Are near-death experiences real? | Bruce Greyson

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Published 2022-11-21
Dr. Bruce Greyson studied 1,000 near-death experiences. Here’s what he discovered.

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Near-death experiences are not a new phenomenon. They have occurred for millennia across the world and are more common than we think, explains psychiatrist Dr. Bruce Greyson.

Studies of these experiences have revealed consistent patterns, namely a sense of overwhelming peace and well-being. Those who experience near death often return profoundly changed.

While there is still controversy in regard to the cause of near-death experiences, there is acceptance in the medical community that they do occur. Materialist explanations—like lack of oxygen to the brain, or drugs given to people in hospital—are not supported by data. Scientists continue to seek an explanation.


Read the full video transcript: bigthink.com/the-well/near-death-experiences/

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All Comments (21)
  • @hArtyTruffle
    My sister died giving birth. She remembered floating out of her body to the corner of the room at ceiling level, watching what was going on in the room. Then she heard her husbands voice coming from the corridor outside. She moved through the wall into the corridor and saw him talking with a doctor. She heard everything they were talking about clearly. She was sucked back into her body and survived. Later, when she told her husband what she’d experienced he became a believer in the continuation of us once our physical body fails.
  • @nise0421
    This shows how a near death experience brings people back to life ❤
  • We owe this man, and his colleagues, at UVA a great debt. He and his colleagues have been faithful servants of a Truth we all intuit but that needs scientific investigation.
  • @Cardioid2035
    I’ve been closely observing this phenomena for a long time now and Im beginning to believe ‘consciousness’ is in fact not contingent on baryonic matter, but rather uses the chemistry of matter as a vessel to act ‘itself’ out through time. Meaning the thought, or the mysterious nature of one’s own will imposes itself onto the baryonic matter of the thinker. Energy cannot be created or destroyed in physics, which means humans are one version of an infinite multitude of manifestations that the same irremovable eternal force of energy can transgress into. In other words, it seems energy wants to experience itself in different forms through the perceived passage of time within the arena of space that it itself created. Reality as we know it is comprised of oscillating electromagnetic waves that garner their intrinsic properties depending on the frequency of the given wavelength. So essentially the cosmos down to the microcosmos (the universe within and without you) is one single ‘entity’ having all been derived from the singularity ‘before’ the Big Bang. So I guess just try as hard as you can in this life to act through love above all else since true wisdom seems to come from acknowledging you and the stranger next to you are one in the same.
  • I shared my NDE with the UVA Division of Perceptual Studies. The experience has changed my life in profound ways.❤
  • I recently read an article about NDEs, which included an interview with Dr. Greyson, and I look forward to reading his book. Thanks for posting this. :)
  • @BulentBasaran
    6:57 "Possibility of surviving bodily death." Many of us, with a few decades of life experience, survive the "death" of loved ones. I remember being 9 and losing my beloved grandpa. I can no longer interact with him, hug him. But, interactions and love live on. Such loss increases our awareness of gratitude for others who are still around. Mystery and Wonder of Life. ❤
  • @dem8568
    The stained tie anecdote is a great example of bad reasoning. What's more likely, that the OD patient had an out of body experience, or that she had a conversation with her roommate that somehow was forgotten about?
  • @user-wp4ju4hp5w
    If this helps anyone, Days before my Dad died he was talking outloud to his deceased mother!!!
  • @conchobar
    Fairly easy to deduce that NDEs are the source of religion within civilization. They've occurred all over the world, throughout history, the people comeback with a sense of meaning and purpose, leading to them spreading their message within their community.
  • @kennbo1
    Some years back a University student in England went in the hospital for a brain scan and they discovered that the student was missing almost their entire brain. They found no cerebrum or cerebellum. They found less than 5% of brain matter covering the top of the brain stem. This was a student that had an above average I.Q. score.
  • @MK-sx2fz
    Thank you for speaking of it as a wonderful feeling cause I found it wonderful and beautiful but a lot of people do not but at least there’s more representation of good experiences
  • @love-wisdom
    I just wrote a story using it as my main phenomenon.
  • @kforest2745
    Out of body experiences also happen during the dreaming state, so it has nothing to do with “near death experiences” these also occur in the living. So anyone who says they believe in the “after life” just because the mind tricks them into seeing themselves from another perspective is fooling themselves.
  • @LanceWinder
    Whart are they, indeed? (You may want to check the title 😊)
  • @scribbler60
    To determine if a person actually "rises out of their body" at death, experiments have been conducted using a phrase placed on top of a cabinet, out of sight of the people in the room. Then, if an NDE takes place, the person is asked what the phrase is; what they saw when they "floated up." Success rate: 0%.