After

A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond

De: M.D. Bruce Greyson

Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins

This program includes three bonus interviews with the author.

The world's leading expert on near-death experiences reveals his journey toward rethinking the nature of death, life, and the continuity of consciousness.

Cases of remarkable experiences on the threshold of death have been reported since ancient times, and are described today by 10% of people whose hearts stop. The medical world has generally ignored these “near-death experiences,” dismissing them as “tricks of the brain” or wishful thinking. But after his patients started describing events that he could not just sweep under the rug, Dr. Bruce Greyson began to investigate.

As a physician without a religious belief system, he approached near-death experiences from a scientific perspective. In After, he shares the transformative lessons he has learned over four decades of research. Our culture has tended to view dying as the end of our consciousness, the end of our existence—a dreaded prospect that for many people evokes fear and anxiety.

But Dr. Greyson shows how scientific revelations about the dying process can support an alternative theory. Dying could be the threshold between one form of consciousness and another, not an ending but a transition. This new perspective on the nature of death can transform the fear of dying that pervades our culture into a healthy view of it as one more milestone in the course of our lives. After challenges us to open our minds to these experiences and to what they can teach us, and in so doing, expand our understanding of consciousness and of what it means to be human.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Essentials

Paradigm changing.

This is in my opinion a game changer. Much like the original "Life After Life" book by Raymond Moody in the 70's. however, instead of story after story until your eyes glaze over. Dr. Greyson talks about the scientific method. The legitimacy and place of anecdotal evidence in the framework of the scientific method. He also speaks to his own natural skepticism and medical understanding of the brain equals mind problem. All in all a really good introduction to seekers. This will appeal to open minded but healthy skepticism oriented people as well as a great introduction to new comers to the subject.

As for the narrator who also participates in an interview with Dr. Greyson at the end of the Audible presentation. He brings an open minded respect to the material. Often a professional reader will read a non fiction book in a monotonous drone. or show very little interest or respect or be a gushing true believer. This narrator respected the authors work and read with the same interest and discovery as I had as a listener. Good job.

The Audible version also has a series of interviews conducted by Doctor Greyson with the narrator (sorry, I forget his name but it's on the cover of Audible), Dr. Eben Alexander and Dr. Raymond Moody.

Great job and great work.

Worth listening to.

I enjoyed the approach in this book. Good analysis of facts that were presented.

Amazing

Such a moving piece of work! I appreciate that he explained near death experiences from many angles, and explain the scientific process of his work. This is a book that I have shared with many of my patients. It has given me great peace and a different outlook on life.

Excellent!

This is a must-read for anyone searching for truth. I highly recommend After by Dr Greyson.

An excellent book on NDE's.

This book is a fine addition to the literature on Near Death Experiences. Dr. Greyson has explored every reasonable avenue of explanation in his research and presented the evidence he gathered in an unbiased way. His idea that consciousness can exist independently of the brain and that the brain itself acts as a filter for the mind at large is intriguing. The book starts a little slow but it is definitely worth the wait for what comes later.