Lucid Dying: Understanding the Near Death Experience

Dr. Bruce 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.

3:20 Does it takes longer to die than we thought?
6:49 Why would somebody be upset at the prospect of our consciousness continuing after death?
9:21 Why are people threatened by the idea of spiritual dimensions but not the concept of other dimensions in physics?
12:57 Why does time seem to slow down near death?
16:31 How do we explain that some religions describe what researchers have discovered through NDE's?
19:54 How can we account for reports of an individual’s consciousness entering another's body?
26:19 Is there a distinction between a drug-induced experience and a near-death experience?
33:02 Is the brain blocking access to the “higher dimensions?"
38:04 As various deities are sometimes identified, how can competing religious systems all be correct?
40:23 Is deity the right word to describe religious figures identified by NDE's?
42:45 In near-death experiences, could people's experience of music be reminiscent of music in the higher world?
44:11 What should we ultimately take away from NDE's?

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