here. But how about those rare accounts where an experiencer reports meeting someone whom he did not know was dead at the time (see the story of the young South African man, the nurse and the red MG)? It’s also interesting that a similarly large proportion of experiencers (including agnostics and atheists) report meeting God—although one American woman reported meeting Buddhist Deity “The Iron Goddess of Mercy” and the Ancient Celtic god depicted on the Gundestrup Cauldron who has the body of a man but...
United Kingdom on Jun 05, 2023
Victor E. Smith:
Credit the progression of the Near-Death Experience (NDE) over the past 50 years from an event that raised eyebrows about the experiencer’s sanity to a phenomenon that merited serious consideration by scientific and medical professionals to the curiosity and persistence of Dr. Bruce Grayson, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia, among many other professional credentials.
Dr. Greyson’s interest in near-death experiences began in medical school when he encountered a patient in the emergency room who stunned him with an account of leaving her body while unconscious, an event that challenged his orthodox beliefs about the mind and the brain and thus led him on a lifelong journey to study near-death experiences scientifically. He went on to co-find the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) and serve as editor to the Journal of Near-Death Studies for 27 years.
As a writer myself who focuses on reincarnation and the paranormal, I found IANDS ten years ago, have attended several of its events, read widely on the subject, and observed related research by Dr. Gary Schwartz of the...
United States on Sep 06, 2021
Ronaldo P P Santos:
An honest and a great job of Dr. Greyson. It really puts some light in the fantastic trajetory of each human being.
Brazil on Apr 10, 2021
Richard B. Schwartz:
This is an interesting, readable book, but it does not live up to the hype it has been given. I’m not sure that any book on so complex and potentially consequential a subject as this could. It concerns near death experiences, which Dr. Greyson has been studying for over four decades. The subjects involved are what my college classmates would have termed cosmic: the existence of God, the existence of an afterlife, the aspects of that afterlife which might be described and enumerated, the existence of a heaven and a hell, the meaning of life/death/experience, and so on.
The scientific method is interviewing/categorizing/calculating experiential overlap/summation. What did people experience in their NDE’s? How many people near death have NDE’s? Of what do they consist? What are the most common experiences? What conclusions can we draw from all this?
Needless to say, this is all of the greatest possible importance, but the evidence is perforce anecdotal, not anecdotal in the ‘that’s not science or real data’ sense (which he addresses at some length) but the kind of science represented by ethnology—the interviewing of individuals,...
United States on Mar 05, 2021
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| Near-Death Experiences (Books) | Near-Death Experiences | ||
| Popular Neuropsychology | Popular Neuropsychology | ||
| Publisher | Essentials | Metropolitan Books; Reprint edition | Metropolitan Books; 1st edition |
| Language | English | English | English |
| ISBN-10 | 125026586X | 1250076226 | 9780805095159 |
| Dimensions | 5.4 x 0.7 x 8.2 inches | 5.4 x 0.85 x 8.1 inches | 5.8 x 1 x 8.55 inches |
| Item Weight | 8 ounces | 2.31 pounds | 2.31 pounds |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1250265869 | 978-1250076229 | 978-0805095159 |
| Reincarnation (Books) | Reincarnation | ||
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United States on Feb 11, 2024