After

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

By: Bruce Greyson

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins

Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins

Publisher's summary

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

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I am a fan of Bruce Greyson's work.

Sometimes, when doctors and researchers write about their work they go into too much detail about the research design for my taste. I understand that they are trying to give their work credibility and are used to writing for peer review. The way to do it it seems with these topics is to make them as boring as possible. In places, this is no different. Until "Real Magic" Dean Radin did the same thing. In an attempt to be taken seriously these researchers have had to develop a talent for making the most interesting topics ever into something as dull as dishwater. And they still aren't taken seriously so why not present them with the sense of wonder they inspire?

The personal story of how he came into this research was very interesting as were the recounting of people's NDE's.

The narration gave me a headache after a while. Dry and flat.

Still, if you are into his work and this subject it is a good listen, especially the few veridical experiences presented.

A scientific exploration of NDEs.

Dr. Greyson was schooled in the scientific materialism mindset, but after four decades of research on new death experiences, he now thinks that mind is more fundamental than the material brain. This book is a detective story blending rigorous scientific research and analysis with many personal anecdotes to illustrate the questions. I found the book After to be both informative and inspiring.

Fascinating

Scientifict yet metaphysical; convincing without being dogmatic. Superbly read by Mr. Hopkins. Thank-you Dr. Greyson!

Well wriien

Author provided great insight as well as adequate stories. (He did not just brush over the individual stories). Excellent narrator.

A great read for all viewpoints

This is super thorough and well rounded thoughts in writing. A really excellent read for quite literally anyone who’s interested in science, learning, or just the stories and experiences of others.

Excellent

I prefer bookstore be read by the author. Content is great though. Highly recommend it

good, but they are too comfortable with "unknown"

it's probably very vivid dreams.it's probably a defense mechanism to help us deal with exrremely traumatic evens without going insane.

Invaluable Information

No matter where you land on this topic, you’ll benefit from this thoroughly researched and well considered book.

Intriguing & inspiring

So glad to have gotten this book-it gives me a lot to consider, and I’m sure will affect me for many years.

Excellent

This is a fascinating, well performed, dogma-free, very open-minded, scientific account of NDEs and their effects on lives. I highly recommend to anyone interested in NDEs.