Quasithanatology (NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES) with Dr. Bruce Greyson
Image description: Dr. Bruce Greyson has short, grey hair and wears a light blue button up shirt with a patterned blue tie. He smiles toward camera, and the Ologies logo appears in the lower left corner.
Tunnels of light. Unconditional love. Visions of dead aunts. And a lot of questions. What happens when you die… or almost die? GOOD QUESTION. Dr. Bruce Greyson chats about brain activity during death, accounts from patients, out of body experiments, time dilation, the Swiss Alps, deathbed visions, accidental morgue visits, neurotransmitters, party drugs, religion vs. spirituality, and what matters most in life. As a world-renowned and respected psychiatrist and neurobiologist, he’s sought out answers for four decades and shares what we know – and don’t know – about the border of alive and unalive. Get out your phone and some scissors because it’s a real crush-texter & bang-cutter of an episode.
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Visit Dr. Bruce Greyson’s website and shop his book, After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond
A donation went to the International Association for Near-Death Studies
Links to things we discussed:
The near-death experience scale: Construction, reliability, and validity
The phenomenology of near-death experiences
Dissociation in people who have near-death experiences: out of their bodies or out of their minds?
Quantum computation in brain microtubules? The Penrose–Hameroff ‘Orch OR‘ model of consciousness
Orchestrated objective reduction
Woman declared dead found still alive inside funeral home
Man sent to morgue ‘still alive’ after doctor opens body bag ‘to find his eyes open’
Declared dead but very much alive: Missouri woman tells of ‘nightmare’ ordeal
What Netflix’s ‘The OA’ Gets Right About Near-Death Experiences
Orchestrated objective reduction
Consciousness in the universe: A review of the ‘Orch OR’ theory
National Survey of Long-Haul Truck Driver Health and Injury
Resurrection: Near-Death Sequence
Near-Death Experiences Evidence for Their Reality
The Experience of Dying from Falls, by Albert Heim
Near-Death Experiences And Spirituality
Driving On Salvia Extended Version
Essential Veterinary Use Of Ketamine
Extensive Underreported Exposure to Ketamine Among Electronic Dance Music Party Attendees
Towards clarification of the meaning of spirituality
Why Do People See Elves And Other "Entities" When They Smoke DMT?
"Is Consciousness Produced by the Brain?" by Bruce Greyson
Did NDEs Play a Seminal Role in the Formulation of Einstein's Theory of Relativity?
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Editing by Mercedes Maitland of Maitland Audio Productions
Managing Director: Susan Hale
Scheduling Producer: Noel Dilworth
Transcripts by Emily White of The Wordary
Website by Kelly R. Dwyer
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