Beyond Death: Dr. Bruce Greyson Explores Near-Death Experiences and the Mysteries of Consciousness

Dr. Bruce Greyson joins the podcast to discuss his research on Near Death Experiences spanning over decades.
Dr. 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.
For many of us, the question of whether or not consciousness survives bodily death is one of, if not the most important question one could ask. Dr. Greyson goes into great detail discussing captivating experiences from many patients he came into contact with, as well as the profound effects NDE's have on the experiencer's life.
We can't thank Dr. Greyson enough for taking the time to share his knowledge with us.
If you'd like to read more about Dr. Greyson's work, first-hand accounts and the scientific research being conducted in this area, please check out his book and website: 👇🏻 👇🏻 👇🏻
After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond - www.amazon.com...
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[@ChrisMortall]

Spirit seems like a better word than the mind. A full physical embodiment of which your brain is a part of.

[@michaeldecarli5243]

My dad had one of these experiences. It really changed all of our lives.

[@TheDadsDoomsdayGuide]

If you don't mind me asking, was he someone who believed before?

[@michaeldecarli5243]

@@TheDadsDoomsdayGuide Sort of. By that I mean he was never an atheist. He’s always been Catholic but it was really a cultural thing. We’re a very Italian family so we just kind of did what everyone else did and went to church but never really talked about faith or spirituality. My dad is very left brained. Incredibly smart. Retired from the feds in 2012 and has always read science books and history books. This experience happened to him in 2020 and really changed everything. I didn’t have the experience so it is still taking me time to learn and integrate it into my own life but not my dad. 2 years on and he swears by it. It happened as a result of him being in critical condition with Covid. If it had been anyone else I think I would have taken it less seriously but my dad had always been so incredibly unemotional and doesn’t embellish anything. Him telling me this is very profound. To make it even more profound was after I heard this from him I started asking around and one of my cousins also had an experience when she was 7 years old in 1995 and dying of an intestinal infection brought about as a complication of cloacal extrophy. It changed her life as well and she had verifiable aspects due to her OBE. But she didn’t talk about it because she said it was so emotional.

[@TheDadsDoomsdayGuide]

@@michaeldecarli5243 We're glad your dad recovered from Covid. And thank you for sharing some details about these events in your family. They sound fascinating.

[@metalheadzaki]

what did your dad saw in his NDE?

[@ExoSquadOffical]

@@michaeldecarli5243 if you don’t mind, what was his experience?

[@janiehall6083]

Absent from the body and present with the lord amen

[@childofgodtwo7869]

Amen yes ,

[@ArcticXun-936]

Very interesting conversation. I love that the topic of NDEs is getting more recognized within the scientific community. Although there’s a long way to go, I’m convinced that researching NDEs has the opportunity to open up a lot of doors into the vast topic of consciousness and how it’s perceived - not only by science but mankind in general. I've experimented with various psychedelics plants (Psilocybin, Ayahuasca, DMT, and 5-MeO-DMT) coming from a non-religious background, but it wasn’t before I got into a habit of daily meditation that my perception of consciousness shifted from “it’s all in my brain” to “hmm, there might just be something more to this”, especially after I learned how to leave my body _(Astral Projection)_ without the help of any psychedelic tools.

[@TheDadsDoomsdayGuide]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@Baltic_Hammer6162]

You may find it interesting but I strongly warn you against opening yourself to demonic deception and worse....demonic attack. Seek Jesus with your whole sincere heart and He will guide your journey and reveal incredible things/events via the Bible.

[@fireside9503]

Can you tell us how?

[@fireside9503]

Can you tell us how?

[@gian7644]

I believed to NDE through a intuition after i heard an OBE experience from a nurse, this my intuition changed totally my life! It happened on january 2020

[@skinnymoonbob]

These NDEs are a serious privacy concern. Imagine that all dead people can just observe without being noticed.

[@juninhoexcer]

Congratulations. Very good. Thank you 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@mws952002]

Great discussion!

[@TheDadsDoomsdayGuide]

Thank you!

[@noraoconnor1895]

There is a theory that when the brain shuts down conciousness takes over and that is why nde is experienced.!!

[@ProdigalSunTzu]

I have had both nde and psychadelic expericnes and i second that report that they are not the same. Definitley overlap but the nde was somehow clearer, more profound and for lack of a better term more real

[@TheDadsDoomsdayGuide]

Thanks for sharing that!

[@laffingtaffy4762]

Fascinating. Enlightening. Intriguing 🤔 THANK YOU !! New subscriber. Off to the library I go to do some research ❤ I have a lot to ponder.

[@TheDadsDoomsdayGuide]

Welcome aboard!

[@caiocesartourinhomarques2259]

Very good this informations about NDE!

[@TheDadsDoomsdayGuide]

Glad you liked it!

[@abandonallhope.1040]

I'm not religious at all but I wish I could meet and talk to this man someday. I wish more money was invested in this kind of research than bombs or crappy movies. I'm not sold but I do accept now that there are things about consciousness that we do not have definite answers to.

