What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond with Dr. Bruce Greyson

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We often think the mind is a creation of the brain or that the mind and the brain are one and the same. But when the brain is offline for a number of reasons, like illness or injury, the mind can sometimes still be very active.

On today’s episode of The Dhru Purohit Podcast, we are re-sharing my interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson about this phenomenon in the context of near-death experiences, or NDEs. Dr. Greyson shares some of the most dramatic first-person accounts of near-death experiences from his book After. We discuss how NDEs reveal a lot about dying and what might come after, but they also reveal just as much about life and living, the value of compassion and our interconnectedness with one another, and what makes life meaningful and fulfilling. We also talk about how NDEs can help transform the fear of dying that pervades our culture.

Dr. Greyson is a professor emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the UVA School of Medicine. He was a cofounder and president of the International Association for Near-Death Studies. His award-winning research led him to become a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and to be invited by the Dalai Lama to participate in a dialogue between Western scientists and Buddhist monks in India. His book, After, is the culmination of almost half a century of scientific research.

In this episode, we dive into: 

-Dr. Greyson’s first experience with a patient who had a near-death experience (8:00)

-A near-death experience story from Dr. Greyson’s book (18:57)

-What near-death experiences tell us about the mind-body connection (22:34)

-The parallels between psychedelic experiences and near-death experiences (32:03)

-The misconceptions around near-death experiences (37:56)

-How near-death experiences reduce the fear of death (42:05)

-How to get the benefits of a near-death experience without actually having one (44:52)

-The history of near-death experiences (49:58)

-Reincarnation beliefs among near-death experiencers (52:20)

-How near-death experiences change people’s lives (1:04:43)

For more on Dr. Greyson, follow him on Instagram @BruceGreysonMD, Facebook @BruceGreysonMD, Twitter @BruceGreyson, and through his website, brucegreyson.com. Get his book, After, here. 

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