[@joeyluna8695]

You know. A subject that should be added is Sleep Paralysis. I had a Demon Attack in 1995. My eyes opened. I felt my eyes open. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. A grotesque Dog like Entity snarling , exposing teeth. Ready to shred my face. It was NO dream! I had dreams all my life. The most terrifying experience of my life. I saw a video of a young woman who had an NDE. She also said she opened her eyes to darkness. My hair stood up. I was like “That’s what I experienced!!” More real than this life. I just can’t explain it. To complex. No one! No one will sway me otherwise!! Later , I was like “See Son. That was just a minute taste. Because I love you.”-God

[@xyhmo]

Regarding the evolutionary value of NDEs: for that to be evolutionary relevant at all, it must happen to enough people… but back in the day, how common could it have been? It did happen, but it was probably pretty rare, as they didn't have technology to revive people. It's pretty rare now as well. There are some other ways you could argue though, but just thought I'd throw that out there.

[@TheDadsDoomsdayGuide]

Out of all the prosaic explanations for NDEs, I don't personally find evolutionary value to be a convincing explanation.

[@xyhmo]

Right. One might even consider the cost: is it really an evolutionary advantage to equip every brain with a sophisticated machinery for creating NDEs when so few (esp back in the day) will actually benefit from it.

[@balecalduin1993]

Eminem stains his shirt with mom's spaghetti, he loses rap battle. Dr Bruce Greyson stains his shirt with mom's spaghetti, he discovers life after death

[@TheDadsDoomsdayGuide]

😂😂😂

[@bethbarghini1665]

Who was the preacher??!

[@jhc85]

37 min

[@xrjx1511]

Seems that a lot of NDE'ers come back as pantheists. Pantheists say God is not a being but is being itself and we all share in that being and being is intelligent.

[@TheDadsDoomsdayGuide]

It is quite interesting. IMO you can't discount that. The idea that God/Consciousness/Mind is everything, and we go back to that source at the end is very powerful.

[@bethbarghini1665]

Who was the Russian who died for 3 days and came back to be a preacher??

[@TheDadsDoomsdayGuide]

I believe he was speaking about Dr. George Rodonaia (could be wrong). Though I don't believe he was a physicist. But it's the same story, and he was a scientist as well.

[@martinfreeman6491]

Sounds like BS to me

[@koryd2379]

So what your saying is you can’t show any death certificate for this unsubstantiated claim

[@TheDadsDoomsdayGuide]

What unsubstantiated claim?

[@levlavida196]

He was telling the story then you interrupt him to show off that you are familiar with Raymond moody !!!!!!!!

[@JN-mz2de]

All I can think about is those poor parents who will forever feel like they killed their daughter

[@metalheadzaki]

how?

[@zzc8505]

Tell me you missed the whole point without telling me you missed the whole point. There’s no “forever grief” in the afterlife

[@Macceee]

The usual anecdotes, without a shred or evidence or any form av controlled scientific studies. In court it's called "hearsay".

[@TheDadsDoomsdayGuide]

As you're probably aware NDE"s are inherently difficult to study due to a variety of factors. But there are those making efforts to do so. It can be frustrating to not have that scientific evidence one looks for. But dismissing it or trying to marginalize people's accounts isn't the way either IMO.

[@Macceee]

@@TheDadsDoomsdayGuide I'm not marginalizing their accounts, only Greysons's willingness to use their experiences as evidence of the afterlife. Nothing in his book "After" provides anything close to a controlled study, which is the scientific method. If you claim stuff and want to make some $ $ $ you better have some rock solid proof and a good foundation and evidence to support your claim. Speaking of $ $ $, the NDE:ers (including Eben Alexander) almost always write a book too, despite the fact that many of them claims to have become less materialistic and less interested in money, LOL! Sam Parnia's latest Aware II study shows brain activity, despite being flatlined. He found that out, because he used science, instead of anecdotes from 30 years ago, to find out what's going on.

[@koryd2379]

Can’t trust cuz he sounds like Faucci

[@TheDadsDoomsdayGuide]

Ahhh don't say Fauci's name. Don't you know it immediately spawns another Covid variant!

[@neil4817]

What a ridiculous reason not to trust him. I hope that comment is a joke

[@zzc8505]

You aren’t supposed to “trust” - he provides evidence, corroborated accounts. That’s what ppl are supposed to evaluate and come to their own conclusions. And he sounds nothing like F-c!

[@Baltic_Hammer6162]

The greatest insight into NDE's and why people have different experiences is from Bryan Melvin. Here's his "original" talk from some years ago. He's since done lots of interviews and has let out a few more details, but his book Hell's Dominion has far more detail. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nmO7Zqh3d5tsaKM

[@TheDadsDoomsdayGuide]

Thanks for the link. We'll check it out!

[@Baltic_Hammer6162]

@@TheDadsDoomsdayGuide Bryan also has his own channel on Ytube called The Christian Marauder. After his hell tour and return he became a born again Christian. Couple years after that he was taken up to Heaven by Jesus to calm his nerves as the hell experience made him a nervous wreck. Any rate Bryan is a gold mine into WHY when most shallow thinkers want to know WHAT. His experience answered my questions of why are there so many variations of positive NDE's.